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Grill Talk => Weber Grill Forum (Grills, Accessories) => Topic started by: Duke on March 03, 2013, 01:19:47 PM
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Well niether have I, but I picked this up yesterday at an estate sale. Has anyone evr seen one like this? I would like to know more about it. Check out the spit rack and the hanging ash catcher. ;D
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Nice pick up duke
Looks home made
Can't wait to get home and see pic on the big screen
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Either that or some sorta third party add on. Either way...AWESOME FIND!
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That's a first for me and I like it
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THats unique. Someone was very creative when putting that one together!
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More pics, please!!
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Very cool!! I'm with mark MORE PICS PLEASE :o
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It didn't come with the lid in the first picture. The firebox is made of tin and cone shaped like the ash catcher. The seller mentioned these were sold through the sears catalog in the thirties. It was in storage without being moved for a very long time evident by the flat side on the solid rubber wheels. It did however come with an extremely old super thick rusty charcoal grate made by weber that doesn't fit it. It's an early fifties charcoal grate because the sixties weren't nearly as thick. It's about double the thickness and the exact size and same welds as a weber one. I will get a picture of that soon.
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Oh yeah that's pretty cool
Love the ash catcher
Thanks for sharing
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That is way cool!
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Thanks, I had the lid on it to show the size. It's just a little larger than an SJ.
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That thing would be really cool all restored and painted nice.
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Great find, it deserves to be restored, a great piece of history.
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Believe me, I am coming up with all kinds of ideas.
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Duke that's awesome. I have some 30's Sears catalogs on a disk, I'll look through them and see if it's in there. Very cool!
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Next, Jeff is going to swear to us that those wheels are the original weber wheels.
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Duke that's awesome. I have some 30's Sears catalogs on a disk, I'll look through them and see if it's in there. Very cool!
Thanks, I hope you can find it.
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Here are a few more.
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Anyone have any idea what this hanging thing is? It sits under the bottom of the steel plate that pulls out. I think the charcoal was supposed to sit on that. I was thinking it was for smoke wood. When it gets hot it starts smoldering?
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Oh that?
In the last pic, there?
That wired in little ding-a-ling that hangs down into or just below the charcoal?
That's a 1930's prototype BUG ZAPPER, of couse !!!
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My Sears catalogs only go to 1918. I will have to get some more. Any chance of that being a vending cart for something. I have seen a early 1900 peanut roaster's cart. This does not look like a peanut vendor cart but I am just saying. (the peanut cart had a grill in it for roasting peanuts)
I have some early California landscape and house plans that date to the 30's and 40's. Most of the "modern" outdoor/garden rooms they designed had brick or rock BBQ/fireplaces. Any carts they had were designed to bring food and drinks in and out.
Isn't it amazing how one little thing or idea can send you in a whole new direction.
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I believe it was designed for grilling because it has the ash catcher and grate. It was definitly meant to burn in and set food on.
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If you said it was designed to burn in, I'm sure AJ just perked up....