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jema
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 04 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 04 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 05 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mclay455

Ivan, have you any pix of your smoker?....I'd like to do this

Lloyd

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Here: https://forum.downsizer.net/about403.html&highlight=

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sorry -- forgot to log in again -- above message mine

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So have you been on grandpaternity leave then?

alison
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

congratulations to all.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks

McLay455



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 05 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

McLay455 wrote:
Will be making game pate this weekend.


Excellent

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