Drum score!

Diver · Mar 10, 2010

Got back from my trip and a buddy had scored some nice 85 gal drums for us. 30 bucks! Just the rust inhibitor to get rid of. Gonna burn this weekend. WHOOOO!

HeSmellsLikeSmoke · Mar 10, 2010

Great score if you ask me. Keep the pics coming.

Jet2 · Mar 10, 2010

Nice score!

jeffjenkins1 · Mar 10, 2010

Awesome, (farker, jealousy mod!).

Jeff

texman02 · Mar 10, 2010

Nice Drum!

BobBrisket · Mar 10, 2010

Start burning!
Congrats.

bacardi2001 · Mar 10, 2010

Diver said:
Got back from my trip and a buddy had scored some nice 85 gal drums for us. 30 bucks! Just the rust inhibitor to get rid of. Gonna burn this weekend. WHOOOO!

dosent look like it has a rust inhibitor. i had the same barrel only it was 30 gallon you can see it in one of my threads. on the inside it was a little greasy but brand new i did a burn out anyways.

Diver · Mar 10, 2010

bacardi2001 said:
dosent look like it has a rust inhibitor. i had the same barrel only it was 30 gallon you can see it in one of my threads. on the inside it was a little greasy but brand new i did a burn out anyways.

I wasn't sure. I added a little water and got no surface rust so I am going to burn. We ordered the grates from sportsmans guide. - Thanks BigMista for that link. I have another 55 gal that needs a little tlc too. Hope to complete Drums #2 and #3 this weekend.

1FUNVET · Mar 10, 2010

Sweet score :biggrin::biggrin:

BadHorsieBBQ · Mar 10, 2010

My drums had the same rust inhibitor in them. I added a little water to one of them and it did not rust either. I did burn and used the weed burner to get it out. Do a very good burn and you should be golden.

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

Pics of the Build

Had to get a pic as soon as I was shown the drums- I was told they were 55 gallon drums and was more than pleasantly surprised to find out they were 85ers!:biggrin: Was able to get 5 of these at a steal!

We decided to start work on 4 of them the next day!

HeSmellsLikeSmoke · Mar 11, 2010

Where is the "jealous" emoticon?

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

It begins

We tried to create as much of an assembly line as possible- 1st step we took was measuring 2 inches up from the bottom, marking with grease pencil, center punching our marks, drilling some pilot holes, then using step bit to drill 1 inch holes

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

Lid

Once all intakes were done, we moved on to the lids - we decided to copy the design of the weber kettle - repeated same process of measure, mark, punch, drill pilot, use step bit to make them 1 inchers. Then we used a file to clean up all of the burrs on the holes in lid and drum.

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

Firebox

Also fixed up some experimental fireboxes - I had these 4 gallon drums that I picked up a few years ago. They're too small to fit a whole load of charcoal in, but I can fit 2 inside these 85 gallon drums so I figured that I would 'swiss cheese' a few with the step bit and see if I could get them work...

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

Firebox pics

pics

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

Plans

Plans for next weekend include doing a burn out (I am still reluctant to ruin the authentic Salvage barrel motif

so I may skip the burn and opt for a good scrubbing with a wire brush or something similar) and drilling holes for grates (which are on order from Sportsmans Guide).

Smoothsmoke · Mar 11, 2010

Awesome, keep us updated. This is very useful for us future first time builders.

Rodney · Mar 11, 2010

Is this the grate you're talking about?

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/rome-24-1-2-round-cooking-grate.aspx?a=503448

KGB · Mar 11, 2010

Yep- that's the one.

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