I thought I would throw up a few pictures of where I'm at so far. Between weather, family, and many other excuses, I haven't been able to make much headway in the last couple weeks. I still have to build a hinged door for the backside, make a step for the front, install some thermometers, and season it. I wanted to keep the smoking area as far away from the heat source as possible and still be able to reach dowels or racks, that is the reason it is so tall. I can easily reach the upper hanging dowels as is but once I put my step in even a short person will be able to reach them.
It is constructed of 1 x 6 t & g pine with 2 x 2 frame. The roof is also pine covered with a one-piece aluminum cover.
To start with, it will just be a manually controlled burner (from my crab cooker) but I plan to install a thermostatically controlled burner in the future.
