Hello everyone, if you read my introductory post in the new member's section, you know that I am a native of Georgia but I currently reside in Ireland. After doing research, what I really want is a reverse flow smoker. I am not a welder or metal fabricator so I am going to be hiring a Polish fellow, a friend of a friend, the build the smoker for me. He wants me to source all the metal and he will just show up and build it for me. Ireland doesn't have scrap yards, only for cars. It is extremely hard to find used tanks and other equipment like that because it usually gets recycled. I have become quite frustrated looking for parts. I have found a few stainless steel tanks used at Dairies online here in Ireland that are for sale but they are very expensive and don't stay for sale long. What I do have access to here is plenty of steel drums which I am afraid might be too flimsy and used beer kegs. The guy I have agreed to hire advised against the kegs; said they would be difficult to weld. But I am afraid that the steel drums would be too thin. There is one single company I have found here in Ireland that makes smokers. Based on the pictures they sent me, they appear to use steel drums as smoking chambers. They are also very expensive. The smaller of their two reverse flow smokers costs over a thousand euro, and the larger one over two thousand euros. Not being a metal fabricator myself and generally not knowing much about welding in general, I would really like to approach this with a set of plans and instructions for my fabricator because trust me, there are people here who know how to work with metal, but hardly anyone here that knows how to build a smoker. I don't really care how pretty the smoker looks, I care about the quality of the smoked meat it makes. I have already gots some oak and applewood sourced here in Ireland, now I just need something to use it in. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.