Thank you
@CurtP and
@Hell Fire Grill I actually did think about maybe using the Weber coal baskets. After I get some idea of the burn times maybe it would be good enough.
Fascinating info about the snake! Thank you for the update and for coming up with this. I think it's so obvious but therefore ingenious. The simplest stuff is the hardest for people to imagine.
I have some Weber lump and some locally-made lump. I'll know more later how they do. I only need to get 4 hours out of this because I'm cooking fish.
I don't buy anything from amazon and anyway the prices are usually 2x when they ship outside America plus the shipping is usually out of control. So I'll have to experiment or find something local.
Thanks for the link to bbqbrethren. I like what you did with the grate also. I was thinking I need to get a different setup for lump.