Building a smoker

[shanemill02]

Ive been looking at smoker designs and think im going to try and build a dbl offset as to where i can achieve a more even smoke with smoke entering from both sides of smoker. maybe add dampers for even more control. Any thoughts good or bad would be welcome

 

[sxfxz]

I feel the fire boxes would battle each other with draft, but maybe not. The "smoke" would be even front to back no matter what even with a single firebox the biggest thing is temperatures which if built right you should be able to maintain good temps even with a single fire box. My cook chamber is 15 feet long and is only 25 degrees off from one end to the next. I wouldn't go that complicated, but that's just me.

 

[shanemill02]

How big is your firebox?

 

[sxfxz]

It is a 41" diameter 500 gallon tank (3/8" wall, old school) cut in half, which is 1/4 of the cook chamber. Bigger than anybody else uses, but I think it might be to my advantage. I would have to try cooking on one with a smaller firebox to see the difference.

http://s10.photobucket.com/user/SxFxZ/media/8E33C6A5-D442-4B66-A6B1-D97F9AE2C044.jpg.html
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/SxFxZ/media/3D3C09A2-9B20-4431-BF5E-08A3140C4E2F.jpg.html

 

[sxfxz]

How big are you going? Small? Big?

 

[shanemill02]

Im thinking smaller. but posible to divide and make it two chamber. So i can smoke two different meats at different temps and different wood if wanted. Ive been into steel work for 20+ years so building it is no problem. Make it to where i can insert or remove a sealed divider. But it may not work.lol

 

[shanemill02]

Thats big lol

 

[sxfxz]

If you wanted to do a fire box on each end then yeah I would think divide the middle and have 2 smoke stacks one for each chamber. I would like to do a 2 500 gallon tank setup for that purpose.

http://s10.photobucket.com/user/SxFxZ/media/573147E9-8BC2-4703-85C5-215A25A2C2F7.jpg.html

 

[shanemill02]

Ya thats what im thinking