Congrats on the competition! Your new smoker looks awesome! I only wish I had the time,knowledge,skill, resources, to build my own. Maybe one day.
Mike
Trust me, with the ideas and knowledge that exists here, anyone can build one, I did. My 2 maintenance guys (I run a pallet mill here in Port Neches, Texas) who helped me with a bit of this project kept asking why I was designing this this way and that that way, I just kept referring back to here, SMF. Of course neither one had ever heard of RF to begin with. I pulled the tank out of the boneyard on February 22, and cooked on it for the first time April 7. Not too bad a time frame, but all my lunch hours, several slow afternoons and some after 4:00 pm work got it done it pretty good time. Not sure what I am gonna do during lunch now that I completed my project. I have $1000 total into it, $200 of that is the new tires for the trailer, $60 in temp gauges, $40 for LED trailer lights. Quite a bit of my 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 angle was left from a previous job around the mill, so that would have cost another $60-90 if we didn't have that ($30 a 20' stick).
Rabbithutch, I thought about that, but I liked the look of mounting the firebox outside of the frame of the trailer. As far as my sink and prep area, I am looking into getting a stainless top made to fit on top of the open area in front of my wood storage area. It is 22 1/2 x 40 inside dimensions. I should be able to put a small 15 x 15 sink or something similiar in size and still have 18- 20" of prep space. It's in my head, just not on there yet. Also in the front of the trailer I am mounting a cage for my propane tank and a burner as well to use for fish frys, sauce pans,
charcoal chimney, etc. Hopefully by weeks end I'll have that done.