Your grill of choice?

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

I have a Brinkmann Trailmaster vertical smoker.....one of the old "R2-D2" Brinkmann Smoke n Grill smokers/charcoal grill, and a Char-Broil 4 burner Commercial Series gas grill that I can control rather well.

On my Trailmaster, I had a friend weld me up a basket for my firebox out of expanded metal, lined the firebox with fire bricks, and put fire bricks in the bottom and around the sides up to the water bowl of the smoke chamber as well.  I made some gaskets for the tunnel and the door.  I can load up the basket with coals and wood, put the lit coals from my chimney on top, get the dampers set right, and smoke at 225 for around 6 hours without touching it.  When I had a load of hickory logs that were cut to size for it, I could fill the basket up halfway, and then throw some logs on top and smoke for around 9 hours or more without touching it.  Old school stick burner....