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Thanks for the thoughts Susan! It was 50 years ago for me Never saw a Kamado there but sure saw a lot of lump charcoal.

Thanks for the compliments! The dog is a 17mo old Red & Black Shepherd with obvious tan and the trees are Bloodgood Maples. The pup is 17mo old and weighs 80#, she is going to be big! She is my car alarm

So I guess it boils down to the computer monitor and cameras used as to what we see on our screens. I sure do like the color selection and once I get my wife to pick one then our order will be placed. Pretty excited:-)

Western Washington State color.

That definitely was a serious injury and you are pretty lucky, it could have been worse. If you can still feel it and the muscles try to move it then you will recover, maybe not the same as before but it is survivable. My doctors look at my medical record and say, "Wow, you have recovered from quite a lot" and I can tell you that I cannot pass the metal detectors nor the radiation detectors now BTW, how did it happen? A speedy recovery to you.

Probably the peeble finish in Olive and Gold, although Creme and Gold would also work depending on which photo on the web page you look at; they seem to very in color with the same name but a different sku. And yes Charles, paying a structural engineer would be pointless for me since I used to check their work to see if they missed something in the details, which they often did. My last engineering position was at the naval shipyard in facilities and maintenance doing as built drawings of every building in the shipyard. Real archeology!

It is a concrete slab that is behind 8" concrete walls and 8ft off the ground. You could park a small bulldozer on it, the problem is just getting it there. I worked in the construction engineering field all my life and now I am old and you would not believe some of the things I have seen or friends have moved, like disassembling a Bobcat and carrying it through a home and putting it back together in the backyard to dig a pool, and then reverse the drill. A similare deck right above it has had a 1 ton truck utility truck and a Suburban parked on it without problems for 20 years. So, no rain on this parade unless of course it rains on delivery day I drove tanks in the military and owned my own bulldozer so rigging things when working in the woods skidding logs and tying things to objects is second nature. I even moved a house that a trucker dropped off the foundation incorrectly back 2 feet onto its foundation. As you can see there is already 44 cement blocks plus 2 layers of firebrick in this open pit or smoker when the lid is on it. The copper hood adds no weight on the slab When I designed and built this home/remodel we poured 120 yds of concrete and blocked a major road for a day with one of the 2 boom pumper trucks we hired. We line pumped another 8 yards later to reinforce an existing foundation. Thank you all for the thoughts.

Thanks for the suggestion Ryan. Sort of like the mantra The Marines Need a Few Good Men, or women

Thanks Dennis:-) Do the interior liners remove for further weight reduction? I can see by the dimensions of this beast that it was designed to be taken through a large standard doorway, Kudos to the design team! I could possibly turn the shallow stairs into a temporary ramp and use a hand winch to roll it down the stairs gently, keeping in mind it will want to tip over. Wide cargo straps are my friend. The last large thing I moved was a 715LB planer across my shop and up into a pickup truck and it too was top heavy. Got to pay attention to the center of gravity and remember that Murphy is on the payroll. Thanks for the input so now it is just convincing my wife Stephen

Dan, the most narrow point is 35" and that is off road on an inclined gravel/dirt path. OR, through a 35" doorway, a sharp 90 degree turn and down a short 9 steps low rise stairway. From the waterfront road it is a no-go for sure and a crane, a big one, could not lower it onto the patio. A forklift can get it to the other side of the garage which is where the stairs are going to and the garage door is to the right of this rough pathway between fence and garage foundation. The pathway is the widest point @ 50" and the gateway with a tree trunk to corner of the building is 40" tight and located to the right of the MINI. If the top was removable then manhandling it around and down that path might be possible with 4 men. With the interior liners removed that would help too, if those things are possible. So you and Ryan can see the dilemma.

I am considering the KK BB and need to know if it is shipped in pieces or can be dismantled into its component pieces upong arrival. Open to all information! I have limited space to move the KK BB into position once it gets to the end of my driveway.