Man quality is EXPENSIVE!!!!!

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ammaturesmoker

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So I went to check out a lightly used Yoder Kingman my friend bought last week on a online classified. He was going to be cooking for his family reunion last night. It is custom mounted on a competition style chassis. It wasn't a bad price @ 3,500 which is what he was looking at budget wise. He showed me that the former owner paid 5,700 just over a year ago. Really nice quality though....BUT....I noticed he was burning a ton of wood.....almost triple what one of my 16 inch does.3 logs in a 2 hour time period as a matter of fact. That is a consistent 240 degrees. He bought it to use a few times a year for family get-together's. The thing was filled with racks of ribs lay flat both on the top rack and the bottom. Now this got me thinking. I have two 16 inch units that go 16x30 each. Naturally I put the two together giving me a surface of 32x60 in my head what does fit more racks on the main rack than my buddies. However if he loads his top racks, he beats me. But if I were to add a top rack in each smoker, I have a direct match on the amount of ribs they can hold by my measuring. And both combined only use 2 logs every two hours(half log each every hour). I am still on the fence on a top rack though. I am not sure I will ever use them. I know 2 guys with Yoder models that have racks and they said they rarely use them.
 
3 logs in a couple hours isn't bad. I usually figure a good size split every 35 minutes in my smoker. And in the dead of winter it uses a whole lot more.
Your friend got a nice buy on that Yoder. Thumbs Up
 
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3 logs in a couple hours isn't bad. I usually figure a good size split every 35 minutes in my smoker. And in the dead of winter it uses a whole lot more.
Your friend got a nice buy on that Yoder.
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probably the reason that there are no trees in SD,  to many people tried to run big stick burners in the dead of our winters. 
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So I went to check out a lightly used Yoder Kingman my friend bought last week on a online classified. He was going to be cooking for his family reunion last night. It is custom mounted on a competition style chassis. It wasn't a bad price @ 3,500 which is what he was looking at budget wise. He showed me that the former owner paid 5,700 just over a year ago. Really nice quality though....BUT....I noticed he was burning a ton of wood.....almost triple what one of my 16 inch does.3 logs in a 2 hour time period as a matter of fact. That is a consistent 240 degrees. He bought it to use a few times a year for family get-together's. The thing was filled with racks of ribs lay flat both on the top rack and the bottom. Now this got me thinking. I have two 16 inch units that go 16x30 each. Naturally I put the two together giving me a surface of 32x60 in my head what does fit more racks on the main rack than my buddies. However if he loads his top racks, he beats me. But if I were to add a top rack in each smoker, I have a direct match on the amount of ribs they can hold by my measuring. And both combined only use 2 logs every two hours(half log each every hour). I am still on the fence on a top rack though. I am not sure I will ever use them. I know 2 guys with Yoder models that have racks and they said they rarely use them.
Just a point of clarification.  If you have one 16x30 unit, that's 480 square inches of cooking space on one rack level.  If you have two 16x30s, that's a total of 960 square inches of cooking space, each with one level of racks.  32x60 would be 1920 square inches, which can only be achieved if you put another set of racks in each of your 16x30 units and had two cooking levels in each one.   
 
If he is running both top and bottom, he has more room.
 
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