Homemade Smokehouse
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Awsome looking burner, but not sure it will let you get to 180 degrees in that big of a smoker, you may want to insulate the outside of the smoker, The other thing that is very important with a burner that big that you have a gas valve with standing pilot so if the flame goes out the gas will shut off and the gas valve will let you hook up a thermostat to control temperature. After a lot of searching on the internet if found a thermostat that goes from 80 degrees to 240 degrees. Propane is heavier than air and sinks to the bottom and then seeps out and stays low and I had flames roll across a floor with a leak on a boiler and luckily I could get to a valve and shut it off.
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Great, hope my thoughts will help you, my homemade smoker is about 6’ tall, but my bottom section where my burner is about 2’ way too much wasted space just for burner, but in 1986 when I found the stainless steel shell that was the way it was built. I found the shell in the dump on Adak ,Alaska where I was stationed with my family and the Navy SeaBees in stalled a electric heating element and a thermostat for me and it holds 12 full size oven racks, I have made many modifications during the years adding a fan to bring in outside air for making cold smoked salmon, installing 2 convection fans from old gas ranges for more even temperature, installing drip trays to keep the grease from draining down on the burner box, getting a smoking deal on 10 stainless steel grated smoker racks, adding a shelf above the burner to hold a water pan for extra Humidity, converting it to natural gas to cut down on my electric bill and give me the extra heat to do briskets, pork butts, turkeys, and prime rib and finally modifying my Man Cave to accommodate my smoker indoors with a Exhaust hood and fan to make it easier and more pleasant on bad weather days. Lots has happened in 34 years.
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Great, hope my thoughts will help you, my homemade smoker is about 6’ tall, but my bottom section where my burner is about 2’ way too much wasted space just for burner, but in 1986 when I found the stainless steel shell that was the way it was built. I found the shell in the dump on Adak ,Alaska where I was stationed with my family and the Navy SeaBees in stalled a electric heating element and a thermostat for me and it holds 12 full size oven racks, I have made many modifications during the years adding a fan to bring in outside air for making cold smoked salmon, installing 2 convection fans from old gas ranges for more even temperature, installing drip trays to keep the grease from draining down on the burner box, getting a smoking deal on 10 stainless steel grated smoker racks, adding a shelf above the burner to hold a water pan for extra Humidity, converting it to natural gas to cut down on my electric bill and give me the extra heat to do briskets, pork butts, turkeys, and prime rib and finally modifying my Man Cave to accommodate my smoker indoors with a Exhaust hood and fan to make it easier and more pleasant on bad weather days. Lots has happened in 34 years.
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Great, hope my thoughts will help you, my homemade smoker is about 6’ tall, but my bottom section where my burner is about 2’ way too much wasted space just for burner, but in 1986 when I found the stainless steel shell that was the way it was built. I found the shell in the dump on Adak ,Alaska where I was stationed with my family and the Navy SeaBees in stalled a electric heating element and a thermostat for me and it holds 12 full size oven racks, I have made many modifications during the years adding a fan to bring in outside air for making cold smoked salmon, installing 2 convection fans from old gas ranges for more even temperature, installing drip trays to keep the grease from draining down on the burner box, getting a smoking deal on 10 stainless steel grated smoker racks, adding a shelf above the burner to hold a water pan for extra Humidity, converting it to natural gas to cut down on my electric bill and give me the extra heat to do briskets, pork butts, turkeys, and prime rib and finally modifying my Man Cave to accommodate my smoker indoors with a Exhaust hood and fan to make it easier and more pleasant on bad weather days. Lots has happened in 34 years.
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Have you looked at the a-mazen-n smoke tubes, they eliminate the need for a chip tray, and they are way cheaper than chips and take up way less space and could even be in a separate attachment as they do not need heat, ounce you light them they burn on there own. I will get you a picture and model of a gas valve and standing pilot and it will make your set up much more safe.
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Sure would think that would heat a 5×6×3 as long as there’s no major air leaks, would definitely run a thermocouple!
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Have you looked at the a-mazen-n smoke tubes, they eliminate the need for a chip tray, and they are way cheaper than chips and take up way less space and could even be in a separate attachment as they do not need heat, ounce you light them they burn on there own. I will get you a picture and model of a gas valve and standing pilot and it will make your set up much more safe.
