It looks like a keeper.
How do you move it with only 2 handles? Looks like a 4 man job to me.
It will stay in one place at camp, but 2 guys could lift and move it a short distance with the handles if you needed to. They're really there so you can lift/turn it so the high back is upwind. But they also work for slings/chains to lift it with a FEL.It looks like a keeper.
How do you move it with only 2 handles? Looks like a 4 man job to me.
The head is mild steel and painted on the outside only, with 1200 degree paint. The grill is just carbon steel that will get seasoned like a cast iron pan. Stick welded with 6011
I only painted the exterior of the head, the wind deflector, legs and very outer angle/ring of the grate with 1200 degree grill paint. I left the inside head and grate itself unpainted. I'll season the grate with some grate seasoning, just like you'd season a carbon or cast iron pan. The grill sits under a canopy, so doesn't get rained on. If the grate doesn't stand up, I'll replace it with some stainless expanded metal.
It's a 36" flanged and dished vessel head, 3/8" thick. I used to work for a company that had a pressure vessel fabrication shop. The customer changed the nozzle size after the shop had already cut the hole, so the head was scrapped. I had to weld the part the shop cut out for the nozzle, back in place. Fortunately, I'm best friends with the shop manager, so he had the head and patch nested together for me in the scrap bin.
good choice, mild steel & 6011 has been my own since college days for job like yours... cure it out before using, you know that, regards
