Perfect Backyard Smoker Build (DIY Offset Smoker Build)

what's going on this is father-son diy garage my name is joe and my name is steve stay tuned to see how we turn this metal and that metal over there into the perfect backyard smoker and stay tuned to the end where we show you how many gallons how much we made it for and how much we sold it for all right we're gonna start this build off by taking our one inch square tubing and we're gonna turn that into our base so we're gonna cut these legs at 27 inches right now we started off this build by ripping down our one inch square tubing with our new evolution saw this thing is great if you're ripping down a lot of material like this in the garage so after that we beveled all the ends just so we have a little bit of a weld gap to fill in and then we got right to assembling it if you guys haven't been here before this is father-son diy garage and my dad we do uh diy projects in the garage doing metal working woodworking and um there's a bunch of different things around the house and uh if you guys could just give us a subscribe and comment down below i subscribed this is gonna be holding a lot of weight these smoker builds are usually a couple hundred pounds you know we're estimating this one's probably at least three four hundred pounds so this thing's got to be strong [Music] all right i'm putting the last weld on and then going back and then putting a full weld on everything we've done a couple smoker bills on this channel here we got our uh pizza oven which is our most recent and then our ugly drum smoker and then our very first one we did our first video on this channel was our giant smoker build and that thing just blew up 127 000 views and to everyone who watched that thank you and uh hope we keep making good content for you guys i cut the square tubing right at the top just to uh match the radius of the tank you know kind of a little 45 degree angle there and uh just that way it has a nice look once we set the tank on top cutting that with the angle grinder and then i went ahead and put a another piece of uh one inch square tubing it's just a brace you know want this to be nice and strong after that i went ahead and smooth all the edges over i want us to have a nice finished look all right now it's time to put our pipe on top here my dad and i are just putting the tank on top just to see how it looks looks pretty good so we got straight into our building of the wheels for this build we're custom building all the wheels all the axles so this is an eight inch pipe we're making the wheels out of and i actually got this off a job site and um we're cutting three inch pieces off of this just uh cutting them out with the band saw and then we went over to the chop saw and we're cutting out three inch pieces of three inch flat stock and this is going to be for all the spokes in our wheels in the center of the wheel is going to be some one inch uh pipe you see me cutting all those three inch pieces and then i went ahead and cut out the pieces for the axles so for our wheels we have our eight inch piece of pipe cut at three inches and then we have our one inch piece of pipe cut at three inches also that's going to go right in the center then we have our three inch pieces of flat stock and they are just going to go as spokes right in there it's going to look something like this when we're done but i gotta finish welding this one up so let's get to it here we are finishing up the wheels welding everything together and man this took a lot of welding a lot of time and a lot of welding rods we bought 10 pounds of welding rod for this build and we went through every single rod doing the wheels this way instead of doing casters probably cost us about i would say a good four hours rather than just welding casters straight on but i mean you'll see at the end the results i think um are better than casters would look so we're happy with it and here we are just cleaning the wheels up and then we're going into building the axles so one of the axles is going to be rotating so we drilled a hole and then we have a piece of rod that's going to go right through there we decided to weld some flat stock on just to beef it up a little bit you know we know we thinned out the metal a little bit cutting a hole so we like to make sure our builds are nice and strong [Music] okay now we're gonna weld this pipe onto the bottom it's gonna act as the axle for the wheels so we went ahead and loaded this axle on and it's going to be the one that doesn't move so it's getting welded straight to the square tubing some pretty nice welds there chipping all the slag off all right so we have this axle right here that one's going to be stationary so the wheels are just going to be able to go straight but the next one we're going to do we drilled this hole out that way we'll be able to turn this one side to side so we're gonna fabricate that up right now now it's time to do our moving axle so we have this rod welded to our pipe and that is what's going to go in that hole that we drilled so now i'm cutting out the rod that's going to hold the wheels slide those right in and then the wheel just go right on top welding those wheels on and then we gave it a test we ended up welding a little piece on just so we can move it around and it looks great a little help from the friend here martine and uh putting our pipe back on top and then we got into marking out our doors once we did that we uh went ahead and traced out this pipe and this is what's going to cap off both of the ends i did a lot of work on this project by myself just because my dad here is uh starting up a woodworking business it's called manzanita woodworks and um he's planning on doing this after he retires in the next couple years so i'm going to leave a link below and if you guys want to check it out and help support i'd appreciate it he makes um cutting boards truck hootery boards and then he's hoping to move into more projects like furniture building and cabinetry and all that stuff so yeah if you guys could check it out i'd appreciate it now that's cut out we took it over to the smoker and we tacked it all on and then put a full weld