performance 
BIG FAT Bar B QUE grill
I posted this over on welding web but thought I'd share it with you here. I built this for a guy recently and it turned out quite well. He did not want a large fire box and I built a lot of it to his specifications. It turns out it works quite well. Though I have built several over the past few years, this is the largest one to date. Its supposed to be a 330 gallon tank which is about 9.5 ft long and about 32" wide. Those are rough dimensions of course. I built it in stages. The customer decided he wanted a couple of more things done once he got it back...so I obliged.
Even with the small fire box, I managed an even 230 degrees with only about 30% air flow. There was no more than 10 degrees difference from end to end. It cooked for about 6-7 hours before I "killed" the fire by shutting off the air flow. I started with about a 10 lb bag of charcoal, got it ashed over and then put some quartered up oak on top of the coals. All total it only consumed one bag of charcoal and 7 -8 pieces of oak. When I shut down the fire, it left 3 large pieces of relatively unburned oak in the bottom.
