Recent content by flatwacker

wow thats some good metal work and a good looking rig so far.  I do have a question tho. I am new to building my own smokers but I would like to know why you placed your fire box so high on the cooking chamber? 

just read threw your CasaQ. Pretty bad ass bring history back to life. last Few days I have been surfing craigslist look for a cast iron stove to use as my fire box. Also maybe ill get lucky and one of the scrap yards will get a 200-500 gallon propane tank in that I can use and pass on the...

cool. Yea I'm just south of Grants Pass in Rogue River. My grand parents use to live in Beaver Marsh just south of you when I was younger and I spent a lot of summers up there and camping at Diamond lake. Lost of lodgepole around there. What did you end up using for smoking?

Thanks for the insight guys. I'll give the powder coating shops a call tomorrow when they are open and find out a cost. I don't know what new ones go for but looking on the interwebs it looks like $100 a barrel. 

Thanks for the warm welcome DS and I have already posted up my first question haha. I'm down in the Rogue Valley what part of Oregon are you setting on?  I skimmed over your link and I like what I saw. I will be pulling from it in days to come. 

Hi guys,  I'm about to build my first smoker and am going to do it out of 3 55 gallon drums, I picked up some cheap used food storage drums for $10 a pop. the drums held glycerine. Its a simple polyol (sugar alcohol) compound. My worry is that after removing removing the tops I came to find out...

Hello, I'm a native Oregonian that move away from my home state in 2003 after joining the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. Most of my time in was spent in VA, and NC. In Or. my knowledge of BBQ was limited to burgers and dogs on a small grill. I didn't learn about real BBQ tell I was stationed at...