As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
A salvage yard is like ending up with the good life without even trying.
Today I noticed that the trailer that JYG had gotten for us, had a blown tire and another one which was not going to last until Jesus returned, so I thought I might was well get some replacements so we stopped by the yard and JYG pulled up, but not before TL had decided we needed to get what was on his trailer in the new pile of junk.
There was a junked pickup, a bunch of shovels for a digger and some shopping carts which I will turn into live traps, but this thing which we finally figured out was a grill, the mother of all grills and smokers.
The guy JYG got it from said, "Put that out front and I bet you someone wants that thing in a day.". It was more than a day and it was not yet unloaded, but yeah some dumb ass wanted it and that was me.
I had thought it was just a charcoal grill, but JYG once we got it unloaded as it needed a skid steer to get it, as it was big, has it's own trailer, said it was propane.
Yes I will have to do some creative refurbishing, but this thing is solid. It would take a nuclear blast.
50 bucks was the investment, and it has room for a rotissery and of course 4 burners which near as I can tell they must have gotten out of some industrial furnace. The guy said it was a smoker, but if you had all four burners going full, it would burn the paint off the top as it did.
I do plan on using this for charcoal, but after I get to digging around in it, that I will get some copper pipe, cut it ito 4 sections, but a valve on each section, and a nozzle elbow to feed into the burners. Nothing OSHA and I think this thing might eat 20 pound propane tanks too quick, so it might be a 100 gallon outfit, but this is the mother of all smokers.
I was stunned as we dropped it off at Grandpas place. as it is always good to park things there as snoops see things and know people are around, stunned when we got home as the grill we got from JYG last year that I thought was big, as it dwarfed a kettle grill, looks petite compared to this monster. I think I can fit 4 of the former grills inside of this one.
TL was amused as we drove by the millionaire doper's house and someone had just came up with puppies, and the millionaire was busy looking at our smoker and lusting after it. I told TL he was probably ordering one as he saw us drive away. I think this thing is probably a 5000 dollar smoker. It is for hogs and sides of beef. It is just a lovely thing to behold, but Lord God, He is going to have to bless me richly to be able to fire this weapon up and use it on enough food to make it worth dealing with the volume of meat it would take. This is not grill up a dozen hotdogs grill.
I have lots of ideas for this. Richard and Stephanie mentioned a pre burn smoke chamber, which would probably be the best conversion for this big guy. It would not be that hard to convert as JYG uusally has some kind of barrel grill that someone throws away, and I would just need to cut a hole in the big one, and then use the chimney with insulated piping to pump the heat and smoke into the main chamber.
As JYG said, charcoal is better flavor and I just do not know if I want to dink around with the propane as who knows if that will even be available in this Greenfuk world.
I have time to plan for it. Nice part is that it is like having a woodstove in the burn chamber so I could use real wood too and just get it all toasty warm, put in wet wood for the big smoke and enjoy it all.
As most of you probably do not know, smoking is not cooking meat. Smoking is curing meat. Big difference. There is cold smoke and hot smoke methods. It is the smoke that cures the meat, which gives it that odd red colour.
This was just a pleasant thing for God to provide and a pleasant thing to poner in what to do.
It is well balanced so I can pull it on the trailer wheels it sits by hand and that means it is user friendly.
This is the kind of stuff and projects I would rather be investing my time in. Is my prayer to have health, time and money to be able to do enjoyable things while everyone else in the satan world is in fetal position knowing they are going to succumb.
Is just another wonderful blessing from God, and the kind I like as it allows me to do some fixing on it to make it feel as mine.
Nuff Said
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