The fuel consumption for 16. racks of ribs and 14 Tri tips in a single cook was less than a 20 bag of Kingsford briquettes for a 6 hour cook, plus a few chunks of wood in the firebox for added Smokey goodness. I purchased a 1000 lb lift cart from Harbor Freight (after I built mine and wish I had it for flipping and lowering from welding table. Mine was on sale for around $200 and worth every penny. Works great for lifting stuff of of my Silverado too! Like a mini forkliftJKalchik wrote: ↑September 10th, 2021, 7:20 amI concur with @tinspark. I built the double pan because 1) I have the room for it, 2) I can't use volume I don't have, and 3) it won't burn much more fuel. beyond those, the additional steel wasn't that much (but it *IS* more difficult to flip around during construction, make no mistake about it.)
Stranger, where are ya'll from? That doesn't sound like anything from around these parts.... Dutch? Scandinavia? That doesn't look Slavic or Germanic.Tospy wrote: ↑September 10th, 2021, 12:09 pmThanks for the info guys!!!! So, i decided to give the double pan a go. I have a metal workshop so handling that bigger stuff isn't an issue. Bought the plans and this weekend I will make my own technical drawing in metric units.
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Ok, yes I see the slope. I did not purchase plans so my unit is slightly different. That's why I call my unit a "Home Grown Gravity Feed".Tospy wrote: ↑September 12th, 2021, 2:21 am
instead of expanded metal ,I want to cut out a grate in the housing of the fire box to the c channel(pics below). For now I made it with openings of 15 mm (0.6 inch)width and remaining bars of 10mm (0.4 inch) ......would that be ok?
same for the remmovable grate, designed it with openings of 0.6 inch and remainig bars of 0.4 inch......
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thanks for all the advice guys!!!
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