harripooner
Knows what a fatty is.
A buddy of mine wanted a smoker after hearing about me and my roommates always smoking away, so I said I would make him one if he got the drums and paid me for parts. We talked to the local packaging shipping place and got them to heat treat and sandblast the drum, but without adding their rust preventative. So we got bare steel. I had him pick up a few extras while he was there, one for him, one for GTR, one for me, and an extra jsut in case.
Ended up sitting out a few nights so I had to grind them before paint. My finger was pretty damn numb for a few days.
Of course he wanted red. All I could find was header paint that went on super thin, but came out pretty good after a whole can was applied to one lid.
After bitching him out over the red paint I had him buy a weber cover to make sure it lasted. So the day after this picture I took the cover off to screw in the air inlets and it pulled all the nice red header paint off. Great. I ended up finding a paint company online who had the red krylon BBQ/stove paint but I had to order 6. Had to wire wheel the damn thing again and sand.
I made him a stencil using some left over silver BBQ paint and then had him pick her up
Went to his house on the 3rd and pretty much catered his block party. He wanted 6 butts on there, but I talked him down to 5 which was too much anyway. The analog guage read about 250 and the grill grate maverick was about 200. Actually i think this pic may be the stalled pork plateau. Def. too much meat,took quite a while to get up to temp. Butts on at 9:30pm and the first was off at noonish, the last at 3:30. Must have been close to 35-40lbs. 17.5 hrs on about a 3/4 basket (18' x 16").
I was pretty honored. He has a massive viking grill ine back yard, but was super excited over this. He wanted to move it out infront of his house for the block party, so we lugged it around. His friend was so into it, he asked me to build him one. After the fight this one gave me, I wasn't going to do it for parts money, but he was cool with the price and even offered to give me a bunch of casters on top of everything. So my extra drum came in handy. I think I may end up making enough money to fund my next UDS.
Ended up sitting out a few nights so I had to grind them before paint. My finger was pretty damn numb for a few days.
Of course he wanted red. All I could find was header paint that went on super thin, but came out pretty good after a whole can was applied to one lid.
After bitching him out over the red paint I had him buy a weber cover to make sure it lasted. So the day after this picture I took the cover off to screw in the air inlets and it pulled all the nice red header paint off. Great. I ended up finding a paint company online who had the red krylon BBQ/stove paint but I had to order 6. Had to wire wheel the damn thing again and sand.
I made him a stencil using some left over silver BBQ paint and then had him pick her up
Went to his house on the 3rd and pretty much catered his block party. He wanted 6 butts on there, but I talked him down to 5 which was too much anyway. The analog guage read about 250 and the grill grate maverick was about 200. Actually i think this pic may be the stalled pork plateau. Def. too much meat,took quite a while to get up to temp. Butts on at 9:30pm and the first was off at noonish, the last at 3:30. Must have been close to 35-40lbs. 17.5 hrs on about a 3/4 basket (18' x 16").
I was pretty honored. He has a massive viking grill ine back yard, but was super excited over this. He wanted to move it out infront of his house for the block party, so we lugged it around. His friend was so into it, he asked me to build him one. After the fight this one gave me, I wasn't going to do it for parts money, but he was cool with the price and even offered to give me a bunch of casters on top of everything. So my extra drum came in handy. I think I may end up making enough money to fund my next UDS.
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