Greetings from Oregon!

[SunbearCrafts]

Hey y’all! Just stumbled on this page and am super happy I did!

I’m currently living in Springfield, Oregon, but am originally from Los Angeles and have lived in Utah and New Jersey as well!

Barbecue has ALWAYS been and always will be my absolute favorite food to eat, to cook, and to share and enjoy with others!

Wouldn’t consider myself a Newbie per se, but I’m definitely nowhere near “Pit-master” either.
I’ve spent a lot of time outdoors and learned how to cook over fire and build and maintain proper cooking fires when I was younger in a therapeutic wilderness survival program. Long story there, but it was CRUCUIAL in my love of over the fire cooking!

I now live in Oregon and have recently gotten my very first home and it amazing came with an above ground fire pit already in the yard and a beautiful garden plot too!

This is the current setup, looking for some help with making my ideas a reality in converting or adding on to this to have a nice smoking pit as well!
Thinking about either opening this on one side and building out a rectangular pit of the smoke to make it an overall “keyhole” kind of shaped structure with A hanging pulley system over to raise and lower the smoker grates and cover.
I have a lot of ideas in my head just need help making them a reality by turning to you all for help on making sure my design doesn’t just end up looking good, but functions just as great!

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

Welcome from Middle TN! I have no idea how you could convert that into a smoker. Smoking food needs some type of closed chamber with vents so the food will take on smoke. If it were me, I would buy a dedicated smoker, and use that pit for grilling, and a place to sit around a nice cozy fire. Hopefully someone with more experience on here can give you some pointers. Very nice pit btw!

 

[SunbearCrafts]

Welcome from Middle TN! I have no idea how you could convert that into a smoker. Smoking food needs some type of closed chamber with vents so the food will take on smoke. If it were me, I would buy a dedicated smoker, and use that pit for grilling, and a place to sit around a nice cozy fire. Hopefully someone with more experience on here can give you some pointers. Very nice pit btw!

Yes, that is exactly why I want to build an extension on/next to it that would be the smoker and this would be the grill/campfire

 

[HalfSmoked]

Welcome glad to have you on board. Take a look at my pit beef listed on the carousel will give you some idea.

Warren

 

[SunbearCrafts]

Welcome glad to have you on board. Take a look at my pit beef listed on the carousel will give you some idea.

Warren

Where can I take a look at that? Would love to!

 

[kruizer]

Welcome to SMF from Minnesota.

 

[JC in GB]

Welcome from Wisconsin.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Where can I take a look at that? Would love to!

Click on the photo on the carousel and it will take you to the post.
Also thanks for the like it is appreciated.

Warren

 

[SunbearCrafts]

Click on the photo on the carousel and it will take you to the post.
Also thanks for the like it is appreciated.

Warren

Pardon my ignorance but what’s the carousel?

 

[HalfSmoked]

When you go on the forum at the top of the page you have revolving photos of things some have done it changes all the time for new features.

Warren

 

[gmc2003]

Welcome to the site, glad to have ya join up.

Chris