In Kansas City BBQ is serious business and we have enjoyed BBQing at the farm. We had a good BBQ smoker that belonged to a friend of Scott's who needed a place to keep it and we used it for four years. It found a new home last October so we needed to replace it and decided to build one. I went to the America Royal BBQ contest in October and looked at smokers and gathered ideas. The last several weeks Jerry has been constructing our new smoker.
Scott the BBQ Chef with the old smoker
A friend who has a machine shop helped me buy this 30" diameter, 5 ft long pipe made of 5/16 inch steel. I had it cut down to 4ft in length.
We also got a 5ft x 10ft x 5/16 inch sheet of steel.
Jerry (he built the dam, the lane, the fence, and about everything else except the cabin) is constructing the smoker and helping me with the design. Here he is cutting out pieces from the sheet of steel.
Building the firebox.
Attaching the firebox to the cooking chamber.
Getting close to being done.
When Jerry finishes I will give it a coat of high temperature paint. It's really heavy duty and will weigh around 1700 lbs. We are hoping it works well, we won't know until we use it. I'll keep you posted.
