- Apr 23, 2011
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Hello all, I am new to the forums, long time reader first time posters. Great forums BTW!
My question is about keeping a good level of smoke without the wood catching fire too quickly. I have a fairly large pit with 24" barrel with 36" vertical and a 24"x24" offset firebox. I usually fire with lump coal and smoke with Pecan logs. The logs are cut around 12" to 16" in length. In most cases I add the logs as it into the firebox next to the burning coals. This will give me a maybe 30 to 45 minutes of smoke and then catch fire and give me a temp spike.
I am looking for any thoughts or recommendations form you guys around keeping a good smoke stream without catching fire and encountering high temp spikes.
I am thinking that a better way is to split the logs into either 2 or 4 splits and adding 1 or 2 splits to next to the coals. My thinking is that the smaller the wood the less of a heat spike I would encounter as it gets to combustion temp.
Thoughts?
Scott
My question is about keeping a good level of smoke without the wood catching fire too quickly. I have a fairly large pit with 24" barrel with 36" vertical and a 24"x24" offset firebox. I usually fire with lump coal and smoke with Pecan logs. The logs are cut around 12" to 16" in length. In most cases I add the logs as it into the firebox next to the burning coals. This will give me a maybe 30 to 45 minutes of smoke and then catch fire and give me a temp spike.
I am looking for any thoughts or recommendations form you guys around keeping a good smoke stream without catching fire and encountering high temp spikes.
I am thinking that a better way is to split the logs into either 2 or 4 splits and adding 1 or 2 splits to next to the coals. My thinking is that the smaller the wood the less of a heat spike I would encounter as it gets to combustion temp.
Thoughts?
Scott