Cozs latest Brain Fart

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:23 am

Well with the 3 shelves he will have about 2760 sq. in. of cooking space. So the cooking chamber must be 24"wide x 36" deep at the bottom shelf and then 24" wide x 24" deep at the top shelf. So with those numbers and my math, I figure it to be a cooking chamber of approx. 12,000 cu.in.. But that is just going by his shelf sizes and does not include the space below the bottom cooking shelf, which if it is 8" deep would add another approx. 7000 cu.in.. Making a total of about 19,000 cu.in. How's that Jet? A little closer?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:43 am

That sounds alot more better. That is an ideal size.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:40 pm

There are 2 each of the 3 shelves.My math just sucks I will take you guys word on the size.I ran out of fingers and toes after 20. Laughing

Started welding frames for the shelves tonite .Its looking like I wont have any of the skins till after the weekend.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:12 pm

Well then the total would be closer to 38,000 cu.in. WOW, that is a monster.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:59 pm

Jim outside dimesions are roughly 48.5 High,42 deep and 70 long.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:06 pm

Well you will have 5520 sq in of cooking space on the shelves which is just over 38 sq.ft. That is huge. You will go to the poor house to fill it with meat. Laughing

Hey, just a minute, my stumper has 5 shelves 3'x 2' which is 30 sq.ft. and I haven't gone to the poor house yet, but I am cooking for customers who pay for the food.

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:08 pm

Jim, when we started this project it was to be much smaller just to be able to do all comp meats in one cooker with some spare space and then my partner started getting cooking gigs for pulled pork so now we have way more work for the summer then I wanted.Have you ever filled yours with butts?If so how many was that?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:50 pm

No, I have never filled mine with butts, so I don't really know how many it will hold and cook evenly. You have to keep in mind that on the vertical cooker, you have to leave some space for the air flow, so I think a person should be able to do 5 per shelf, staggering their placement. That would make 25 butts @ 7# = 175# total. Just guessing. If I were able to put 6 per shelf, that would make 30 butts or about 210# total.

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:21 pm

I have added a few pics.I got the frames for the food grates welded but am waiting for the stainless expanded to get sheared hopefully monday.

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:13 pm

Added a couple pics .Started the skinning process.2 pieces left tack on for the skins.

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:18 am

Well we have some more the cooker itself and the cook chamber door are powder coated.I took the camera and was going to take pics of the whole powder coating process but took it out and the batteries were dead Embarassed

I still have to do the chute top door and the ash box door but I had a window of opportunity to get the big stuff coated so we did it early saturday morning.I was home by 7:30 AM.

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:34 pm

http://s592.photobucket.com/albums/tt5/bringintheheat181/

Is this the correct photo album? Maybe you have covered this, but what will you do for a heat deflector/ tuning plate ? That is cooker is going to be huge!

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:30 pm

That is the correct album.The whole drain pan is a deflector plate.Its a reverse flow.

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:27 pm

Thanks.

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:47 pm

New pics have been added.Waiting to finish the chute door and ashbox door.Also need to finish weld the top 2 racks.Should have her done mid week.