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  1. ahumadora

    Smokers I have been slapping together

    Thought y'all might want to see what I have been up to building Smokers in the far South.
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    5000 Liter animal recycler

    Finally getting around to slapping together a 1000 Gallon Trailer. The new style site only lets me select one pic at a time to upload, so no going to be many pics posted. Started teaching some guys at a new shop how to build smokers. This will be by far the biggest smoker in South America...
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    Compact reverse flow

    Just finished tonight my new design for a compact smoker that can be shipped in box. 20" 3/16 steel. Let me know what y'all think.
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    cabinet smoker with vertical raise up door

    A client contacted me and wants a big insulated cabinet smoker  1.5 meters wide  x 900 deep. There is limited room in the kitchen and I remeber seeing on here months back some who had a cabinet smoker and made a pivot system with counter weight that hinged on the side and attached to the door...
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    How to cut doors on a smoker

    Ok, so I decided to turn a perfectly good propane tank into a useless 500 gallon trailer smoker. ;) I will give you a step by step run down of how I cut doors out. Place the tank on the ground or at an easy working height. then select which side looks the best to cut , so you will not have a...
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    Little boy smoker

    Knocked this up out of 120 gallon tanks welded together.   Sorry my phone camera sucks.   Firebox is 1/4"  Sorry Dave, too hard to explain to folks how to use a dual vent set up.   I used 2 vents as I had these small ones laying around the shop.  Almost 72 years later the...
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    Pit bbq headed high into the Andes mountains

    Thought y'all might want to know BBQ is spreading here in South America.    This is the new model trailer and the customer is proudly headed (at about 100mph) to Las leñas in the Andes mountains in between Chile and Argentina.      https://goo.gl/maps/iJVbx7Uj2u92 I build them using 3 120...
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    Crap I made out of old tanks recently

     Hey I build smokers I am not a photografer !!  Yeah I know my smart phone camera sucks!       The small trailer  is made out of 120 gallon tanks and the large one is a 500 gallon with 6 racks + the vertical with 3  pivoting racks.   
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    Drool material for you

    I went and collected some tanks today..      The pics show about 10- 20% of the tanks there.  Tested out the new trailer I built with 1800kg of 120 gallon tanks  (14 total)    
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    Super Grande ahumadora (big ass smoker)

    I had a call from a cliente in Chile wanting a smoker for 10,000 kg per week of ribs and chorizo's. Obviously I need to build an insulated room.    He wants to do hot and cold smoking, so am at the initial stage of planning it. Any  thoughts?
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    No Name trailer smoker 2000+ liters

    I am building a large event trailer for a client.   He seen one of the other trailers I built and got a case of big dick syndrome. So I didn't F* around when he said he wanted something big to wow the crowds.  I went straight for a 2000 liter (500 gallons) reverse flow and am adding a 500...
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    Crap I Za been workin on.

    Here's some pics of what we are doing to make use of the tank ends and all the 500mm tubes I have.  If you have not worked out what we use the cross for, here's an idea.     I have an endless supply of these tubes.
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    Parrilla and smoker 2 in 1

    We have been working on a design for a parrilla and smoker all in one.  My work partner needed to make something quick for his daughters graduation so he built this over the last week using scrap from around the shop and an old compressor tank that had been laying around for 20 years.  made...
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    2000 Liter build

    Finally got around to working on my own smoker although I am backed up with work till Christmas.  Here's what we done with the end cap we cut off.   I welded the chimney internally so it gives it a clean look. Glad my Bolivian partner is small so he can weld the inside. ...
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    Pizza Cooker

    I was contacted last week by a guy who wants a 250 gallon tank for cooking Pizza's. He wants to do " Pizza a la parrilla". (where there you burn charcoal and wood then use the embers under the parrilla to cook the pizza). An idea we had is to put a slide out shelf for the embers under the...
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    Ultimate trailer build

    I have been given the green light to build a high end BBQ trailer for events and show. The guys I am building it for a semi famous down here for doing Asado's (Argentine BBQ) with over 1.1 million followers on Facebook. (The build is a secret for now). It will be similar to this trailer I...
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    ABIS (Another bloody insulated smoker)

    I decided to build an insulated comercial smoker to sell so started about a week ago. 100x50x2mm chassis  (2"x4" for old skool)   Sheetmetal is #16. I am trying to keep the weight and cost down. Reverse flow design with the chimneys in the rear.  1200x900mm with 5 grates  so about should...
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    Worlds most Southern BBQ class

    I gave a class to some chefs who have bought my smokers. One of them won Masterchef Argentina last year. Was a perfect sunny day and went well although trying to cook a brisket and making pulled pork in 6 hours is a feat and wasn't as tender as I would have liked. I built this 250 gallon last...
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    1000 liter reverse flow for trailer

     They have an 11 hectare property full of propane tanks, there are some monster tanks. Probably about 5-10,000 tanks  First tank ready for the 9" grinder and plasma cutter. I purchased 6 tanks. 4 1000 liter (262 gallon) and 2  2000 liter.  They have been sandblasted but left outside, so a...
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    Insulated dual cabinet smoker

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