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im doing a whole pig mid august and need some advice as ive never done one. pigs gonna be about 80lbs and done in a reverse flow smoker I built. any advice would help like temps ,time, how to dress the pig. ive been looking around but seeing a lot of conflicting info. thanks

ok makes sense. I used the calculator to figure out my dimensions so I guess if im having no issues yet keeping it within temp then im good. im still new to this so I just assumed it would get a lot hotter then 250 . thanks for the info

just curious about the max temp. I just thought that the smoker would reach higher temps easier. it was fairly easy to maintain my cook chamber temp at 230-250. I just thought I was gonna have issues with the temp getting over 300 , that's the only reason I was asking what the max temp would be.

finally got a chance to fire up the smoker today and season it. started it with a bed of charcoal coals in the basket and then added some applewood I have. managed to kind of get the temp under control but I only ran it for about 3 hours. tried to see how hot I can get it and had it climb to 300 but...

thanks. ill try to get some better close ups of it tomorrow. its pretty simple and it has some decent turning radius. a lot of it was fabbed up with common size steel stock. the only part that was a bonus was the golf cart spindles,that saved me a bunch of work but im sure it wouldn't take much to m...

heres my build. rims are rototiller tires which have a heavier rim then some of the 8'' rim/tires that you see used on hand carts. ive seen those wheels bend at the hub if its a heavier smoker. ill try to post some pics of it done.

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figured id update this post with a completed pic, took awhile but looking to get it fired up real soon.

ive been throwing around the idea of capping the top and sides of the firebox with thin gauge stainless. the fb door is removeable so I can remove it whenever it gets ratty and paint it up. still going to paint it and then decide on if the stainless will work.

Ya can't ship it up here. I found the rustoleum satin at home depot here in ontario but its 1000 degree where the American one is 1200. On their site it's advertised as a 946 litre spray can but Iits actually a quart can (thanks rodcrafter). I was gonna wait until the end of march when i head down t...

ive looked everywhere for a quart of satin high heat paint that I can spray on. ive called rustoleum but they don't sell their satin high heat in Canada. anyone got any ideas where I can get some?

my backgrounds mechanics so ill stick a motor on anything I can. LOL

I made all the parts except the spindles. They were from a 2005 ezgo golf cart which I had kkicking around. I have a 2 hp Briggs that i debated On using to power the ssmoker around. The axle under the fire box is keyed so if I decide to go that route it's ready. I'd end up rrunning a jack shaft set ...

Its stable when I'm pushing it around the yard over some obstacles like 2x4s. Wanted to make sure It wouldn'ttip over Iif the kids move it around. Going to fast won't be an issue with this thing being so heavy.lol

heres a pic of the steering. I use a pipe that's bent upwards with a handle and a pin that locks it in place. when im done moving it I pull the pin and bar and hang it on th smoker. the tierods are just steel rods welded to bolts and I attach them to the knucke with nylock nuts so I can tighten them...

I'll take better pics of the steering tonight and post them

been lurking for awhile and finally decided to get a build going. I used an oil tank and built everything else using 1/4 plate.the design was from ones ive seen here and liked. I decided to build a steering front axle on it aswell to make moving it around easier. used a pair of spindles that were le...