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That turned out nice, Thanks for the idea

Tried a few different things, best luck so far is with the red bag royal oak, it's local to me made less then 50 miles away. Flavor, color of meat, seems the most consistent when I cook with the hard wood oak charcoal, a few times I have added some wood to the bottom ash area, no real effect from th...

I run the BBQ Guru CyberQ Cloud with the biggest fan they had think it was the pit vipper 25cfm fan i am probably wrong on the name but it was the biggest they had i do know that. I Run it on my double pan gravity feed smoker, and its performance is spot on. Its a little funny at first getting it to...

Chromeski, Thats a good idea, I just wiggle it and it slides out with out much trouble. you can't just pull strait, it will bind, but with a little shaking it starts moving.

its the grate that the charcoal sits on. If i was to build another one i would add about a 1/16 of an inch to the angle iron that it sits on, It needs just a little wiggle room to make a touch easier to pull out. Its a little tight on mine,

So short term report on gravity feed. I have got about 10 cooks so far on the gravity feed, Best one was a 17 hour cook on a brisket and 2 pork shoulders. One weekend it ran 37 hours strait at 225 using 31 lbs of charcoal. I have noticed that bottom 2 racks run much hotter then the top rack, I have ...

filled the hopper to the top with charcoal, started it with a lp torch, plugged in the cyberq at 7:41. just before 8:10 smoker was 213, and meat went on the cooker, I am amazed how well this thing works

So I lit the gravity feed today run the temp up to 300 and drop a turkey on her. I didn't put much lit charcoal when I started it up so it took about an hour to come up to temp. Next time I am pretty sure I can get it up to temp faster if I drop more lit charcoal. Anyway this is the first cook were ...

pr0wlunwoof wrote: ↑

March 7th, 2019, 4:20 pm

To start my fire I take an old burner from a fish cooker and set it in the firebox

That's a good Idea. I ever find one with bent legs that going in the trash I will be sure to save it.

What temp is the powder coat rated too? Love the colour and itching to start my stumps clone. They told me the normal powder coat was good to about 350 deg and the High temp powder coat was good to about 800 deg. They told me if the chimney got up to about 350 degrees it would start to discolor, an...

I used the pan because it was the first time the pit had been lite, i wanted to do a good burn on it with oil on evey thing, the bottom and the sides near the bottom had started to get some surface rust. Lucky for me the racks have no rust on them. Just playing i guess, i can tell you it wont happen...

After soaking the inside with veg oil and rubbing it down all over, I adding the heat. I lit the pit at 10:30 with the help of the old shop fan it was at 225 by 10:50 and ready to cook. Today in Missouri it was between 8 to 10 degrees when I lit the pit. Lucky for me it keep getting warmer all day, ...

so learn from my mistake, I measured the gap when I welded the hinge and set it at what I thought was 1/8 inch all the way around. After the gasket was installed I noticed my hinge side is just a hair under 1/8 inch and the latch side is just under 1/4 inch Wish I would have left a bit more gap on t...

Picked up the smoker from the powder coat, It looks good but I wish the grey would have been a little darker

Tom_Heath wrote: ↑

February 18th, 2019, 11:06 pm

But I faithfully cook brownies every dang time I smoke.

WHAT!!!!!!!!! I want to know more. Box brownies mix can cook aat 250? How long does it take?

I myself could not put one togeather in a weekend. However 2 guys that work well togeather and are good with a little skill "not 2nd guessing and double checking the directions" could with out much trouble finish one in a weekend. Just having a 2nd set of hands moving heavy parts would speed up the ...

Tapped up and ready for powder coat. They talked me into high temp gray, They was afraid the temp of the chimney would make the paint soft and it would discolor,

little mod I made

Not sure how many hours I have in it, but i can tell you I can used About 5 lb of mig 030 wire, 1 flap 60g disk, 2 surface prep wheels, I hate to put how many hours I have in it because I work slow I started on it about the 3rd week of January, And the last couple weeks I never touched. Sorry I didn...

If you live were i do and the next neighbor is a a bit of a hike. I would pick a windy day set it in the back yard away from any thing and open it up and walk away. If your right next door to someone i would hook up a fish cooker fire it up and walk away. When the fire is out your good to pull the v...

I don't worry about the smell the smell won't hurt anything, The odder is not what burns, Pull the valves and displace any lp left in the tank. If water is cheap fill it once and dump it. all the lp is gone displaced by water, The last 2 tanks I cut I took the all the valves and gauges out and rolle...

Looking ahead at next week, as long as its not raining I am hoping to drop this smoker off at the power coat shop Tuesday sometime. What color would you make your smoker.

I am thinking Bright Fire Engine Red
Or dark Blue.

Any thought, NO Pink or yellow or black. I want it to stand out.

So today I figured I better finish this beast, I finished welding everything that needed welded up. When installing the push or pull handle I got to thinking time to ad some more of my own touches to it. 9 dollars later I had a new pics of pipe and a new handle was made. I like the look of my new ha...

Between the weather work and playing in the snow its been a little over a week since I put some time in on the gravity feed. Friday I figured out how to get it outside and placed on its side so I could install the cook chamber door. Then I did my first mod to the smoker Fork tubes so I can carry it ...

JpinSTL a smokerbuilder.com user rolled the ring for me. How ever a local metal shop can easily knock a couple out for you