I suppose most normal people have their Weber grill placed in a convenient location on their patio, deck, or someplace in the back yard. But for those with 'the affliction', where do you keep them when you're not hosting a WKC meet-up, or for that matter, even just cooking for a small family/friends get-together? I mean, after about three in number, don't they start to take up valuable real estate in the garage? Doesn't it become a real pain in the butt to mow around them all summer? Do you all rent self-storage units?! I've seen Golly's thread on his way cool awesome cave, but is that normal? I need to know. I'm afraid I've picked up the Weber 'bug' and have acquired way too many grills this winter. Where am going to put them all? I'm scared.
I got a performer in the alleyway, a wsm on my stair landing, a wsm and cga in the closet, a mt lid in the kitchen, a few kettles and two wsm's in the second bedroom, some kettles fostered at buddies' houses and sometimes kettles in the car. :)
Good question Dale!
When you get to a certain point, they live wherever they want to live...wherever they fit.
Here are a few examples. Not pictured is a red kettle in the back of my truck, and a Sequoia and burnt orange Ranger in the shed for the offseason.
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9694_zpsfe8508b6.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9695_zpse4d6a5b4.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9696_zpsd5dc1cbd.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9697_zps5567b9ab.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9693_zps11ac5530.jpg)
Quote from: pbe gummi bear on March 19, 2014, 03:01:17 PM
... some kettles fostered at buddies' houses ...
Okay, maybe I can chew on this one. It's a start. Thanks, Gummi.
Quote from: Jeff on March 19, 2014, 03:14:18 PM
Good question Dale!
When you get to a certain point, they live wherever they want to live...wherever they fit.
Here are a few examples. Not pictured is a red kettle in the back of my truck, and a Sequoia and burnt orange Ranger in the shed for the offseason.
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9694_zpsfe8508b6.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9695_zpse4d6a5b4.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9696_zpsd5dc1cbd.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9697_zps5567b9ab.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9693_zps11ac5530.jpg)
Weber Mecca
Someday I will make the pilgrimage.
Jeff, great pictures. Thanks, eh. Okay, no problems with mowing. Good.
But I gotta ask... (and I'm not trying to hurt here, honest), What happens when your sweet wife suggests an evening in the hot tub with friends?
Quote from: Dale Benson on March 19, 2014, 03:38:40 PM
Jeff, great pictures. Thanks, eh. Okay, no problems with mowing. Good.
But I gotta ask... (and I'm not trying to hurt here, honest), What happens when your sweet wife suggests an evening in the hot tub with friends?
Then Jeff busts out the galley que. It's made for wet adventures.....
"I've seen Golly's thread on his way cool awesome cave, but is that normal?"
Yes....this is perfectly normal in every respect......
"Where am going to put them all? I'm scared."
Fear is relative......fun is much more fun.............
And, Jeff's situation is exemplary......kettles everywhere is the common tie that binds us together....the font of life, so to speak......
For me, it started like this:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/KenBBQ32711013.jpg)
and this:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/KenBBQ32711014.jpg)
Then it was like this:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/clodribszukes027.jpg)
Some went to friends houses that I cook at regularly:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/KenBBQ512011016.jpg)
I try to cook on as many as possible at any one time....& encourage other to do so as well.....
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Jan29%20Danae%20%20dad%20002/Jan29Danaedad062.jpg)
And, just recently, things have morphed yet again:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Sept%208%209%20%202012%20clouds%20pie/Pie%202/Pie3002.jpg)
Just Keep Rockin' & you'll come to the right conclusions........
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Buckie...so how many kettles do you have anyways? I see more and more every time!
Dale, well...those grills alongside the hot tub are typically stored outside under covers in the summer time. But to answer your question about using the hot tub, my wife actually isn't a big fan of it. It gets very little use sadly. I like it so I keep it. If it was up to her, it would be gone and the room would be dedicated to MORE grills. Perhaps one of them has your name on it...
Too Many?
Is that a correct answer?
And please be careful pulling into the garage....please......if your brakes fail, it's squashed lime all over the place..... :o
Don't know exactly how many I have but they
are on the patio, in two sheds, in the garage, and about
10 to 15 in the house. The ones in the house are
the vintage smokeys , galleys , NIB grills.
I do want The Westerner in the house!
