Third starts a charm!

[canuck76]

I'm extremely fortunate to have the play ground I do! Some of which exists from the sacrifice in time I had to make on the smoker (i.e: working all year on a huge project we landed and having no time to build the smoker or do anything else really)

If there aren't to many more distractions Id love to see it usable early in February. Problem is, when work strikes, I have to drop it, so....hopefully early February!

The plan is to get it built, blast the inside of it (but not the out side yet) and use it a few time's to see what we've missed, or want to tweak/add, make any desired changes and then blast the outside and paint. Again we HOPE this is by April 1 ish.   

So when its working, I'll be posting lots of pictures of us using it to solicit advice from the experts out there, Im all over, over doing things so bring on the ideas! 

 

[416bigbore]

 
I'm extremely fortunate to have the play ground I do! Some of which exists from the sacrifice in time I had to make on the smoker (i.e: working all year on a huge project we landed and having no time to build the smoker or do anything else really)

If there aren't to many more distractions Id love to see it usable early in February. Problem is, when work strikes, I have to drop it, so....hopefully early February!

The plan is to get it built, blast the inside of it (but not the out side yet) and use it a few time's to see what we've missed, or want to tweak/add, make any desired changes and then blast the outside and paint. Again we HOPE this is by April 1 ish.   

So when its working, I'll be posting lots of pictures of us using it to solicit advice from the experts out there, Im all over, over doing things so bring on the ideas! 

Here is what I am seeing of your project, from where I am sitting. You showed me a pic of  a commercial built rig, and you are trying to copy it with what you have to work with for material. Right? 

 

[canuck76]

Its more like, I've never had a trailer mounted cooker before but wanted one so we could take to events and maybe compete one day. Then a friend came along and said, "I'm on board with that", so we started building a cooker.

As for material, I had a chunk of 36" diameter pipe in my yard so we pulled it in the shop, cut it in half and then started looking at hundreds of pictures, reading article after article and figured it out on the fly.

Some of the material I have in my yard, but most of the plate I've ordered in specific dimensions and had a shop cut it to what we need. 

One example of on the fly: I had no clue about insulation until just the other day when I made a bunch of calls and talked to some helpful people. Now we've got insulation for the fire box on the way too, Ill need to order some more plate to cover it. (thats what I mean by on the fly, didn't think we'd insulate it and then changed our minds)  

It could end up a huge dud... but Im pretty confident it'll be fine! It'll be unique for sure as we'll have all kinds of unusual things attached to it once its complete. 

 

[smokin peachey]

Looks good. I like your learn as we go build. I completed a similar build this past spring and it works!

 

[canuck76]

Some progress....

The fire basket.... with crusher deck screen in the bottom. 

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• canuck76
• Jan 25, 2017

Prepping to cut the cooker door out

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• Jan 25, 2017

Fandangled hinge

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• Jan 25, 2017

The cutting itself

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• Jan 25, 2017

The hinge tacked in place after the initial cut

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• canuck76
• Jan 25, 2017

Gotta love plasma cutters!!! 

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• Jan 25, 2017

A DOOR!!!!! (but wait till you see the end result)

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• Jan 25, 2017

Should have heard him squeal!! 

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• Jan 25, 2017

 

[416bigbore]

Very Nice workmanship ! 

 Thanks for posting up the pics and keeping us all up to speed on your progress. Looks like you guy's are also having fun in the process and possibly

to keep from becoming dehydrated during your build? 

  This is why I like these group building projects so much, they can still be a lot of fun even while working safely.  

 

[canuck76]

More progress,

Warmer box being fitted 

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• Feb 1, 2017

Hood for warmer box

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• Feb 1, 2017

Setting hood on

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• Feb 1, 2017

Rack and holders in warmer box

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• Feb 1, 2017

Stacks on cook chamber and warmer box

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• Feb 1, 2017

 

[416bigbore]

 can't wait til your up and  

 

 

[HalfSmoked]

Wow this thing is going to be awesome and all said and done you built it. 

Warren

 

[canuck76]

More progress:

Any guess' as to what this is?

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• canuck76
• Feb 5, 2017

WAIT! Shouldn't that door swing up?

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• canuck76
• Feb 5, 2017

Yes we did!!! That door is cut in half!! 

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• Feb 5, 2017

The welder is determined to be cooked! But it does look like his welds should hold!! 

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• Feb 5, 2017

The general concept, a bit of tweaking yet but Im sure you get the just of it

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• Feb 5, 2017

Closed. Top hinges need to be changed, and it'll need handles and a counter weight for the top still too

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• Feb 5, 2017

 

[firemanjon]

Very nice looking build!! Can't wait to see the finished product. It'll be nice when you start turning out amazing bbq knowing you built the machine producing all of it!!

 

[416bigbore]

My guess is so you can add water without having to open the door ? 

  

 

[canuck76]

Thats why I love this forum!! Thats EXACTLY what that is!! 

 

[416bigbore]

 
Thats why I love this forum!! Thats EXACTLY what that is!! 

Same Here Brother ! 

 

[canuck76]

Seeing as this build has been on and off since the inception, no reason not to follow suit!! Heres some more of the build!

Heres us weighing it with a borrowed crane scale on the end of an excavator, we all guessed at how much it weighed at this point, came out to and even 3600lbs (with Glen standing on it) but still wasn't finished. So, now we know! 

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• Apr 27, 2017

The slick rig up Glen built for opening the chimneys 

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• Apr 27, 2017

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• Apr 27, 2017

End shot while we were fitting the gas lines. You can see the counterweight dangling on the top door. (and the paper towel holder...lol)

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• canuck76
• Apr 27, 2017

first lighting of the side burner! It didn't go we'll, the propane lines were to small for the burner. Off to get new hoses! 

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• Apr 27, 2017

Cutting the axle out from under it to move back in order to make room for the second one. We decided it would look cooler with two 3500 lb axles rather than one 7000 lb

Then it goes to a tin shop to have fenders built for it!!! WOO HOO! Getting exciting!! 

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• Apr 27, 2017

 

[canuck76]

Heres the first shots of it with the second axle under it. Had to get it on its way to the fender guy so we just grabbed a spare set of rims, don't worry, Ive got matching aluminums on order!! 

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• Apr 28, 2017

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• Apr 28, 2017

With new rims and fenders! 

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• May 25, 2017

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• May 25, 2017

Sand blasting racks and interior

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• May 25, 2017

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• May 25, 2017

The inside after some of the blasting. Had to take it back and finish it when I had more time. 

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• May 25, 2017

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• May 25, 2017

Spraying the racks with veg oil before the first burn in

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• May 25, 2017

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• May 25, 2017

They first burn in. Had a few glitches that we had to work through but all in all it seems to be doing what we wanted

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• May 25, 2017