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firebox does not weigh much; i'd leave it in. remove everything else. I would create ramps to go up/down from the deck. make them as long as possible so you reduce the severity of the slope.

Inventive, looks great!!

Perpetual wine of the month club ? [to go with all the good eats he had better be cranking out.]

My routine for emptying the cooker when the bottom is full of ash. I take the charcoal basket out, remove the heat deflector and the front draft door. I lay a 33 gal trash bag under the open front draft door on the ground and slide it under the cooker part way. Think drop cloth. Use a 4" cheap chip brush to sweep the ash out onto the 'drop cloth' trash bag. Pick up the bag from either end forming a hammock for the ash and pour it into the trash. Fold the bag up for future use. If you are concerned about breathing in the ash, a NIOSH rated mask will do the trick.

H - which recipe did you use for your naan bread? thx

For heat deflection only, it is either one of the drip pans or a piece of foil. For drippings & heat deflection I use one of the drip pans lined with foil. I have found that 2 layers of foil when doing pork will allow you time for the pan to cool post-cook and get the foil out before the pork grease gets through the foil. This is not needed when doing brisket. if i get grease, etc on the pan, hit it with soap & water.

Concur with sgt

concur with tonyb i have also stacked my smoke wood on the lip of the fire ring in place of using a cast iron pot.

welcome ! you'll have fun getting to know it. my 2 cents. charcoal: low-n-slows = Dennis's extruded. / day-to-day = fogo. BBQ guru = for low-n-slows i use a maverick for internal monitoring on things like hot-n-fast brisket.

Hang tough, it is a bad situation, about to get a bit worse.. but, it will pass, we will recover, the question is what scars will we carry forward?

TY all Tyrus - thanks for identifying the clock; it was my wife's grandmothers, hasn't run in years. re: poly, i used 8 coats of the wipe on ploy, 0000 steel wool in between each.

Just finished a sofa-back table for a neighbor. Cedar slab split w/ Cypress insert & floating Cypress lower shelf, supported by Cedar 'Z' shaped legs. Solidified the base structure with stainless wire and turnbuckles.

I used trex to make a small deck in front of my generator lean-to i added to the back of my shop about 4 years ago. no special tools to cut it, i used a nail gun w/ stainless framing nails (yeah, not cosmetic) onto 2"x 6" joists. I did screw framing for the lean-to onto it w/o any issues, no pilot holes. 16" on center, 4' x 6' square.

And we all have garden hoses

its a shame we no longer get the white or yellow pages.

Boy, buying such a reasonable grill really lead to over-doing it on the sleeping bag side of the equation, huh? Very nice rig - gonna have great adventures with that one, for sure. Congrats.

* Alabama mud

And........ What is it that you are preparing to tow, carry? hmmmmm...?

yikes, looks like a 17th century post mortem LOL!!

That is spectacular looking. congrats

I am dropping the price to $2,500.

using the steam method, regardless of "age" the eggs give up the shells easily and w/o loss of the egg white.

oops, yes, lid the saucepan when bringing water to a boil and during cooking.

Wow; to much math and physics for me. Try this: To do hard "boiled" eggs; steam them. use a vegetable steamer basket Set it in a 3 qt saucepan, filled w/ water to just below steamer basket, bring water to boil. 18 eggs in, stacked up. 11-12 minutes later put into ice water, 10 min, then peel. adjust your cook time to desired yolk done-ness, this time gives you firm, but not hard yolks. we get perfect eggs everytime.

It is in Fruit Cove FL - 32259 south of Jacksonville FL.