What the job involved
Nothing about a build like this comes off a shelf. The vessel had to be opened up along its length and re-plated, and every internal component (the burner manifold and its mounting fins, the grate racks, the curved end plates, the baffle that carries smoke the length of the chamber) was cut, formed and welded here. The offset firebox was fabricated separately and mounted on its own steel stand so the cooker sits at a workable height.
It is the same fabrication that goes into a stock crate or a tipper, just at a different scale. Which is the point: if it is steel and it is possible, we can build it.
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