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    Looking to buy a new smoker - Looking for suggestions

    What are the advantages of the Horizon over the OK Longhorn?
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    Looking to buy a new smoker - Looking for suggestions

    We survived the fire. The CZU Lightning Complex fire got less than a mile from our house. I evacuated the wife and kids and went back and was home during the whole ordeal. I worked with fire and police to make our neighborhood safe and defensible.
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    Looking to buy a new smoker - Looking for suggestions

    That is the one I a looking at
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    Looking to buy a new smoker - Looking for suggestions

    I just read your thread. I'm down in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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    Looking to buy a new smoker - Looking for suggestions

    I would like to stay under $750, $1k max.
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    Looking to buy a new smoker - Looking for suggestions

    I have a Brinkman offset smoker that I bought in 2003 that served me well. It's time for an upgrade. I am thinking about getting an Oklahoma Joe Longhorn reverse flow smoker. I am trying to keep the cost down. Should I look at another smoker? I like the reverse flow a d ability to convert...
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    Plumb wood - any good for smoking?

    I have a friend that pruned some plumb trees and offered me the branches. Is it any good for smoking? I already got plenty of apple wood from him.
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    Olive Wood

    Sounds like I should hang onto it for smoking. I heat my house with wood so it would end up in the woodshed otherwise. I'll smoke some chicken with it to see how it turns out. Maybe I'll use the olive wood for our Thanksgiving turkey this year.
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    Olive Wood

    Does anyone know if olive wood is any good for smoking meat? I pruned a olive tree and have lots of dry firewood from dead branches.
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    First build - drum smoker, need help

    yesterday I picked up two drums that are unlined. They had rubbing alcohol in them so they should be safe to use for a smoker build. I've never built a smoker before and I am looking for help. Does anyone have experience making a side box smoker out of drums?
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    55 Gallon offset build

    Can you please repost the pictures? I just picked up two drums and I'm looking for ideas
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    Red lined barrels

    So in order to remove the liner do I need to get the barrel hot beforehand? Has anyone tried to remove the liner using Comet and Scotchbrite *without* heating the liner first? I have a line on some barrels for $20 each but they are lined. If I can remove the liner easily I'll go for it. I...
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    Has anyone built a combo smokehouse/pizza oven?

    I helped some friends replace old wood stoves with newer stoves the last couple of years. I took the old stoves in to a scrap yard for cash. before I brought them in a harvested the fire brick out and hung on to it. They aren't as thick as the bricks in the video but i figure they would work...
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    Has anyone built a combo smokehouse/pizza oven?

    Rob, That video was perfect. His oven/smoker is very impressive. He didn't need to add buttresses because his oven is domed. You are proposing straight walls with a domed ceiling so you would need buttressing. I want to have a wood smokehouse like your design with a pizza oven. Now that...
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    Looking for smoker recommendation

    I want to stick with charcoal or wood not pellets. I checked craaigslist and found this: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/for/d/smoke-hollow-bbq-smoker-combo/6746731359.html Is it any good?
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