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Or the rage McDonald's clown. :-)

My pleasure!

I filled with a half a large bottle of Dawn dish soap and water (was super sudsy!), then emptied, then filled again with the other half the soap and cut with the water still in it, doing my best to avoid water from getting into my grinder. Read a lot on this subject before cutting it and no boom. 🙂 The propane smell was really evident before I started the rinse process could not smell it after 2 soapy rinse cycles, plus with the tank being filled, there's no oxygen and propane residue to ignite inside the tank. Make sure you cut slow and move from section to section (not one long cut across long cut lines). This helps to reduce door swelling from heat warp.

@@MEGA_SOKO thanks man!!! 💯

@@MEGA_SOKO 💯 thanks man!!!!!!!!

Thanks Shawn! Still cooks like a champ!

Thanks, hope it helps, pressurize your tank and find the leak! :-)

Glad to help, after wanting to pull out my hair with my project, I knew I was not the only one with this issue and frustration. :)

It's a 5" chrome stack from a Peterbuilt truck. Found a pair on Craigslist for $30 and sold the second one for $40. lol I cut the stack down so there's 28" above the tank and a couple inches down inside the tank.

Thanks for the positive feedback.

Sorry, a basic slide show wasn’t what I was after. Needs some tunes and anything I would use is a copyright violation.

Hi Gary and thanks for the positive comments. To be honest, I have the initial second video recorded but after reviewing it, I want to add more video to it and my boat is having the starboard side head replaced at the mechanic (it's been there 8 weeks) because of a hairline crack. It is supposed to be finished this week, so as soon as I can get the other portion of film completed that I need to shoot, I can work on the mixing and post part #2. Thanks again for the support!

Finally got the call that the repair was completed and paid the bail to get my boat out of the mechanic's jail. LOL $3,000 to fix the head and $450 for a new timing belt tensioner later, I'll be doing my 1 hour mandatory cam break in and 4 hours of varied speed to set everything in place and get ready for some fishing and diving. Stay tuned.

Part 2 was just published. Hope this helps you!

Thanks! It's an amazing piece of equipment. Going to be doing a 4th of July catering job this weekend on it!

Thanks!

Bought it on Facebook marketplace. Waited until the time was right. Found someone desperate to sell quick and he delivered because he was selling his property. Worked out perfectly for me. Good luck, brother!!

Nice I’ll have to start keeping my eye out for one. How thick is the 120gal tank

@@billyjohnson8794 Mine was 1/4" thick

Thanks brother, 5 years in, it's still one hell of a cooker. The BBQ GURU is the clincher, she still cooks like a dream. I'd be screwed if the Guru fails, because my damper is now rusted shut! Cooks faster than any other smoker I know because it's RF. I would do it all over again the exact same way if I had to!

@@MEGA_SOKO I am awaiting delivery of a new cooker late next week. Hopefully! I really have a great respect for dudes that can build their own cookers.

I never use the circle vent because I added a bbq guru. I’d probably leave a damper out or use the slide plates for dampers instead. My circle vent threads is completely rusted now. I’d also only make 2 rack rails instead of 3. I never made the 3rd rack because I never needed it and I rarely use the 2nd rack. Thanks for the positive comment.

I only raised the firebox up enough that the throat of the Firebox to cook chamber would equal the dimensions Feldon's called for (for the FB to CC opening) as well as making sure the other end of my reverse flow plate had at least the same sq. in. or more. First step was to cut the moon in the firebox face (shown at 3:15) and then face the opening towards the tank. I used a string and a sharpie to mark the steel so the half circle was perfect. After the cut, I determined the height by raising the box so the bottom of the moon cut was a safe height above the bottom of the round tank, then I marked the top of the firebox height on the tank and made my cut on the tank. (The angle from the firebox to the tank pic that I used is at a bad angle, so don't be fooled, the bottom of the moon is above the bottom of the round bottom of the tank. If you look closely at 3:32, you will see where I used the cut moon scrap to ensure I left proper spacing for the top plate on the firebox. The RF plate mates to the top edge of the firebox and runs across the lower body of the smoker. Make sure the throat on the opposite end of the firebox is the same size or larger. Good luck, hope this helps!

Suliman Mtq Thank You!

Good luck!

Thank you!

Obrigado! Adoro as palavras gentis e gosto de compartilhar com todos. (in English: Thank you! I love the kind words and enjoy sharing it with everyone. )

I'll work on that. lol

A standard smoker has the firebox on one side and the exhaust stack on the other. The standard smoker is notorious for having a hot spot on the firebox side and usually has a larger end to end difference in temperature. A reverse flow has both the firebox and the exhaust stack on the same side, the heat leaves the firebox and runs under a thick steel place to the opposite side of the smoker, rises up and then travels across the cooking racks before exiting the smoker. The reverse flow allows radiant heat to rise up from the plate, making the temperature more even across the cooking racks, avoiding a hot spot in the cooker. Hope this helps!

Thanks! It was a 5 week project and it still cooks great 3 years later! Cooking on it now as we speak, two pork butts and a brisket flat. Cooks better than any restaurant!

Mig or stick

Agreed, MIG or Stick welder. I welded everything but the box with a Lincoln MIG. Welded the firebox with a Lincoln stick.

