I've built several smokers with this very design and the casters work great for steering them through the grass and only seem to be sensitive to gravel. But then again not much rolls through gravel very easily. Here is another one I built that has less spacing due to the larger cooler and firebox size, this was also a 20" sch 40 pipe. I haven't ever ran into heat problems as long as there's more then 6" of air space between the source of heat and the tires. My primary focus is having a comfortable height for the front shelf and typically that's somewhere around counter top height of 36" I've gone as much as 40" for a 6'4" tall customer that requested that it be taller.Kcd2016 wrote:I was thinking they would be about this proximity from jwsimpleville's build:Squiggle wrote:Yeah the radiant heat will be a problem, you'll have a fair bit of heat coming off the FB & pneumatic tyres don't like heat that much.
You still think that's too close to the fb? The thing is I was thinking casters wouldn't be great for going off roadin with this bad boy in the back yard.
Yes sir I'm going to put in some angles as slide rails for the firebasket at about 3 1/4" below the top plate, just enough so the rear plate of the fire basket clears the throat opening. I'll also rig up a slide stop to keep from pulling 45 lb of steel and fire down on my foot.temurf wrote:
That firebasket looks even better than the drawings. I like it a lot.
Are you planning to mount it a couple of inches above the botom of the firebox to allow the ash to build up without interfering with your air flow?
So what is it that sold you on going with the top edge?Kcd2016 wrote:Y'all convinced me, I'm moving the stack to the top edge of the cc.
Cut it to length:
A few things, mainly I trust these guys here know the hell they're talking about! Anyone who's commented on the subject has suggested putting it at the top, no one has been in favor of leaving it at grate level. I did try and go back and find that thread where the guy originally installed his stack high and moved it to grate level and saw better performance but I just couldn't find the thread. I also did some googling and came across a thread on another forum where a guy was debating on custom ordering his Yoder with the stack at grate level. There was some explanation that essentially it's just more efficient to have the stack up high.jwsimpleville wrote:So what is it that sold you on going with the top edge?