Well I have been reading, reading, and then reading any prevoius threads of anything I could find to help me out. It has to be creosote.
This is totally new to be, I guess I have just been lucky up to this point. I have been smoking for over 15 years and this is a first for me. We have had more rain or snow than I can remember in some time. We don't get snow here very often and Christmas Eve we had 11 inches and this past Thursday we had 8 inches and we have had a lot of rain in between the snow fall. The wood is just plain wet and the smoke was just plain bad.
Do I need to throughly clean my pit and re-season it? I have only used it 3 times, but those three times the majority of the smoke was not clean. There is some noticable build up already, I tried to take the picture but it did not turn out to well. I am off tomorrow and have the time to do this, but don't want to if I don't have to. This thing is very heavy and hard to move, a forklift was used to load it on my trailer to take it home. I would love to able to put it on my trailer and take it to the carwash, but there is no way I can do that alone. Most friends I have work tomorrow. Should I do as earlier stated, get it as hot as I can and then put my hose in it? Or should I try and find a pressure washer since I can't really take this to the carwash? Any other suggestions?