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the vent looks short

A can of spatter guard is your best friend.

Grate looks good the only issue i see is that mesh like that is harder to clean. Might be easy to clean with high pressure machine.

As Squiggle would say "Nice work dude"

[quote="Tom_Heath"]Not having a handle is like having peanut butter and no jelly. !! Just sayin.


Or toast with out Vegemite

Cool thank you. Just tried it out and it's great. Only question. Is it better to have our not have a dam. It's it necessary on a reverse flow as the baffle plate will have a dam to stop any liquids going any where I only have a dam on my baffle plate and do not have any issues, so i would say it is...

My costco brisket Pics. That was a big cook got the smoker going at 6.00 am then the Brisket in at 7.00 am, the cook took 11 hours the rested in esky for 1 hour. It was a 8kg piece of brisket and when i trimmed it i lost almost 2kg of fat, it was a a very successful cook my guests enjoyed it so much...

Is there a reason that you have a square stack, just got me thinking is a round stack better than square ?

:LG: :kewl: That cooker shure is purty. I'm curious, have you noticed any discoloration from the heat after several cooks? So far so good, have only done 4 cooks and no signs of discoloration. Even the fire box is good, i put in a double layer of material above the heat so the outside would remain ...

Also i would make the FB height at least 21" or 22" and have your grate at 18" and put a ash pan in and have you air intakes below your grate.

My ash pan is only 1 inch high

My build is running well, cooked for my sons 21st birthday and my guest loved it.

Rodcrafter wrote:I would love to come to your area. Maybe you should host a gathering. Then we could all go to the outback and cook some wild stuff you guys have there.


Making memories.

Maybe pulled Kangaroo ?

My cook from the weekend, chicken wings a pork ribs. Tappecue was fantastic can't go wrong.

Just a quick question, is it OK to throttle the heat by using the lid on the stack. I cooked some ribs and wings yesterday and i am noticing that closing my dampers is not as effective as closing my stack a bit,when i close the stack just a bit i notice a instant drop in temperatures and am able to ...

Today's cook Pork Ribs and Pork loin. My Smoker works a treat and now with the Tappecue set up it is fantastic. The Tappecue allows me to monitor the temps very easy, as my smoker is down the bottom of my yard it saves me from walking up and down the stairs. Now i can monitor from inside the house a...

My new Tappecue set up.
Ribs this weekend.

First cook done, thought i would start of easy and just smoke 2 chickens. The smoker was a amazing all worked sweet after i fixed the door. Chickens smoked with cherry wood, glazed with maple syrup and i used Oakridge Pork and Chicken rub. Cooked for just over 3 hours holding temps between 250 and 3...

250 is a good temp for all around smoking. I use it for anything that needs rendering. For poultry I shoot more for 300. :LG: :LG: :LG: Thanks, good to know that my smoker can achieve these temps with no problems at all. Just proves if you do all your calculations on the pit calculator it should be...

Just a update, smoker is now home in it's resting place. I did the first burn today and overall i am very happy. The temps were good easily was able to achieve 300 degrees Fahrenheit , in fact it actually got to 320 degrees Fahrenheit . The only issue i had was the heat on the fire box door the top ...

Almost done, painted frame and made stops for the lid and just need to screw down table top.

I'm putting my money on it cooking great! I may have missed it in the thread but what kind of latches do you have on the CC door and how do they work? They are just screw in knobs, just something we had lying around so i thought they should work, only thing is you have to take them off when you ope...

Pete Mazz wrote:Very nice! When's the first cook?

Not for a few weeks, i have to go and have surgery on my hand next week and i will be out of action for a bit.
The anticipation is killing me though, have i done this right will it get hot enough.
Lot of time has gone into this for it not to work fingers crossed.

Update, almost done just a few tidy up jobs before painting frame and fixing wood decking for table top.
This week finished FB just need to weld up fire grate. I made the table foldable so when not in use just fold it down, will be getting timber decking for table top to match the wooden handles.

Getting closer to the finish, man i can't believe how much time i have put into this Smoker. Today i worked out how to put on sliding dampers, happy with the look and operation. Ash pan is complete and started to make fire grate, still thinking of how much spacing i need between the bars to allow en...