My traeger/Oklahoma Joe pellet burner!

  • Some of the links on this forum allow SMF, at no cost to you, to earn a small commission when you click through and make a purchase. Let me know if you have any questions about this.
SMF is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

thesmokist

Smoking Fanatic
Original poster
Oct 5, 2014
305
71
Lafayette IN
I havent posted on here in awhile so I thought I'd share what I'm up to! I wanted to make the switch to pellets but I didnt wanna spend $500 cause I'm cheap and I just bought a house. So I looked on Ebay and found this brand new traeger hopper for real cheap and decided to take the firebox off my Oklahoma Joe highland and put the hopper on it! It actually went on pretty easy but I had to move the controller to other side. Now I just had to get a sheet of metal and form my drip pan. And I'm going to make the hopper deeper and it didnt come with a lid so I have to make that also. I should have it finished up tomorrow and I'm gonna do a cook and I'll post up how it went!
 

Attachments

  • 15581243967026669047772846398233.jpg
    15581243967026669047772846398233.jpg
    176.8 KB · Views: 515
i like your build its a verry good idea. i got a traeger timberline 1300 whole hopper assembly for 100 i think i am going to try this. can you post some pics of how the burn pot looks inside and the cut out to get the hopper assembly in? tia
 
i like your build its a verry good idea. i got a traeger timberline 1300 whole hopper assembly for 100 i think i am going to try this. can you post some pics of how the burn pot looks inside and the cut out to get the hopper assembly in? tia
Yeah I'll get some pics in a bit and post them
 
i like your build its a verry good idea. i got a traeger timberline 1300 whole hopper assembly for 100 i think i am going to try this. can you post some pics of how the burn pot looks inside and the cut out to get the hopper assembly in? tia
Here how it looks inside. I only had to drill a couple holes. Sorry it rained an stormed yesterday so I couldnt get the pics then.
 

Attachments

  • 20190520_152625.jpg
    20190520_152625.jpg
    148.5 KB · Views: 490
Really great idea, but I have an observation..... I think you should make a sub plate to space the assembles a little bit farther outside. You can see a flange around the tunnel, maybe 1/2" from the hopper body. I would imagine that 1/2" gap should be there, on the outside of the grill, to isolate the hopper from the cook chamber.
 
Really great idea, but I have an observation..... I think you should make a sub plate to space the assembles a little bit farther outside. You can see a flange around the tunnel, maybe 1/2" from the hopper body. I would imagine that 1/2" gap should be there, on the outside of the grill, to isolate the hopper from the cook chamber.
It's fine like that. Heres another pic of it before I put it on. Theres a space between the hopper and the flange.
 

Attachments

  • Resized_20190517_130118.jpeg
    Resized_20190517_130118.jpeg
    111.9 KB · Views: 423
I did some pork belly burnt ends on the ok Joe the other day that turned out good but I had the controller thermometer screwed to the wall of the smoker on the hopper end and it was giving a way higher reading than grate level so I took it off and stuck it through a potato on put it on the grate and it's running much better! I got the smoke therm in there just to gauge it. I just threw in some baby back with some traeger hickory pellets and we'll see how it does! Heres a good rub I found at GFS. It has a great flavor and isn't salty. It's my go to. No complaints from anyone! I'll keep the updates comin!
 

Attachments

  • 20190522_125818.jpg
    20190522_125818.jpg
    184.2 KB · Views: 376
  • 20190522_125634.jpg
    20190522_125634.jpg
    102.1 KB · Views: 342
SmokingMeatForums.com is reader supported and as an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

Latest posts

Hot Threads

Clicky