Test run on my home built cold smoker

[West coast island smoker]

have not being on site for some time due to the fact I finally got my smoker out of my garage and in place outside in yard. I'm doing a couple test runs before I try with my fish. I'm going to be putting in my first run tomorrow morning , so should know pretty soon if I have waisted a lot of time building a smoker. I will post a few pictures and a short video. Please feel free to comment, and I will update on my first run.

 

[daveomak]

Beautiful job on the smoker.... The hinges are killer.... Did you make them ?????
Lets see the smoker in operation...

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[DocSteve]

That is a great looking smoker.

 

[gmc2003]

Nice job on that build. Looks like it will put out many a good smokes.

Chris

 

[Bigtank]

Holy Cow! That's beautiful! What kind of wood did you use? Your wood working skills are amazing.

 

[weedeater]

Wow! That is a great looking smoker. Can’t wait to hear about its inaugural run.

Weedeater

 

[ravenclan]

That is great !!!! One heck of a smoker and one heck of a build!!

 

[SmokinAl]

That is a fine looking smoker!
Al

 

[West coast island smoker]

Beautiful job on the smoker.... The hinges are killer.... Did you make them ?????
Lets see the smoker in operation... View attachment 386662 ....

Yes made the hinges myself, tried to send a video but was having problems, smoker is running now with three spring salmon that I caught in summer. Will take a video of it and send out tonight.

 

[Winterrider]

Wow, excellent work. That is a thing of beauty.

 

[West coast island smoker]

Beautiful job on the smoker.... The hinges are killer.... Did you make them ?????
Lets see the smoker in operation... View attachment 386662 ....

Yes made the hinges myself, tried to send a video but was having problems, smoker is running now with three spring salmon that I caught in summer. Will take a video of it and send out tonight.

 

[West coast island smoker]

Holy Cow! That's beautiful! What kind of wood did you use? Your wood working skills are amazing.

Western red cedar , timber was from my property, friend milled it for me , and the rest is what you see .

 

[West coast island smoker]

That is great !!!! One heck of a smoker and one heck of a build!!

Thank you , I hope it works as good as it looks. It's smoking my first run of spring salmon now , so we will soon know, thanks again for your comments.

 

[dernektambura]

sir, that smoker is work of art of meat smoking true beleiver.. my hat off to you ..

 

[DocSteve]

View attachment 386657 View attachment 386658 View attachment 386659 View attachment 386660 View attachment 386661 have not being on site for some time due to the fact I finally got my smoker out of my garage and in place outside in yard. I'm doing a couple test runs before I try with my fish. I'm going to be putting in my first run tomorrow morning , so should know pretty soon if I have waisted a lot of time building a smoker. I will post a few pictures and a short video. Please feel free to comment, and I will update on my first run.

You should sell them. Im sure plenty of people would part w/ $ for one of those.

 

[DocSteve]

View attachment 386657 View attachment 386658 View attachment 386659 View attachment 386660 View attachment 386661 have not being on site for some time due to the fact I finally got my smoker out of my garage and in place outside in yard. I'm doing a couple test runs before I try with my fish. I'm going to be putting in my first run tomorrow morning , so should know pretty soon if I have waisted a lot of time building a smoker. I will post a few pictures and a short video. Please feel free to comment, and I will update on my first run.

Just curious, could you give an estimate on cost invested?

 

[dernektambura]

DocSteve I agree. ..he should sell them... beautiful design...

 

[West coast island smoker]

Thanks for your comments, I've being on a almost non stop smoking for the last three days , being fun where having quite the weather . Between the 50 mile hour winds, the snow and consistent lower temperatures for us it's being a good test for the smoker and getting the consistent heat that you want, but all seems to be working well. For the cost of the smoker, hard to put a number to it, material wise other than the lumber which was my own from property, and no cost to mill it, I would say $1500.00 in material only. Cost of materials where I live is high compared to the U.S. Labor that's other thing, way to many hours spent, Im sure it would go quicker the second time, but not in a rush to start other one yet. Thanks again for your guys post, enjoy!!!

 

[West coast island smoker]

Beautiful job on the smoker.... The hinges are killer.... Did you make them ?????
Lets see the smoker in operation... View attachment 386662 ....

In all the pictures the smoker is running. The last picture was about 1/2 hour ago where I dug path out to it. Right now there are 15 sockeye salmon in it running a cold smoke. The other pictures of the fish was after a hot smoke. Would send video but I can't seem to download it. Hope you enjoy the pictures as I'm enjoying smoking finally. Thanks!!

 

[daveomak]

Beautiful pictures.... The fish looks very much worth eating.... Wish I was there..