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my latest creation
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/...33956145_n.jpg full thread & a few more pics http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=186518 |
Starting my first UDS and I have a question, is it better to keep the bottom of the drum intak or to remove for easy access to charcoal box?
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My UDS
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Got my UDS built a couple weeks ago. Fairly simple, I put in four 3/4" intakes, three of them with caps and one with a 90* elbow and ball valve. The fire basket is a Weber charcoal grate with 12" high expanded metal clipped to the grate with heavy steel wire. The basket has 3-1/2" carrage bolts for legs resting in the ash pan made from a cheap 18" table top grill. I installed single track adjustable shelf standards and brackets so I could shift the two racks depending. Keeping my eye open for a dome lid but using the flat lid for now.
I had planned on painting it, but after the big burn I decided I liked the marbled look of the burnt paint so I wiped off he loose stuff and sprayed it with a high-temp clear. The starter chimney is home made from 6" duct. The first cook was a disaster, everything was waaaay overcooked. Found out the temp. gauge I used was reading about 75* low. Its replacement is much better. This thing is so easy to operate, I like it! Cooked a fatty for the first time this morning, turned out good but will use spicier sausage next time. Then put on a chicken and slab of ribs for supper, both were fall apart done and delicious. Thinking maybe a butt next time. |
Well did my burn out last weekend, just about finished with the wire brush cleaning. About ready to drill holes for the racks. What would my BBQ brothers recommend for the spacing? I want three racks and I have a flat top. I am thinking 7" from the top then 5" below the first rack for the second. Would that leave me enough room for another rack and if so how much lowwer below the 2nd rack? Is that about the distances needed for the racks?
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Finally my 30gal. UDS done with pics(pic heavy)
Want to thank everyone for their help, tips and ideas and also to CCWR for his diffuser help and a big thanks to Jbtech for mailing me a step bit across the country so I could make my 1in.air intake holes.
So I started with a 30gal. drum and used the lid and grill and charcoal grill from a Weber Jumbo Joe I got on sale at Walmart. The lid did not fit my drum, but when I flipped the drum over it fit perfect. So after attacking the bottom of the drum with my sawzall I got the bottom out and now the lid fits perfect and the bottom is now the top of my smoker. So using the charcoal grill from the Weber and some scrap expanded metal from work I welded up my basket. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...pse43b6a32.jpg I did inside the drum a bit different from what I have seen here, I welded nuts to the inside to screw my bolts in to hold my grills. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6ea57fb7.jpg More scrap metal I found at work that I bent into a tray to hold my Maverick and attached it to a magnet to stick to the drum. Not shown, but I also put some high dense foam in the tray to protect my Maverick and keep it from moving. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6abb7c61.jpg Not sure what they were, but I found some brass thingy's to run my probes through the drum, work perfect after some grinding. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...psc089f2f1.jpg Found a Betty Crocker pizza pan at the dollar store and made bigger holes using CCWR hole pattern for my heat deflector. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...pse3625338.jpg Welded an extension rod from the ball valve to raise the handle, and bent up some metal to make handles and welded them on and got her put together and painted. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps7633e46e.jpg Made my first Jimmy Dean fatty with my youngest daughter, she had fun making the weave. Stuffing is onion, mushrooms, yellow and orange peppers and cheese. Also threw on a few venison sausages. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps278678c0.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps1456b2f2.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...psc3128099.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...psfc614d81.jpg And my first spatchcook chicken this morning using Moose's awesome rub recipe. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...psd0971947.jpg |
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I need a pig head lid ornament like yours, where the heck did you find that?? I love it.
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Awesome, great job, my daughter has that clay, looks like she has a job to do makin me a pig head LOL
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Do you have to wire brush the inside if it doesent have a liner or can you just burn it, spray it out and proceed?
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If you can't burn it out then try an angle grinder with a wire wheel. WEAR SAFETY GLASSES!! Thanks for the compliment Highcal. You smoker looks good and the food looks awesome! I did end up putting twice as many 1/2 holes in my diffuser since I showed my pic here and it still works awesome and I get more bark. |
Hi all. What do you guys do to clean out the grease at the bottom of your UD'S. I usually spill loose ash in the bottom and it absorbs the grease then I wipe it up?? Any suggestions
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