Recent content by granger

I had a pretty good idea of how to build one but with the amount of time and material that goes into building one of these I chickened out and bought the plans, as far as the grate size I'd have to measure it I don't remember the dimensions. I can tell you these things are amazing, I've had...

Been away for awhile but wanted to update this thread, I completed this build back in June. I cooked 120# of butts for my son's graduation party, another 120# for a friends party and more for my neighbors. I couldn't be happier with this thing it works flawlessly.

1/2" plate for the fire box is best for longevity but 1/4" will work, not sure which pipe you are referring to but if it's the pipe on my old smoker that was a supplemental smoke chamber. Good luck with your build and most of all have fun.

Made a little more progress

Made a little progress yesterday, this smoker will be replacing my old faithful I built a few years ago

Been collecting parts and pieces and finally started building last weekend.

Looks tasty, job well done!

Thanks CrankyBuzzard and b-one , hopefully I'll have some Q pics to share soon.

I think the "she ain't purdy but she can cook" saying fits this girl, I've been tinkering with this build for quite some time and had I visited this site sooner I would have saved myself some grief. She started out as a charcoal/wood chunk build that's temp was controlled by dampers shown but...

I converted my homebuilt charcoal/wood chunk smoker to propane recently and had trouble with maintaining temperature when my wood chunks caught on fire, after some serious head scratching I found a solution which I think is going to work very well.

Pleased to meet you! My name is Tim and I reside in northern Indiana. I'm a husband of 28 years, a father to a daughter who is a sophomore in college, a father to a son who is a senior in high school that keeps me busy with his motocross racing. I am a welder by trade and decided I wanted to...