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Sorry for not posting pics of the finished product sooner. Have been cooking on this for 5 months now and it works beautifully! Airflow is perfect and runs efficiently. Everywhere I go with this thing it turns heads and is a conversation starter. Thanks to everybody who provided valuable insight...

The rear frame work doesn't weigh that much so even cutting that off and welding the frame directly to the FB isn't going to help us immensely with th tongue weight. So we decided to leave the rear framework intact. We ended up putting side plates on the front of the trailer for the wood box and...

So we decided to go with the folding door for the firebox so that the door will clear the fender with the smoker moved forward over the axles. This was preferable to having to cut a new door on the rear of the FB128522. My only concern is the potential affect on the hinges on the inside seam of...

So we moved it as far forward as we can (to the point where the firebox is up against the rear axle) and that gets us close to center and gives me about 110 lbs of tongue weight. That weight distribution might work out great actually. Because I will likely load 200-400 lbs of wood in the rack on...

Thanks for the suggestion on the hinges. We added braces to mitigate the stress issue on the flat bar. Today we tried mounting the assembled smoker onto the trailer and ran into a couple of problems. 1. When positioning on the trailer so that the firebox door is behind the fenders where it...

Another pic showing the doors.

Well the fabrication has come along much more slowly than initially anticipted but making good progress now.

Like Deatony, I am also looking to get my feet wet in BBQ competitions. Any good websites you would recommend that have a calendar of events? I am from Arizona, so if anyone is from AZ or is aware of some upcoming/annual events in Western states I would be very appreciative of your input or...

The below is from Dave Omak's tutorial, the opening at the end of the RF plate should be the same as the area under the RF plate. I don't recall if the end cap on this tank has the same arc as the body of the tank, but if it does then it would be as simple as going with the same radius...

Just weighing our options on the exhaust stack and trying to reduce cost where it is sensible. Does anyone foresee an issue using stovepipe instead of steel pipe? Obviously stovepipe would be thinner but I'm just not sure if there are unintended consequences that would be detrimental to airflow...

127750128070128070by way of introduction, weldwizzz is a good friend of mine who will be doing the fabrication on this smoker for me.

So....the advice given when we picked up this tank was not accurate.  The seller of this fat tank who owned a propane company said to just wash the stinky oil (Mercaptan) out with liquid soap and water.  "NOT"   I started........and that was a mistake.  This stuff is not water soluable and not...

I picked up the tank over Thanksgiving and will be getting started on this build shortly so I setup a separate thread. Here is the link: http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/254878/500-gallon-fat-tank-reverse-flow-build Thanks in advance for your support and advice!

Well I picked up my 500 gallon tank over Thanksgiving and will be getting started shortly so decided to start a new thread. Thanks in advance for everyone's input and advice! looking forward to this build.

Have you guys seen that new Ben Affleck movie "The Accountant"? Yeah that's me. I have a CPA license and work as an international banker.