I finally got all my pics together. Here's my homemade smoker that i built this spring. It's 7' tall, 5' wide, and 4' deep. I have 24 square feet of cooking surface. Six square feet of grilling surface. It takes about $10 in oak, just to get to temp. Then another $30 or so in oak for a 12 hour smoke. Oak isn't cheap here in Colorado. The most i've put on here so far is about 40 LBS. She wasn't even close to full. I still need to wrap it in stone and pour the concrete around it. Oh yeah, the whole thing only cost me around $75 for the sand, gravel, and portland cement to make the concrete. I'm not a theif. I'm a superintendant with alot of subs looking for work.