First cook on Shirley Pit underway - Memorial Day Brisket

[rdstoll]

Sorry I only have one pick for how the cook turned out - an inside shot of the brisket below. Everything turned out very good. I had to pull things a little earlier than I wanted because we had guests over but everything got rave reviews. The ribs were the best I've done - the brisket could have used another hour, I think. Dang thing stalled out for like four hours before getting closer to the temp/probed doneness I was shooting for.

All I can say is that I could not be happier with this Shirley pit. My BIL, who knows a thing or two about fabricating, was going on and on about how good of a job Paul and Tyler had done in terms of smoothing out the corners of my square stacks, painting in welds, etc. "This guy knows what he is doing!" High praise from a BIL that doesn't offer it up too often!

And thanks to all contributors on this site. That I was able to get my first stickburner and pull off being able to build & maintain a consistent fire on my first go-round (for a family party no less) was an absolute miracle so thanks for all the tips and suggestions that folks are always contributing on here.

[Guando]

Congrats on the pit. It is beautiful! Great cook also!

[Bamabuzzard]

Originally Posted by TuscaloosaQ

Thanks for the kind words everybody.... Rob it was a pleasure to meet you and Glenda!!!!! Yalll are fine folks..... I often ask myself how is it possible that every single person I have sold a pit to, and we have sold many. are some of he finest people on Earth!!!!!!... Guess it is just the passion associated with BBQ>>>> I have not had one bad experience!!!!!! Let tha smoke roll brother...... And I am with you Rob thank God for our service men and Women...... I sleep good at night!!!!!!!!!!!

ROLL TIDE!!! BBQ seems to draw the best folks in the land.

[2drunk2Q]

That's a damn nice cooker. Not really familiar with offsets but that cabinet style looks great.

[davefan360]

Nice cooker. I am not sure about that one but I built one out of a tank with barn doors and my door temp is 10-15* lower then vs center of grate temp is 15* higher.

[sterlingsmoker]

Awesome pit!

[AaronPo]

Originally Posted by toys4dlr

Another awesome SF cooker. It was actually the pictures of your cooker there that made me order a patio model with the cabinet style doors.

That and my wife is an awesome cook, but a little vertically challenged. I thought the doors would allow her to enjoy using the cooker too.

Man, I thought the wait would be easy, but seeing all these fine SF cookers is not making it easy. I feel like a kid in October dreaming about Christmas day.

Please take lots of pics and post up a full review when you get it. I'm very intrigued by the patio models as I don't see a trailer model in my near future!!

[dbl.cheese]

Nice!!

[toys4dlr]

Originally Posted by AaronPo

Please take lots of pics and post up a full review when you get it. I'm very intrigued by the patio models as I don't see a trailer model in my near future!!

I will and I am sure Paul will give me build updates.

[J15491]

What weight of whole hog will this cabinet style hold? Seems like a whole hog will fit better here than the traditional style tube pit.

[BuckN BBQ]

Gorgeous pit! Does Paul or Tyler ever have an off day? Every pit looks perfect!!

[bigdexxx]

rdstoll: What are the size of the grates top & bottom? (if you don't mind me asking)

[Happy Hapgood]

Mighty Fine! Thanks for posting.

[rdstoll]

Before we got too far away from Memorial Day just wanted to post a couple more pics of my Shirley pit. As many have noted the build quality is excellent so I just wanted to highlight a few close-ups of the pit so you can see what this actually means.

In the first pic, I asked for square stacks, curved. You can see here how those turned out. No sharp corners and very smooth. I have no idea how someone does that. The rest of the pics just show more of this with smoothed corners, tight intake, etc. Enjoy and thanks again to the boys at Shirley for building this for me.

[awscwi]

Them Shirley boys build nuclear grade smokers !!! I love mine!