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Have you looked at the a-mazen-n smoke tubes, they eliminate the need for a chip tray, and they are way cheaper than chips and take up way less space and could even be in a separate attachment as they do not need heat, ounce you light them they burn on there own. I will get you a picture and model of a gas valve and standing pilot and it will make your set up much more safe.
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@s-a-m I am still working out the details on that. I would like to enclose the burner but I’m not sure how to go about it. I am thinking about putting in brackets in about 30" up from the bottom running the length of it that I can use to hold sheet pans as drip pans and that would sort of section it off.
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@s-a-m I am still working out the details on that. I would like to enclose the burner but I’m not sure how to go about it. I am thinking about putting in brackets in about 30" up from the bottom running the length of it that I can use to hold sheet pans as drip pans and that would sort of section it off.
Brian Schneider just was looking at the burner you’ll need the inlet outside the box so it gets fresh air
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do you have a friend that is a heating guy that can help you with the gas valve and pilot assemble, the propane gas valve is only $80-90 on the internet for a new one and using a used one is not a good Idea… for $30.00 you can get a complete brand new pilot light assembly and then all u need is a 24 volt transformer and a thermostat to have a safe reliable unit with temperature control.
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do you have a friend that is a heating guy that can help you with the gas valve and pilot assemble, the propane gas valve is only $80-90 on the internet for a new one and using a used one is not a good Idea… for $30.00 you can get a complete brand new pilot light assembly and then all u need is a 24 volt transformer and a thermostat to have a safe reliable unit with temperature control.
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akdave ok thanks I sure do have a friend that fits that description.
Brian Schneider Here’s our smoker that we built for deer camp last year. This was our maiden run. It’s an old walk-in insulated cooler unit. No fan was needed. There’s an air intake on the bottom and the two vents on top are manual damper controlled. It smoked our jerky sticks and summer sausage amazingly consistent. The thermostatically controlled heat is a must though. also I think you’re going to find that tray on the bottom will be your smoke pan. That’s basically what ours is.
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akdave ok thanks I sure do have a friend that fits that description.
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Snake River Smokers very nice. Mine will be very similar to that except I will be framing mine out of wood. Sheeting the bottom 3’ with sheetmetal on the inside and siding the outside with rough sawed lumber to match the rest of my out buildings.
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Snake River Smokers very nice. Mine will be very similar to that except I will be framing mine out of wood. Sheeting the bottom 3’ with sheetmetal on the inside and siding the outside with rough sawed lumber to match the rest of my out buildings.
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Snake River Smokers very nice. Mine will be very similar to that except I will be framing mine out of wood. Sheeting the bottom 3’ with sheetmetal on the inside and siding the outside with rough sawed lumber to match the rest of my out buildings.
Brian Schneider Not sure what you’re doing for the shelving in there but after going back and forth, we decided to use the shelf tracking and brackets from Menards or any hardware store for that matter. It worked good because you can adjust the height and add more shelves if you would want to. Then we cut the shelves out of one inch square grid steel which is split to fit each side. It was easy to get the racks out of the door when the jerky is done. Then for hanging sausage we just put a 2x4 on each side which then we set 2x2’s with hooks to hang the summer sausage off of which worked really well.
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Brian Schneider Not sure what you’re doing for the shelving in there but after going back and forth, we decided to use the shelf tracking and brackets from Menards or any hardware store for that matter. It worked good because you can adjust the height and add more shelves if you would want to. Then we cut the shelves out of one inch square grid steel which is split to fit each side. It was easy to get the racks out of the door when the jerky is done. Then for hanging sausage we just put a 2x4 on each side which then we set 2x2’s with hooks to hang the summer sausage off of which worked really well.
Snake River Smokers I like the way you did the shelving. I will probably do the same. Thanks for sharing. I will post some pics when we get done building for sure.
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I’m not Brian, but being nosy sort will interject an answer. I have two which I bought on line (Amazon I think). I use atop my wood stove to send heat around the room. They are silent and I never worry about turning them off.
Try Googling “heat activated fan”.
Thanks for the info. I will look into these.
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