Good to see you again, brother!

I was instantly intrigued when I saw this new LSG smoker and first thought was that it looked a lot like a Workhorse75. One advantage of the LSG for me is they are less than an hour away and I wouldn’t have to pay shipping. Other than that I think I’m gonna stick with Workhorse when I finally make a purchase. I really just don’t care for the firebox on the LSG.

I’ve got the 30” vertical offset with warming oven and 1/2” firebox, and my box is MORE than big enough….the smaller firebox is only on these smaller, barrel-type pits.

I hate that the firebox only takes smaller splits

Looks nice, but that fire box look very short. That might make it difficult to manage the fire and limit it to only short sticks.

I like this grill except for the small firebox and it also doesn't have a slide out fire grate (no welded in rails for one either). So if I wanted to use the charcoal basket, I have to set it on the bottom of the firebox without any space underneath. I'd prefer a fire grate to set it on so the ashes have somewhere to fall. For this reason I think I'd lean toward one of their smokers with the fire grate unless LSG is willing to add that feature. Of course, that doesn't address the issue of a small firebox.

LSG is notorious for having small fire boxes and small diameter stacks and these units are no exception. What's even more frustrating with these Texas editions is the large exhaust scoop graduating into their standard small stack. All they've done is moved the choke point from the end of the cooking chamber to 3-4 inches into the scoop. To answer your question as to why the firebox is so high. For one, it's a small firebox and just looks higher than the Aaron Franklin smokers. Two, the firebox outlet is above grate much like AF smokers are. Maybe I'm wrong and everybody else's fire boxes and stacks are way too big? I can't imagine other high end stick builders(Workhorse pits, Fatstack smokers, Millscale Metalworks, primitive pits, Chud pits) would go through the high expense of making the firebox and stacks so much larger than LSG without well proven purpose.

I would say that it is their answer to AF's smoker. This one has the firebox a lot higher than the AF one but I'm not sure how much difference it makes. I was on the list for an AF smoker and I got the email in March of 2021 to buy one. I decided not to because of the price increase at the time and that I decided that I probably wouldn't be smoking with wood most of the time so it didn't make sense for me to buy one. My M1 can burn all wood if I want to do a cook like that.

That's not the new smoker .

Don’t do it😂