I have been wanting to add some capacity to my sausage making lineup. My MES was big enough to get small batches of sausage and snack sticks made in a day, but doing larger batches required all day, and some times even into the next day if it was a larger batch. So yes, I added a new smoker to my collection. I now have a vertical pellet to go along with my MES and my smoke hollow gas smokers. I hope this thing works as well as I hope.