Recent content by silcozot

Hi guys, well it's been a few years since my build and I am going to my first amateur competition in a few weeks. So I have dropped in to get so rub ideas and thought I would post a few pictures of my finished smoker. It works well and pulls nice, 2,000# with brakes and led lights 

Hey that may still happen, so far I have not seen any "back draft" and the warming box is slow to get hot

O and thanks for the comments I do appreciate it, time will tell if it will perform. This weekend I'm taking another shot at ribs, :)

Ok so I thought if that chimney on the end would offer more control, and faster starts, time will tell, and it looks kinda cool . the 6" flue/pipe across the bottom seems to work well, I put a small baffle on an angle that I can slide front to back to allow heat to flow to the front better and...

Hey thanks guys, we got the smoker going this Saturday and all went really well! Smoker held the temp at 225 over 6 hours without to much playing around, I could keep the air intake on the firebox open about half way all afternoon. We used maybe 4 10" x 16" chunks of Maple split up and a...

Thanks Todd, I picked up a Plasma cutter after I cut the door out with a zip blade and a sawzall ( what a great new toy!)  I did use a laser level to mark out the cuts to the end of the tank . We will be trying it out on some ribs this Sat while I start on the trailer mods.

Test fire went well, I was surprised how little fire wood it required to hold the temp in the main chamber at 250 lower rack and at least 30 degress hotter at upper shelf, the warmer box got up to 185 after 3hrs or so. Now to get to work on the trailer my buddy donated to the project, here is...

TEST FIRE

That sounds like a good idea Spankerchief , I will try without and see what happens. Roller, I am a rebel I guess if it doesn't  work I will tweek till it does, I'm hoping to do a test fire this weekend just a few more things to do fire bricks grates and seal up the doors   I had the smoker...

Couple more pictures

So I have a couple more pictures

Then I could have more control ( sounds like the little woman ) Ha Ha and the warming box could also be a cookin box

Ok so I'm now thinking a 3rd chimney :) and more dampers

I was going to put in 2- 6" pipes but I ran out of pipe. if it is a problem it won't be that hard to add another or get rid of one! Do you think I need to put a damper on the holes into the warming/cooking box were my second chimney is? My thinking was the air intake on the fire box would be...