Giant Offset find & restoration.

[tennman73]

I was in the market for a new smoker. My little New Braunsfel Hondo serves me well but, is lacking in cooking space. I had seriously been eyeing the larger Old country smokers at academy. The ones I was looking at were around 399-499. Then I came across the deal of the century on craigslist. A massive

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• tennman73
• Jun 9, 2013

custom offset made of 1/4 inch steel. It hadn't been used in a while but it was the same price as the academy smokers. I couldn't resist.

 

[tennman73]

I began grinding and sanding as soon I got it back home.

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• tennman73
• Jun 9, 2013

 

[tennman73]

The smoker looked rough but was still very solid and just needed some TLC. I don't think ive slept since I got it.

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• tennman73
• Jun 9, 2013

 

[seenred]

Nice find!  When you get that bad boy cleaned up, you'll have to show it off with some qview!

Red

 

[tennman73]

Heres some before and afters.

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• Jun 9, 2013

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• Jun 9, 2013

 

[tennman73]

Paint makes a difference .

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• Jun 9, 2013
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• Jun 9, 2013

 

[tennman73]

I took it for a 13 hour spin today. Ribs and Brisket.

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• Jun 9, 2013

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• Jun 9, 2013

 

[bigtrain74]

Wow, it looks like a new cooker! Fabolous work!

 

[fwismoker]

Ha ha...Cute little girl and a WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SMOKER.!     I'm jealous, that's awesome.

 

[ajbert]

Mayhap some day I will get to where you are now.  Looks great to me!

 

[brianrdarroch]

You did a fantastic job on that restoration!

 

[daveomak]

Good job.....  Very nice design of a smoker...    

.....  Dave

 

[tennman73]

Thanks for the comments. It was a lot of work. I still need to clean and paint the trailer. I cant decide on a color.

 

[hambone1950]

Wow. What an amazing find for that kind of money. Nice job on the restoration. :yahoo:

 

[tennman73]

I fabed up a diffuser today. Firing up the smoker around midnight to try it out. Gonna smoke a butt and ribs.

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• tennman73
• Jun 12, 2013

 

[tennman73]

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• tennman73
• Jun 12, 2013

 

[cwalk]

Looks Nice brother, that was à highway robbery for that cooler. I have the old country from academy and was thinkn of fabing it up to à trailor. Happy smoking

 

[tennman73]

Well, everything turned out great. The diffuser did its job, I had an even 250 clear across the surface even next to the fire box.

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• tennman73
• Jun 13, 2013

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• Jun 13, 2013

 

[jirodriguez]

Nice job! That thing looks great... and so does the meat.

 

[jeffed76]

That smoker looks great, I've got grill envy!  I love Craigslist.  I just got an upright brinkman with mods already done for almost nothing.