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Personally, I like the extra space. It gives the ash some room to accumulate without restricting air flow. Especially since my pit doesn't have a way to remove the ash during a cook.
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To be clear, although it's a charcoal basket, the pics are from an all wood cook where I attempted, more or less successfully, to control cook chamber temps by burning a small hot fire in the firebox with all dampers wide open.Last edited by Dewesq55; December 30, 2019, 05:14 PM.
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Thanks! The guy did give me a charcoal basket. I may try that to help contain the coal bed of wood.
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Next cook turn the fire box grate upside down. That will get you an inch or so closer to the bottom of the fire box.
The other thing I see is that the wood may be too dry. Meaning it may be burning too fast not allowing it to form a good bed.
Otherwise everything looks just fine.
Keep the pics coming.
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On the original question, I notice you don't have a charcoal basket in your firebox so what I'm about to suggest might take a little ingenuity. I take an old unused grate and prop it up inside my charcoal basket on an angle, so it makes a steep ramp which is quite narrow on the bottom when I start the fire, and then when I add new splits, the coals drop down there ramp and collect in the narrowed space and maintain a good coal bed for igniting the new splits. In your situation, I would try to find something that I could stick in the fire box that would block off an area where the coals couldn't wander out of, but still allowed good air flow/circulation. Maybe even a few bricks. Or maybe you could do something similar to what I do by leaning a grate against the back of the firebox and the other end resting, or secured around the middle, or front third, of your fire grate.
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That ThermaQ is a Smoke mixed with a Thermapen. Nifty!
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I'm sure the ants were living in then wood. Good luck with the rest of the cook!
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