Outdoor BBQ grill with chimney

Hello Everyone,

I am thinking of making an outside BBQ grill with a chimney that will burn wood and who knows maybe coal. I want to use either brick or stone to make it, I am guessing that I will have to use cinderblocks to make the inside parts. I can go up to 6 ft by 4 ft for the base, I could probably go bigger. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations. I tried the local library, Lowe's and Home Depo, and even looked this up online, but I could not find much information. I guess the new trend is to go with a stainless steal unit with brick or stone around it. I really do not want to go that route. That will look to fancy for my hilly billy look. lol

I need information on how to draft the chimney and how to lay the foundation to support the chimney base. Any help would be very much appreciated!!! Thanks in advance,

Dan

Lowes couldn't help you? They have so many 'online' plans that they print out for customers, I'm surprised to here they don't have any plans for a grill . There was a great commercial on the DUY (Do-it-yourself) channel, showing how to build a grill. They probably have plans online. I'll check....

Here are some designs that I like....
http://zefirro.com/Products/index.htm

I'm having trouble entering it in write but there were plans...honest. http://bbq.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&z ... _pit.shtml

I guess it depends on what Lowe's and Home Depot. I do not trust most of the people that work their. I have a background in electricial, and was given really bad advice on how to plug in a 3 plug stove into a 4 plug outlet. Trust me, I did not take his advice. When I asked both of our stores, they told me to look at their books. Then I only saw books on using a stainless steal BBQ and put bricks/stones around it.

I liked the website Chris F showed me, I need to adjust form their metric sizes to good ole USA Standard size, plus I am looking for either stone or brick, not their Mexican Adobe look, but I am hoping to use some of their ideas.

I tried the website that cokehead gave, but it didn't work.

Thanks again! Dan

dtzackus wrote: I have a background in electricial, and was given really bad advice on how to plug in a 3 plug stove into a 4 plug outlet.

I hear ya, I once had one of their yahoos try to tell me how to hook up a 4-wire deep well pump with 3-strand insulated well wire. "Just leave off the ground".

I edited the web site address. It should link you to the site now. Click on the pictures of the bbq pits for more info.

OK some may laugh at my design -- but it works really well --currently it is rusting and some of the holes have defeated the draft but -- Oh Well

I took a cast off diverting valve from a feed mill - turned it upside down and that gave me a perfect 6 inch tapered to black smoke pipe hole at the top ( once I stuck in an 8 to 6 inch nipple ) -- I welded a box on the back to make it deeper and welded four brackets on the sides to support 2 foot square off the shelf grills at two heights in the box. I only use the lower one.

I build a generous hard wood fire in the bottom and "Gethrows Still" cooks my dinner most weekends for about the last ten summers.