Brinkmanns first smoke

[philpom]

Finally got around to tossing some meat on the never used brinkmann smoker I found at an estate sale. Just a charcoal fire with some big chunks of oak in it. This is a well behaved smoker.

Beef sausage and hot links.

 

[TimboBBQ!]

Finally got around to tossing some meat on the never used brinkmann smoker I found at an estate sale. Just a charcoal fire with some big chunks of oak in it. This is a well behaved smoker.

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Beef sausage and hot links.

I will take three of each!

 

[normanaj]

That's when they were well made.

 

[philpom]

That's when they were well made.

It is quite a tank. Not at all like the sheet metal smokers you find in the box stores today.

 

[philpom]

Got the new "really old" Brinkmann smoker moved up to the other home where it will live out its days right next to the old "newer but still old" Brinkmann just in time for Thanksgiving. Was an interesting contrast.

We had all the standard fair, it was a great week.

I have some steel truses and legs laying around and plan to build a dedicated smoking shelter next year over near the fire pit. Just need to get caught up on some honey do's first!

 

[civilsmoker]

Nice on the new smoke and that's like camping at its best right in the back yard!! Very nice!

 

[philpom]

Nice on the new smoke and that's like camping at its best right in the back yard!! Very nice!

Wr spend less than 2 months a year up there, I hate the last day every time. This is the front yard, we are at the end of the power line, actually brought the power in I'm guessing about 9 years ago. Nearly 20 years ago it was raw land and we would literally tent camp up there. After a few years of that we decided to build. Just a little 2 story cabin with a large screened porch off the back. It sets on the edge of the ridge so you feel like you are up in the trees. 105' to the bottom. I drink coffee back there in the early morning and watch the deer walk through.

We are about 90% forest, the drive is nearly 1/4 mile long through the forest to the houae. That's off a private road. We own all of that frontage plus the frontage on the county dirt road. We are 20 minutes from pavement. Only 3 times in 20 years has anyone showed up uninvited. 1 was a new neighbor that wanted to introduce himself, 1 was another new neighbor that wanted to negotiate access down my drive to the back of his property, and 1 was a hunter trying to find access to the 400 acres behind us.

True isolation, in a few years we'll sell our home in Texas and build something larger up there and transition full time.