275 gal fuel oil tank RF smoker

[dwwantasmoker]

I'm new here but I've been looking at this sight for a while. I'm building a RF smoker and I am copping smokeinthenoke's
idea, but I would like to put a warming box on top of the firebox and I was wondering if I was to put the two 4" stacks throw the warming box would it get to hot ? Or would it effect the smoker its self ?

[Miketheforester]

Welcome to the site. I am thinking the stack would not give you much extra temp.

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[dwwantasmoker]

Thanks, I have been working on my first build, and I know its not my design but I'm building it a little different. and it will be mounted on a 16' trailer. if anyone has ideas on how I should build the warming box I would appreciate any ideas.

[Rev.Mike]

post some pictures of what you have so far, im sure one of the fellers can give ya some ideas

[Gizmo]

Every time I've attempted a warming cabinet the challenge was to keep the warming cabinet cool enough. Just running your stack pipe through the warmer cabinet sounds like a good idea but put in 2 vents for fresh air - one low and one high so you can pull the cabinet temp back down…. imho

[dwwantasmoker]

Thanks, Gizmo I was thinking of insulating it with high temp insulation. I didn't think of vents. mike Im new at this forum thing and as soon as I can figure out how to put pics on I will get some on and I appreciate any and all feed back good or bad. its only been a week and I'm totally addicted to building these thing. I have a line on a 300 gal round tank and thinking about building it for a hole Hog cooker for the back of the trailer.

[Clover Ridge Smokers]

Welcome to the addiction!! Even if you don't have pics, it might be good to scratch out our idea on paper and post it for us to give you feedback.

[Smokeone]

I think Gizmo is right, but I don't know that the exhaust will put off much heat.

[Gizmo]

I should add that I was heading for 140F as a target temp since it's usually the recommended legal minimum "hold" temp for meat while waiting to serve because I don't want it to cook any further when I put it in there.

[Puff]

I'll assume we have the the same 275 oil tank. You will find that unless it's a huge hog, the room inside this tank can do a whole hog. I doubled up on my racks and shortened my trailer to 8 foot from 12. There are some great thoughts here on how and why things go together a certain way. Personally, my only experience in smokers had been on TV from BBQ Pitmasters or food network.

Today I have a welder in my hand and a really nice smoker coming down the pike guided by some of the great members of this forum. Just search around for 275 oil tank. You'll see I have no shortage of questions or pictures of my build and trailer there might even be one of the dog!

Welcome from the east coast and good luck.

[dwwantasmoker]

If this works here are some pics.

ContactPhoto-IMG_20131104_170511.zip

[Rodcrafter]

This may help you with the pics.

viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1874#p27485

[dwwantasmoker]

Ok I have been trying to put pics on and I am doing everything the video says and when I tell it to submit it kicks me off the site and I loose every thing ? HELP!

[dwwantasmoker]

OK every time I try to put pics on I get all the way through then tell it to submit and it kicks me off the sight.HELP!

[dwwantasmoker]

Im not a computer person, this should be obvious by the posts and I've never been on a forum before so please bear with me.

[dwwantasmoker]

OK I'll try this again

[Rodcrafter]

No problem we are able to see the picture I just wanted you to see the teaching video, Frank made for the site. That is how I learned how to do it.

[dwwantasmoker]

Thanks, the video helped a lot. but I think its me I had to zip the pics to make them smaller, so im trying to figure out how to do this without zipping the file. but if you guys can see them I will finish putting the rest on and work on resizing them another way later. Thanks again.

[Pete Mazz]

This software supposedly down-sizes pics and it's free. I've never used it tho.

http://www.robosizer.com/

[dwwantasmoker]

the burn out!

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