- Nov 15, 2016
- 19
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Hi everyone, new kid on the block so to speak. I've been loping around here for a month or so...learning. I have started a build, and i am so glad I found this sight. Any input of course is greatly appreciated. I have always enjoyed cooking, especially smoking (or what i thought was smoking). My first 10-15 years, I used a Brinkman sidebox unit like you would find in a dept store, it worked fine for what we were doing...then my wife bought me a green egg...I love my egg, and that lead me to whole new world of cooking. That has been several years now and last month i happened on a trailer and tank for cheap and thought this is definitely something I want to do and learn more about. I love building and I love cooking.
So the progress begins...oh and..yes I started cutting before I had read enough, but I don't think I'm too far out of the ballpark yet.
Drew off what I thought I wanted to be doors....did not cut though
My dad talked me into something different....so i cut the WHOLE door out.
It took until this point for me to get smart and find SMF. Then I read for a few days.er uh..a week or so...but I was excited to have a few days off for Thanksgiving, so I knocked out some cutting for the FB. Man, I went thru THREE 4.5" grinders..smoked'em..fire and everything. I mean they were the best Harbor Freight carries..go figure. And I hadn't even finished cutting up the FB at that point.
Don't try to read my scribbles, those number changed anyway. You can see where I was already preparing to add another inch of height to FB/CC opening. And yep I cut from the existing single door, the center section and welded it back in place. It took some major cum-along action to get that gap back together. She aint jes right, but hey, the single door my dad wanted weighed about 150 lbs. and wanted multiple racks.
Made a trip to the metal supply warehouse...the tank and all other materials are 1/4"
After my third grinder bit the dust, i broke down and took my remaining 1/4" FB material to a shop that has a big shear. that made easy work finishing the FB cuts. My little mig doesn't have much of a duty cycle, so I spent the better part of a day just welding.
FB is getting VERY heavy at this point. Had to put it on a dolly just to scoot it around.
So this is all the pictures I have right now. I did make a door for hole you see above. I'll get some pictures this weekend and hopefully get far enough to see if the FB fits like it should against the CC. BTW the FB is 32x31x24. The ID of the CC is 30.5W x 91L.
I would like to work the CC from the side of the this trailer, not inside/on it, but standing on the ground. I think the height will be fine, but a friend of mine seems to think with all the weight to one side that the trailer will suffer, or in his words, 'capsize'. thoughts on this? i was hoping to add maybe a warming box on the other side, and maybe a couple gas burners and wood storage. The trailer is 5x8.
So the progress begins...oh and..yes I started cutting before I had read enough, but I don't think I'm too far out of the ballpark yet.
Drew off what I thought I wanted to be doors....did not cut though
My dad talked me into something different....so i cut the WHOLE door out.
It took until this point for me to get smart and find SMF. Then I read for a few days.er uh..a week or so...but I was excited to have a few days off for Thanksgiving, so I knocked out some cutting for the FB. Man, I went thru THREE 4.5" grinders..smoked'em..fire and everything. I mean they were the best Harbor Freight carries..go figure. And I hadn't even finished cutting up the FB at that point.
Don't try to read my scribbles, those number changed anyway. You can see where I was already preparing to add another inch of height to FB/CC opening. And yep I cut from the existing single door, the center section and welded it back in place. It took some major cum-along action to get that gap back together. She aint jes right, but hey, the single door my dad wanted weighed about 150 lbs. and wanted multiple racks.
Made a trip to the metal supply warehouse...the tank and all other materials are 1/4"
After my third grinder bit the dust, i broke down and took my remaining 1/4" FB material to a shop that has a big shear. that made easy work finishing the FB cuts. My little mig doesn't have much of a duty cycle, so I spent the better part of a day just welding.
FB is getting VERY heavy at this point. Had to put it on a dolly just to scoot it around.
So this is all the pictures I have right now. I did make a door for hole you see above. I'll get some pictures this weekend and hopefully get far enough to see if the FB fits like it should against the CC. BTW the FB is 32x31x24. The ID of the CC is 30.5W x 91L.
I would like to work the CC from the side of the this trailer, not inside/on it, but standing on the ground. I think the height will be fine, but a friend of mine seems to think with all the weight to one side that the trailer will suffer, or in his words, 'capsize'. thoughts on this? i was hoping to add maybe a warming box on the other side, and maybe a couple gas burners and wood storage. The trailer is 5x8.
