Smoker Firebox Door Design
These are just guidelines based on years building smokers but your mileage may vary.
Smoker firebox door design. It s a popular model with 784 square inches of cooking space and a 15 000 btu cast iron burner for fast ignition. The door doors design is a personal choice. The air intakes are critical factors to providing the fire with enough air. It s a fantastic design for making great bbq.
Weld on butt hinge 6 in x 3 in smoker pit door parts. The general rule of thumb for a horizontal smoker is that the firebox should be 1 3 the size volume of the cooking chamber. 4 75 hinge pin non greasable smoker hinge 8 79. A word of warning.
Dyna glo dgo1176bdc d charcoal offset smoker this isn t your typical wood burning offset smoker as it has a cabinet configuration with a firebox that s more designed for charcoal. This trailer mounted smoker was built using an old 250 gallon propane tank and is the perfect size large parties catering competitions or whole hog barbecue. Unlike the ugly drum smoker or the flower pot smoker this is a complicated build that requires specialist tools skills and a fair bit of time. I elected to make two larger doors with the little door in the middle shown cut out in this pic so that my cook racks could be one piece slide out and i would have room to place a whole hog in it without fighting to wiggle it in and around a.
Hi guys sounds like you are building a reverse flow smoker with an offset firebox. The chimney is the work horse of the smoker drawing smoke and hot air from the firebox into the cook chamber. Build a professional barbecue smoker. 4 75 inch bullet weld on hinge w zerk.
Your fire box sounds like it would be big enough for the size cooking chamber that you will have. The old gas tank in question forms the cooking chamber of offset smoker and the diy part is adding the frame and the firebox. Weld on butt hinge 3 x 3 for bbq smoker door firebox. That s a reverse flow smoker.
The industry standard for premium offset smokers is now 6mm 1 4. See more ideas about bbq smokers bbq smoker. This instructable will show you how to build the ultimate backyard barbecue pit. Mark and cut whatever you feel will work best for you.
Once your firebox information is entered you will see recommended volumes for the chimney the air intakes and the throat. The traditional design of a firebox is a tube or a box made of one thickness of metal. There are any number of ways to design and build a bbq smoker. But a rule of thumb that goes for a lot of things is bigger is.