River Lizard
Got Wood.
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2010
- Location
- Richmond...
Hi,
My name is Jeff and I'm from the Richmond,VA area. I'm currently the chairperson for our state catfish club and I'm organizing the build of a club cooker, since our club has grown so much it's time to get something on a trailer so we don't have to drag several cookers to our club events.
I donated a 18' Heavy Duty Bass boat trailer for the project and another club member has donated an Oil Fuel Tank (275 gals) and I have a industrial air compressor tank (5-6' long) that I want to use for the firebox.
We currently on a very tight budget for this project so I'm hoping that suggestions from all of you can help us avoid costly mistakes on this project.
Here's my current plan of attack on this project:
I was planning on the oil tank laying horizontal vs vertical to give more rack space. I also was planning on being able to divide the tank into two different cookers if we didn't need the full size, by using a divider wall that could slide in from the back side via an access door. I'd split the front door area into two separate doors for this reason. One side would hold a water pan for smoking under the rack and the other side would have piped propane for just regular grilling OR an additional water tank could be slid over the top of the propane pipes to use it as a smoker. (is this possible?)
Next would be to mount the air tank behind and below the oil tank for the firebox. Currently I was thinking if we had 2- 4" pipes coming from the air tank to the bottom of the oil tank, this would supply plenty of heat (of course there'd be dampers to control just how much flowed into the oil tank area. Access to the firebox tank would be both ends would be hinged for access for cleaning out. My plan is to have a slide rack for loading wood inside of it.
The trailer is rated for 3500 lbs so I think I'll be safe as far as load goes. We can't afford plating for the flooring so I was going to use 2 x 6 treated lumber for the deck and bolt everything to it.
Once we have everything gathered into one location, I'll post up some photos of the parts we have for this project. Would enjoy hearing your suggestions and opinions on the current plans and how we can improve them for the least amount of funds.
From all the reading I've done that last few days on here, sounds like there's a wealth of knowledge within the members here!
Glad to be here and look forward to learning from ya'll and to be able to share in our club project from start to finish.
My name is Jeff and I'm from the Richmond,VA area. I'm currently the chairperson for our state catfish club and I'm organizing the build of a club cooker, since our club has grown so much it's time to get something on a trailer so we don't have to drag several cookers to our club events.
I donated a 18' Heavy Duty Bass boat trailer for the project and another club member has donated an Oil Fuel Tank (275 gals) and I have a industrial air compressor tank (5-6' long) that I want to use for the firebox.
We currently on a very tight budget for this project so I'm hoping that suggestions from all of you can help us avoid costly mistakes on this project.
Here's my current plan of attack on this project:
I was planning on the oil tank laying horizontal vs vertical to give more rack space. I also was planning on being able to divide the tank into two different cookers if we didn't need the full size, by using a divider wall that could slide in from the back side via an access door. I'd split the front door area into two separate doors for this reason. One side would hold a water pan for smoking under the rack and the other side would have piped propane for just regular grilling OR an additional water tank could be slid over the top of the propane pipes to use it as a smoker. (is this possible?)
Next would be to mount the air tank behind and below the oil tank for the firebox. Currently I was thinking if we had 2- 4" pipes coming from the air tank to the bottom of the oil tank, this would supply plenty of heat (of course there'd be dampers to control just how much flowed into the oil tank area. Access to the firebox tank would be both ends would be hinged for access for cleaning out. My plan is to have a slide rack for loading wood inside of it.
The trailer is rated for 3500 lbs so I think I'll be safe as far as load goes. We can't afford plating for the flooring so I was going to use 2 x 6 treated lumber for the deck and bolt everything to it.
Once we have everything gathered into one location, I'll post up some photos of the parts we have for this project. Would enjoy hearing your suggestions and opinions on the current plans and how we can improve them for the least amount of funds.
From all the reading I've done that last few days on here, sounds like there's a wealth of knowledge within the members here!
Glad to be here and look forward to learning from ya'll and to be able to share in our club project from start to finish.