Pig Cooker question

kaiser715

kaiser715

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OK, found my oil drum today.

For those that have oil drum cookers...how high off the ground is your cooking surface? How tall is too tall?

I'm going to build it on a off-roadable trailer frame I have, with 33x1250's, cooking grate will be pretty high compared to others (but I'm 6'2 and can still easily reach the far side when standing on the ground). Seems most I've found measurements for online are 33 to 36" high, this will be 40-41" unless I section out and lower the tongue, then can get it in the 37" range.

I've used a friend's that's really too low, maybe 28"...kills my back leaning over...
 
when we used to build them in highschool we always juat made them about waist high.
 
waist high is good. I've always made mine whatever works well with whatever materials I'm using. I usually made all of mine with left over scrap, etc., so none of them were ever the same.

Ideally, I'd say about the same height as a counter top, abou 36" But, whatever you make it will work
 
You trying to turn it into a grill or are you going to build a UDS smoker? 55 gallon drum smokers work far better standing up...
 
pretty sure this is going to be a PIG COOKER. i doubt a hog will fit in a 55gal drum regardless of how you turn it. id imagine that he has a fuel oil tank like this one
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kaiser715 said:
actually, it's a round tank, 36D by about 50" long when I'm done with it.
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gotcha. we always used old fuel oil tanks like the one i showed. i have a tank of similar dimensions to what you're using that i plan on turning into a cooker for myself. i got it free in high school but just havent had the time to do it. i need to wait till my dad gets another order of steel so he wont notice when i sticky finger a few pieces of angle iron :lol:
 
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