My tank is 120 gallon, the length is about 4 1/2 feet long, with the same diameter as yours. My door is about 3 1/2 feet wide so the door weight isn’t that bad (to me). I didn’t want to have to make a counter weight or cable assist setup, so my door is cut just inside the end cap welds. In my opinion, the hinges also affect the door weight because of how you have to lift up on the door to open it. These trailer gate hinges do not require any dead lift of the full door’s weight, it’s just a straight fulcrum right at the tank body. The hinges that have the bolt/fulcrum more than a couple inches from the top body of the cook chamber require more lifting strength because of where the fulcrum is positioned. A 5’ door would be a pill to lift, unless you have big handles.

Ok cool. Well my door may be 5’ or a little bigger. I don’t want a bunch of doors. Too much work cutting that many doors and all materials. Lol Thanks a lot! God Bless!

I always wanted to build one and did a lot of research on Smoking-meat.com forums and looked at a lot of youtube and google images. Google search Feldon's calculator, you enter in some information and it tells you what/how to cut as far as sizing. Works like a champ! I hadn't picked up a welding machine in 20 years before doing this project, so a little practice and I was off to the races. If I can do this, so can anyone else. Take your time and plan as much of this as you can. I could have put more study time into the reverse flow design before building, so do your homework. On facebook, there's a group I am in called "built not bought smokers" , there's always someone posting ideas and asking questions you may be able to get info on to help you. Good luck with your project!

starfire rider Many thanks!

Marilyn Walton Wish I had the time to dedicate into building another. Work is too busy to consider building another for a while. Check out Lang Smokers. Their quality is very good. Your kind words are flattering though, thanks.

I can build you one im a fabricator and have made many custom BBQ Pits from trailers to this backyard grills

Carlos J. M. Thank you. It’s a standard 4 x6 trailer. Not very big.

ourtube4u Thank you!

Tyler Nickel Very welcome. I posted the video so others can learn and share ideas.

Is it 1/4 inch plate?

@@georgehall6377 Yes! (sorry for the delay in responding, just now saw this)

Thanks!

Thank you! I picked this one up on the Facebook Marketplace. $50 delivered. You can also pick them up at the propane company, when they retire them.

I think I have about $1,200 in the build. I used some materials that were new, some that were recycled to save money. I spent money on the new 1/4 plate for the firebox and RF plate in the belly, so the cuts were nice and clean, precise and ready to go at the time of pickup. Saved me a lot of fit & finish time on the build..

How much would you charge some something similar to this?

@@kazeemmimiko4087If I was to build one for sale, I would probably price it around $3,000. I put 5 weeks of work into mine. At one point, I considered building and selling them, but an injury changed my thinking and I decided not to become smoker builder. I would be glad to offer ideas if you need help. There's also a group called "built not bought smokers" that would be a great resource if you wanted to build your own.

James Sokolovic I’m not too much of a handy man when I comes to something like this but I’ll check them out.

Thank you for the kind words. I wanted maximum cook flexibility and a whole hog on a smaller 120G tank is not something I think would be very fun to do, with a dual door setup. That's why I made one large door and three sets of rails for racks. If I had a larger cook chamber, I probably would have done a double door setup. With what I have now, I can cook as little as I want or a fully stuffed rig with all 3 racks full of fun foods. I need to get off my butt and finish my BBQ Guru video, as I have been picking up subscribers lately and I bet they're waiting for that video to hit the channel. :o) As far as building, I had built and sold another rig out of a kerosene tank and then started a third (smaller smoker out of a 100lb propane tank) and I got a very scary injury with a flat cutting disc that split while cutting and almost cut a vein just above the wrist from the flying disc debris. I was wearing gloves and it gut me just above the glove line, so much for wearing safety gear, eh? I went inside to clean up my serious cut and use steri-strips to patch the slice, it was then that I realized I was home all alone, because everybody had left the house and I very easily could have bled out in the yard all by myself. It was at that point that I decided that building cookers with the hand tools I have, without a properly setup shop is not what I want to keep doing. Between the weather and the amount of work to pull everything out and put it all away just to do a few hours of project work, I decided would rather focus on the cooking aspect instead of the building aspect. Smoke on, brother!

@@MEGA_SOKO wow scary story. Yeah a 120 would be more practical than my 500 because I only fire up my 500 when I have large amounts of food to do. I also made an octagon 24x48 offset smoker for smaller cooks I also made a barrel cooker and a double barrel cooker with 2 rotisseries in it. I love building these things. I got the idea about the octagon cooker from a channel called Allen's welding and wood working, if you haven't seen his channel go check it out the guy is amazing at building stuff. Do you have an email? I'll send you some pictures if you're interested. Keep up the great work my friend.

@@4seasonsbbqI hear ya, I enjoyed the build aspect of it, but in FL it rains a lot during the warmer months. I can't tell you how many times my motivation to build something was killed by weather. Plus while working, the rain just pops up, so everything has to be lugged from the back yard up to the garage. BPA. I know exactly what YT channel you're talking about, because I looked at the Octagons and how he does slight cuts and bend the steel. I was mind blown by how much time is saved doing it that way! Would love to see your rigs. Instead of me posting my email here and finding a TON of spam in my inbox, look me up on facebook and send me a private message and we can connect. With a name like mine, it's not hard to find me. :o) I also run a BBQ page on FaceBook called "bbq and smoking rubs and recipes". Also a member and moderator on several other groups, including a smoker build page. Come join the fun!

@@MEGA_SOKO I will look you up my friend, see you in a bit.

@@MEGA_SOKO hey james I just looked you up on Facebook, there's 6 of you. Which one is you? When I friend you my name is Ron Nelson and my profile picture is my Sheriff badge. I'll try again later.

JOFIE H. Thanks! She cooks like a well trained beast as well!