Cooking pork ribs over fire and splitting wood

[motolife313]

Getting better at this. Been Raising my cooking grate up a little so I can have a bigger fire going. These took 5 hours today and could get my temp gauge to work I don't think. The gauge read as high as only about 185 and the ribs looked like this. Figured the gauge was not telling the truth

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• motolife313
• Jul 30, 2017

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• motolife313
• Jul 30, 2017

this is the most done I've got my ribs so far. Didn't put any BBQ on either because I didn't have any. Put the in foil after 3 hours for about 1.5 hours

 

[motolife313]

Here's the log spliter. All custom made

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• motolife313
• Jul 30, 2017

it used to have a predator 6.5 hp motor but it wasn't enough power even geard 10-1. I build it up but i decided to get a 11 hp Honda gx340.

 

[motolife313]

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• motolife313
• Jul 30, 2017

 

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• motolife313
• Jul 30, 2017

heres the removable handles

 

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• motolife313
• Jul 30, 2017

this is with the 120$ HF motor. It would die with this motor on though pieces and I need to take the chain off and struggle to turn it the other direction. Lol

 

[SmokinAl]

Your ribs look fantastic!

Nice job on the log splitter!

Al

 

[motolife313]

Thanks for the kind words Al! Are the ribs bones visible from the top before 195-200 often? U could see bones pulling on the backside. Thought I posted this few days ago sorry

 

[motolife313]

Made some ribs again today. Baby back pork. Brined them last night for about 4-5 hours then rub and let sit on cooking plate in fridge over night. Started the fire with cherry to get good coal base then cooked with all plum that I took down the whole tree myself.

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• motolife313
• Aug 6, 2017

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• Aug 6, 2017

 

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• motolife313
• Aug 6, 2017

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• motolife313
• Aug 6, 2017

cooked it for 6 hours today. 1 hour in foil. Try the temp gauge and it's working. Got these ribs up to about 190. Less in the meaty side. But I'm learning that these ribs take a while even if the bones are pulling and looking done. These were my most tender so far but didn't like the peach flavor Arizona I was keeping it moist with. And I diluted it about 25$ water because it was way to fruity to drink

 

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• motolife313
• Aug 6, 2017

all done here. And split my oak today.

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• motolife313
• Aug 6, 2017

this oak is crazy strong

 

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• motolife313
• Aug 6, 2017

my screw spliter won't split this oak and neither could I until I tried the 8lb mall today

 

[b-one]

Tasty looking ribs, you may want to work out a rotisserie setup for them.