The chute door will overheat and give you problems if you don't get a "foil" gasket between the rim of the chute and the gasket on the chute door. The inside wall on the chute side will also give off a good bit of radiant heat requiring you to need to rotate briskets every two or three hours. For the money, it is a GREAT smoker and I am pleased with mine overall. I am going to an Assassin smoker to try to eliminate the need for rotating the brisket. Great review
Been running two different Stumps gravity smokers for 13 years now. To protect your gasket on your coal chute, use a piece of doubled up foil between the chute cover and gasket. The creosote from slow combustion likes to harden out your gasket. Foil protects it
I have had my old country gravity fed for over a year now. I always use lump charcoal with wood chunks or small splits in the ash box. I power mine with a thermoworks signals controller with a billows fan. The cooking chamber temp stays always stays within 1 to 2 degrees of the set temp. I absolutely love this pit for the flavor that it produces and the simplicity of running it. It almost feels like you’re cheating by not baby sitting the fire all night. Hope that you enjoy your new pit. 🍻
I used briquettes with this last butt I did. I’m not disappointed but I feel like I definitely get more flavor with lump and will be using it from now on and throw some chunks in the fire box. Happy Grilling
A lot of people with insulted smokers use a weed burner to heat up the cook chamber and clean the cooking grates. Pitmaker has some good videos on how they do it.
I was given this pit by the manufacturer for R and D and review in 2019 before it was sold. Here’s how you light it WITHIN 20 minutes without a fan. Take a charcoal chimney, light it from the bottom like normal. After only 4 to 5 minutes throw it in the MAIN CHAMBER and close it with the hopper and ash door open and grease drain CLOSED. Within 20 minutes you should be at 300, get gloves, grab the hot coals, throw them in the hopper, add cold coals, close hopper immediately and crack open door and you are good to go. I have owned this longer and used it more than anyone. Never had a core out or bridge and. Even threw nothing BUT WOOD in it. Caster upgrade, and mods on my station.
Great video. I saw that log split was fully burning below in the ash pan. Does the log actually stay lit during the cook and get a clean burn like that?
I have two of these. If you use small splits in the the hopper with your charcoal you get the best results and don't have to reload wood until you refill the hopper.
It’s definitely a great smoker . I do recommend a controller and fan. It makes coming up to temp lots faster and it will hold temp rock steady. We have a FB group on this particular pit as well. It’s called Old Country Gravity Fed Smokers. Cheers
Great video! I have one of these and I really love it . I agree the lump coal gives a better taste. And man is it efficient can run for a long time on minimal amount of fuel.
Nice video I have the same smoker. Had it for almost a year. I'm tryimg to find am ash Pan for mine. Do you make them for sale. I haven’t been able to find one that fits good for my smoker
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Got one in my Academy cart right now. Bout to pull the trigger on it! Probably gonna add a couple more racks and definitely larger castors and wheels. Great video.
Yes, I did it for two reasons basically. One to try to improve the draft a little bit but really the main reason I did it was because when this pit is really rolling smoke, it seem like it was pouring it out right at face level so I wanted to kind of get it up a little bit to get it out of my eyes.
Thanks for the very informative video. Questions: 1. Did you pick it up from the store or have it delivered? 2. Are the legs welded or bolted to the smoker? I’m considering attaching it to a steel bench. Thank you again, I enjoyed your video!
