Homemade Smokehouse
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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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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.
Made some progress today.
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Made some progress today.
Brian Schneider It’s looking good
Great weather today for working on her! -
Brian Schneider It’s looking good
Great weather today for working on her!Snake River Smokers
Here is the picture of the finished outside
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Brian Schneider It’s looking good
Great weather today for working on her!Snake River Smokers I didn’t realize you were in Longville, MN. I’m in Bemidji
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Something you might want to consider is that with a wood smoke house you want to keep it far enough away from other buildings incase it catches on fire it does not burn down another building.
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Hope for you that it never does burn down, But I have a friend who had his wood smoke house catch fire and had a heck of a time saving his SMOKED chicken and getting the fire out.
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I’m not sure how stove fans work exactly, but I think they require a substantial difference in temperature between the contact point and the ambient temperature. Meaning if you put it in a room that is a constant temperature above 120 it won’t spin. The spinning is the action of it dissipating heat which it wouldn’t be able to do at a constant ambient temperature.
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