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  1. bigfork

    2nd build, smaller

    Greetings forum, so I did indeed add a second 2" stack of the same length. The first one was offset from center...I had the suspicion I'd need another. Now it's a double barrel stack which actually looks kinda cool! I like it. While I was at it, I cut a second 'air in' on the FB door...
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    2nd build, smaller

    Greetings Forum! Well my giant smoker kicks butt! See other build threads by myself (if interested...). The only negative is it's size. It will gobble 1.5 bags of bbq charcoal over the period of 7 hours. With a 10,048 cu in CC, I can feed a crowd of 5-10. It's amazing but crazy overkill...
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    Finally Finished (and a Que or Two)

    Thanks for the compliments folks! My first RF! I realized about halfway through this winter that this thing was going to be a pig...oversized for what I really need (wife, myself, and a 4 year old) but I was having so much fun making it :) The next one will have a CC the size of this one's...
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    Finally Finished (and a Que or Two)

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    Finally Finished (and a Que or Two)

    Greetings Forum Folks! My winter’s opus is complete! I started this 7 years ago by cutting the bottom off a couple of tanks…then it sat in the corner of the garage, moved once, had a kid, and other priorities. This last fall I decided to knock the dust off the old project and bring it to the...
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    Build Questions with a Reverse Flow

    Greetings Forum! Well it's been a while...like 5 years since I posted anything. Back then I was beginning a RF smoker, then moved, had a kid, got professional, and the partially done smoker sat in dusty pieces for the duration. In a fit of productivity and motivation, I dove back into the...
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    Begining a build

    Thanks for the advice! I decided to overlap the FB and CC in the typical elipse scribe relationship instead of the short stack idea previously mentioned.  My CC is retired water pressure tank whose walls are not the thickest.  I think the nestled FB will help with potential heat loss.  The...
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    Begining a build

    Hi there ya'll!  I've posted before about a UDS I built a while ago.  I love it...but now it's time for the RF!  I've been hitting up our local green malls (rural dumpster sites) and sourced a couple of main parts, the CC and FB.  I'd love to shoot the number out there and get an "ok" or a...
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    pics of my UDS and some Q view

    My UDS (nevermind the old generation one mtn bike...ha) It's a weed-burned-out barrel, 21" x 15 1/2" wide.  I cut the top off then skirted the lid with an old Woodmiser band-saw blade.  Tight seal.  Intake is via two  1/2" ball valves around the bottom and a 3/4" nipple.  Exhast is the...
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  15. bigfork

    Quick air flow Querry

    I'm going to tap another 3/4 pipe nipple in the back...no 90 return or ball valve...just a threaded cap.  I think this is going to fix my air-in problem. We'll see! thank for the tips, bigfork
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    Quick air flow Querry

    Hi there, Relatively new to the forum so I want to preemptively thank this community for its limitless supply of knowledge...wow!  So many questions have been answered just by perusing.  I've got a couple of quick ones.  First, my smoker (I know...I've got to post pics): --salvage barrel...
  17. bigfork

    greetings from Montana

    I hail from Bigfork, Montana.  I teach art (in addition to my own practice), build timber-frame homes, and then ski, climb, sail, hunt, and all other things a person can do in Northwest MT.  I recently (as of 2 years ago) got into smoking meat and have been learning through the school of hard...
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    greetings from Montana

    Hello there, Needless to say, I new to the forum but have been smoking for a couple of years.  I've always processed my own venison and have been slowly building my repertoire for wild meat recipes and procedures.  I built a small UDS out of a 20gal barrel a while back and love it!  I'll get...
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