Feasibility of adding offset firebox to trailer cooker

[scvinegarpepper]

I've got a custom built steel trailer cooker that is propane only. I've been considering options to add a smoke component. But I'm unsure of the logistics of offset smokers, and if there is anything I need to know or to consider. Or, is it as simple as getting a welder to cut a hole in one side of the cooker, and weld on an offset smoke box? My main reason for this is whole hog cooks. We currently do about one a year, on a cinder block pit, with all oak wood. It's great, but it's a lot of work, and if I could cook with wood on my big trailer cooker, it would be much easier. Thoughts?

 

[SmokinEdge]

Anything is doable, but you might consider just adding a good smoke generator to your existing pit. That way you have the easy heat from gas and wood smoke from pellets and or wood chips. I run a Bella generator in my big propane smokehouse and really like the set up.

 

[scvinegarpepper]

Anything is doable, but you might consider just adding a good smoke generator to your existing pit. That way you have the easy heat from gas and wood smoke from pellets and or wood chips. I run a Bella generator in my big propane smokehouse and really like the set up.

Great points. Can you give me anymore info on your setup, or do you have a picture of it? I'm mostly curious on how you pipe it into your setup, and how much smoke flavor you get.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Great points. Can you give me anymore info on your setup, or do you have a picture of it? I'm mostly curious on how you pipe it into your setup, and how much smoke flavor you get.

Here is a link to the one have. The page has videos too.

https://www.smokin-it.com/product-p/bsmkgen2.htm


Lots of different options out there to. Can also build your own with just a little research.

 

[BigW.]

You could also use a pellet smoke tube. A-MAZE-N is the official name brand, but there are others.

 

[scvinegarpepper]

You could also use a pellet smoke tube. A-MAZE-N is the official name brand, but there are others.

I've got an a-maze-n tube that I use to supplement smoke in my pellet cooker. But it is far too small for this cooker. I can easily fit a 100 lb. whole hog split on this cooker, so it's a large chamber.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Great points. Can you give me anymore info on your setup, or do you have a picture of it? I'm mostly curious on how you pipe it into your setup, and how much smoke flavor you get.

Here is another option supposed to be for larger smokers.

https://smokedaddyinc.com/product/magnum-p-i-g-cold-smoke-generator/


The Bella I first linked to makes very nice smoked cure meats my smokehouse main meat chamber is 3’x3’x4’ but I really don’t bbq in that smokehouse (it’s wooden framed) They do also make a larger unit as well.