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I had some stain left over from the trim on the house so I applied a quick coat on the outside

now at this point in time a friend of mine stopped over and I was showing him my progress. He asked me what I was going to use as a smoke source. I told him I was probably going to build a exterior rocket stove. He made the comment I should use a propane stove. I responded back I didn't want to use propane for a smoke source seeing as how I was trying to get more away from the grid and preferred to use wood. No he said, a stove made out of a propane tank. He told me he had a friend who could weld me up one and it would fit easily inside the greenhouse and would help maintain the heat. Besides, would I really want to keep running outside to stoke the fire? Makes sense to me.

It's a cute little design and I spent 5 hours or so burning off the paint

and applied a coating of high temp paint

since I was not using the lower inlet from the outside I capped it and back filled over the pipe I had installed.

next I had to make the smoking racks for inside the chamber so I grabbed a 2x4 or made a line down the middle of the board

and marked center about every 6 inches

I used a 1 1/4 inch wood bit and drilled out the centers

and carefully ripped the boards down the middle, creating 2 equal sides with notches in them

I mounted one on each side of the smoke chamber

and set 1 inch dowels into the slots creating the smoking racks

I picked up some cheap 2x4 bar brackets to keep the doors closed

and cut down some extra 2x4's I had

I fired up the stove

and tested out the smoker

it works outstanding

I have since upgraded to a wireless dual probe for better monitoring of internal temps of meats

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we smoked a couple of our chickens the day we slaughtered them, they were awesome