@swamprb,
I went down that same route, however I had some issues on long cooks with ash piling up at the end of the baffle on indirect cooks.
I might have to give the baffle a try again.
In the interim I stole an idea from "pmillen" on another forum and bought a 5 gal wash tub at Tractor Supply and set it on the shelf. It does three things:
- catches any errant coal or ash that drops out
- mitigates the wind pretty much renders it a non issue.
- at conclusion of cook just sweep ashes into tub for disposal if I do not use my ash vacuum.
The wash tub does make lower vent adjustment difficult but I have found that my BGE ash tool works like a champ for this job.
Have also found that the Hastybake small and large grid extenders work fine in the PKO are more stout in build quality and when I bought them a couple of dollars cheaper.