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You could fab up square doors as well?

Looks great. Which marinade turned out to be your favorite. I like cooking tri tip, a California staple.

It can definitely work. I've used store bought propane smokers with some success. The biggest issues I've had were #1 having an open flame at the bottom of a smoker is asking for a grease fire. This can be dealt with by being careful and you did mention offset implying the fire isn't directly under ...

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September 15th, 2019, 10:48 am

Thanks Pete.
I kinda hoped they were about 1/2 that price but ya get what ya pay for. Right?


- The Blue Mule

$50 worth of trouble building them at home

A smoker that size takes the right buyer. I think it's probably worthwhile and if I were buying a smoker like that I'd want the warning cabinet. Finding a buyer is the real challenge here...

Great looking smoker and seems to work well.

Welcome, glad to have you.

That came out great. I don't have the skills or tube guts to attempt a build line that. For some reason I always liked the idea of having my own wood fired pizza oven.

Coming along very nice. That shop is something I dream of having one day

Welcome to the forum and thanks for your service. 500G is one heck of a start. Make sure to run all the numbers thru the calculator twice before you cut anything. With the welder buddy and this forum you are good to go.

I think the bigger thermometer looks good. Its not at all needed, but why not

Be done in no time.

The basket from UDS Parts is about 12x12x12 and is raised off the bottom 3in or so with an integral ash pan of sorts. Not a real big pan, but does the job. I put an aluminum water heater pan in the bottom to make cleanup easier too. The basket had enough ash internally that it was snuffing out the ...

I actually bought a bundle of batt insulation from a guy off of the app Offer up . The plastic wrapper was torn some looked like it's been thrown around the garage a while. Lowes sells the stuff, but not always available at all stores. I bought rigid insulation from them, but had to travel to a diff...

Looks great, almost done.

Welcome. Start looking away other smokers to get ideas of exactly what you want and how big you need. Building a smoker can still get incredibly expensive, but will last forever. Do you have large propane tanks around there? If you can find the right size propane tank for cheap then that's an option

I would definitely weld it to the other wall. That transfer tube is heavy, give it all the support you can

I bought the CNc plans, but most of the metal shops just didn't seem to know what to do with the cut file. May be worth asking your metal guy if it would be of any use

Good looking setup. I have never assembled anything like that I just don't know what it takes.

It's a good looking unit you just need to find The right buyer. Good luck.

I'm impressed, looks like you have done some brick work before.

You did great. Congrats. Don't forget pics of this weekends cook

Your build is looking good. I only wish I got steel for same price (or triple) as you did. I have a cyber q for mine, but since I still haven't actually got mine built I can't comment on how well it works. Not sure if I'll ever actually get mine finished, but I'm trying

Looks great. How's the food?

125 pounds on first cook. That's how to start small and get used to how it cooks.
Tri tip looks great. Well done