Recent content by pirk56

Success as always, but can a brisket be too tender? It really wouldn't slice, it pulled like pork butt. Wasn't a drop left after the church lunch.

7 hrs into the smoke, about to wrap them up.

Tomorrow is National Back to Church Day and our church always puts on a big event to celebrate. I was tasked with smoking two briskets. I did things a little different that I usually do. 1st the church provided the briskets, so I wasn't able to spend time touching and bending and trying to find...

Naw I graduated from Tech, the pit was built in Kilgore, TX. I can get you in touch with the guys that built it. 

Just to update everyone, I took my pit to a good friend of mine that's a welder/pit builder. After his inspection he said that it's built like a tank, but the air intake on the smoke box was built wrong. They have the opening on top instead the bottom and instead of paying for a new door, he...

I hope these are clear enough, but the question (unless I'm not thinking of something) is not the function of the reverse flow, that works flawlessly. Smoke comes out of the fire box, under a removeable plate, up on the left side, travels around the meat and then out the stacks. Main cook...

It works just like that 2nd pic you posted, it has baffles under the grate

Yes that's correct, the lower hole comes from the fire box and top hole goes into the smoke box. Fire box & smoke box are connected but has a 1/4" thick plate in between.

Yea it does work as a reverse flow, under the meat over the meat & out

I had the pit built by a local group, they have made several pits, but by know means pit builders. It's build damn well. They had never built one with a hot box like mine and when I got there to check it out during Fab they already had the 1 stack on the main chambe. I wanted to be able to smoke...