DAPPH
as dyslexik as I'm daft
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I've made a redundant BBQ\into a small smoker for cold or hot smoking food .
I have a small £ 35 open topped mesh tray unit that contains the dry sawdust and it burns well for 5 to 7 hours depending on how strong the wind is blowing .
Come spring I hope to modify things a wee bit so that I can do hot smoking or longer periods of cold smoking for a whole ham. I've got the cast iron fire tray for the gas fired hot smoking in hand .
I'm trying to think thing through for a five to six day sawdust burning device that will only burn a say .. 30 x 40 mm wide track of sawdust without igniting the rest.
Would it be difficult or particularly expensive to fold a series of "L " shaped say 600 mm long 40 mm high and 50 mm wide and spot weld them in a continuous zig zag track so the finished tray of track is about 350 mm wide by 650 long .
I can do a quick sketch of it if needs be . The idea is to fill the track with dry hardwood sawdust and ignite it with a blowlamp, extinguishing any flame and leave it to smoulder for several days at a time on it's own by controlling the air flow into the smoker housing.
The smoke chamber containing food is the blue barrel end , with one of the bungs removed . Smoke reaches the chamber from below through an 8 mm slot cut in the joint of the pacing slab floor
Later in the year we hope to have a brick built top story added with double doors like the once shown in the pictures plus fixed top vents , shelving and rail supports on the inside
I have a small £ 35 open topped mesh tray unit that contains the dry sawdust and it burns well for 5 to 7 hours depending on how strong the wind is blowing .
Come spring I hope to modify things a wee bit so that I can do hot smoking or longer periods of cold smoking for a whole ham. I've got the cast iron fire tray for the gas fired hot smoking in hand .
I'm trying to think thing through for a five to six day sawdust burning device that will only burn a say .. 30 x 40 mm wide track of sawdust without igniting the rest.
Would it be difficult or particularly expensive to fold a series of "L " shaped say 600 mm long 40 mm high and 50 mm wide and spot weld them in a continuous zig zag track so the finished tray of track is about 350 mm wide by 650 long .
I can do a quick sketch of it if needs be . The idea is to fill the track with dry hardwood sawdust and ignite it with a blowlamp, extinguishing any flame and leave it to smoulder for several days at a time on it's own by controlling the air flow into the smoker housing.
The smoke chamber containing food is the blue barrel end , with one of the bungs removed . Smoke reaches the chamber from below through an 8 mm slot cut in the joint of the pacing slab floor
Later in the year we hope to have a brick built top story added with double doors like the once shown in the pictures plus fixed top vents , shelving and rail supports on the inside