willray
Wandering around with a bag of matchlight, looking for a match.
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2015
- Location
- Columbus...
Some newbie guy who decided he needed a smoker, signing on.
Blessed with more junk and time than money or sense, and not knowing how to weld, it seemed like I should build one. A propane tank found its way to Some Guy's Farm, and was promptly sacrificed to the cause.
This is Dandy Randy van Okieland, a friend from Oklahoma who stopped by SGF to show me how to melt metal:
Don't know much about smokers, but I figured that I could get a more uniform temperature across the whole smoker, if I could feed it from the center, rather than from an end.
One spare boat-trailer and some scrap pipe later, and it's kind of looking like a, well, a something.
The wife was impressed with the job I did making racks
And somewhere along the line, I actually learned to weld.
The draft system has a shelf across the smoker body just above the firebox, so the exhaust gasses have to roll up to the front of the smoker under the racks, then back to the back again across the food.
The shorter stacks at the top, open directly to the top of the smoker, while the taller rear stacks take air almost from the midline.
In use, to start the smoker the rear stacks are capped, and the fire is run hot until the system is drafting well, then the front stacks are capped and the rear stacks opened. They're tall enough that they maintain a decent draft. and their positioning makes the smoke roll up the front of the smoker, then across the top and back down, to get to the stacks and exhaust out. An IR thermometer says that the body temp holds pretty uniform when it's running, so I guess that hare-brained idea kind of works.
Incidentally, the fire box can also be used as a direct-heat grill.
The munchkin checking the temperature on the thing's initial burn-out and soaking with oil. Came up with the idea of basting everything with corn oil regularly after we got it up to temperature using a cheap "vibrating pump" paint sprayer from hobo fright. That worked reasonably well too.
And the state of the world after she's been run a few times. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with it, though we definitely still need to figure out how to use it right.
So, that's us. Anyone have any clue what we're supposed to do with this thing?
Blessed with more junk and time than money or sense, and not knowing how to weld, it seemed like I should build one. A propane tank found its way to Some Guy's Farm, and was promptly sacrificed to the cause.
This is Dandy Randy van Okieland, a friend from Oklahoma who stopped by SGF to show me how to melt metal:
Don't know much about smokers, but I figured that I could get a more uniform temperature across the whole smoker, if I could feed it from the center, rather than from an end.
One spare boat-trailer and some scrap pipe later, and it's kind of looking like a, well, a something.
The wife was impressed with the job I did making racks
And somewhere along the line, I actually learned to weld.
The draft system has a shelf across the smoker body just above the firebox, so the exhaust gasses have to roll up to the front of the smoker under the racks, then back to the back again across the food.
The shorter stacks at the top, open directly to the top of the smoker, while the taller rear stacks take air almost from the midline.
In use, to start the smoker the rear stacks are capped, and the fire is run hot until the system is drafting well, then the front stacks are capped and the rear stacks opened. They're tall enough that they maintain a decent draft. and their positioning makes the smoke roll up the front of the smoker, then across the top and back down, to get to the stacks and exhaust out. An IR thermometer says that the body temp holds pretty uniform when it's running, so I guess that hare-brained idea kind of works.
Incidentally, the fire box can also be used as a direct-heat grill.
The munchkin checking the temperature on the thing's initial burn-out and soaking with oil. Came up with the idea of basting everything with corn oil regularly after we got it up to temperature using a cheap "vibrating pump" paint sprayer from hobo fright. That worked reasonably well too.
And the state of the world after she's been run a few times. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with it, though we definitely still need to figure out how to use it right.
So, that's us. Anyone have any clue what we're supposed to do with this thing?
