I made this smoker many years ago and I started to set it up about a year ago, but never got around to getting it all set up at that time.
So, today, I decided to work on setting it up. The first thing I needed to do was clear the weeds out of the area for fire protection. I found an old hoe and got started on that.
Smoker box
Once I had the weeds under control, I needed to get the smoker box working again as most of the metal stuff was frozen up a bit.
I got some oil out and big hammer and worked on freeing up the metal pieces.
Wood burner
I got all the metal stuff working again for the fire box and setup the system.
Once that was done, I remembered I have a gas burner somewhere, so I hunted up that and found the parts I needed.
I think I’ll just use the gas burner to start with as it’s much easier to use which I will set up, maybe tomorrow.
Salmon
One of my neighbor’s offered to give me some salmon so that’s why I’m working on getting this setup. And it will be good to use it for smoking some of the grass fed beef I just got, so it’s good to get this thing working again.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
