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My wife thinks I’ve gone over the meat smoking edge. Saw a Pit Boss 5 series vertical smoker on clearance at a nearby Tractor Supply. I had been keeping my eye out for one as it seems like a better way to smoke with pellets compared to the horizontal format pellet grills, like the Pit Boss...

Where we live currently is pretty rural. Our home had been used as a vacation home by the prior owners, so naturally the rodents had taken over completely in the detached garage and equipment shed. After doing a lot of internet research I came across the “walk the plank” bucket traps available...

Bread and beef both came out nicely, as expected.

As an aside, I had a nice (cheap) chuck roast to cook tonight. It’s hovering around freezing outside here in Vermont, so I opted to toss it onto the Pit Boss Pellet burner. Set it on “smoke” for an hour and a half starting at noon, then switched up to 225F for a few hours. A little after 4 PM...

Nah, the A-maze-n pellet smokers give off very little heat, but a ton of smoke. The cheeses I smoked this time last year came out great. I especially liked the Cabot pepper jack. It does take quite a while before the sharp edge of the smoke flavor wears off. Patience is a requirement.

Made a change to my smokestack today. The stock chimney pipe is, I believe, 5” schedule 10 steel pipe. I would love to get my hands on about 18” of that and weld a permanent chimney extension on. But that pipe is pretty expensive and hard to get in small quantities. Instead what I did was buy...

Has to earn the prize for oldest zombie thread. I can’t even remember when it came up originally, and I’m a huge BBQ fan. All of that said, we really don’t have any “good” BBQ up here in the northeast. It’s pretty easy to beat the ones out there because they aren’t really all that great...

Who doesn’t. Doesn’t mean it’s a good one.

Yeah, it is big. The stock pipe is fat at about 5” dia., but too short to develop good draft. I sent a message to the people at Old Country suggesting they come up with a kit to add a foot or more to the stock exhaust pipe. The recognize that it was a shortcoming, but have thus far not come...

Have not been following intensely. Just chiming in on how many are riding other bikes in addition to their FJRs (if they still have one). I think that’s pretty cool.

Old Country Smokers are made in Mexico, sold in Texas, and used to be available through the Acadamy Sports chain of stores, though they don’t seem to have any stock anymore. The Brazos model is a 1/4” steel, traditional 20”x40” offset pit with a 20”x18 firebox, comparable to many of the $3-4k...

No posts to this thread in over a month? I thought my notifications were broken. Had a good BBQ day today. Put a couple of racks of St. Louis cut pork ribs on the offset at 11AM. Added a whole chicken at around 1PM at the chimney end, which is my hot spot in the Brazzos current...

If you arrange the spanner at a 90 degree angle to the torque wrench there is no torque amplification and you can read the wrench directly.

Nah. FJR’s on unpaved roads? That’s crazy talk! 😎

Just experienced this same symptom. In my case the mode switch was damaged from smacking into my tank bag one too many times. One of the plastic ears on the contact plate was broken off, so there was no pressure against the slider. I was able to put a very small ty-wrap around the switch to...

Good to see a few old names piping up. Being a CBA guy, my 2014 only rolled over 60k this week. Poor thing has to share time with three others. But that means I don’t have to worry about future FJR availability because I’ll be dead before I need another one.

Weird. I guess I never saw a pitcher of you, pi man. You are a dead ringer of my friend ionbeam. Did you ever meet him when he went west? I have not seen him in quite a while. Seems he is battling the dreaded C. Reminder to all to experience what you can, while you can.

I’d love some Tehas BBQ. You guys have it goin’ on. Can you get me so e up here in Vermont? If not, I’ll just have to keep obliterating my brisket up here on my own.

Weird. That’s exactly where I feel it. Must be a difference in windshields. Years back when we were visiting the open roads of Wyoming and Montana, I wicked it up past 100 one morning with my wife on the back and the trunk as her backrest. No buffeting at all. She didn’t even realize we...

Hmmm. Sliding the fork legs up would steepen the steering angles, which should make the front end less stable and more prone to oscillate. It would make the bike turn-in quicker. Adjusting the preload is the same thing as ride height. You can raise or lower either end of the bike by...