I think there's a medical term for this...
:o ;) ;D
Quote from: harris92 on March 19, 2014, 04:27:33 PM
Don't know exactly how many I have but they
are on the patio, in two sheds, in the garage, and about
10 to 15 in the house. The ones in the house are
the vintage smokeys , galleys , NIB grills.
I do want The Westerner in the house!
Do a panoramic like Jeff did....you gotz a bunch of nice ones !!!!
Why do you ask, is there some issue?
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z276/zavod112/Collections/IMG_20131027_171352941_zps4b04e28b.jpg) (http://s193.photobucket.com/user/zavod112/media/Collections/IMG_20131027_171352941_zps4b04e28b.jpg.html)
I was wondering when the "Sea of Kettles" would show up !!!!!
Buckie you like the one facing the sun, or away from the sun?
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z276/zavod112/Collections/IMG_20131027_172225058_zpsc361578a.jpg) (http://s193.photobucket.com/user/zavod112/media/Collections/IMG_20131027_172225058_zpsc361578a.jpg.html)
I can see it now
"See honey, I don't have many kettles".
To which the reply will be "see honey where you are headed"
Winz
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I am currently being very efficient with my storage space!(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/20/ehy8ybem.jpg)
This is in a corner of the storage room next to my garage. Keeps them clean and out of harm's way, yet gives me quick access when I want to cook.
Quote from: zavod44 on March 19, 2014, 05:33:52 PM
Buckie you like the one facing the sun, or away from the sun?
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z276/zavod112/Collections/IMG_20131027_172225058_zpsc361578a.jpg) (http://s193.photobucket.com/user/zavod112/media/Collections/IMG_20131027_172225058_zpsc361578a.jpg.html)
holy crap! that is sick! :o
Great pictures, Brian. Weber kettle garden. Love the burst of colors.
Is this how it looks all the time? As set up in the photo, access to your pool and Mesa Azul would be somewhat restricted, wouldn't it? Do they have a more permanent home between photo shoots? Do you keep them covered?
Quote from: Winz on March 19, 2014, 05:50:02 PM
I can see it now
"See honey, I don't have many kettles".
To which the reply will be "see honey where you are headed"
This is EXACTLY the conversation that just happened when I flashed the screen of my laptop to my better half...
Dale-
All of my kettles reside in the garage. I keep the herd thin and only "collect" Smokey Joes. :D
I'm not a fan of keeping things outside.
Quote from: zavod44 on March 19, 2014, 05:33:52 PM
Buckie you like the one facing the sun, or away from the sun?
(http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z276/zavod112/Collections/IMG_20131027_172225058_zpsc361578a.jpg) (http://s193.photobucket.com/user/zavod112/media/Collections/IMG_20131027_172225058_zpsc361578a.jpg.html)
Even though you can't see all the colors as well, this one is really nice !!!!
Where's Hogsy, Golly, Kendoll, GL Rassmusen & some of these other people with hectacres of kettles?
See what you started Dale?
Once it warms up I'll get a photo of the family. 35+ as I type...all are kept in the garage except two performers and the 26er.
I keep the Performer and WSM outside with the covers on most of the time.
Most of the kettles and SJs stay in the garage.
Quote from: landgraftj on March 19, 2014, 06:17:04 PM
Once it warms up I'll get a photo of the family. 35+ as I type...all are kept in the garage except two performers and the 26er.
^^^ Yeah, here's another guy who's in deep.........
For you guys that keep them indoors, what do you do if you use them? I mean, you wouldn't want to keep a greasy kettle in the house so do you clean them out first? I'd be afraid of attracting animals or vermin around the house so if they are cooked in, they stay outside.
Oh, and I tried to prepare my mind for the pictures that would surely follow a thread called "Where does your Weber live?" but still.....mind blown. Some of you guys have a lot of kettles. I wonder what the good people at Weber think when they lurk here.
The sun hits my lil wsm in the morning and the room smells like bbq from the mild heat. Is there something wrong with that?
on the (uncovered) back porch w/the weber cloth/plastic cover draped over
My two live under the carport next to my Masterbuilt smoker. Also, my wife saw the pics in this thread and said "don't even think about it." :(
Some of grow a grass in our backyards, Brian grows a kettle lawn.
