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It's in the mid 90's and there isn't anything to hunt except squirrels....ticks are thick so I'll skip that. It's not done yet but I started a good size trailer smoker the other day in my shop. It's going to be an offset smoker/trailer when it grows up. I didn't take any pictures cutting the lid and welding on the seals and hinges but here I am putting the drawer glides in.    I am using two forklift propane bottles for the fire box. Here I am rolling the cylinder with a pipe wrench and marking a cut line with a sharpie.  Cut off the tops of the two cylinders    Weld the two together   This is the placement of the fire box   Slide out cooking grill  98 in the shade  There is still plenty to do I will update as I get along. ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | ||
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looks like very hot work, hope you have a cooler of beer back in the garage somewhere? | |||
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Hey Ted Nice looking work! If you drag that thing all the way out to elk camp your fuel mileage mileage is gonna suffer and you'll be so busy tending the meat you won't have time to pack my elk. I better come try it out at your place! Keep us updated with your progress. | |||
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Not sure what is wrong with the design, but 98 degrees will never cook anything. Put more coals in the firebox til you reach 215 or so. Great looking smoker in the makins it looks like to me. Don't limit your challenges . . . Challenge your limits | |||
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GREAT work! Looks good. At least you'll probably still have some Raton elk meat to smoke in it. All of mine is ruined because the freezer crapped out. No longer Bigasanelk | |||
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I will have so much stuff packed in my truck there's no chance that things making the trip. ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Hey Snellstrom, I think someone is putting in his application for camp cook. Whatcha think? Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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Very cool! It looks like someone is pretty handy around the cooker. It also looks like Snellstrom and Graybird are fixin to recruit you. | |||
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Aaron It already happened. Ted is coming out to share our camp for 3rd season. He picked up a cow tag for our area. I'm waiting to hear from our landowner about Deer vouchers, Elk was slim pickings one Archery Bull and the rest cows. | |||
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I always new that boy Ted wasn't quite right...welding when it is 98 deg outside... Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Well...is this thing done yet? Where are the finished pics? Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue. What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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I worked on it yesterday. Air in-takes shorten the stacks and added baffles ect. I will post some pics this evening...... Done? Funny, my wife says that I never-ever finish a project. The weather cooled off some and I been fishing.   ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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I still haven’t found a cheap/free trailer but will finish the thing off "up on blocks" if I haven’t found a trailer to cut-chop-rebuild I did bed and paint the stock, float the barrel of my old 30-06 faux BDL/Ultralight the last week or two. I will post some pictures of it in Med. Rifles...God knows we need something better there than the 8 page K.E. thread. It used to shoot realy good....I hope all the work didn't screw her up. Smoke Vent Temp. Control   Fire Box Air Intake (more temp control)closed  Open just a bit   ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Wow, what a great project! ~Ann   | |||
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The smoker is looking good Ted! Nice line of catfish too! | |||
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All I can say, other than great job is...I gotta learn to weld. Larry "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading" -- Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Well, whatya know, Ted! These dog-days of summer have me working on a little smoker of my own. Well, after I drank all the beer in these two stainless steel kegs, of course.       This is as far as I've gotten. How is yours coming along, Ted? | |||
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My photographer took my granddaughter to the local waterpark today so these pics are from my IPhone I plasma cut some 1/4" scrap and made the duct to connect the two tanks today.  Cut out a big old rectangle for the duct and tacked in place    I still have to..... Cut out the big tank to fit the duct to it Cut out for the fire box door Weld on hinges and handles Build a rack for the fire box to keep the fire off the bottom ****Paint Cherry red with purple flames....fixed it Mike I will try to remember ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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And paint it for God's sakes...Cherry red with purple flames Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue. What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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OK this will be the last days I spend on this project this summer. I have more irons in the fire that need attention. iPhone pics so the clarity isn't so great. I took the fire box to my work-place last week to use the bigger welder on some long seams.    I changed out the wing nuts on the vents for a heavy spring and a fiberglass combination. The fiberglass washer should insulate the spring from tempering. Now I can move the vent and the spring holds tension.  Here is about 7 ft. worth of 1/4" thick stock that I cut with my 4" slag grinder set up with a cut-off wheel. This is where the fire box heat/smoke will pass into the larger tank.  I then cut open the firebox for a door and weld on the home-made hinges with bent pins.    I then need to mount the fire box to the upper. This required a jack and a ratchet strap for this solo effort to work.    I then installed the temp gauge  After all of that I still have a handle to build for the front and twist lock handles for the firebox not to mention a trailer and paint! But let’s stop and cook some ribs!! I killed this hog today at Wal-Mart with my debit card!    And the first ribs off the big smoker...Strawberries BBQ dry rub and Sweet Baby Rays sauce.  ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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I absolutely love Sweet Baby Rays! BTW- you are a very cruel man to your neighbors: smoking them out like that!!!!! Looks yummy anyway. ~Ann | |||
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Oh, hell yeah! That looks great buddy! That is one mean ass smoker. Are you sure you don't have a little Texan in you?  I bet your neighbors are jealous! And I bet they are always wondering why the heck you are making so much noise on an otherwise peaceful weekend day. I know mine do!  I put my smoker on the back burner pending some more stainless material. I am having a hell of a time finding some 1" flat strap to go around the edges of the doors. I want to use that with some asbestos-type fireproof gasket to seal up the seams. | |||
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Look no farther than McMaster Carr for your SS flat. ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Holy shit! How have I never heard of this gold mine? Thanks, Ted! http://www.mcmaster.com/# | |||
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