I get the feeling that we have gotten off track, we're suppost to be talking about skill not size. Being big or small has nothing to do with what you can do, Even though I'm big I do have some very intergate skills with my hands and mind. 😎

I need to learn how to start the new little portable bbq I bought....hoping someone can show me at the meet

Put me in a junk yard, with a chop saw and a welder and watch me go. First, to find a truck wheel rim, a blower and some scrap metal for a forge. Then liquid gas tanks, large metal drums, a radiator and a blower and we have a gasifier. Find a N.gas water heater tank, and a propane fridge and we're half way to independence.
My greatest tool, is imagination, you can have all the tools in the world, and the greatest skills but without the basic skill of starting without, then most people will freeze.
To know how to start with the basics, on how to make the tools that are needed to make the tools that you need to do what you do. Think about it. All the steps and tools to make a simple knife.
We need to combine our skills with others in order to sustain a viable life style. I know that I don’t know all that I need, I know the basic of many thing that will help others do what they know how to do.
That saying, “ All for one, and one for all” is what will be the a corner stone to rebuild through a hard time.

Old school is it gas, briquette or a combo.