Started my second drum awhile back while it was still cool out. I bought the Big Lots kettle for this drum
I used the bottom of the kettle from big lots as the lid for the UDS, and made a handle for it
So...the past coupla weeks I've done a few things to wrap it up. Here's the pics.
Here is a close up of the 5 gallon bucket handle, i modified. The actual handle is a spacer off a cotton planter
Closeup
I made a shelf out of a piece of pine from the scrap pile at Home Depot. Used a Harbor Freight cutout tool to make the curve.
Then sprayed with some lacquer. Used some Eye Screws and some S-Hooks to hand my grill tools. Used a shlf bracket to mount.
Here's the fire basket. Just got a nice sized piece of expanded metal, and it was welded together and used the scrap to make the legs.I tried to make this one much wider in diameter than my last. I noticed that the hot spot on my last one was always about as wide as the drum so things cooked much hotter in the center (if I was doin 3-4 racks of ribs, the ones in the center were always way ahead).
Used three 3/4 inch intakes on this one. My last one I used 2 1' intakes. Also, my dad found some HD casters on craigslist for next to nothing, so he gave me 4, and they were welded to 2 pieces of strap, that were then crossed and welded as my UDS Dolls. The lips are bent up, and it fits like a glove
It originally was a closed oil drum, so when I cut out the bottom, I saved the piece I cut out, and torched some slots around the ends and bent up for my ash catcher. The fire basket stands right inside this
Added some red, blue, and white paint, threw on a decal and Voil