Make your own, stack bricks into a larger design. If you needed a crappy electronic, and it being automated, buy it.
But couldn't you, build your dedicated brick structure, using what, a removable cast iron tray, for the charcoal, it also being your smoker that you light and control. Then buy additional rigging for your heated gas grid above it, and it would need just a few connections, the gas arms running across the brickwork with another connection to your propane tank under the cast iron tray or outside your brickwork structure, it needs a basic sparker to light the flame arms, and for your gas flow settings high to low. It completely housed in a larger durable weather proof cover. You could make a spit if you think big enough. What it wouldn't be is auto. But it all layered into your barbecue/grill.
Most people buy it, but I've seen quite a few bespoke ones, designed purposefully for restaurants, or engineered at home. There are the electric and gas ones. But sometimes traditional is the best with meats, it tends to be charcoal, or gas if you wanted it cooked quicker.
Who knows what you want, inside or outside. But there are also bespoke ones. They just cost far more.
Old methods, traditional smoking and charcoal pits work great.
But you can build something real nice. Using brickwork. Having a barbecue in a segment, and gas in another. Under a bigger cover of durable flame weathering sheet metal. Or you can combine previously a bit riskier. Not impossible. Materials aren't expensive. Probably less than those barbagrills, hell you get some nice ones. But they don't last like a dedicated purpose built brickwork station, forever. You could make it big enough housing a spit. Using a removable tray for charcoal, or wood, probably cast iron, but bricks also work, and then cleaning them out. Enclosed into brick with cover and obviously any gas and holding arms. Beautuful. Stuff on clearing is probably good for soil, instead of disposing.
Be just like the Wilds. Where they made a flame pit. Few sticks later and after the hunt. No you can make them really nice and quite cheap. Bespoke is quite the premium. But there are loads who offer it.
Make your own, stack bricks into a larger design. If you needed a crappy electronic, and it being automated, buy it.
But couldn't you, build your dedicated brick structure, using what, a removable cast iron tray, for the charcoal, it also being your smoker that you light and control. Then buy additional rigging for your heated gas grid above it, and it would need just a few connections, the gas arms running across the brickwork with another connection to your propane tank under the cast iron tray or outside your brickwork structure, it needs a basic sparker to light the flame arms, and for your gas flow settings high to low. It completely housed in a larger durable weather proof cover. You could make a spit if you think big enough. What it wouldn't be is auto. But it all layered into your barbecue/grill.
Most people buy it, but I've seen quite a few bespoke ones, designed purposefully for restaurants, or engineered at home. There are the electric and gas ones. But sometimes traditional is the best with meats, it tends to be charcoal, or gas if you wanted it cooked quicker.
Who knows what you want, inside or outside. But there are also bespoke ones. They just cost far more.
Old methods, traditional smoking and charcoal pits work great.
But you can build something real nice. Using brickwork. Having a barbecue in a segment, and gas in another. Under a bigger cover of durable flame weathering sheet metal. Or you can combine previously a bit riskier. Not impossible. Materials aren't expensive. Probably less than those barbagrills, hell you get some nice ones. But they don't last like a dedicated purpose built brickwork station, forever. You could make it big enough housing a spit. Using a removable tray for charcoal, or wood, probably cast iron, but bricks also work, and then cleaning them out. Enclosed into brick with cover and obviously any gas and holding arms. Beautuful. Stuff on clearing is probably good for soil, instead of disposing.
Be just like the Wilds. Where they made a flame pit. Few sticks later and after the hunt. No you can make them really nice and quite cheap. Bespoke is quite the premium. But there are loads who offer it.