Chad from Iowa

[sassy's]

Hello everyone. I found this site while, you guessed it, looking for smoker plans. I bought my first smoker at wal-mart. It was a char-broil vertical propane smoker. After smoking a few things and deciding that all of this food would be better if I made my own rubs and sauces, I started toting around my new passion and cooking for friends and family. After hearing that the ribs I was making were the best these people had ever had I decided to enter a competition. It was a small county fair and I ended up placing third in four categories. This added more fuel to my fire. One month later I entered a KCBS type event and was informed that propane was not allowed in a normal event. After this event (which I placed first in BTW) I decided to gut the propane and convert it to charcoal. This worked great, but was still to small. My solution was to buy yet another charbroil off-set smoker with much more room. I was still not satisfied. I want to do a whole hog!!! This past weekend I was smoking for the grand parents at their home when I found an old fuel drum. The next day I bought this drum and brought it home. All of this lead me tosmokerbuilder.com where I will be purchasing the plans for a reverse flow smoker. This should be a very fun and interesting journey, I am so looking forward to building my first rig.

[Frank_Cox]

Wow! Welcome to the site Sassy! You're not too far north of Tom and I. We will be glad to help ya out if ya need any parts or tanks and stuff. Sounds good on the plans! That's how we keep this site alive.
Congrats on the wins also!

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[sassy's]

I just realized that my posts get a little long. I hope that you all don't get fed up with my posts, but I'm a story teller and love the theatrics. Details are what make the story interesting to me. Sorry for being long, but this stuff excites me so much that I can hardly contain it. It has taken me 37 years to find something that I am passionate about and it just happens to be smokers and smoking.

[sassy's]

this is my logo, I tried to use it for my avatar but the file size is to big. My sister in law from chicago helped me out with this. I named it after my wife and everyone likes a little sas with their Q right?

[Tom_Heath]

Welcome to the site again. LOL

Awesome logo!!

I just saved the file and it said it was only 12kb. Thats plenty small but there may be a size restriction on width tho.

Here it is after I saved it and reloaded it to the site.

final sassy.jpg (11.62 KiB) Viewed 169 times

[Gizmo]

Cool logo - love the "sas with the Q" ...

[Frank_Cox]

I just realized that my posts get a little long. I hope that you all don't get fed up with my posts, but I'm a story teller and love the theatrics. Details are what make the story interesting to me. Sorry for being long, but this stuff excites me so much that I can hardly contain it. It has taken me 37 years to find something that I am passionate about and it just happens to be smokers and smoking.

No problems here! You should see some of my posts LOL

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[Frank_Cox]

this is my logo, I tried to use it for my avatar but the file size is to big. My sister in law from chicago helped me out with this. I named it after my wife and everyone likes a little sas with their Q right?

I will help ya get it right. Shoot me a PM with your number if ya want and I'll call ya tonight.

Edited:
Well looks like tom might have beat me to it lol!

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[sassy's]

It's no big deal, I can get a cool avatar from anywhere. I do appreciate that you guys are not only smoker friendly, but avatar friendly as well.

[Frank_Cox]

Try and save the image Tom uploaded and try to use it. I can also apply avatars from my side.

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[sassy's]

Just tried it. It told me the pixels and mine were wide. I originally designed this for a 3x7 banner so I understand why it's to long.

[Tom_Heath]

What a bummer.