Recent content by davecs1

No problem, the thread is almost 3 years old. I was doing research on chimney dimensions and it came up In a search. I thought I would post as I am a bit puzzled by my understanding of what I believe I measure my OK Joe dimensions to be and what the smoker build calculators say about those...

The Highland smoker is an offset Horizontal smoker.

Has anyone put the dimensions in for an OK Joe Highland? I just did and it tells me my firebox is 150% to big and my chimney is about 60 inches short. The intake is way to small, but just about right if you use the whole door ,which I have been doing. The inlet to the smoke chamber is to big...

Well I went and got a half cord, cherry and oak. I have been halving the sticks so they lay in my charcoal basket easy I started with a chimney of Hard Lump and let it go nuclear. Then dropped two oak sticks in, which may be a bit much for my rig. I got it to settle on 230-240 which is a bit...

I appreciate the input guys. I found a place down the road that sells oak and different fruit woods. http://www.goodforesttimber.com I am going to buy oak and a couple other kinds, enough so I can experiment and work on my fire building skills with wood. Yea seems like wood is a bit...

Yea I lost 4 splits to warming them on the firebox. I got busy prepping meat and when I came out to check the fire my splits were on fire on top of my box! So lesson learned, only do that while tending the rig

I have been smoking with Charcoal forever. I am pretty confident in doing so. I bought my offset at the beginning of the summer and did a list of mods. Last weekend I smoked using Hickory splits. I got the temprature to maintain pretty good, but my brisket was a bit smokey in the lean part...

Hey all. I am new to the form but not smoking/bbq. I have been smokin since my wife and I bought our first house 15 years ago, using a Brinkman bullet. I wont lie those were some dismal times. I finally got ok at it but the wife had something on standby. I went through various grills, but about...