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    My first...

    It wasn't terribly expensive. I did go over budget since the input I got from my wife said that it must be "cute, not ugly". She seems pleased, since I'm not in trouble. I think it would have gone much faster if I had more experience with framing. I'll add some more pics later tonight, after I...
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    My first...

    The build was fairly straight forward, my skills are pretty basic. I do have more pictures of the build I can post if you are interested.
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    My first...

    So here are are a couple of pictures from my first smoke. The first is about halfway through a six hour smoke. I freely admit that those might just be the ugliest links ever. It was an interesting exercise getting the ground meat into the casings. Grandma worked the stuffer. Here is the...
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    My first...

    I used an old grill to hold the fire. Turns out that works pretty well. I hung the sausage from racks at the top.
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    My first...

    Thank you. It was an awful lot of fun to build. It's been a long time since I built anything from the ground up. It turns out that I wasn't quite as rusty as I feared.
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    My first...

    Hi all, I'm new around here and just finished building my first ever smokehouse. I thought I'd put up a couple of pictures so my last four Saturdays (only day off) could be "immortalized". I'm going to take a stab at using this as a wood fired smokehouse. I'll see how it goes this up coming...
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    Small Smokehouse Build

    Wow! That looks great. Very nice work! (It's nice to know that I've not been the only lurker around these parts )
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    Howdy everyone!

    Thank you both for the kind welcome! This Saturday will be the first run of sausage. Fingers crossed!
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