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  1. jdt

    New to the forum - here is my smoker and my smoker guard dog

    holy megapixels, we got rassed once by a landowner who was having a jeep jamboree because his dog didn't come home for the three days we were down there smoking and wheelin, he must have had five lbs of scraps, fat and chicken skins LOL
  2. jdt

    Will this trailer do the job.

    a 250 gallon tank weighs 700 lbs on average, figure maybe another couple hundred in the firebox and grates and such, depending on the pop up they usually run 1500 to 4000 lbs total so you should be fine even if it was a smaller popup.  
  3. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

    I did not have a  dampner plate in mine, I was used to a classic ok joes just being open so that is what I wanted. After seeing several horizons and custom tuning plated offsets I decided it might be nice to have a more even temperature across the smoker, since my pit gets moved in and out of...
  4. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

    horizon puts them in the higher end pits, with a handle so you can slide it in and out, I may end up adding the handle later if I feel a need, the only reason I can think of is to crisp chicken but I think just a big fire and full intake will do that with the plate in place, only time will tell...
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  7. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

    another picture, for anyone thinking my wife would kill me don't worry thats the garage couch
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  9. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

    the old story about the blind sow finding a nut every now and then finally worked out for me, amazingly it worked great the first time out, took a little more to get to heat but not much if any extra to maintain, with a normal fire I was less than 5 degrees end to end,  two chucks and bacon...
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  11. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

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  14. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

    test fit firebox view, I ended up keeping about 1" overlap inside the pit
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  17. jdt

    Baffle and Convection plate

    when talking at the bar one night I mentioned to a kid from the neighborhood I grew up in (he is now 30 lol) that I was giong to mod my smoker with a baffle and some tuning plates or a convection plate, I told him I would rather go convection plate so its one piece etc, he said well figure out...
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