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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 04 11:41 am Post subject:
Sounds brilliant, funny isn't with this sort of stuff, commerical products are all about "show". Making stuff at home you can trully concentrate on function jema

McLay455

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 89
Location: West of Scotland

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 04 3:23 pm Post subject:

I agree -- my smokers are a good example of that.
If you noticed HFW made his out of a cider barrel, but he (wrongly IMO) jigsawed the ends out of the barrel.
If you knock the ends out and rebuild with stainless woodscrews through the hoops into the staves, and use the top and bottom as lids, you have a smoker that will last for years .

My smokers were the result of many attempts to build smokers (out of all sorts of things). I was driving past a distillery one day and saw all these barrels stacked up high. It was Pi&&ing down, and I thought "They keep them out in the rain to stop them leaking" -- must make a good smoker -- hey presto!

I have also made (from whisky barrels )

dog kennels
timber stores
mail box
planters

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 10:10 pm Post subject:
Mclay455 Ivan, have you any pix of your smoker?....I'd like to do this Lloyd

McLay455

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: West of Scotland

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 8:31 am Post subject:
If you search on "smokers built from whisky barrels" on this site, you will find picture of both smokers.

sean
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 8:37 am Post subject:
Here: https://forum.downsizer.net/about403.html&highlight=

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:25 am Post subject:

McLay455 wrote:

If you search on "smokers built from whisky barrels" on this site, you will find picture of both smokers.

Wotcha McLay, where've you been? Any storm damage?

Guest

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:39 am Post subject:
A little storm damage -- couple of slates, but the main news is I am a grandad again. Caleb McLay Phillips -- wt 8lb 14 1/4 oz -- mother and baby both well -- father and grandparents exhausted!!!!

McLay455

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: West of Scotland

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:41 am Post subject:
Sorry -- forgot to log in again -- above message mine

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:42 am Post subject:

Anonymous wrote:

A little storm damage -- couple of slates, but the main news is I am a grandad again.
Caleb McLay Phillips -- wt 8lb 14 1/4 oz -- mother and baby both well -- father and grandparents exhausted!!!!

Congratulations, I'm an uncle again too, my little bruv's first, a boy 8lb 3oz on 14th Jan. No name yet.

McLay455

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 89
Location: West of Scotland

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:46 am Post subject:
Congrats an old northern saying applies "Any silly bu**er and knock a hole in a kettle, but it takes a good man to put a spout on one!!!!"

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:50 am Post subject:
So have you been on grandpaternity leave then?

alison
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:51 am Post subject:
congratulations to all.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:52 am Post subject:
Thanks

McLay455

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 89
Location: West of Scotland

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:55 am Post subject:
My wife has been absent from home looking after grandson no 1 -- Jacob and pregnant father Reuben. I have been driving up and down visiting. Came home one night to find a rabbit, a hare and four pheasants hanging in the car port. My local farmer friend had been shooting !! Will be making game pate this weekend.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:56 am Post subject:

McLay455 wrote:

Will be making game pate this weekend.

Excellent

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