- Jul 21, 2012
- 3
- 10
I will try to give you a short introduction. I love food and my best buddy loves food too. He makes some awesome deer jerky and deer summer sausage. He has a small standup propane smoker that he is getting really good with. Every year in December, he has a big chicken stew for his wife's birthday. We get together and eat often. I am the propane grill cooker. I cook that way a lot (at home/church/other peoples shindigs).
About 3 weeks ago I went with my wife to her 10 year reunion. The guy cooking had an oval drum made into a 2 burner propane grill on a trailer (super nice). I told my buddy about it and then our minds starting turning and we decided to give it a go at a wood/charcoal grill/smoker/cooker.
We went to a cookout over at a guy's from church. He is a farmer boy and had an old fuel tank that he said we could have (nothing has been in it for about 9 years he said). He also gave us a rear end from an old Ford for us to build our trailer with but my buddy found us a trailer for $40 that we are going to mount it on.
This is what we are planning to do:
Barrel: It measures 5' 2” across (the barrel rounds on the end that pooches out an inch on each side) and 3' diameter. We are wanting to do a little less than a ¼ lid. We want to make the grate into 2 grates that we can pull out one at a time. We are going to add to the 2 existing pipes for the smoke stacks. We are thinking about doing a opening at both ends for adding wood/charcoal (2 questions: 1) should we do both sides or just one? 2) how big should we make the hole(s)?
Trailer: I have not measured it yet but I would say it is about 5x8. We are going to take off the old wood floor and put new wood down (to haul wood/coal/tools/etc and cooker). We would like to cut the end of the the trailer back some so with cooker would be sitting right above the axle (or would it be OK not to cut it and still put the cooker on the tail end?).
I will post pictures and give updates as we go. It may take us a little bit because of our different work schedules so bare with us. I'm sure that we will have questions and I know yall have the answers. Yall are the experts so advice is appreciated. We are not wealthy (yet) so the less we spend, the better but we don't want to half butt it either. We are not going to be in competitions with this thing we just love eating and cooking and we love others enjoying our food and hanging out with us! Thank again guys for all the help and suggestions!
For more pictures:
http://www.thesmokering.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59467
About 3 weeks ago I went with my wife to her 10 year reunion. The guy cooking had an oval drum made into a 2 burner propane grill on a trailer (super nice). I told my buddy about it and then our minds starting turning and we decided to give it a go at a wood/charcoal grill/smoker/cooker.
We went to a cookout over at a guy's from church. He is a farmer boy and had an old fuel tank that he said we could have (nothing has been in it for about 9 years he said). He also gave us a rear end from an old Ford for us to build our trailer with but my buddy found us a trailer for $40 that we are going to mount it on.
This is what we are planning to do:
Barrel: It measures 5' 2” across (the barrel rounds on the end that pooches out an inch on each side) and 3' diameter. We are wanting to do a little less than a ¼ lid. We want to make the grate into 2 grates that we can pull out one at a time. We are going to add to the 2 existing pipes for the smoke stacks. We are thinking about doing a opening at both ends for adding wood/charcoal (2 questions: 1) should we do both sides or just one? 2) how big should we make the hole(s)?
Trailer: I have not measured it yet but I would say it is about 5x8. We are going to take off the old wood floor and put new wood down (to haul wood/coal/tools/etc and cooker). We would like to cut the end of the the trailer back some so with cooker would be sitting right above the axle (or would it be OK not to cut it and still put the cooker on the tail end?).
I will post pictures and give updates as we go. It may take us a little bit because of our different work schedules so bare with us. I'm sure that we will have questions and I know yall have the answers. Yall are the experts so advice is appreciated. We are not wealthy (yet) so the less we spend, the better but we don't want to half butt it either. We are not going to be in competitions with this thing we just love eating and cooking and we love others enjoying our food and hanging out with us! Thank again guys for all the help and suggestions!
For more pictures:
http://www.thesmokering.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59467
