Thread: Whole pig on a spit Dunedin

Originally Posted by Brad S

Hello tac a1, unfortunately it all became a bit difficult and the organizers decided to feed a lot of people a different way. I'm a bit relieved - I'm not experienced with such large BBQs! I'll give it a try at some point though.

I like that tea tree idea! I have seen videos of a similar American restaurant setup, although in that one the coals were fed into a huge offset pit made out of bricks, which cooked 100s of kgs of whole pork sides every day. This is the vid here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39ii9LvnDoE not really relevant to what I was trying to do but very cool vid!

If i can get it on here I will draw a plan of what mine was. I'm a stainless welder by trade and used to do a lot of sheet metal and pipe work from stainless.

Basically, it's an octagonal cross section design. It has a full piano hinge along the back edge which allows it to open in half.

It has two full lengths of schedule tube lengthways inside it as the burners in the sides. There are BBQ jets in the end of these pipes to inject the LPG. Holes along full length internally to let the gas out and burn. You adjust the flames by moving the jets back and forth till you have a nice crisp blue flame for cooking.

The driver for the spit was a vat drive motor. I have now seen that you can purchase a specific right angle drive reduction box and motor which is slow. You only want about 2 to 3 rpm.

I will see if I have a picture of it somewhere or I can draw the plan again if anyone is interested. Don't ask for a price to build one unless your used to shocks. It would be expensive now due to the price of stainless.