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I have started the next smoker. This one is going to be about three times bigger than my first one. The body is 105 1/2" long X 46" tall X 24" deep. The fire box is 1/4" and the body is 3/16". Started welding the body together yesterday.
Making some progress after a small (too long) break. Still have a bunch to do but I couldn't resist lighting a fire. The door clamps are on, firebox door is almost done. I plan on having the smoker ready for this weekend. if you look closely at the last pic you can see the beautiful thin smoke.
The last one I built had 24 square feet of grill space. Sounds big, but I still had to fill it twice at more than one cookout. So here we are. this one has about 70 square feet of grill space. It's always better to have more than you need. There is also going to be a 5 foot charcoal grill on the trailer.
The first set of racks are installed. Each rack is 8 sq.ft. and I installed slides to run either 4 or 5 racks per side. There is 5 inches of space with 5 racks, and 7 inches of space if using 4 racks. Tomorrow I will install the rest of the slides, temp gauges in the door and access holes for the mavericks. Then its beer and fire for saturday to get to know the beast.
All the welding is done, and the fire is going. My daughter helped wash the grates before the burn. About to smoke some bacon to start seasoning the beast. Now I need to come up with a name for it.
** No Kids were smoked during this build, just used for a size comparison** couldn't resist