- Joined
- Jan 3, 2014
- Location
- Detroit...
I've been cooking on this drum for several years. It has evolved along the way. It is close enough to it's final form that I'm ready to unveil it to the public.
I'll go in chronological order here. It was a rather in orthodox journey.
Brethren ebijack hooked me up with a barrel for cheap. His we're some of the first UDS systems I seen in action firsts hand. I wasn't interested in a uds tho.i was building a rotisserie bird barrel. Fwismoker gave me the idea. A wood fire in an open drum with a rotisserie over top. I just places my Weber kettle ring on top the barrel (Tom helped mod the ring) drilled 4 intakes and dropped in a fire basket.
It looked something like this
After that Keith convinced me to go 007 as he calls it. It's a raised grate that swings and adjusts over the live fire. This whole style of cooking was different than anything I've done.
Here's the fire basket. A ring of expanded metal with a charcoal grate tied several inches up and a handle.
That was that for two years. Best chicken cooker ever I'll say that.
In the last week I have finished up the traditional uds portion of the drum.
I added elbows to the intakes and caps to close them off
For fine controls I added ball valve. The pipe makes it easy to reach.
A 2 inch nipple and cap make up the chimney
Added my old river country therm at grate level
And wheels on the bottom
I added a holey diffuser about 13.5" down and a cook grate 8.5" down. I plan on adding a upper grate with feet that rests on that.
Other than some tweaks and the upper grate, maybe a hanging ring this is about it. All of these systems can be used in tandem or in combination. Wood or charcoal fueled and the fire basket and cooking levels can be adjusted in a multitude of configurations. One of my favorites is a roto cook with the swing grate above.
Thanks for looking :yo:
I'm already looking forward to my next build.
I'll go in chronological order here. It was a rather in orthodox journey.
Brethren ebijack hooked me up with a barrel for cheap. His we're some of the first UDS systems I seen in action firsts hand. I wasn't interested in a uds tho.i was building a rotisserie bird barrel. Fwismoker gave me the idea. A wood fire in an open drum with a rotisserie over top. I just places my Weber kettle ring on top the barrel (Tom helped mod the ring) drilled 4 intakes and dropped in a fire basket.
It looked something like this
After that Keith convinced me to go 007 as he calls it. It's a raised grate that swings and adjusts over the live fire. This whole style of cooking was different than anything I've done.
Here's the fire basket. A ring of expanded metal with a charcoal grate tied several inches up and a handle.
That was that for two years. Best chicken cooker ever I'll say that.
In the last week I have finished up the traditional uds portion of the drum.
I added elbows to the intakes and caps to close them off
For fine controls I added ball valve. The pipe makes it easy to reach.
A 2 inch nipple and cap make up the chimney
Added my old river country therm at grate level
And wheels on the bottom
I added a holey diffuser about 13.5" down and a cook grate 8.5" down. I plan on adding a upper grate with feet that rests on that.
Other than some tweaks and the upper grate, maybe a hanging ring this is about it. All of these systems can be used in tandem or in combination. Wood or charcoal fueled and the fire basket and cooking levels can be adjusted in a multitude of configurations. One of my favorites is a roto cook with the swing grate above.
Thanks for looking :yo:
I'm already looking forward to my next build.
