My homemade pit

[The Smoker King]

A few pictures of a pit I made last december are posted here
http://www.thesmokerking.com/page4.html

What do you think?

[sharky]

Looks good!

How does it hold the heat?

[sharky]

Btw - Welcome To The Board!

[The Smoker King]

It holds heat very well. The pit is about 1/4 inch thick, I did not drop the firebox down to provide more heat with less wood. It works well. Just an idea I wanted to try. I have a large damper that seperates the firebox from the smoking chamber which allows me to regulate heat if it tries to get too warm. I can maintain 225 all day long with the pit using about half the wood I would have to use with a dropped firebox.

[snapshotmd]

800 pounds! Wow, that's alot of metal and plenty of mass to hold the heat. I'd imagine it'd smoke some real nice Q!

snaps