Smoke on Badger Mountain
Babbling Farker
Looking good. Almost there!
Zombie Pit Returns, pt 2!!
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Looking Goood!
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Anyone have any simple and cheap ideas for how to make the smoke stacks detachable or so they can rotate down to make this beast easier to transport?
Czarbecue
Babbling Farker
I’ve seen some where they had a 6” round pipe for the opening and the actual stack is 8” in diameter and just goes on top of the smaller 6” stack.
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
My wife's grandmother passed away a couple weeks ago, so today is the first chance I've gotten to work on the smoker.
Cut some pipes to make the exhaust stacks.
My buddy tacked them up.
While he was doing that, I made 3 more handles for the cooking grates and finished rounding them off.
Then I drilled the holes for the exhausts and we got them welded on.
I also got the hole drilled in the bottom for the drain, but no pics because... its just a little hole and not very exciting.
Thanks for looking! Hopefully have another update next week.
Cut some pipes to make the exhaust stacks.
My buddy tacked them up.
While he was doing that, I made 3 more handles for the cooking grates and finished rounding them off.
Then I drilled the holes for the exhausts and we got them welded on.
I also got the hole drilled in the bottom for the drain, but no pics because... its just a little hole and not very exciting.
Thanks for looking! Hopefully have another update next week.
SmittyJonz
somebody shut me the fark up.
One of these Days we gonna see some Smoke............:biggrin1:
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Looking good.
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Good news today- a guy I know thru work gave me steel to make the doors for free and said if I buy the powder, he'll sand blast it and powder coat it for me for free too!! All I'd have to do is borrow a trailer to get the smoker over to his shop and back.
Things are finally starting to come together!! It's going to be a great summer!!
Things are finally starting to come together!! It's going to be a great summer!!
Mrhdvrod
Knows what a fatty is.
Just be careful, powder coat is set at a lower temperature, if the pit hits 350 degrees and up the powder coat may fail and start bubbling off. This is why most use a high temp paint or ceramic coating. You may always plan on running low and slow just hate to see a killer powder coat job go bad from a grease fire.
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Yea, I have a paint guy I'm going to talk to about that. Supposedly there is a high-temp powider you can use. I have to see what temp it's good for. Also, going to have to try and figure out how hot the fire box will get- might have to use a different product for it as well.
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Got some more stuff done yesterday.
Welded on the handles to the cooking grates.
Then decided to tackle the tank flange since my welder buddy couldn't stay late to help out- it wasn't fun. Couple of burn holes, couple voids I had to re-do and a big glob of weld I had to grind down. It ain't pretty but it's done.
Then I ground down the end of the rails that were sticking out. Before:
After:
I even rounded off the corners and beveled ends to make it easier to get the racks in.
I started to layout the opening for the air intake and cut that out.
Then I cut a rail for that and got it tacked up.
By that point I was out of time.
More coming next week. Thanks for lookin!
Welded on the handles to the cooking grates.
Then decided to tackle the tank flange since my welder buddy couldn't stay late to help out- it wasn't fun. Couple of burn holes, couple voids I had to re-do and a big glob of weld I had to grind down. It ain't pretty but it's done.
Then I ground down the end of the rails that were sticking out. Before:
After:
I even rounded off the corners and beveled ends to make it easier to get the racks in.
I started to layout the opening for the air intake and cut that out.
Then I cut a rail for that and got it tacked up.
By that point I was out of time.
More coming next week. Thanks for lookin!
Mike Twangzer
is One Chatty Farker
This is like watching a good TV series that reaches the end of an episode and leaves you hanging for the next. Click .... next episode ....
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Like a fan favorite that got cancelled twice but keeps coming back?
Sean "Puffy" Coals
is one Smokin' Farker
Man, it has been a rough few weeks. First my wife's grandmother died, then a couple weeks later my grandmother died, then a couple days later my wife's great aunt died.
Needless to say I've been a little busy.
Today I finally had time to stay after work and get a few little things done.
My buddy finished fabricating and welding the rails for the air intake door on.
Then I cut and bent a handle for the air intake door and welded it on.
While I was doing that, my buddy was torching off the rusty old plugs from the top of the tank.
Then He fixed a couple of welds on the bottom of the frame.
I started to tack and weld a piece of steel in the hole where the old air intake was going to be.
It warped the hell out of the front of the basket, but I think it'll be easy enough to fix.
While I was doing that, my buddy was cutting some blanks to weld over those 5 tank flanges in the top. This will keep the smoker low enough to fit into my garage.
We also cut some 3/4" lengths on pipe to make the exhaust stack caps.
That was all we had time for. I'm thinking about sneaking in to work for a few hrs saturday morning to weld those blanks over the flanges and work on the exhaust caps. We'll see how I feel.
Thanks for looking!
Needless to say I've been a little busy.
Today I finally had time to stay after work and get a few little things done.
My buddy finished fabricating and welding the rails for the air intake door on.
Then I cut and bent a handle for the air intake door and welded it on.
While I was doing that, my buddy was torching off the rusty old plugs from the top of the tank.
Then He fixed a couple of welds on the bottom of the frame.
I started to tack and weld a piece of steel in the hole where the old air intake was going to be.
It warped the hell out of the front of the basket, but I think it'll be easy enough to fix.
While I was doing that, my buddy was cutting some blanks to weld over those 5 tank flanges in the top. This will keep the smoker low enough to fit into my garage.
We also cut some 3/4" lengths on pipe to make the exhaust stack caps.
That was all we had time for. I'm thinking about sneaking in to work for a few hrs saturday morning to weld those blanks over the flanges and work on the exhaust caps. We'll see how I feel.
Thanks for looking!
Such a lot of work but but looks well worth it!
KClandcruiser
is one Smokin' Farker
Getting so close! I can't wait to see this bad boy blowing smoke
