So many of you have been talking about how useful the front shelf is I couldn't resist. I found a Camp Chef shelf on sale and bit the bullet. It only took about an hour to install and that included drilling 4 holes in the body. I did my first cook with it yesterday and it is a great mod to my heavily modded 5 year old Camp Chef. Body by Camp Chef (no rust), Brains by Rec Tec (excellent smoke flavor), and economical. However, if I replace it it will be with an EX4 or RT590.
Of course you drive my dream truck. Why wouldn’t you.
That’s a lot of table.
Holy crap that looks beautiful. Almost looks better than the food you kicking out of that thing.... I said, almost... lolTonight I worked on the shelf project a bit more. Cut the main shelf down to the size I wanted and started to work on the side shelf. I have a plan and we'll see how it turns out. I got the dados cut on the side shelf, though it is not cut to the finished length just yet. Width matches the front shelf at 12".
Ehhh? Far from finished, this is just a rough mockup of where I'm heading. Still have many cuts to make.
Isn't that fun? I loved doing that stuff and you do very nice work. With that much weight on the front are you noticing any change in stability?