Here in Alabama, just when you think you seen the latest and greatest
BBQ grill all you have to do is drive another block or so down the
road and your sure to find another that you will ooh and aah over. One
thing this state is very proficient at and thats in designing and
making BBQ grills. I think they have Texas beat. Earlier this year a
local small stell fab'er up the road from me had over 100 locally made
grills settig outside for sale, and there is not a single one left,
and there had to be close to 10 or more different sizes and designs.


While its not a sheetsteel grill, we made one from a 1000 gal aluminum
tank when I ws in the USAF. Used expanded metal for grates, added a
smoke box on it, and mounted it to an undercarraige from a discarded
piece of AGE equipment. Heck it took a pickup truck of charcoal to
fire it up. Another unit borrowed it and had that suckers draft wide
open, and succeded in melting a good section of the tank out!

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:40:50 -0700, Grant Erwin
wrote:

x-OK, I'm going to sound like a lovestruck baby, but I took a local
x-blacksmithing class this weekend (my first ever) and oh boy does
x-this open up a whole new vista! Anyway, this isn't a blacksmithing
x-plug. I'm now seriously into 3 things that I can see merging into
x-a really great project.
x-
x-Cooking, machining, and blacksmithing. Barbecue/smoker, anyone?
x-
x-Seems like there has *got* to be a to-die-for BBQ design out there
x-that you need to know about metal cutting/welding/propane orifices/
x-piping/forging/cooking to pull off right. Maybe electrical too if
x-the design had a rotisserie mode.
x-
x-Anyone know of a really cool design? Maybe start with a leftover
x-chunk of Alaska Pipeline (well not that big, that stuff was 48"OD)
x-or some other pipe, put a perfect cut on it with a plasma cutter,
x-forge some really cool handles and stand, you get the idea.
x-
x-Grant Erwin
x-Kirkland, Washington

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One of the local FFA chapters made a slick one.

About 16' long. Motorized, chain driven wide steel belt (about 30"
wide). Built in bass boat seats for the operators at each end. Fire
chamber in the middle. Load hamburgers on one end, serve them off the
other.
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Dan G

(remove the 7)




Grant Erwin wrote:
OK, I'm going to sound like a lovestruck baby, but I took a local
blacksmithing class this weekend (my first ever) and oh boy does
this open up a whole new vista! Anyway, this isn't a blacksmithing
plug. I'm now seriously into 3 things that I can see merging into
a really great project.

Cooking, machining, and blacksmithing. Barbecue/smoker, anyone?

Seems like there has *got* to be a to-die-for BBQ design out there
that you need to know about metal cutting/welding/propane orifices/
piping/forging/cooking to pull off right. Maybe electrical too if
the design had a rotisserie mode.

Anyone know of a really cool design? Maybe start with a leftover
chunk of Alaska Pipeline (well not that big, that stuff was 48"OD)
or some other pipe, put a perfect cut on it with a plasma cutter,
forge some really cool handles and stand, you get the idea.

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington

Come down to Vienna, GA for the Pig Pig Jig in October. The BBQ is
fantastic but the rigs are phenominal. 16' tandem trailers with a 6'
grill on either end. and swiveling lazyboys in the middle. Separate
beer and meat refrigeration, hydraulic lid lifts, satelite TV, self
contained pressureized water system that automatically mist the fires to
keep up the humidity constant. When you are sitting around for 12 hours
cooking a pig you have the time to think up the damnedest features to
make life easier.

Grant Erwin wrote:
OK, I'm going to sound like a lovestruck baby, but I took a local
blacksmithing class this weekend (my first ever) and oh boy does
this open up a whole new vista! Anyway, this isn't a blacksmithing
plug. I'm now seriously into 3 things that I can see merging into
a really great project.

Cooking, machining, and blacksmithing. Barbecue/smoker, anyone?

Seems like there has *got* to be a to-die-for BBQ design out there
that you need to know about metal cutting/welding/propane orifices/
piping/forging/cooking to pull off right. Maybe electrical too if
the design had a rotisserie mode.

