Sitting around the brake table, coworkers are taking about "smoking" over the weekend. Loser's was my first thought, than someone mentioned meat.....ooooohhhhh. ok so I started listening as the days went by, than I started ask questions(first mistake). Next thing ya no Fridays the boss lets one of the guys use the shop smoker to make lunch for everyone. well that was pretty tastey I thought. Than, few months later I bought a GMG Daniel Boone pellet grill and got into the whole "smoking" game.
That was 3 years ago...
In three years I had one brisket come off the GMG that was great. the rest were 4-5out of 10.
So I embarked on building my own offset. I looked into buying one from some of the top names, but by the time I shipped it to Minnesota, it was just too much for a backyard smoker like myself. So, I went googling to see about making one. After 2 months of gathering info and figuring what size I actually wanted, I set to Solidworks to design my smoker...Than I ordered steel, 3/16" thick rolled drum....majority of the pieces sheard to size...after three months in the garage and countless sweaty hours I built this!
Cook chamber: 48" length x 24" diameter 2 sst racks lower 23" x 42"
Firebox: 20" x 20" x 20" cubed
Jerky box 20x 17 x 24" 8 sst racks
All steel is 3/16" thick, I did this instead of 1/4" to help reduce the overall weight. I intend on rolling into my truck and bringing it places. Everything you see here I made except the wheels and the stainless spiral handles. I got the hinge idea from watching Aaron Franklin hinge video on youtube.
I have a bunch of pics ive taken while building my smoker but didn't want to overwhelm this post with a ton of photos.
I use the maverick et732 and just received the iGrill2 with 4 meat probes and 2 temp probes. works good on htc8 phone and a older 7" tablet.
Hickory and cherry woods are my preferred. only have one pork butt cook on it so far, currently doing a brisket as I type this up!.
Thanks for taking a look,
rmunsta24
That was 3 years ago...
In three years I had one brisket come off the GMG that was great. the rest were 4-5out of 10.
So I embarked on building my own offset. I looked into buying one from some of the top names, but by the time I shipped it to Minnesota, it was just too much for a backyard smoker like myself. So, I went googling to see about making one. After 2 months of gathering info and figuring what size I actually wanted, I set to Solidworks to design my smoker...Than I ordered steel, 3/16" thick rolled drum....majority of the pieces sheard to size...after three months in the garage and countless sweaty hours I built this!
Cook chamber: 48" length x 24" diameter 2 sst racks lower 23" x 42"
Firebox: 20" x 20" x 20" cubed
Jerky box 20x 17 x 24" 8 sst racks
All steel is 3/16" thick, I did this instead of 1/4" to help reduce the overall weight. I intend on rolling into my truck and bringing it places. Everything you see here I made except the wheels and the stainless spiral handles. I got the hinge idea from watching Aaron Franklin hinge video on youtube.
I have a bunch of pics ive taken while building my smoker but didn't want to overwhelm this post with a ton of photos.
I use the maverick et732 and just received the iGrill2 with 4 meat probes and 2 temp probes. works good on htc8 phone and a older 7" tablet.
Hickory and cherry woods are my preferred. only have one pork butt cook on it so far, currently doing a brisket as I type this up!.
Thanks for taking a look,
rmunsta24
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