around the whole entire thing this is going to be the side that houses the smoke chamber and the smoke stack so you'll see later in the video we're going to cut a hole right through the middle of it just for the smoke to escape and here we are cutting out our firebox side of the uh the pipe so welding that on and then giving it a full weld all the way around now that those around we went into building our smoke chamber so we did a diamond plate steel and this is gonna be six inches tall ripping that all down with the circular saw and um seemed to work pretty good using the circular saw to cut metal like this just leaves a lot of chips flying so i don't usually like to do it but it is what it is and then we start attacking everything together really like the way this thing turned out attacking all the sides on nice little uh trapezoid type shape and then we welded the whole thing together all right now it's time to weld the tank on before we put the firebox and the smoke chamber on i decided that it's probably best to weld the tank on so here i am putting some full welds in the tank and then right here i'm uh marking out our smoke chamber hole and then we're going to cut that out i wanted it to be pretty much the size of the smoke chamber so kind of measured it out and there it is we're cutting it out [Music] time to weld the smoke chamber on put a nice full weld all the way around that the only thing we didn't weld was the bottom just in case it uh at the top got left open we didn't want any rain water not to be able to escape so we left the bottom open and then here we are cutting out our firebox i believe we cut this at a foot and a half and once that was done we cut out some more end caps for that you'll see this one we uh we left a little bit open just that way it can connect to the tank and here we are welding on the side that the door is going to be on put a full weld all the way around both of these sides so much welding on this project once that was all welded up we decided to fit it up and see how it looks and for some reason it wasn't fitting well just standing on its side so my dad had the idea of just putting it up vertical and for some reason it worked out great so we loaded that whole thing on went back and put a full weld and now we're cutting out our after the smoke chamber and firebox run we decided to cut out our hinges for all of our doors on this project so we got some pipe and then some solid rod and we're going to show you guys how we make these into hinges so we have this pipe welded to our welding table and then we just put the rod through the pipe and then end up bending it at a 90 degree angle so here we are we got two hinges right there ready to go welded our pipe right onto the tank and here we are we're putting a little bit of a curve on those hinges just so our trim for the door makes it under it you'll see what i'm talking about here in just a second see how there's a little bit of a gap for our trim right there and then we're just going to slide the trim right under and weld it to the tank so before that we welded our hinges straight to the pipe here we are starting out the trim we just kind of weld it to the top and then we're just going down grinding the steel we bend it down and then weld it to the tank [Applause] here we are doing the other side just grinding a little bit off and then welding the strap this project took about estimating about 40 hours to build you know and uh i was just working on it kind of on the weekend and then whenever we got a chance after work had to put a little bit of pressure on that one because it was coming off and just so it's nice and snug to the tank went back and put a full weld on everything and then here's a little handle we made just out of some rod and pipe as well and that got welded straight to it all right now it's time to cut off all of our corner welds what's up and then we'll see how we did trimming this out we grinded off those straps we got on there and then we revealed the tank and there it is the tank is open so we got the tank open and now we're going to work on our smoke stack and finish that off so we can weld it on so here's going to be the top cap where we're going to be able to regulate the smoke from so we cut that little uh six inch circular piece off and then now we're cutting where our pipe's gonna sit and we're cutting this hole out just so uh you have a place for smoke to escape [Music] and then the door kept opening all the way back so we decided to make a little bit of a uh door stop on the back here it seemed to work pretty good once that was done we went into cutting out our door on the firebox and but first we welded on the hinges [Music] here we are cutting out that little square i have drawn out and um then we're going to trim it out [Music] [Music] we have a lot of fun making these videos so i mean if you guys want to give us some video ideas we would love it see what you guys like to watch and um see what we can improve on so now the door's open we're going to be putting the handle on so first thing we did was drill a nice hole out of it and then here we have our latch and then some hardware we're going to use to put it together so we have a a bolt with a washer and then a nut on the back picking it up and you'll see i just went ahead and welded the nut right on just because i don't want this thing to ever come off and then now we have here our our little notch for the latch holding on a little handle there at a one inch pipe then we moved back into working on our smoke stack and that was defending our little contraption for opening the smoke stack and pretty much like a hinge but except we're going to be bending these in opposite directions so there we are welding it on and then my dad here he uh wanted to clean up the smoke stack before we hold it on and then we tackled that thing together and then we went back and put a full weld all the way around it after we had the smoke stack complete we went into cutting out our bottom rack and this is going to be where all of our lumber is gonna sit all of our uh our fuel for the fire so you'll see me welding it right onto the bottom of the framing just put a little