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  1. Creosote

    Curing/Aging splits

    I am having a grate made for the cooking chamber by a local welder and I need to find a heavy duty grate for the firebox and have to put a grease drain in it. It is 3/8th thick so I am gonna use it until I get my new one built and then probably sell this one. On the wood I already have split...
  2. Creosote

    Curing/Aging splits

    I have just gotten started smoking and actually haven't even gotten started. I am having a pit built and it looks like the it will be February before I get the new pit. I do have a smoker that was on the property when I bought the place and I can try some test runs with it but it only had a 2...
  3. Creosote

    Curing/Aging splits

    I am new to smoking and the forum and need info for dried wood. I cut firewood and use it at one year old for firewood but I also split it into small pieces. I just started splitting (white oak) some to cure for smoking and have the splits ranging from 3 or 4" by 6 to 10" and curious how long it...
  4. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    I have the thermo works smoke and that is why I was wondering if you had a probe port to prevent running the wires where the doors would lay on them. The probe port is installed on the left of the smoker in the picture. I installed it in this piece of garbage inherited with the property. It...
  5. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

  6. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    Displaced Texan, (TN Jake you can jump in here too) quick question on your 24 x 48. Do you have any smoke loss between the doors when they are closed and/or do you have a probe port on yours. I am having a probe port installed for a thermowork smoke and don't know if it will fit between the edge...
  7. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

  8. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    TNJake, Mr. Bell got back with me today and got the baby ordered. He is 60 days out and it's gonna cost me $1200.00 plus tax and that's with me picking it up. He is one heck of a nice guy and we went through everything on what I was looking for and his recommendations and he's got me fixed up. I...
  9. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

  10. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    Mr. Bell got back to me today and what we came up with is a 24 x 48 with a 20 x 20 firebox and made of 3/8th inch steel. After seeing the one TNJake has and Mr. Bell site, "Bell Fabrications" out of Tulsa photos it looks like he puts out a fantastic pit. It has two ports for Thermometers, a...
  11. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    Is yours 24" or 30" diameter and what diameter and length is your firebox. I called Mr. Bell yesterday and left a message and then emailed him this morning. Something else I am curious about, I see a lot of the smokers with a grease drain, important or not? I had no idea it was this tough just...
  12. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    I have been rethinking size and believe a 24 inch firebox at 16 to 18" long and a 24" by 48" cooking chamber. I looked at Feldon's guide and the 16" length on the firebox is 100% differential and the 18" length is 112.6% differential if that makes much of a difference. I would think going 48...
  13. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    The trees I cut range in 20 to 24 inch diameter so the heart would is easily large enough to take out as a split on its own. I dropped a 16" white oak yesterday and the heartwood center split out easily and was a good 2.5 to 3" diameter
  14. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    What is the largest you should go and still have a single lid. At 3/8th inch thick I just don't know how long the cook chamber could be and still manage a single lid, I would think it would be dang heavy. ??? 24" or maybe 30" diameter. I would like a 30" diameter but would a 36" long cooking...
  15. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    I live between Pittsburg and Gilmer in East Texas.
  16. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    I just have to figure out the size I need. It's just the wife and I so I won't be cooking much more than a brisket or a butt or two or a couple of racks of ribs at a time. Quick question on wood, I cut my own firewood and will have all the red oak and white oak I need readily available just have...
  17. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    Jake, I will definitely make the drive and pick it up to save the shipping. I think it's about 3 1/2-hour drive for me.
  18. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    Appreciate the info GolfPro and TNJake. I will give him a call and I looked at his site and what seems strange is the smoke stack is optional. TNJake , your smoker looks like a beast and I bet you can put a heck of a lot of meat on that thing. Don't know if I need 30" diameter or not, guess if I...
  19. Creosote

    Offset Smoker Recommendations

    I retired a couple of years ago and have always grilled but ready and wanting to learn to smoke good old BBQ. Just the wife and I and will only be cooking a brisket and ribs at a time and/or a couple of butts and chicken, pork loin etc. I definitely want a stick burner because I have access to...
  20. Creosote

    Newbie

    The place I bought in Pittsburg Texas had an old smoker made from 3/8th inch pipe with no top opening for the firebox, a 2 inch chimney (thus the name Creosote)(photo after adding to the chimney) with a 13 x 24 firebox and 24 by 31 cooking chamber and had been filled with honey bees. Not much of...
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