Recent content by greechneb

Thought I'd show the process of making a little batch of homemade charcoal. I didn't get any pictures of the beginning, but its pretty easy to explain. Take a paint can (thoroughly cleaned) and fill it full with scraps of wood, then tightly put the lid on. Punch some vent holes in the sides (two...

Looks great. I shouldn't browse the forums before lunch. You're making me hungry!

I'd estimate the lid it will be around 20 pounds or maybe more by the time I am done. My wife won't be picking it up, that's for sure. I finally had time to get back to working on the smoker. I ran out to our stockpile of lumber, and grabbed some 2" white oak. We had several acres cut down and...

My daughter had soccer practice last night, so I didn't have much time to really work on the smoker. I bought a couple of 1" strips of steel And welded around the lid to make my overlapping joint I have some minor fit problems from this because when I welded my ring on the inside, the...

So today, a package arrived, and it was my new grill grates. Here they are sitting on top of my weber to show you a comparison of sizes. So after I cut the top off in the last installment, the barrel was a little floppy on the open end. Fortunately when we bought our house, we had a big...

Not much progress, but I spent about 15 minutes on it tonight, and made the first cut. I started out by marking out the lid: About 10 minutes of cutting, and voila she's topless! I dumped out around 3 gallons of rust and dirt. Suprisingly, there was still shiny metal on part of the...

I've been smoking with a Char-Griller smoking pro smoker for several years now. I modded it up, and it gets decent performance, the only real downside is having to baby sit the thing. Every hour adding charcoal, fighting with temps, I get tired of messing with it. A few months ago, my dad was...

We're cleaning out junk piles and we have a 500 gallon fuel tank that hasn't been used in over ten years. Roughly 40" in diameter and 60" long. Asking $50 or so. Its rusty but no fuel smell anymore. Ill have pictures later tonight. If it isn't taken its going for scrap soon. I hate to see it go...

Must not be far from me then. I'm about 40 miles south of Springfield.

His show is sponsored by Weber, so I assume he probably uses Weber products as much as possible. He's probably like a lot of us too, and has his comfort zones when it comes to grills.

I have always liked the dark meat, and disliked the white meat because it gets to dry. A few years ago I was prepping the turkey, and saw my injector sitting in the drawer, and decided to inject. Looking around (On Thanksgiving when the stores were closed) I melted some butter (everything's...

I'm roughly 45 miles south of you on route 4.

Last year he chased me, and caught me. Fortunately when he caught me he didn't know what to do, and stopped. We were trying to move him to another pasture, and he decided he didn't want to go. I met him on top of a hill, and he chased me down the hill. I made record speed, but when I got to the...

So here's the pictures. Interesting story on the stove, about 10 years ago, a local hardware store was selling out, and dad was talking to one of the part-owners, and mentioned heating with wood stoves (dad does not have a furnace in the house, only wood heat for nearly 35 years). They said do...