Hello

[daveyhunter]

This is the first time I have been here don't know if I am doing this right but here goes I am building a smoker just want to know what everyone thinks if I am doing this right or not, Fist time for smoking also. I can use gas and wood or just gas or just wood. Thanks

Dave

 

[jlloyd99]

Howdy Dave and welcome to SFM. Looks like you've got yourself a nice unit there and versitile to boot. You'll find that this is a great place to learn the art of smoking, everyone here love to share their advice.

 

[daveyhunter]

Daveyhunter Thanks for responding to my post. I made the unit out of a stailess steel water trough cut one end out of it, stood it on end put shelves in it ,built a wood frame around it then insulated and then cased it in metal I took off of an old walkin cooler the door I took 2 smaller cooler doors and put them together to make it fit had to use what I had available the fire pit I had a piece of 1' dia. steel pipe and I put door on one end for wood fire and where the pipe enters the unit I cut a place for a small door for gas burner on top of burner is place for pot to sit for wood chips or what ever else sawdust if I want to use gas. put a damper in chimney and a slide damper in fire pit door. I will try it out this week end again thanks for looking

 

[Dutch]

Welcome Daveyhunter, glad you found our corner of the smoking world.
With your unit you have the best of both worlds~gas and wood. Gas for when you don't have the time to tend a fire and Wood for when you do. Looking forward to hearing of your adventures using this smoker. BTW We like pictures-lot of pictures-especially pictures of food. :D

 

[daveyhunter]

Thank you very much for the welcome you might get tired of listening to me again thanks

 

[bekellog81]

Hey Davey,
I wanted to welcome to the SMf. I think that the smoker looks great. I think that you are going the right direction with being able to use two fuel sources. I personally have not used any gas to smoke with but, I can see the advantage to it. Especially when you don't really have time to tend the fire. Keep us posted!!!!!!

 

[daveyhunter]

Boy I tell you the people here are sure great thank you very much for the encouragement, I will let everyone know how things are going when I fire it up :D Again Thank you

Dave