Thank you for allowing me to join this treasure trove of information. My name is Jim and I am a welder/fabricator in the heavy highway construction industry. The Smoker bug bit me about 35 years ago when I was a apprentice welder. During the slow times of winter the president of the construction company I was with cooked up my first taste of Smoked meat and I was hooked. We would build small patio offset cookers for his customers. We had no rhyme or reason to how we built them, we just wanted them to look good. I was gifted one when my apprenticeship was finished and it has all snowballed from there. My children have been gone from the nest for 10 years and I have found a renewed love for cooking with fire and it has inspired me to build a few custom pits for myself and family.
Thank you again.
Greetings from Tornado Alley
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Jim.tucker
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Chromeski
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
Welcome sounds like you have the metal working/fabrication part covered. Use the calculator on this site and then you know the pit will work.
What you planning to build first?
What you planning to build first?
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Pete Mazz
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
Welcome
If it's tourist season, how come I can't shoot 'em?
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Don't speak the language? Try this: Smoker Terminology
Try my SmokerBuilder Calculators
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mp4
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Jim.tucker
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
Thank you, I have a medium rectangular reverse flow that I started 8 years ago. The cooking chamber is a 36 x 36 x 24. I’m still trying to decide if I want to put it on a small trailer or just have a patio smoker.
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ajfoxy
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
Welcome to the crew.
Learning generally boils down to "Repetition or the avoidance of pain", some people learn by doing, some by watching and some just have to pee on the electric fence.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford
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Dirtytires
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
A lot of good information here to help you build the best one yet.
Welcome and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Welcome and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Big T
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Jim.tucker
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
Thank you sir. I am currently finishing the firebox. I will post some pictures when it is finished.Dirtytires wrote: ↑April 28th, 2019, 11:27 amA lot of good information here to help you build the best one yet.
Welcome and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Chromeski
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Re: Greetings from Tornado Alley
Jim.tucker wrote: ↑April 27th, 2019, 7:58 amThank you, I have a medium rectangular reverse flow that I started 8 years ago. The cooking chamber is a 36 x 36 x 24. I’m still trying to decide if I want to put it on a small trailer or just have a patio smoker.
Either way works. A smoker that size will be heavy, but if u don't need to move it then I guess u don't need a trailer