5000 Liter animal recycler

[ahumadora]

I mounted the stacks for the rear smoker. Trying to make it look like horns. Sorry for the crap pics, my phone camera sucks.

Removed the crappy wood box they made.

Tomorrow I will drag it outside and biff some paint on it. Then I can start the sheet metal once the chassis and under carriage are painted. I found some neat CAD plans already done of Texas. I think I am going to water jet this out of 1/8" plate and weld it to the counter weights. https://grabcad.com/library/texas-lone-star-1 https://grabcad.com/library/ut-longhorn-logo-1 What do you y'all think? The trailers name is Texas.

 

[motocrash]

Hell,you should have named it Alaska.

 

[ahumadora]

I had to collect this little pit at 6am this morning and deliver it to a happy customer. I ended up completely black by the tie I painted most of the Big pit and chassis. couldn't get it finished before a storm hit this afternoon. The sheet metal shop still had not finished bending the firebox for the front of the trailer.

 

[motocrash]

You should have those goons at the other shop paint,they could probably handle that...

 

[ahumadora]

I don't think so. 3 of them put the tapered wheel nuts on backwards when I was showing them how to assemble an axle. I am like: WTF!! You have never changed the wheel on a car? " No, I ride a motorbike" was the reply.

 

[motocrash]

Wow! Sorry...

 

[daveomak]

I guess we should feel fortunate about all the things we were "indoctrinated" to, while growing up...

 

[bluewhisper]

If you build a trailer from scratch, how do you register it for plates? A friend of mine built a trailer and Michigan had him use the axle serial number as the VIN.

 

[daveomak]

I had to have receipt for all materials, tires, wheels, steel, lighting etc. and the State gave me a VIN number..

 

[ahumadora]

It's a grey area in Argentina. $20 and you can buy a registration plate of the internet. Just give them your vehicle licence plate and they make a new one with 101 in front of your licence number. If you are going on a long drive always good to have some $$ in your pocket of the cops stop you and give you a hard time.

 

[ahumadora]

Sweating my nads for 12 hours in the sun and in 100F (37c)+ heat. Made progress installing the sheet metal between the tank and chassis, continued painting today (6 liters of black, hi heat and anti oxido). received some of the sheet metal for the wood box so should make progress tomorrow on that.

Trailer name is Texas. Going to add some nifty shit to make it look good!

We had a problem with this CAD drawing I found on the Internet. Too may curves confused the Plasma cutter. So I had to send the file to my CAD guy in Croatia. He is in Czech republic at the moment and didn't have the software on his computer, so used Team viewer to connect to his home and sort out this drawing of Texas. I will mount these on the counter weights. ..... comments????

 

[motocrash]

Gonna look flippin great!

 

[daveomak]

Pretty nice stuff you've got there...

 

[ahumadora]

40c in the shop today knocked off early and came home to drink a beer. Will get at it at 6am when it is cooler.

 

[motocrash]

Looking sweet.

 

[daveomak]

You've come a very long way my friend... That's a gorgeous smoker..

 

[ahumadora]

I put the sheet metal on the front for the wood box yesterday. While I was working on that I thought up a devious plan to mount a gigantic parrilla 3 meters x 900 mm under the center part of the chassis. It would slide out the back side of the smoker. I could use a 500 mm cylinder same as my home smoker for a brasero (where you burn wood to make coals for the parrilla. That could be mounted on the front inside the wood box and the stack could feed directly into the main stack. I could also mount 2 parrillas on each side at the rear of the trailer (just above the fire box)that fold up when not in use. There is also space under the fire box to mount an al asador the would slide out the rear about 2 meters. Am I sick?? Here's some pics of al asador and a parrilla from other builds of mine. View attachment 347750 View attachment 347751

Today is my daughters 6th birthday so cooking an asado with family.View attachment 347750 View attachment 347751

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[crazymoon]

AHMD, Nice build sir, looks incredible !

 

[ahumadora]

Here you go!

 

[motocrash]

All I can say is WOW !