When I used to smoke a lot I would drive around town on the weekends in the early spring and watch for people pruning their trees. You'd be surprised how much wood you can get on one nice weekend. Filled my truck up two or three times a day with all kinds of fruit woods and various hard woods.

thats a pretty nice build, I am trying to design mine now, going to have simular to what you have except maybe a tiny bit longer (not much) in a reverse flow but the exhaust is going to enter a verticle chamber above the fire box and I am trying to figure out a way to either take the heat from the fire box through the horazontle and then into the verticle so I can cold smoke, or a bypass system to go strait to the verticle so I can hot smoke in it to.

Steve

LOL I kind of figured you were talking about the wood chunks and stuff but I had to put it out there because of the previous comment. My parents use to use an old all steel refrigerator with a small hole in the top corner and a hibachi in the bottom. They could do up about 90 pounds of fish at a time. Manitoba gold eye is my favorite fish, salmon and trout are a close second and third. As for meet bacon deer jerky is great if you have the right recipe for deer sausage they are also yummy. you can do alsorts of very yummy stuff in a smoker. Hams are nothing like you get in the stores I have seen people even do eggs, not my choice.

Bill

How about this: open the attachment on the pipe going to the second smoker box you need a damper this will controle the temp. The further you are away from the burn box the cooler the smoke will be. A damper will keep more heat in the first smoker box. Its kind of like putting a bend in a heating duct for every bend you add 5 feet of pipe a damper gives you 2 bends in away.

Bill

I'm into smoking, just not meat... my smokables are more green in color :lol:.

this is a quick sketch of what I am thinking, there will be a damper at "A" and "B " and possibly another stack at "B" if I decide it would be better to have one there.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/s.l.s/smoker.jpg



Steve

If you have a hot pipe to c then it will not be a cold smoker it will again be a hot smoker. What I was thinking is you can have a hot smoker and a cold smoker in one. To achieve a cold smoker you can not have direct heat . So if you removed the pipe from a to c then you would have a cold smoker, the further away from the originating heat the better..
Bill

I buy a small pork shoulder from a farmers market. The lowest I can get my barbecue down to is 250. If I could get it down to 200 I would cook it longer.
I'm a little wary of barbecuing too much (as in getting a full-on smoker) because I'm told that it can really attract bears around my area.

Mitch

When's the BBQ? Me and my new bike will be sure to show up.

http://files.meetup.com/444077/BBQ%20bike.jpg

the hot pipe going up will have a damper in it to shut it off, in the picture it looks like it is short and goes strait up but I will come off the back of the burn box and loop up so I could have two dampers if I wanted and a little longer of a pipe. I am also looking at insulating the bottom of the verticle chamber. for cold smokin I would configure it so it goes through the side into the main body, goes to the end, then back over the top into the other section. I still need to be able to get up to 225 in the verticle section for when I do sausages, but I also need to be able to get down to 90 degrees also for doing cheese and other cold smoked stuff.

Steve