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Quote from: Jeff on March 19, 2014, 04:03:55 PM
Perhaps one of them has your name on it...
Perhaps, indeed, Jeff. That's a nice lookin' line up of MTs. :)
Quote from: salad on March 19, 2014, 07:13:51 PM
For you guys that keep them indoors, what do you do if you use them? I mean, you wouldn't want to keep a greasy kettle in the house so do you clean them out first? I'd be afraid of attracting animals or vermin around the house so if they are cooked in, they stay outside.
Oh, and I tried to prepare my mind for the pictures that would surely follow a thread called "Where does your Weber live?" but still.....mind blown. Some of you guys have a lot of kettles. I wonder what the good people at Weber think when they lurk here.
In two parts......
Here's Lawerence's WSM's in the house & as you can see, they're CLEAN (not like most of mine!)
"Collect them all! I plan to add the new 14.5" for a side by side comparison, but I don't plan to keep it."
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/283977_964871218188_180066989_n.jpg)
And.....
I should hope the fine folks at Weber would go with the ever-rising tide that's started here & pitch in with a log of historical facts on the stuff we so painstakingly guess at !!!!!!
In the summer they are all covered in the backyard. In the winter, really old ones or collectable ones go under the covered deck. The rest get covered and sit outside...and my ranch cover blew off in a snow storm and got frozen to the yard so it was uncovered most of the winter....
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Quote from: Jeff on March 19, 2014, 03:14:18 PM
Good question Dale!
When you get to a certain point, they live wherever they want to live...wherever they fit.
Here are a few examples. Not pictured is a red kettle in the back of my truck, and a Sequoia and burnt orange Ranger in the shed for the offseason.
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9694_zpsfe8508b6.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9695_zpse4d6a5b4.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9696_zpsd5dc1cbd.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9697_zps5567b9ab.jpg)
(http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq142/A_Tame76/DSCF9693_zps11ac5530.jpg)
Wow that is awesome. I see you have a Blue Smokey Joe so I know their is hope for me to find one someday to match my other blue kettles. Very nice looking collection.
Well Dale, they do take up real estate...My bride has just resorted to just shaking her head...
Couldn't fit them all in, 4 Gassers, 9 Kettles and Weber fireplace here.
(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj623/glrasmussen/photo_zps18d7af41.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/glrasmussen/media/photo_zps18d7af41.jpg.html)
Winter storage for the others...
(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj623/glrasmussen/null_zpsaaa697bd.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/glrasmussen/media/null_zpsaaa697bd.jpg.html)
The only one out and was buried all winter...
(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj623/glrasmussen/photo_zps0523e872.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/glrasmussen/media/photo_zps0523e872.jpg.html)
My grills will be making their home up at our cabin where I'm having a garage built when we return to northern MN this Spring. Original dimensions spec'd for the new garage was 24' x 24'.
Oops. ... Back to the drawing board. ???
Quote from: Dale Benson on March 20, 2014, 06:25:26 AM
My grills will be making their home up at our cabin where I'm having a garage built when we return to northern MN this Spring. Original dimensions spec'd for the new garage was 24' x 24'.
Oops. ... Back to the drawing board. ???
What's a few extra feet? I'm thinking I need to make a modified Buckie rack system in the garage...
Performer Platinum and S-330 on my back deck.
22.5" WSM, 14.5"WSM & (2) Smokey Joes in my garage
(2) C&B performers, 26.75 gold, 18" gold conversion, (3) 22.5" gold, weber firepit & Genesis silver stored in my mother's garage
Genesis 3000 on mother's back deck.
In the garage ... somehow snow still gets on them. :-\ :-\ :o ;) ;)
Once spring comes, they move to the side-of-the-house landing. Handy walk-out from the kitchen.
(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n615/MacEggs/IMG_3049.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/MacEggs/media/IMG_3049.jpg.html)
Quote from: MacEggs on March 20, 2014, 01:54:08 PM
In the garage ... somehow snow still gets on them. :-\ :-\ :o ;) ;)
Once spring comes, they move to the side-of-the-house landing. Handy walk-out from the kitchen.
