I haven't been on here in a while. Thought id post pics of my smoker build. The rear is a 500 gal reverse flow. I poured 2" concrete on top of the 1/4" steel baffle. Its been built for about 6 yrs but was on single axle trailer. Made a few mods over the years. I think it works perfectly and had last 2-3 yrs. I also added the vertical smoker in place of original smoke stack. Works awesome to do cheese and chicken. It runs about 30-40 degrees cooler than smoker itself when everything running at normal temps. I have had no problems getting this up to 400 degrees to do pizza but takes a hell of a lot of wood to get up to that temp. My bbq team name is Gunsmoke BBQ. I cannot seem to leave well enough alone so I made it bigger. LOL..The front tank is a 250gal grill/smoker combo. The fire grates are concaves from a combine and them and the front racks can be slid side to side so i can place all in middle for grill or offset fire grates to one side and cooking grates to another to use as offset smoker. I have dampers on all air inlets and exhausts.The only thing ive cooked on the front unit so far was 6 slabs spare ribs. Worked awesome. I still need to add another rack on the front tank and make the trailer look pretty but I wanted to use several times and work bugs out first. I'm going to use an 1/8" thick piece of stainless on left hand side of main smoker to serve as work surface/fenders. Not sure yet what I'm going to do on right side or sides of trailer yet. I'm leaning towards corrugated galvanized steel for now. The original single axle was 3/4" plywood and worked great but had to paint several times every year to look good at the competitions. I made everything except for the guns. They were made from buddysbrother who works at a place with CNC plasma cutter.
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Ill try to get some better pics when sun comes out
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Ill try to get some better pics when sun comes out
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