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is Blowin Smoke!
There's a little bit of a difference between drilling some holes in a 55 gallon drum and making a few modifications versus building a stick burner. Did you build your UDS from scratch? fire baskets, grates and all?
Well, I didn't weld the grates together. I also didn't mine the iron ore. I built the fire basket with expanded metal, a charcoal grate and stainless steel zip ties. I did not buy a kit, if that's what you are asking. Took less than a day - then I spent lots of time cooking on it nailing down the cooking process. But I agree - that's a bit different than building a reverse flow stick burner.