Recent content by provels

Here's most of it: Get a 24"x24" expanded metal at Home Despot from their stock bar/strip/sheet metal section. Cut into it to make a 12"x12" interior square bottom and fold up the sides and tabs, tucking the pointy parts through the horizontal loops (or you can screw it together). ...

Hello from the future!  I was gifted one of these and have used it a few times in my NBBD.  I just stuff it tight with chips and soak it in water for about an hour.  Then I toss it in the firebox.  It will burn soon enough, no need to light. 

I built one of these and used it for the first time yesterday in my NBBD.  Results were GREAT!  I used about half the charcoal I had before and the temperature was incredibly stable.  Even with the small amount of charcoal shown in the pic, temp held at 250.  I had some old 3/8" rebar laying...