Ok, the plan was to have step by step pics for everyone, but it turned out to be a rough morning...
By the time I was able to check what the temp was outside, it was daylight and 50 degrees in the sun, so really, I was probably looking at 40 degrees and 15 mile an hr winds and I had to have 140 lbs of prime rib ready to serve by lunch time.
So,...#20 fell flat on its face, it could not hold up to the elements this morning and could not get up to temp. No matter what I did, I could not get the fire going good enough to get her going, the wind just kept blowing it out.
#19 has a pie vent in the bottom of the firebox as well as a normal vent on the door. All I had to do with #19 was close the upper vent and open the bottom vent and the wind had no effect on the fire what so ever. I used the 5 ft propane burner to get her to temp before I even got my first log burning, so as soon as I had clean smoke, the food was already on and cooking.
It really wasnt a fair competition for #20, she was not built for operating out in the elements like this, she is more designed for screen porch room , and the vents and firebox was designed more with keeping a porch clean than working in 15 mph winds.
