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Wow, I did a search here, and on another site, tons of different ways to do it. The friends I will be doing this for has a good recipe she uses when cooking in the oven, thought maybe to 1/2 of it that way, and was wanting to do the rest another. How long do most let your meat rest? I see the one up...

I'm slowly getting my feet wet. Having fun doing so. I need some recommendations for a pork loin. Going to be doing enough to feed 22 people in a couple of weeks. - marinades, rubs, brine? any thoughts - what wood? - what temps/how long? is there a guide for doing pork by the lb.? time wise? (need a...

Now that the smoker is working, I have been offered some salmon to try. Can anyone give me some recipies to try, I currently have apple wood, a little hickory (to strong I believe) can get access to oak. My smoker is mainly a stick burner, so will the apple work. Recipies, temps, wood selection, any...

thanks for all the help guys. I had no idea on how to do one of these before coming here. I lurked on a couple of sights along with this one, but this one was one of the biggest helps. Now to learn how to use it.

My bad, it wasn't T-bones she bought, but even better, Tenderloins...... One of the local super markets runs specials on meat usually on Mondays, probably overstock from the weekend. Anyways, she got a couple of pounds of Tenderloin for around $10. I ended up cooking them on the low temp end. cranke...

Time to just how hot she will get.

just a quick question, finaly got the smoker working, and my wife found some t-bones on sale. what is a good way to to them? I can get my smoker up to grilling temps as well. I have access to some oak/hickory/apple wood. Any thoughts, rubs, etc..... I'm learning so give me some input for tonights di...

ok, thanks, i will try that in the spring when it warms up.

ok, here's a question, how do you keep the rope gaskets on? I used a gasket glue (can't remember brand) from one fleet farm, and it has let go in a couple of spots. Is there a particular brand that work's better then others? or is this an issue I will end up dealing with off and on? Thanks for all t...

thats for the potato's they really didn't need them though.

smoker-cook-1.jpg Finally, I actually cooked some food tonight. Did some chicken legs/thigh's. I used my propane burner to get it up to temp, 350° in about 15min. I then put in a couple of peices of apple wood (that's all i have), once that got started, I turned off the propane, closed up the air i...

finally finished the welding Sat. afternoon. coated the entire outside in a spray on rust prevenative. It's getting to cold to paint. It will have to wait till spring when I can blast it again and paint it. Now to just finish up a couple of details on the pipe burner that will be going into the fire...

Spent last sat afternoon finish welding the skin in place (my mig welding sucks, though it is getting better). I'm going to have to do some grinding. I ran out of wire with about 10" left to go. I got the gaskets set on the doors last night. Now just to get some more wire in the next week or 3. Goin...

I finally got the outside skin tacked in place, I need to spend some time sat. finishing up the welding. Insulation is in place, though i had to pull about about 1/2" off part of it to get the skin to fit right. Now if I can get the MIG welder to weld right. ok, it's me, still learning. Did some wor...

Hoosier53, I have about 1"x2'x20' left from my build. PM me and I can get you some specifics if you would be interesting in buying it. If might be a foot shorter, i have to check.

I spent some time yesterday looking at my skin for the insulation on the firebox. I figured out what I need to do, so hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will be able to finish up all the welding. I think I will end up waiting till spring to paint as we are running out of warm days. Just not eno...

They r for tie down. I have some on the base as well, and I thought some on the tank would work nice. They did. You can see them being used in the pics when I brought it home from my buddies.

Here are 2 pics. I need to do some tweaks yet.

I just did.my 1st burn. Got to get rid of all the mfg. Oils etc.... seems to work. I need to tweak my fire box door latch, then paint and season. I. Had it up to 350 or so and let it burn for about 3-4 hours. I'll post a pic once I download it.

Wish I could spend more time out in the woods, but to many things going on. I probably won't get out again till Oct, and hit it heavy the 1st week of Nov. I got to get this smoker done so I can have some tenderloin and make some Summer Sausage. (got to get a deer 1st)

This was helpful along the lines of insulation on the FB. I was going to do that on mine, I live in E. Central Wis. and was worried about not having it. After reading what you just posted CRS, (we have similar temps) (just south of GreenBay), that makes me feel better about skiping the insulation on...

Sorry for not posting pic's yet. Been busy, had to get out in the woods on Sat. afternoon, Our bow season opener. after about 1/2 mile walk into marsh, found a guy in the tree i was headed to, went to another spot not to far away, got eaten alive by mosqutoes, and right at dark, had a nice buck at 8...

Thanks for the input, I might give that a try. I really would like to see how it works with the insulation, also, covers up some of the structure I put on to hold the skin off. I'll see what I can come up with. Thanks

Finished welding the cooking grate supports in last night. Now for the departure in plans. I wraped the FB with the outer skin to see how it would fit, didn't look to bad, but I had some gaps that i wasn't sure about, so I put the insulation on, then re-installed the outer skin. one side looked ok, ...