Building my first smoker

[jfanch]

Just about read for a trailer for my reverse flow smoker. With my calculations I should be between 1000 and 1100 pounds. Tractor supply has a sale on 5x8 trailers that have a gvrw of 2000 pounds. Load limit is 1600 pounds. Would this be safe to mount smoker on. What is a good way to balance out weight from front to back?

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• jfanch
• Jun 5, 2017

 

[jfanch]

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...-floor-utility-trailer-5-ft-x-8-ft-2-000-gvwr

Here is link to trailer

 

[daveomak]

Have you thought about welding an axle and tongue directly to the smoker ??

 

[jfanch]

I have a boat trailer at home I was gonna cut up and do that. Maybe that's the route I should go.

 

[jfanch]

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• jfanch
• Jun 5, 2017

This is the frame I got. I thought about mounting Leaf springs to bottom of firebox. That might be the way to go instead of buying a trailer.

 

[jfanch]

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• jfanch
• Jul 9, 2017

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• jfanch
• Jul 9, 2017

decided to just build a frame instead of using boat trailer. i plan on adding a propane burner to firebox using spark ignition. anybody that has ever done this how many btu burner do you need to keep cook chamber at 250 degrees? this is gonna be a low pressure propane setup. i want to use a banjo burner converted to low pressure. not sure if i am gonna need one or two. 

 

[jfanch]

here is a pick of burner. 

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• jfanch
• Jul 9, 2017

 

[rigger45]

This is an interesting build! I will be getting an old propane tank as well and this seems a great design. Will start planning on it right after we finished installing these new truck wheels and tires on the current truck project. Time to practice some welding.