Started building my first reverse flow pit this weekend. Here are some pictures of the progress. 20"
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I do have a round end on the trailer mounted smoker pit my Grandfather built back in the 1970's.
That pit is built all crazy wrong and it was left hitch end high, filled with rain water and rusted out the bottoms on the low end. This project originally was going to be to repair it. But after reading on here and thinking about it I realized it still would not work.
It has a 20" diameter chamber about 5' long. On the fire box end, it is not dropped and it has a wall from the bottom about half way up to the CC chamber. It also has a warmer right over the firebox made from plate, no baffles or anything between it and the firebox.
That pit is built all crazy wrong and it was left hitch end high, filled with rain water and rusted out the bottoms on the low end. This project originally was going to be to repair it. But after reading on here and thinking about it I realized it still would not work.
It has a 20" diameter chamber about 5' long. On the fire box end, it is not dropped and it has a wall from the bottom about half way up to the CC chamber. It also has a warmer right over the firebox made from plate, no baffles or anything between it and the firebox.
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kam59
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anytime you can enlarge a "choke point" in a natural draft smoker, that's a good thing...
Try it the way she be... you can always fix it if it doesn't operate the way you like.. EVERYTHING is a work in progress...
Try it the way she be... you can always fix it if it doesn't operate the way you like.. EVERYTHING is a work in progress...
Kam your dimensions sound closer to correct then what I stated. I was thinking I measured 7 by 14 but then I thought no it couldn't be 14
Thank you Dave and Kam. I will finish putting her together and try her out. Your right, nothing I can't fix with my Plasma, Mig, Tig and a good hammer. Oh and some beer.
Making the pit is the easy part. Cooking is the hard part. I never cooked on a smoker before. Lol
Making the pit is the easy part. Cooking is the hard part. I never cooked on a smoker before. Lol
kam59
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kam59
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So.
I have been looking around in here and I noticed most home built pits take people months if not years.
Yesterday was a week since I started. My goal is to be cooking and eating off this thing in two days.
I guess if you stop eating until your cooker is cooking it helps motivate. No?
Lol [emoji]128512[/emoji]
I have been looking around in here and I noticed most home built pits take people months if not years.
Yesterday was a week since I started. My goal is to be cooking and eating off this thing in two days.
I guess if you stop eating until your cooker is cooking it helps motivate. No?
Lol [emoji]128512[/emoji]
I wish I could move faster. But at 46 and my sons grown and off in college and Army, I am doing this all alone. Age plus no help I am feeling my age. But with enough Jack Daniel I will be cooking on Monday.
Bells and whistles on the outside can come later. Like next week.
Bells and whistles on the outside can come later. Like next week.
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