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fire&smoke
07-27-2014, 09:16 PM
I built a hybrid smoker/SantaMaria cooker this winter. Wanted to share it. Most will look at the finished product and chuckle. I wanted a conversation piece as well as a cooker. I do not own a welder but had a good friend do some welding for me. I started with two 304 stainless steel barrels (Abbey Drum, Baltimore, MD) with a smoker in mind. I did a search on google to see what others have done with 55 gallon drums. I found a unique design by Joe Miller (http://jmillerid.com/wordpress/2009/12/55-gallon-drum-smoker/). I decided to start with Joe's design and add some modifications of my own. One of my favorite things to cook is tritip steak. Why not add a Santa Maria mechanism on top of the smoker! I also set the whole unit into a stainless steel restaurant table to help keep the kids away from the hot drums and to add a staging spot for incoming/outgoing meat. Take a look at the link below. This is a web journal on my iCloud page showing some highlight pics of the build from start to finish. I also included videos of the Santa Maria mechanism and a mechanism I fabricated to control the height of the charcoal basket. The last two videos are the smoker in action (ribs on a ribolator) and my first test cooking tritip on Santa Maria. Let me know what you think.

https://www.icloud.com/iphoto/projects/#6;CAEQARoQnPFPmRFchHpAlQuIq7YQuw;0922A11C-7664-477D-A2AC-6A18D6B413EF

mykeystoy
07-27-2014, 09:27 PM
That is some fine engineering! I love it.

landarc
07-27-2014, 10:24 PM
Wow, that is a unique cooker for certain and I bet it's fun to cook on

chambersuac
07-27-2014, 11:02 PM
That looks cool. Congrats!

Rib-O-Lator
07-28-2014, 04:33 PM
Fantastic job and I'm glade you didn't forget the most important part...the bottle opener.

fire&smoke
07-28-2014, 07:00 PM
All videos are now working (see link above). Sorry for the delay. If the videos are running slow you can download them before watching.

oifmarine2003
08-02-2014, 06:50 PM
Nice! Very intense!

fire&smoke
08-07-2014, 06:31 PM
iCloud crashed on me. Here is an updated link (different from above).
https://www.icloud.com/iphoto/projects/#27;CAEQARoQgcs7yOnGiAkF3xzb9Ztfrg;E0F0835C-D78E-4F32-A0CE-AC8FEC534DB6

Will work for bbq
08-07-2014, 08:24 PM
Nice build. :thumb:

T&S BBQ
08-07-2014, 08:38 PM
thats flipping cool, great job and pics

Harry Barker
08-08-2014, 06:15 AM
that thing is busy!!!

Packmanjim
04-15-2015, 09:25 AM
I love this design!

BoLiles
04-15-2015, 11:00 AM
so jealous - very cool build

Slideguy01
04-15-2015, 11:14 AM
Great Job! Well thought out :idea:

SoFloQ
04-15-2015, 11:41 AM
Talk about versatile!! Nice build

jermoQ
04-15-2015, 12:06 PM
Nice cooker!

Shagdog
04-15-2015, 01:31 PM
Very nice! Looks like you had a lot fun building that!