Introducing the newest addition to my BBQ arsenal

[Son of a Son]

Got it for Christmas and have cooked on it twice. I suck at the food threads or I would have posted one on the tasty flesh which has sacrificed itself to the smoke.

Hope to get some use out of it during baseball season, and then maybe some football too. Anyone ever wants to come cook something, just let me know.

 

[NCAAFBALLROX]

Nice unit (the smoker).

Where do you live & if you don't mind us prying, what was the $$? Who made it?

I like that it's a triple chamber... I'm a sucker for an offset vertical for warming or light smoking.

Jealousy rears it's head... just need to get a welder to tack on some burnt orange longhorn shaped metal figures.

 

[crayon1973]

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[12thStudStan]

Based on a few minor design elements, it looks like a Lyfe Time or Longhorn pit (guy that used to work for Lyfe Time). I could be way off as many pit builders borrow ideas from each other, but it sure has a Uvalde look to it. Right or wrong, it is a nice pit my friend.

 

[Son of a Son]

Stan's got it right. It's a Longhorn. There's a distributer up here in Cedar Park, so I was able to pick it up. With the double burner I had installed and the extra thermometer, it cost just under $2700.

It definitely takes some time to learn the pit, but after two cooks, I am feeling fairly confident. The only addition I may make some time is I might drive it to Houston one day and get Rich from Gator Pits to install some tuning plates.

 

[12thStudStan]

The tuning plates sounds like a good idea. My small trailer pit is a Lyfe Time and I fashioned some baffles out of aluminum to help with heat distribution mostly because I'm too cheap to do it right. Most horizontal offsets have the same problems.

My big trailer pit has the center mounted offset firebox with smokestacks on each end of the cooking chamber which helps even out the heat. I'm doing a few mods on it soon and after I get it repainted I will post some pics.

 

[Son of a Son]

I keep contemplating getting someone to cut some steel into letters for me and welding them to the pit so I can call it "Rusty's Pit".

 

[HornGrandioso]

That would pretty much make you a God my neighborhood.

 

[flaco]

You could have the letters cut with a water jet cutting machine for fairly cheap. Call Jim at Austin WaterJet 243-9000.

PM me if you need some free help with the cad file necessary for cutting it.

 

[S197HQQKEM]

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!!!

I'm envious.

 

[NCAAFBALLROX]

Flaco, can those water jets cut shallow vs. all the way through?

That way he could have some cool engraving in say, the stack, & not lose structural integrity.