Single Fin Smoker
is Blowin Smoke!
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2006
- Location
- Huntington Beach California
Isn't this what HBBQ has?
great looking smoker! :-D
When are you ordering your's?
Yup Fin same one.Isn't this what HBBQ has?
Yeah he did away with them. Mike said he felt they didn't do much performance wise and that with the rising costs of steel & labor it was time to eliminate it. I understand he made the change back in mid 07'. My party did not come with the valve on it either. I really do not understand what difference either option really makes though. I cook with the slide open for most of the cook and my cooker runs at 225* for hours on end.Did Mike go away from the butterfly exhausts on the Party? Seems like all the new photos I see have the slide top. The slider actually looks to have advantages.
Congrads JBR on the new smoker, looks great. I just got mine last year and love her. The charcoal box mod is a good one and makes the difference on long cooks. KCBobby's basket and mine are in this thread if you want some ideas. I am looking forward to seeing some of your first cook pics.
http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?p=488335#post488335
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Mine has the factory casters on it and a handle on back of the cooker. They make it real easy to move around as each caster fully rotates and has it's own lock on it. I roll her out of the garage and down the sidewalk to our courtyard where I cook at. She is real stable with all of the casters locked down.
I build the electic chair to set my Party on. It raised the Party 17" off the ground so only minimal bending was needed during use - most of the shelves were about chest level. It could be built with a table to the side.
http://boondogglebbq.com/Pictures/displayimage.php?album=8&pos=1 - shows the height of the smoker on the stand - I'm 6'
http://boondogglebbq.com/Pictures/displayimage.php?album=3&pos=6 - shows the Party on the stand
Great idea Bob, does any of the wood on the stand get charred from heat of the charcoal pan?I build the electic chair to set my Party on. It raised the Party 17" off the ground so only minimal bending was needed during use - most of the shelves were about chest level. It could be built with a table to the side.
No infact, if you look at my pictures closely, you will see that a wood base was actually attached directly to the smoker. (I got this when I purchased the smoker, it was what the dealer used to mount the units to his trailer and I asked to keep it.)
The attached wood base was made from 2x4's and it allowed me to lag bolt the smoker directly to the wooden stand I built.
http://boondogglebbq.com/Pictures/albums/userpics/10001/backwoods_sm.JPG
The base was built out of 4x4's for the corners, 2 x 6's for the top, 2x4's as braces and 5/4" deck boards around the sides. It was all ACQ scraps from the deck I built. Bit of overkill, probably sturdy enough to land a Chinook on.
I also put a screw-type leveler in each corner so it wouldn't rock on unlevel surfaces and to maximize water pan capacity.