Brazos- my first stickburner

[ASAT]

Well I finally did it, I’ve been smoking meat for 40 plus years - always did it the way Dad taught me - charcoal and chunks on a Char Broil CB940X - till ‘13 when I found the Brethren and built a UDS. And then this year I picked up a RecTec 700. Still wanted to try a stick burner and finally ran across one on a local classifieds website. Needed some love but no glaring issues, So two days work and some paint later I am ready to fire this thing up and see if I can manage a real fire.... Gonna try and emulate Lynn Dollar ‘s methodology and see what goes... here is a before and after shot...

 

[mike243]

Looks like a winner to me, kinda like to have 1 again but it takes time and patience to run 1 and I am short on both these days lol had a brinkman a lot of years ago that was made very well with heavy steel, never had a cover over it and it rotted down after about 8-10 years , learned a lot since then

 

[LooseGoose]

Nice restoration job on that! Good luck.

 

[ronbrad62]

You have given her a new lease on life and she is going to reward you with some good eats. Nice job, congrats and now, fire her up!!

 

[Lynn Dollar]

That looks familiar :grin:

It cleaned up nice, that's a good find.

 

[zippy12]

I could cook on that! nice job

 

[WeberWho]

Enjoy the fruits of your labor! Nice work!

 

[TC Smoke & Que]

Congrats on the new member of the "Family"!!
Looking forward to the future cooks. Dont forget the "Break In Fatty"!!

 

[thunter]

It’s a cooking machine! Congrats! [emoji4]


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[jzadski]

It's amazing what a little sweat (or a lot :-D) and a desire can do. Impressive job and can't wait to see some food come off it

 

[Big George's BBQ]

Very nice Now you need to ger it cooking

 

[Mikhail]

Good score! Enjoy.

 

[ASAT]

Thanks everyone, it was a tiring but fun project... cooking two butts on my RT700 for the 4th , so I haven’t done the seasoning yet. Plan on sitting with it tomorrow and getting a fatty going....