(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n615/MacEggs/IMG_3049.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/MacEggs/media/IMG_3049.jpg.html)
That's alot of wood you got there :o
Quote from: pbe gummi bear on March 20, 2014, 01:57:21 PMThat's alot of wood you got there :o
Indeed, it is! Got apple, cherry, sugar maple, and a small amount of pear .. all chunks.
Harvested from up at my folks place. They're moving next year .. into town. Think I should get some more this summer? ??? ::)
Quote from: 1buckie on March 19, 2014, 06:12:00 PM
Where's Hogsy, Golly, Kendoll, GL Rassmusen & some of these other people with hectacres of kettles?
See what you started Dale?
Some are in other states (Victoria and Western Australia), some are in other countries (US and UK), some are boxed and in storage (at my mums work :) and at my MIL's), some are boxed and in my spare bedroom, and the rest are in my courtyard.
I know this post will get a reaction from Brian. :)
Ken
Quote from: glrasmussen on March 20, 2014, 06:56:09 AM
Quote from: Dale Benson on March 20, 2014, 06:25:26 AM
My grills will be making their home up at our cabin where I'm having a garage built when we return to northern MN this Spring. Original dimensions spec'd for the new garage was 24' x 24'.
Oops. ... Back to the drawing board. ???
What's a few extra feet? I'm thinking I need to make a modified Buckie rack system in the garage...
Build up....not out.....look at New York, Chicago, etc.......... 8)
You got some good rafters there too, Greg !!!!
Buckie, I am damn near as old as you. I try now to stay away from Widow makers(ladders). If it were on a shelf, I can still grab 27#'s of Kettle and bring it down to cooking level.
BigB trophy mount for the newer members:
Quote from: pbe gummi bear on November 14, 2013, 01:50:52 PM
there's always the vertical approach by BigB:
Original thread: http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/trophy-mount/
Quote from: Big B on April 17, 2013, 01:15:35 PM
Been meaning to post this for awhile. Just a little something I came up with to get the grills off the garage floor, to make room for the kids bikes for summer (if it ever gets here). But what do you know, it just gives me more room for more Kettles :)........ Just a little twist on a trophy mount.....Enjoy
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6ahXqMLXjNA/UVdwmn7fKrI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/_eaIOTnDvZ8/w253-h452-p-o/IMG_20130330_173601_361.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-MVoAwinQnRs/UVdwsFt620I/AAAAAAAAAiY/O2NAy3Ugblg/w249-h442-p-o/IMG_20130330_190109_663.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bwc6NnmA8bk/UVdwZQlF5oI/AAAAAAAAAiA/DmzhdtiuZNM/w255-h452-p-o/IMG_20130330_172549_904.jpg)
Thanks
Brent
Quote from: Big B on November 14, 2013, 07:11:40 PM
Lol pb,
Here is an updated picture, with more color. I may need a bigger wall.(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/11/15/e2uje2e6.jpg)
Brent
The burgundy performer and the cado Hasty Bake get the prime spots under lights on the covered flagstone patio.
(http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w478/javahog2002/IMAG1645_zps819456ae.jpg)
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Well, mine lives on the porch with a weber cover that is cracking from all the frost and snow from the Negative temps this winter. Grill is still going strong though.
Mine all get tucked away in a dedicated BBQ shed:
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t282/harbormasterwyc/pit%20patio%20shed/pitpatioslicerwok006_zpsca369487.jpg)
(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t282/harbormasterwyc/pit%20patio%20shed/pitpatioslicerwok004_zpsa1c2cae9.jpg)
There are 4 WSMs in the rafters and 6 on the shelf. Also have 3 SJPs in the rafters.
Right now my everyday use kettles are covered on my front porch and my old school kettles I'm collecting are still in boxes from the members that sent them to me and at my buddies hobby shop in a unused back room stacked up. They are safe and dry. Plus I can work on them during the year without any problems. Works out nicely.
I have my WSM in my shed along with a performer which is in pieces. My genesis is my garage along with my restored Performer. I have my 18" red in the basement with my grey SJ.
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Quote from: wyd on March 25, 2014, 06:48:33 AM
Right now my everyday use kettles are covered on my front porch and my old school kettles I'm collecting are still in boxes from the members that sent them to me and at my buddies hobby shop in a unused back room stacked up. They are safe and dry. Plus I can work on them during the year without any problems. Works out nicely.
Whats the hobby shop? Plastic models?