Anyone know of a really cool design? Maybe start with a leftover
chunk of Alaska Pipeline (well not that big, that stuff was 48"OD)
or some other pipe, put a perfect cut on it with a plasma cutter,
forge some really cool handles and stand, you get the idea.

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington



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there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:40:50 -0700, Grant Erwin
wrote:

OK, I'm going to sound like a lovestruck baby, but I took a local
blacksmithing class this weekend (my first ever) and oh boy does
this open up a whole new vista! Anyway, this isn't a blacksmithing
plug. I'm now seriously into 3 things that I can see merging into
a really great project.

Cooking, machining, and blacksmithing. Barbecue/smoker, anyone?

Seems like there has *got* to be a to-die-for BBQ design out there
that you need to know about metal cutting/welding/propane orifices/
piping/forging/cooking to pull off right. Maybe electrical too if
the design had a rotisserie mode.

Anyone know of a really cool design? Maybe start with a leftover
chunk of Alaska Pipeline (well not that big, that stuff was 48"OD)
or some other pipe, put a perfect cut on it with a plasma cutter,
forge some really cool handles and stand, you get the idea.

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington

Barbeque means a lot of different things around the country. Up here
in Michigan, I found out it means hot dogs and hamburgers. In Texas,
it's brisket (plus sausage, ribs, and chicken for variety) for 12-14
hours with a wood fire, not charcoal, and definitely not gas. The
brisket must be fresh, or you won't get the bright red nitrate ring
that says barbeque. Sauce is a side dish, not for mopping. Mopping
sauce is 1/2 water, 1/4 oil, 1/4 vinegar, with an onion cooked in the
oil, salt and pepper (never pepper the meat).

I do mine with a german style pit (firebox on the end). I prefer
pecan or oak wood, but up here I've used maple, because it's what I
could get. Works ok.

Pits can be as fancy as you want, just put the firebox low and have
enough stack for some draw. I rotate the briskets (untrimmed, about
10-12 lb. each) and mop once an hour to even out the cooking.

Trim the black and fat off the outside when done. I use the remains
of the mopping sauce (full of smoke and drippings by now) to make the
barbeque sauce, which isn't ever the same twice.

Matter of fact, I'm going to do a barbeque in a few weeks. Hope it
doesn't snow.

Pete Keillor

High Grant,

Down in Auburn by the RR tracks the contractor is selling 48" Dia pipe
leftovers from the gas pipeline they just installed. Don't know the
price.

I just got back from Alaska and brought a cooler full of frozen salmon
and a case of smoked salmon. Good eats:-)

Dan Clingman



Grant Erwin wrote:

OK, I'm going to sound like a lovestruck baby, but I took a local
blacksmithing class this weekend (my first ever) and oh boy does
this open up a whole new vista! Anyway, this isn't a blacksmithing
plug. I'm now seriously into 3 things that I can see merging into
a really great project.

Cooking, machining, and blacksmithing. Barbecue/smoker, anyone?

Seems like there has *got* to be a to-die-for BBQ design out there
that you need to know about metal cutting/welding/propane orifices/
piping/forging/cooking to pull off right. Maybe electrical too if
the design had a rotisserie mode.

Anyone know of a really cool design? Maybe start with a leftover
chunk of Alaska Pipeline (well not that big, that stuff was 48"OD)
or some other pipe, put a perfect cut on it with a plasma cutter,
forge some really cool handles and stand, you get the idea.

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington

One of the guys at the scrap metal yard in Gorst made a smoker out of
a water pressure tank that was maybe 50 or 75 gallons. More welding
than anything else. They usually have some of those tanks in the
yard. The advantage of the water pressure tanks as explained to me is
that the water is in a bladder and there is no rust inside the tank.

Dan


Grant Erwin wrote in message
Anyone know of a really cool design? Maybe start with a leftover
chunk of Alaska Pipeline (well not that big, that stuff was 48"OD)
or some other pipe, put a perfect cut on it with a plasma cutter,
forge some really cool handles and stand, you get the idea.

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington