This years build thread

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smokedstanley

Meat Mopper
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Oct 5, 2013
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Taunton, Ma
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. 






 
Looks good!  Nice plasma cut openings.  Lotsa seams to weld.  Hope it doesn't warp too bad on ya.

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All the seams in the pictures are welded and they look great. I was waiting for some distortion around the doors, but the metal barely moved.
 
Hi Stanley,

Looks like you are going to smoke a lot of meat :)

I was just curious; what kind of welding equipment are you using?

Regards,
 
Good lord what are you compensating for?:biggrin: Is this for you or a customer? Looking forward to the finish of the beast.
 
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.



 
Me Too. Smoking some ribs on monday. My goal is to fill her to capacity. Might take a while to do that, but it's a good goal.
 
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