Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Sorry about that link
http://www.bbqpits.com/36x36_upright.htm
how about that one? I'm looking at it thinking there is about 400 in
steel
max, so I'd be saving about 7000 or more by making it myself. Can anyone
tell me at least what kind of steel to make something like this with?
The
one in the picture doesn't seem to be stainless like the frist one
posted.

My guess is you are way under at $400 for the right material. Klose uses
1/4" steel on his pits. While I've not kept up with prices, it has
skyrocketed in the past couple of years. You can use thinner material, but
they you don't have the same heat retention qualities.

The shipping weight for that pit should roughly equal the cost of the
steel in it.

Pete C.