Starting my build

[The Czar]

Cranking right along...faster than Hot Pants anyways!

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[Two Bears]

I fixed the bad links for the pictures.

[Clover Ridge Smokers]

Nice pic. Always good to see people involving the next generation in this thing we call a "hobby".

[Two Bears]

I got the door on today- holy crap was that heavy !!!!! Its got to be 300+ pounds.
I am using 1/2" gasket and used 1/4" shims for setting the door gap and it worked great.
Hope to have the racks in tomorrow and then do a burn on Thursday - Wish me luck....

BTW - She is big. Seems bigger every time I work on it but now with the doors on it even looks bigger.

[Gizmo]

They look big until you start to load them …. just sayin'

- good luck on the burn - let us know the outcome…

[Two Bears]

The last side to skin.
Adding slides now and the chute door.......Then door seals....Then Racks....Then CLEAN and FIRE IT UP.

More pics tonight.

[Smokeone]

Looking great! You are on the downhill slide now.

[TuscaloosaQ]

[DUAYNE B]

, this is a great follow, between your build ricks and toms, should be enough info to get a person in trouble, but I like trouble, shessss purty

[SmokinFF]

So, I see you are leveling the racks. Did you by chance level the cooker first?

[Two Bears]

A couple more from this afternoon.

[Two Bears]

So, I see you are leveling the racks. Did you by chance level the cooker first?

NOPE..........She will be close enough -

[Two Bears]

Okay last one for the day. I got 9 sets of rack slides installed (ran out of material).

[Clover Ridge Smokers]

[Two Bears]

I got behind today but did get to a point that I need to clean her up and FIRE IT UP Saturday evening. !!

All the slides are in, the stainless racks are in, the fire grate is in....I am all in..

Can't wait to get it fired up and cook something (cook is Sunday night- only time I have to cook a test run). Doing 3 briskets, 1 pork butt, and a Beef Clod for the firs run

[The Czar]

Wow that's a good clip for its maiden voyage....good luck!!!

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[Smokeone]

Nice! That is one heck of a seasoning cook.
Are you going to do a biscuit test when you fire it?

[Rodcrafter]

I see you are a very confident smoking fella. I really like this style of cooker. I think I must have one too. But I'm wondering what happens with the drippings from all that meat? I say that because I didn't see any thing to direct it from the door. I'm certainly not being critical I just don't know the answer.

I really like the work your doing.

[Two Bears]

I got it fired up a bit ago and installed my BBQ GURU and probes. Yes it is raining but today is my only day to do this so up went the canopy.

I used my weed burner to burn the insides of the cooker out as well as the air intake, ash box. That was a good idea as it burned out the moisture from the metal and got it super hot inside - much hotter than heat from the firebox.

Now I am working on trying to set the GURU, it is running with cook chamber temp set and probes set but trying to figure out the rest of it and the WIFI too.

[Frank_Cox]

looks great! good luck on the wifi deal.... heard lots of folks have issues with that.
Beef Clod??? I know what that is now LOL! we smoked a bunch of those down in Moore Oklahoma with OBR a couple weeks ago. Very nice!!

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[Two Bears]

Did an overnight cook Friday (In a thunderstorm again) and I have to tell you this thing makes some wonderful BBQ ! It took a long time to get the smoker to temp after the meat was loaded in the smoker not sure if it was the volume of meat (over a 100 lbs) or if I am having probe issues or what BUT once we were at temp she cooked very well. Hers is a couple shots of the just out of the smoker pork and beef. All came out very tender.

BTW the charcoal chute holds about 55 lbs of Kingsford blue !

[The Czar]

[Smokeone]

[Clover Ridge Smokers]

[Smoke_Chef]

Awesome build. Well done!