tack weld all the way around it make sure it's nice and uh sturdy there and then once that was done we went into welding some angle iron inside the tank and that's going to hold up our grates inside the tank put one on each side and when we had the angle iron all welded to the tank we went into building our grates we're gonna make two grates and they're gonna be able to be removable and they're pretty much two feet by uh 19 inches to see me cutting out all the angle iron that's what we made the framing out of attacking all the sides up making sure they're nice and square that way we don't have any issues and we repeated this process two times for both of our racks it's a pretty decent sized backyard smoker so you probably fit about let's say four briskets on these uh on these racks and then uh [Music] later in the video we're gonna be making another rack for the top you'll see me here cutting out the expanded steel to fit right inside of that angle iron and then same thing like the bottom grate we just tacked it all together make sure we tacked on real nice and sturdy because you know it's going to be holding you know anywhere from 20 to 50 pounds worth of meat while we're cooking so made sure to get every side when we had that all completed we moved to the bottom of the tank and uh here you'll see us welding right on our uh our drain for this tank it's nice to have one of these that way you're not pulling all the grease and gunk out with paper towels and all that every time here we are drilling a hole in that uh that solid rod for the axles and then we're gonna put our little handle we made kind of like a wagon handle pretty much and that's what's gonna pull this smoker around hurry i'm giving a little test demo after all that we move back into doing the top rack and this is going to be what's called our rib rack just because it's real close to the top of the tank and uh just meant to tuck a couple racks of ribs up under there probably fit two or three in there and uh that way if you're having a lot of people over you just you know smoke a couple racks of ribs and then down below to your brisket and your pork butt and all that all that good stuff so we like to use as much space as we possibly can same process here we got the angle iron one inch angle iron and uh cut that all up and then using the square make sure it's nice and square [Music] same thing cutting the expanded steel perfectly to fit and then welding that on as well doing a nice tack every couple inches [Music] and then it was time to test fit it you'll see it just slides right in there and it seemed to fit perfectly so pretty happy with how it turned out and then uh after that we went into our little shelf we're building we're building a wood shelf for the front of the smoker just you know keeping your barbecuing tools right on it while you're smoking so i'm welding uh two one inch pieces of pipe right onto the tank and then our [Music] our rod right here our tubing notch that out we're going to bend it over so it's at a 90 degree and it's going to sit perfectly and then my dad threw together this nice looking uh rack here and then boom we uh slid it right on kind of brings the whole smoker together gives it to gives it a nice look and uh once we're done with that we put on our tell through thermometer and then it was time to uh take it to the backyard and give it a test run if you guys made it this far make sure you stay until the end where we go over a little walk through the smoker and then tell you how many gallons and how much it costs to make so stay tuned [Music] all right time to light this smoker up for the first time [Music] all right now that we've got it fired up [Music] so [Music] all right joe give us the beer breakdown all right so we're going to show you some extra features we put on this smoker that we haven't done in the past so on this smoker we kind of added a little latch with notches and that's closed all the way and then you get to put it in these notches depending on how much airflow that you want for your your fire in there and then another feature we put is this this custom built kind of uh grill rack right here made out of wood always about inch and a half little uh blocks of wood what kind of wood alder and out of alderwood and this is actually able to come out and take off just in case you don't want it there and then right here we have our rib rack that slides out so just tuck your ribs up under there and then you can still smoke whatever you want down here brisket fork butt whatever you got going all right and over here we got our smoke chamber out of diamond plate steel six inch smoke stack and then we got our smoke regulator right here comes all the way out perfect height just to be able to change it up real quick and then on the back here we've got our door stop right here this just keeps the door coming back on us right here and then down below we have our little uh our drain pipe that way all that grease and fat and all that you can just drain right out you know so and then obviously we got our little rack here on the bottom that's where you stack up all your wood that you're gonna be smoking with and then the first part of the project we have our wheels and axles that were custom built we went over that earlier in the video and then over here we have our little wagon pole and then to top it all off we got our tell true thermometer right here all right joe so how many gallons is this smoker so this smoker this pipe four feet 20 inch diameter it's uh 65 gallons and it cost us about 750 to build with everything included and then it actually sold with two days on the marketplace and it's going to its new home in a few days thanks for watching we had a lot of fun building this one hey we love working on these projects together be sure to hit like and subscribe and let us know what you think in the comments if you want to see more of these builds or something else just let us know thank you have a good one

Channel: Father Son DIY Garage

Views: 522,447

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Id: YiIK0IQ2gkQ

Length: 28min 23sec (1703 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 30 2022