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09-12-2007, 01:47 PM | #481 |
Full Fledged Farker
Join Date: 07-28-07
Location: Crowland, Lincolnshire. UK.
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Thanks guys, I'll probably use the 13" dia cylinder that I'd started to cut up any way and give away the big one on Freecycle.
Tonight's job'll be to flush out the oil drum & start cutting it (hopefully).
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09-12-2007, 02:01 PM | #482 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 05-24-04
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Personally, My charcoal ring is wide and flat. I guess that's why I can run two grates with no problem.
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09-12-2007, 02:28 PM | #483 |
Take a breath!
Join Date: 06-17-07
Location: Disneyland
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Neil,
What's the distance/height between your upper & lower grates? |
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09-12-2007, 02:36 PM | #484 |
Babbling Farker
Join Date: 05-09-07
Location: God's Country Ossipee-Osceola NC
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Burn Time?
Bigmista, what kind of burn time can you get out of that ring, being it's
lower and bigger diameter? |
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09-12-2007, 02:51 PM | #485 | |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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Never needed to cook longer than 16 hours. Butts are usually done in 8 hours. Briskets in 10 to 12. Only time I cooked longer was because I cooked something else after the big cuts were done.
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09-12-2007, 07:25 PM | #486 |
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Join Date: 02-22-07
Location: Springfield, MO
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I agree with Bigmista.
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09-13-2007, 09:03 PM | #487 |
Full Fledged Farker
Join Date: 07-28-07
Location: Crowland, Lincolnshire. UK.
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OK, design rethink number 1, following Bigmista's lead I'm going to use the bottom of the propane cylinder as the ash catcher and have obtained a 66" length of 6" wide by approx 1/8" thick steel bar which I'll have someone roll round into a circle to form the charcoal basket sides. This'll give me a 21" diameter basket which hopefully shouldn't be too much of a fiddle to get in and out.
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09-13-2007, 09:13 PM | #488 | |
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Join Date: 02-12-07
Location: canyon Country, Ca, 91387
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How many inches is between the lower pan and the metal ring? The air gap I guess is what it is. Where did you get that bottom pan? Thanks, Brian
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09-13-2007, 10:27 PM | #489 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 01-23-07
Location: Orange County, CA
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UDS - midget mod
(No offense to the little brethren and sisteren)
I cook on Big Mista's team and his UDS kicks booty. But I can't use it. I'm too short to reach my stubby little arms all the way to the bottom to lift out the firebox without sticking my head into the thing and looking like a chimneysweep when I came out. If I were to make a mod, I'd cut around the circumference of the drum just above the firebox so I can lift the cooking section off, like on a WSM. Can anyone suggest a way to cut clean and "square" around an empty, flexy drum, then figure out a good way to flange the new joint so it's not all leaky?
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09-14-2007, 12:07 AM | #490 |
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Join Date: 04-17-07
Location: Kauai, HI
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Hey! I REPRESENT that remark! I'm short too, my drum is 35in high,on cinder blocks, I put some stainles wire, like a bucket handle, and let it hand, it gets a little dirty, but its easy to get out! My basket though is 9in and 12 in. high.
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09-14-2007, 12:37 AM | #491 | |
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Join Date: 01-23-07
Location: Orange County, CA
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I thought about a taller firebox handle mod, but the other reason I want to do this is to let me replenish firewood or shovel around the coals without kicking ash onto the food. Yes, I mess around with my cooker far more than I need to. My team gives me a hard time about that.
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09-14-2007, 12:50 AM | #492 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 10-11-06
Location: Huntington Beach California
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Salt, maybe you and Keale can get Norco to hack one of them drums in half for you guys.
OR, can a fire box be built to slide in and out of the bottom, on a roller or something like that? I mean, tall or short your still gonna have to reach in there to that second level to get to your meats and get dirty. Hence the name....ugly drum. Shoot, Country can reach in and out of his double barrel wearing a white tuxedo on his wedding day without getting dirty.
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09-14-2007, 12:54 AM | #493 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 10-11-06
Location: Huntington Beach California
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Hmmmmmm, a question arises. Should you some sort of water pan in a UDS, like in a WSM?
Sorry if its a dumb question........I come from the ecb school of thought...
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09-14-2007, 01:53 AM | #494 | |
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Join Date: 04-17-07
Location: Kauai, HI
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Professor, ask Modelmaker, he did a door/sliding out basket for his E.D.S, (ed drum smoker) His is too pretty to be called a U.D.S The UDS is set and forget, I'm sure bigmista, told you that a few times!??
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09-14-2007, 03:36 AM | #495 | |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 10-27-06
Location: Bothell WA
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But if you had 2 drums, you could hack them up and do a pseudo WSM/UDS hybrid. Use a cut off wheel or better yet a Plasma if you have access. You could also put a bail or handle on the charcoal ring, I use a "wiggle rod" to shake the coal basket on long cooks-especially if I use lump. I toyed with the idea of doing a mini UDS with a 15 gallon drum and using an ECB or Smokey Joe for a lid. I'm going to do my first comp and will use my Drums and a WSM, but I feel more confident using the UDS. Brian
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