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Today's work. I have pulled pork down. Brisket is coming along nicely. Time to get ribs figured out

75minburn.jpg mtf, so added two pieces of wood. got temp to 245-250. held good for about hour and a quarter. then started to drop. hour and a half it was 200. hour 3/4 150. 250 seems to be the sweet spot. much lower than that and it doesn't burn right. i go from pale blue to lots of white. i guess ...

well, there is todays work. some salsa and some pulled pork. came out awesome. so far so good.

all right then. 2 yes/pre cook chorizo.

i'm in. thanks for the info.

pics in about a week(just pulled a butt off the smoker, have to wait until next time)

but i cant imagine anything wrapped in sausage and bacon, then smoked not tasting good.

Any ever tried a mexican fatty?

I have this idea i've been wanting to try, not sure if it will work. a fatty with a cheddar,chorizo, and jalapeno core.

then the sausage and bacon wrap.

think this will work or is it too much going on?

yup, pretty happy with how it came out. i've cooked on it a few times, not sure if i would change anything. maybe the stack baffle. i found on bright sunny days, the extra heat from the sun make a huge difference. temps shoot way up. I live in the NW so sunny days usually dont happen to often. mtf, ...

nice looking build. that tank has a nice shape to it.

I used the fenton calc. it outputs pipe size and length. I found that helpfull when raiding the scrap heap at work for supplies.nice to have options.

nice work, came out good

IMG_20130504_103512_413.jpg IMG_20130504_103558_788.jpg i"ll have to work on the awesomeness of my posts then... So it's done. for now. I added the angles for the upper rack. which i will build one of these days. I found a nice bbq thermometer i liked, so i can ditch the cheesy digital one, wich ac...

Cool, that makes sense. what does one have to do to get their own custom smiley face dude?

so here was todays test run. came out good. still have some minor fab, but it can wait.

seriously though, what's up with this dude.

ok so i decided it couldn't wait any longer. I got the main grates done( i bought the steel for a top grate, i'll put that in later) and fired it up last night. wide open it got up to low 300 or so and seemed to to stabilize ok. played with the intake and exhaust, maybe 40% open on both and it got t...

The end is near!!

cooking grates need a little more fab. thinking about another rack above the slide out. wont be able to use it with pork butts. but it could just about double the capacity for ribs and briskets.

i'm hoping to have fire in it saturday.

probably better to keep chrome around then. It has been working so far.

well, not sure why I cant upload pics in IE, but G' chrome is working. I don't normally use chrome, so I'd still be open to any ideas on how to fix IE.

thanks

IMG_20130420_124106_346.jpg This is most likely not a new idea. But I was happy when I figured it out. I got a piece of closed cell foam and cut it to the required square inches needed for each side of my BP opening. Then stuck a piece of 1/8 welding rod into the foam. used that to make a template ...

I can log in, read new posts, see pictures...

When I try to upload a resized pic (320kb) it kicks me out and i get the loggin page that says i have to loggin to post replies. So I log back in, and it does it again.

Any Ideas?

Not anything major, but here is some progress.

I set it up so the door has enough room to go over center, so it should stay open against the soon to be built stop. It's final open position will be a RCH off the stack. The stack is just thin exhuast pipe, so there probably shouldn't be anything heavy on it. I wasn't concerned about it slamming sh...

Looks good. Tank has a nice shape to it. Your deck/drive way/ patio... must be perfectly flat. With 4 swivel cators, that thing would be spinning in circles out my garage down the driveway, into the street. I Went with 8"pnuematic castors on my build. Too much stuff to run over.

stack2.jpg Thats how the stack wound up mounting to the cc. Enough room for the lid to open up. Not sure if I should add a counter weight. Any thought for or against it? MTF, I like that folding shelf you did on your build. I may borrow your idea. I need a shelf on the side with the swivle castors,...

Math sucks. That is why I like this site. The calculator told me how big to make everything. Someone should make a calculator out of your ideas there... How often, how many people...done, go get a tank "X" big....

stack.jpg Making some progress. got the CC tacked to the fire box, CC door hinges on, smoke stack tacked on. Being a center feed, and needing the stack to be in the middle. I would up putting it kind of low to clear the door. but It is still above the cook grate surface(you know, when I get to it)....

IMG_20130409_172757_017.jpg so i got lazy and uncreative for the air inlet damper. i got 2 rain hats from work that were going to the scrap bin. i tightened the pivot bolt a little and now the flap will stay where i leave it. it seals up pretty well. about as well as any sliding, rotating adjustabl...