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My Santa Maria from Arizona barbeque was delivered during a storm on Friday and i got it uncrated and moved into position Saturday with my brother's help. I definitely needed the help since it weighs almost 800 lbs and we had to move it through an area landscaped with brick chips. It'll be later in the week before i can season the grates and do some grilling but i think I'm gonna like it!

Agree with all said, especially the handle advice. My additional 2 cents: > Remove everything from the inside of the grill except the fire ring; leave it in . This will make the grill as light as possible. > Ensure the plywood is laid out so you are rolling it off one sheet and onto the next. In your picture, I see the sheets alternating; this would force you to have to go 'up' from one sheet to the next. It is way easier to have the sheets cascade and the grill 'flow' over them. In moving all of the grills I have dealt with (5) I have used the plywood in this fashion. > I would not use the bobcat. > if you feel the need for handles, make two handles out of plywood and secure them to the sides using the bolts in the sides where the side tables / rotisseries would go. > Most of all - Take. Your. Time. "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." Good luck, many happy days/nights of cooking are ahead, this is just the beginning.

Yep, easy with 3 or 4 blokes. Nice and steady. It would be preferred dry weather. As tony said, try not to put too much pull on the lid handle. Ask the guys to fight the instinct to grab the handle, unless at last resort...... seriously, it’ll be fine with 3 or 4 blokes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for the suggestions - so far 3/3 KK owners are saying to not use the bobcat lol. Here is a picture of the path down to the backyard and the plywood on which the hardscape crew has been driving their bobcat up and down. The gate on the right is where the KK is going. I'm happy to not use the machine, but I just have a hard time imagining 3 or 4 chaps manually negotiating 900 lbs of KK down an incline. Sounds like it has been done before though, so we'll give it a go! Will definitely post pics when we get it in place!

Weber Large Grilling Basket "Baked" fish with charmoula sauce is a perfect application for a KK with the basket splitter. Show is a whole red snapper, with some identifying features trimmed for wife acceptance, marinaded baked and sauced with a half recipe of green charmoula. An olive oil marinade will flare up in any direct setup, such as my favored Solo Stove for quick grilling. This depresses me. It reminds me of "Weber" chicken that tastes mostly of burned fat. Worse, if I'm asked to do the grilling as a guest, but the flareups can't be avoided. Here, one gets charcoal grilled flavor while baking indirect, with no flareups. To be fair, bad cooks burn their food, good cooks live in fear of burning their food, and great cooks walk up to that edge. I've seen French cooking accounts where one wants to reduce but not eliminate flareups. Still, what I've done here is a compromise I can accept. With the KK I can phone in better food than I can afford at a restaurant.

Chicken Schwarma, cous cous & Mediterranean salad with homemade Tadziki

Guacamole topped with siracha. Baby back ribs, sweet corn and baked potato rubbed with butter, garlic powder and truffle salt, topped with shredded cheese

BernzOmatic Lawn and Garden Torch Affectionately known as a weed burner. Anything in the category will work. Many of us use these to start our fires. It's particularly useful for dense charcoals such as KK extruded coconut, and for aiming where the fire starts, such as under a smoke pot. I first saw something like this used by @jiarby in a 2003 cooking competition (the judges refused to decide whether his chili or my gumbo was better). He had a more substantial flame thrower, more like something Arnold Schwarzenegger would use in Commando. An innovation I'd recommend is to add a hose clamp somewhere on the neck of the flame thrower. Then it can rest on the lip of the KK, leaning also against the top grate of the charcoal basket. Now you can step away to refill your wine. When the igniter fails, keep the old one so you have two at once. Dennis notes that once a fire starts, it needs more oxygen, not more heat. He used to recommend a hairdryer until I posted that I loved the Milwaukee cordless M18™ Compact Blower. To be clear, this blower is anemic for any other purpose. My favorite cordless blower uses my lawnmower battery. This blower is however worth the price just for starting fires, particularly if you already have Milwaukee cordless tools.

Adam I’m not sure about the 21”. The basket with splitter is round in my 23” so can face any direction. Most of my roti cooks are done with a full basket. I place the lowest grilling rack in and start the cook direct. When it starts dripping, I place foil or a tray on the lowest rack so it becomes indirect. Par boiled potatoes can be placed around the edge to cook. Other veges are tough to combine like a multiple cook. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Arizona barbeque Outfitters: http://www.azbbqgrills.com/ They make to order and are pretty busy - I ordered back in February and beat a price increase due to their materials cost going up.

Thanks Basher! To hold tongs but not racks? They would be too heavy for that weight concentrated on that small area of the tiles, I would assume. Gosh, I really love this grill! I've yet to had one disappointment! Every cook has turned out fantastic!

Also make sure you unscrew those wingnuts/remove the door when you do your unwrapping because the door has tape/some foam behind it. Want to make sure that is all gone before you do your first fires.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was unpacking yesterday and could not figure this out. Duh!! One of these is much stiffer than the other. Had a bit of trouble getting it into those holes on the side bracket. Just started the burn-in.

I will weigh in and say that I moved a 42" KK with 3 other men (four of us total) and my wife helping to spot/guide and had to go down a little incline and then UP an incline to my back yard. You'll absolutely be fine managing your distance with 3/4 people and a 32" Just go slow!

Lovely cook, Troble.

and there you have it, the road to success.

Please don't use that thing to move your 32KK. Very little good can come of it.

You're more that 3/4 of the way there - already have the plywood sheets and the burley dudes to help. Not sure about that bobcat looking gizmo for moving it though. IF you do decide to strap it to the bobcat - do NOT run the strap through the handle. It's not load bearing and you can damage the latch.

Tomatillo they clip onto the side bracket like headphones with the hooks facing out. You will see two holes in the side bracket facing front and back. Yes a part of this bracket will rest against the tiles and yes it for hanging some tools on- tongs, etc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Speed I’d roll it down the ply with 3 blokes around it.... nice and steady. Ditch the machine. Maybe post a photo of the slope and ply? BTW, congrats on your decision with the KK. I’m interested in seeing it’s final resting place. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk