pictures of my new pit, before and after

smo king · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 4

i have been looking high and low for a nice big pit that i could pick up at a good price and then spend some time customizing. well i found it! this is a home made pit on a home made trailer and i have had a blast working with it. all of the welding work i have had done by a local welding company that has been great to work with. they have put in a plate and stack to make this a reverse flow (the old stack gets closed off once the pit warms up). they added on the crown (my last name is king and screen name and team name is the SMO KING). they are currently building in a warming box/ oven over the fire box so i can do potatoes and beans and what ever else in there. any way its been lots of fun and i wanted to share my progreess so far. any thoughts or comments are welcomed

this link shows the pit before i made any changes:
http://photobucket.com/albums/e162/smo_king/before/

and this link shows how it looks currently:
http://photobucket.com/albums/e162/smo_king/after/

this is not a finished project, i still have plenty of things that i want to do, but i will probably leave it pretty much like this for a while.

tell me what you think.
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Alien BBQ · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

Looks like you are going to have some fun.
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ChipotlePat · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

looks great Nice job

allsmokenofire · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

Wow Adam.....nice work, it's hard to believe that's the same pit. Only thing I see thats missing is some meat on the grates and some thin blue smoke coming out of the stack Wink

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adolpho · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

smo king,
That is a great turn around. Where did you get that rig? I thought I saw it for sale on either austin craigslists or some other web classifieds (ebay, etc...) a while back. My thoughts back then were that would take a lot of work. I'm glad you did it and I'm sure you'll be cueing up a storm.
FYI...If you're into BBQ cookoffs, there's one in 2 weeks in Helotes (near San Antonio). I plan to go, maybe we can meet up and share some cue.
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Jeff T · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

Looks like a keeper, before long you`ll have a yard full of smokers to tinker around with if ya keep it up then your wife will give ya one of thoses "don`t you have enough smokers" like mine says when another one follows me home. Rolling Eyes

Thomas P. · BBQ Pro Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 596 Location: Texas

Good job on the rehab, dude! What did you use for rust removal? I always have great results with naval jelly.
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allsmokenofire · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

mding38926 · Posted: Mar 03 2006 Post subject:

Very nice.....
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Thomas P. · BBQ Pro Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 596 Location: Texas