Offsets are all about airflow, and that sucker can breathe-beautiful pit!
I see the elbow in the pull arm as being a weak point.
Needs a gusset welded in the crook.
Throw a saddle on that thing and take it for a ride !!!
Cholloway: I'll be paying very close attention to all of your posts from here on out because your observation is SPOT ON!!!!
I get lucky once in a while.
Just remember... Everything with a grain of salt. :thumb:
Cholloway: I'll be paying very close attention to all of your posts from here on out because your observation is SPOT ON!!!!
I actually broke the pull arm at that point the very first night I had my smoker when I was pushing it across my flat garage floor. It's at a local welding shop for repairs today (more detail on this to come in my detailed comments coming later).
Everything else besides the pull arm is built like a tank however.
Funny thing is I saw the below picture on his FB page of another smoker with the T bar and it has a brace welded in at the elbow, apparently yours didn't, and I just looked...
Interesting, the braced version in the photo you posted looks similar to my repaired pull handle. Mine has the bracing/gussetting on both sides of the bar (photo below - sorry about the huge size). Maybe Big Phil will start to make the bracing a standard feature on his new builds.