squirtthecat
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HEAVY.
Did I mention it is Heavy?
Assembled mine the other night. Took longer to clean up the 75 pounds of cardboard and pallet it came on..
Just heave-ho and lift each end up to get the casters on.
This was enough clearance.
Rolled off of the pallet, and installed the HEAVY bottom shelf.
Squeaky clean inside - can't wait to get it dirty...
--
Flash forward 2 days, and I did the initial burn in tonight.
No pics, as it gets dark by 5, so I was operating by a small CF bulb over my patio, and a LED flashlight.
I put about 8 pounds of Alder (yes..) pellets in the hopper and turned it on. Figured out how to set the 'setpoint' to HIGH and let it go.
[a bit of thumb twiddling while the auger primed and pellets started dropping - beer run]
I see a wisp of smoke!
[more thumb twiddling - grab another beer and check email on phone]
Smoke starts rolling out, the display changes from IGNITING to the current pit temp.
And then the rocket lifts off of the pad...
200
250
300
350
400
(I email MAK DADDY and ask if I have the rev limiter on this model, and how high should I take it)
It dawdles in the mid-400s for a bit, then keeps climbing..
500.
(I'm burning ALDER - geez..)
Top end is 505° and it is 34° ambient temps outside. That's enough for me.. I crank it down to 450 to hang for a bit and go inside to warm up.
I wander back out and turn it down to 'SMOKE'. That takes a while for it to ride down..
Total run time is a good 90 minutes. Most at ~300-500°, then 30 minutes in the 190s.
So I turn it off... TURBO FAN MODE! It goes into a cool-down sequence to blast the rest of the pellets/ash out of the firepot, until the grill gets to safe temps.
20 minutes or so later, I go out and it is OFF off.
I nudge it a few times to make sure it doesn't go Christine on me - and all is good.
Nighty Nighty Lil' MAK..
I'll give it a quick vacuum tomorrow night to get the fly ash out, spritz it with a healthy shot of pan to get the insides sticky, and then off and running it will go with around 31 pounds of pork butts.
Very impressive so far! Game on!
Did I mention it is Heavy?
Assembled mine the other night. Took longer to clean up the 75 pounds of cardboard and pallet it came on..
Just heave-ho and lift each end up to get the casters on.
This was enough clearance.
Rolled off of the pallet, and installed the HEAVY bottom shelf.
Squeaky clean inside - can't wait to get it dirty...
--
Flash forward 2 days, and I did the initial burn in tonight.
No pics, as it gets dark by 5, so I was operating by a small CF bulb over my patio, and a LED flashlight.
I put about 8 pounds of Alder (yes..) pellets in the hopper and turned it on. Figured out how to set the 'setpoint' to HIGH and let it go.
[a bit of thumb twiddling while the auger primed and pellets started dropping - beer run]
I see a wisp of smoke!
[more thumb twiddling - grab another beer and check email on phone]
Smoke starts rolling out, the display changes from IGNITING to the current pit temp.
And then the rocket lifts off of the pad...
200
250
300
350
400
(I email MAK DADDY and ask if I have the rev limiter on this model, and how high should I take it)
It dawdles in the mid-400s for a bit, then keeps climbing..
500.
(I'm burning ALDER - geez..)
Top end is 505° and it is 34° ambient temps outside. That's enough for me.. I crank it down to 450 to hang for a bit and go inside to warm up.
I wander back out and turn it down to 'SMOKE'. That takes a while for it to ride down..
Total run time is a good 90 minutes. Most at ~300-500°, then 30 minutes in the 190s.
So I turn it off... TURBO FAN MODE! It goes into a cool-down sequence to blast the rest of the pellets/ash out of the firepot, until the grill gets to safe temps.
20 minutes or so later, I go out and it is OFF off.
I nudge it a few times to make sure it doesn't go Christine on me - and all is good.
Nighty Nighty Lil' MAK..
I'll give it a quick vacuum tomorrow night to get the fly ash out, spritz it with a healthy shot of pan to get the insides sticky, and then off and running it will go with around 31 pounds of pork butts.
Very impressive so far! Game on!