sudsandswine
Quintessential Chatty Farker
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2012
- Location
- Kansas City
I recently picked up a new to me Shirley Fab trailer smoker from fellow brethren grill ‘em all. It’s sat for a bit and has some surface rust in and out but has good bones, so I thought I’d purdy her up.
I found a local place that is going to sandblast the entire trailer inside and out for a very reasonable price, and just dropped it off this morning. I hope to have it back in a week or so and then will enlist my brother to paint it. Other items on the list are 5” glow in the dark Tel-Tru thermometers, which I received last week. I’m going to re-pack the trailer axle bearings with grease, and then put new wheels and tires on it. The cook chamber is a 250 gallon propane tank, and I think the design looks a little more “old school” than some of the other Shirley designs with the flat back and cabinets doors and what not. So I think I’m going with vintage looking trailer wheels…red, with a chrome hub cap, and white wall tires…something like this:
A few “before” pictures:
I’m looking forward to my first cook on it…hopefully sometime in the next month or so. Dimensionally, the trailer is bigger than my old flat back cabinet door model Shirley, and even though this doesn’t have an insulated firebox, the trailer feels pretty heavy and stout. It tows great though.
I found a local place that is going to sandblast the entire trailer inside and out for a very reasonable price, and just dropped it off this morning. I hope to have it back in a week or so and then will enlist my brother to paint it. Other items on the list are 5” glow in the dark Tel-Tru thermometers, which I received last week. I’m going to re-pack the trailer axle bearings with grease, and then put new wheels and tires on it. The cook chamber is a 250 gallon propane tank, and I think the design looks a little more “old school” than some of the other Shirley designs with the flat back and cabinets doors and what not. So I think I’m going with vintage looking trailer wheels…red, with a chrome hub cap, and white wall tires…something like this:
A few “before” pictures:
I’m looking forward to my first cook on it…hopefully sometime in the next month or so. Dimensionally, the trailer is bigger than my old flat back cabinet door model Shirley, and even though this doesn’t have an insulated firebox, the trailer feels pretty heavy and stout. It tows great though.