Bigger hopper for wood pellet smoker (traeger, pit boss)

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I have a small pit boss smoker which does a great job for the size and price ($189 on sale at lowes last year) but the only downside is it needs a bigger hopper for long smokes. In fact I can only get a couple hours out of the stock hopper but if I want to do an overnight smoke, I need a good 7 hours of capacity.

I'm posting this thread to force myself to build a larger hopper. My plan is to just make a four sided wall extension that will sit on top of the existing hopper. I don't want to weld it on to the smoker.
 

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That sounds like a good plan. If you taper it at the bottom like a true hopper and widen it at the top by at least a 4 to 1 ratio it should last plenty of time
 
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