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  1. rodgedaddy

    Strting a Backwoods clone build - looking for a little support and experience

    Hello all.  I'm finally starting my smoker build!  Got the steel for the structure.  Will get the sheet steel when I am ready.  I've modified the plans based on some Backwoods clone plans I downloaded from this site.  It will be a built-in model in my backyard.  I am sizing it with an extra...
  2. rodgedaddy

    Hey Wes

    Cool Wes, Thanks for the response.  I have weathered some northeast winters before, and I don't think I want to do it again, so I'll pass on swapping weather with ya. I am a civil engineer with some pretty good resources on the structural end so that shouldn't be a problem.  Where I an lacking...
  3. rodgedaddy

    Hey Wes

    Wes, Greetings from Santa Maria on the California Central Coast.  I live in what I call a climate controlled climate.  Room Temp. plus or minus 20 degrees year round, can't complain. Enough bragging about the climate I call home, and on to the Brick Smokers.  I am working on a plan for an...
  4. rodgedaddy

    Working on some plans. Looking for some concept advice.

    Thanks Len, This looks like a cool project.  Wes is right in saying that there is not a lot on the Web when it comes to smokers built of brick, and I have not seen anything about a reverse flow with a brick structure.  Everything that I have seen made out of brick is more direct heat.  It makes...
  5. rodgedaddy

    Working on some plans. Looking for some concept advice.

    Hey all.  I'm working on some plans for an out door kitchen that will include a reverse flow smoker.  Some obvious pieces like the deflector plate, doors, and structural frame I plan on making out of steel, however I'm thinking that most of the structure will be made out of brick and concrete. ...
  6. rodgedaddy

    Greetings from Santa Maria

    Hello all.  I have been a member for a while but haven't check in in a while.  So I figured I would hit the roll call to to reintroduce myself.  Especially since I will likely be hitting up the forum quit a bit in the near future for advice on a brick and mortar reverse flow that I am working up...
  7. rodgedaddy

    Tri Tip Prices

    Here in Santa Maria you can sometimes catch a supermarket with a standard cut interim mend for under $3 a pound. Typically it is in the $4 range for regular quality untrimmed. I usually pay a little extra from my butcher for good certified angus with the fat trimmed and pay $6.99 a pound. Most...
  8. rodgedaddy

    New Built-in smoker build/design - Looking for some advice.

    Thanks for the information Dave. I will look into the different temp control products. I like the idea of an RF and will probably go in that direction. I will post drawings when I start really working on it.
  9. rodgedaddy

    New Built-in smoker build/design - Looking for some advice.

    Dave, sorry for the wordy nonspecific question. Let me try again. I'm in the early planning stages of building a smoker as part of an out door kitchen for entertaining. Basically I want an outdoor oven with smoke. Something that I can set a few logs burning in, set the temp, and not have to...
  10. rodgedaddy

    Hello from Santa Maria, CA

    Chef Willie, I do like the pinquito beans, with my tri-tip. If your son is rolling through town and wants to pick some up, strangely the best place I have found to get them is Von's Supermarket. The one on Broadway. Most other places don't have them.
  11. rodgedaddy

    New Built-in smoker build/design - Looking for some advice.

    Hey guys.  I am looking at starting to design an outdoor kitchen complete with a Santa Maria Style BBQ grill (Open Pit), maybe a natural gas slide in grill, a wood fired pizza oven, and of course a smoker.  I am a civil engineer and I have a AutoCadd program, so I plan on doing a pretty detailed...
  12. rodgedaddy

    Hello from Santa Maria, CA

    Hey guys, I have been a member for a while, but haven't really posted anything lately.  I have a few questions to ask about a smoker design that I am thinking about starting t owork on so I figure I would reintroduce myself. I live in Santa Maria California.  I have been using a Smoke Hollow...
  13. rodgedaddy

    New build, never smoked before, looking for input.

    Thanks for the reply. Took a look at the link.  Very nice build. Since reading up a little more on the different types of smokers, I have decided to build a RF smoker, with the ability to be a Santa Maria style grill as well. I am going to split the pipe, build 10" high walls around the...
  14. rodgedaddy

    Greetings from the Central Coast

    Hello All.  My name is Rodger, and I am a Civil Engineer from Santa Maria California.  Santa Maria is famous for the open pit red oak BBQ, but I'm looking for a little variety.  Me and a buddy are putting together a new pit for my back yard.  It will work as a standard SM BBQ for oak wood, but...
  15. rodgedaddy

    New build, never smoked before, looking for input.

    I live in Santa Maria CA, where everything is grilled over an open red oak flame, with an adjustable rack, but I want some flexibility. I have a buddy helping me build a Santa Maria style grill only with a cover,  We are starting with a heavy gauge steel 20" pipe, and plan on using at a minimum...
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