Jealous of you guys that have things like this to harvest. But they are a long ways away for me. GW
GW you don’t want those in your backyard. They destroy the land and reproduce like roaches.
There's a guy in the UP of Michigan that trucks them in and charges city folks big bucks to hunt them. seems like a bad idea to me but what do I know.
would it be posible to post your smoke house blue prints.
thanks rrh
Brings back memory's of doing with grandpa ??? He / we smoked everything..... Remember going out and rolling hams in rock salt and hanging them to cure. On a warm day you could walk by the smoke house and here the fat and water dripping from the meat.....
Me too being a long ways away but is there anything about hogs crossing out of Canada?
QUOTE=G W Wade;5656279]Jealous of you guys that have things like this to harvest. But they are a long ways away for me. GW[/QUOTE]
Facta non verba
I’d like those blueprints too, if you would.
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In Alaska, a lot of people used to make smokers out of old refrigerators to smoke salmon.
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I built it out of an old 4x4 3in pipe frame that originally was a weight lifting frame to hold the barbells.
I helped a nephew build it out of scrap pipe he had years ago, he left it at his moms.
She wanted it gone so I took it and bought plywood and used self tapping screws to attach the plywood, built a wood frame door, with a temp. gauge in the door.
I set in on some pavers off the ground and left an air gap about 12 in long under door.
Got the idea from a local farmer, he had one built all wood, he had an old disc on the floor.
He just built a fire on the ground next to it and would open the door and shovel fire into it as needed to maintain temp.
It was about 7.5 ft tall.
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I used an upright freezer before, gauge in the door, pvc vent on top side, air intake at bottom side.
Use 2 elect. hot plat with a small iron skillet with wood chips in it for smoke, you could use a pid controller on for temp.
You cant let the temp. get away from you because of the plastic interior, but 180 or 90 there fine.
At the time I had no place to keep it out of the weather it rusted out pretty fast.
Sweet! Neighbor threw out an Indian cheif smoker last summer. Still in the box with the proce tag on it from Cabalas from back in the day. The cord was melted from not plugging it in all the way. Called the company to buy another cord. They sent me one along with the updated element at no charge. The new element won't work but the cord was all I needed. I'll have to try it out on some jerky next week.
I have a double door stainless commercial fridge with a textured aluminum interior sitting on my utility trailer. Destined to be turned into a smoker! My 20+ year old Traeger is rusting out but the burner works fine so going to graft that onto the side, add some baffle plates to distribute heat evenly and turn it into a smoker for doing sausage, big jerky batches etc.
We shoot them on sight, anywhere, any time, day or night. Best not to ever get caught transporting live wild hogs, by the locals, either.
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |