Pleased first time wood pellet grill user but there are a couple of drawbacks

If you're not "handy", find someone who is to help you. My friend agreed to help me and it took us about and hour and a half to assemble. There were a couple of false starts involving using the wrong screws in the wrong places. After that our only problem was that instead of sending me a front right leg and a back right leg, both legs were identical, so we would not be able to assemble the wheels. Fortunately, my friend has a center punch and a drill press, so I wasn't forced to wait for the vendor to replace the leg I needed. As far as using the grill, it did a great job smoking a pork shoulder, cooking hamburgers and brats, and cooking a rack of baby back ribs. I did not expect the mess it makes. A lot of greasy ash is left in the bottom of the chamber. (Hint: do not use your household vacuum cleaner to get the ash out.) Having only used gas and charcoal before and having spent more for this grill than any I've ever owned, I wanted to keep it in tip top shape so I've been cleaning it after every couple of uses. Gas is cleaner, although you have the drip pan to deal with and of course the cooking grate itself. The thing is with this kind of grill, you have additional devices inside the chamber. The drip shelf is meant to be wrapped (instructions said "warp") in aluminum file and that helps somewhat, but it still needs a little cleaning. The heat dispersion thing-a-ma-jig gets covered with ash so it needs to be cleaned. Overall, the cooking's the thing and this works better than anything I've ever had. Temperature control is very easy and accurate.

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