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Post by Martin on Dec 17, 2010 22:52:11 GMT -4
need an update on how you are feeling, you know, strength wise, and stuff. Thanks for asking....my biggest complaint is severe pain in the shoulders making near impossible to do anything most of the time. Today I felt a bit better so I sharpened up all my kitchen and hunting knives. ~Martin
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Dec 18, 2010 21:53:41 GMT -4
Rick, I was taught up he-ah in Maine to only smoke with a hardwood that bears either nuts or fruit. We don't grow no sicklymore trees up heah. Apple and pear are my favs. Wish hickory grew this far north, I have to go to mass. if I want some. I won't pay for them chips in a bag. Burn up too fast in my big smoker. Cold smoker that's wood fired with a looooong flue pipe to an old fridge is the one I will build. I have all the pieces parts and acres of wood. Now that I'm on a fancy laptop, I would like to expand/ explain something. I want to dig a bean hole bean pit for cooking.....beans. That same pit I want to install a pipe near the top, running just under the ground,( 6") running slightly uphill maybe 20- 25'. Then elbow it up into an old refridge, where vent holes are cut with flapperators to adjust airflow. Saw it in a book or magazine a long time back and always liked it. They used a woodstove, the pit idea is cause I'd rather dig one pit than two. Just cap off the pipe when cooking beans. It's about 50th in a loooong list of someday stuff. lol
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Post by Martin on Jan 3, 2011 21:15:40 GMT -4
I spent half the day playing around with the Smoke Daddy....I smell like a slab of bacon...LOL I changed the configuration by pushing out the screen, turning the Smoke Daddy over so that the inlet and outlet are at the bottom, then I pressed the screen in so that it's just above the air tube. I drilled a hole above the outlet that lines up with the bottom of the screen to concentrate the burn. A SIGNIFICANT improvement!!!!! I got 1 1/2 hours of thin blue smoke from just a half-cup of fuel and NO gooey creosote. That's 3 times the regular burn time! Another improvement would be hanging the aquarium pump off the unit so that the vibration keeps the fuel shaken down so that it doesn't hang-up, which can sometimes be a problem. ~Martin
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Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Jan 3, 2011 22:01:02 GMT -4
mmmmmm.....BACON. One of the best smells in the world. Imagine what a dog smells...! congrats on the improvement. Isnt it fun tweakin' stuff, Martin? I'm learning the art of gentle tweakin', not freakin'. I've broken more things just playing with them. esp. chinee crap, its too fragile for me.
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Post by rAcErRicK on Jan 4, 2011 23:21:20 GMT -4
I spent half the day playing around with the Smoke Daddy....I smell like a slab of bacon...LOL I changed the configuration by pushing out the screen, turning the Smoke Daddy over so that the inlet and outlet are at the bottom, then I pressed the screen in so that it's just above the air tube. I drilled a hole above the outlet that lines up with the bottom of the screen to concentrate the burn. A SIGNIFICANT improvement!!!!! I got 1 1/2 hours of thin blue smoke from just a half-cup of fuel and NO gooey creosote. That's 3 times the regular burn time! Another improvement would be hanging the aquarium pump off the unit so that the vibration keeps the fuel shaken down so that it doesn't hang-up, which can sometimes be a problem. ~Martin Pretty slick Martin. I kinda figured you'd perfect that thing and make it do right. Now, since I don't got one, mebe I'll be able to picture just what it was you did. You should patent that thing and get rich selling 'em.
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