OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

zaphod · July 20

lousubcap said:

Recalling where I was 56 years ago today. If you are old enough to remember July 20, 1969 then you will also know. 🌚☽

in those days I was in early grade school and classes did a lot of Apollo based stuff throughout the years - even in Toronto, Canada. It was a big deal for us kids.

Canugghead · July 20

lousubcap said:

Recalling where I was 56 years ago today. If you are old enough to remember July 20, 1969 then you will also know. 🌚☽

I cheated

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WeberWho · July 20

This is pretty much what started it all for me. A $50 gift card to Sears. I didn't own a house yet and didn't have a place for tools at the time. So I picked up an imitation Weber Smokey Mountain with that gift card and figured the grill would be a good thing to mess around with during weekend camping concerts when I was younger. If I only knew what it would turn into all these years later.....

I came across this 22" Weber Smokey Mountain for $40 on Craigslist. I didn't even have to quickly snatch it up. It was on Craigslist for weeks. That just tells you how bad Craiglist is nowadays. The kicker was that it was only a few miles down the road.

I don't think it was ever washed or cleaned after a cook. It saw some real use. Which was great to see. The previous owner wife said it had to go with him picking up a pellet grill. So with no room for an extra smoker he let it go for cheap. I'm still shocked it sat for a week with no takers. I have to admit it cleaned up really nice for how neglected it was.

I haven't had this much fun in awhile lighting up a grill or smoker. It reminds me of my old imitation Smokey Mountain that I gave to a coworker years ago.

It will most likely be a smoker that I'll end up flipping but it sure has been fun playing around with it so far. Ribs and chicken will be going on shortly.

Canugghead · July 20

@WeberWho You lucky...it looks new. Yes, I moved on from CL, then Kijiji, now FB Marketplace.

shtgunal3 · July 20

Pressure canning pink eye purple hull peas

SGH · July 20

ColbyLang said:

They had weather Thursday and Friday. No one gonna catch Scottie

Unfortunately they did. We placed 6th. Only 1-5 get paid. I got no money but had a blast and got a decent set of jaws out of it.

SGH · July 20

370 pounds took first. Got beat by 52 pounds.

Botch · July 20

Cool story, @WeberWho !

GrateEggspectations · July 21

Went to Bluesfest to see BADBADNOTGOOD. Love their stuff. Heavy rain towards the end of the show.

WeberWho · July 21

Well.... I did something that I said I'd never do. I came home with a pellet smoker! That just sounds and feels wrong. I took the dog on a walk this morning and I stumbled across a Weber Joe and this Camp Chef smoker sitting outside with a free sign on them. Once home I grabbed my truck and went back to the neighborhood and picked it up.

I don't know how to feel about this. I've owned around 25 grills/smokers and not one has been a gasser or pellet grill. I just have no interest in either of them. I also had the same feeling towards social media. I finally joined Facebook 4-5 years ago for Marketplace. I don't go out searching for people on it or have, "friends" on my account. I pretty much use it for Marketplace and a few forums. So I consider it a tool and I'd be losing out on some real insight I've gained when it comes to live streaming and technology driven forums that I've joined. I can be very hard headed when it comes to certain things. (Just ask my wife) The whole, "I don't do social media" attitude probably kept me away from some great ways to network and a great tool to have if I wasn't so stubborn in my ways. This was my exact thought when I came across the pellet smoker this morning. Do I be hard headed and walk pass a free pellet smoker or do I open up and try out a pellet smoker that will cost me very little if anything. (I haven't tested it out yet other than plugging in it to see if it works but I'm hoping it will.) I already want to hate the pellet smoker just for the fact that it's a pellet smoker. I shouldn't think like this but knowing that there is a pellet smoker out in my garage just feels wrong. So I'm going to try it out and use it as a tool as I did social media. I guess there is only one way to find out.

Off to buy pellets later this afternoon. (That sounds so wrong and stupid. I'm sorry!)

Canugghead · July 21

^^^Like I said, you lucky ...

WeberWho · July 21

Canugghead said:

^^^Like I said, you lucky ...

Hahaha! I was more or less intrigued with it being portable and compact. I'm pretty sure I would have walked right by if it was a full sized pellet smoker. It's heavier than it looks when loading it into the truck.

DoubleEgger · July 21

Channeling your inner @nolaegghead

fishlessman · July 21

if you remember the neighbor lady that was sneaking into my yard to plant trees in the lawn. well she is building a new house next door. she didnt want the propane heat pump next to her house so she bumped 30 feet out into my yard last week when i wasnt there. theres also a propane line right on the boundary line with a three feet clearing in my yard, assuming thats where she is planning on putting the big propane pig.......... gonna be a fun week

anyways i was getting a big backhoe to move some other things in a few weeks........not to hard to bump it back with the right equipment.

not sure about my math here, you can rebuild a house here 30 percent bigger by volume. her foundation is about 30 percent bigger by area....then she added a full sized second floor.....

WeberWho · July 21

DoubleEgger said:

Channeling your inner @nolaegghead

I wish I had a spare shop and knew Linda Hamilton!

Ozzie_Isaac · July 21

fishlessman said:

if you remember the neighbor lady that was sneaking into my yard to plant trees in the lawn. well she is building a new house next door. she didnt want the propane heat pump next to her house so she bumped 30 feet out into my yard last week when i wasnt there. theres also a propane line right on the boundary line with a three feet clearing in my yard, assuming thats where she is planning on putting the big propane pig.......... gonna be a fun week anyways i was getting a big backhoe to move some other things in a few weeks........not to hard to bump it back with the right equipment.

not sure about my math here, you can rebuild a house here 30 percent bigger by volume. her foundation is about 30 percent bigger by area....then she added a full sized second floor.....

Full sized second floor, assuming a full size basement is already 50% increase in volume.

Ozzie_Isaac · July 21

WeberWho said:

Well.... I did something that I said I'd never do. I came home with a pellet smoker! That just sounds and feels wrong. I took the dog on a walk this morning and I stumbled across a Weber Joe and this Camp Chef smoker sitting outside with a free sign on them. Once home I grabbed my truck and went back to the neighborhood and picked it up.

I don't know how to feel about this. I've owned around 25 grills/smokers and not one has been a gasser or pellet grill. I just have no interest in either of them. I also had the same feeling towards social media. I finally joined Facebook 4-5 years ago for Marketplace. I don't go out searching for people on it or have, "friends" on my account. I pretty much use it for Marketplace and a few forums. So I consider it a tool and I'd be losing out on some real insight I've gained when it comes to live streaming and technology driven forums that I've joined. I can be very hard headed when it comes to certain things. (Just ask my wife) The whole, "I don't do social media" attitude probably kept me away from some great ways to network and a great tool to have if I wasn't so stubborn in my ways. This was my exact thought when I came across the pellet smoker this morning. Do I be hard headed and walk pass a free pellet smoker or do I open up and try out a pellet smoker that will cost me very little if anything. (I haven't tested it out yet other than plugging in it to see if it works but I'm hoping it will.) I already want to hate the pellet smoker just for the fact that it's a pellet smoker. I shouldn't think like this but knowing that there is a pellet smoker out in my garage just feels wrong. So I'm going to try it out and use it as a tool as I did social media. I guess there is only one way to find out.

Off to buy pellets later this afternoon. (That sounds so wrong and stupid. I'm sorry!)

Just a tool to provide btu to proteins. I felt similar to you until I used one. Sometimes you want an easy way to get to the finish line and this work great for that. (Not that BGEs are hard by any stretch of the imagination).

I hated smooth electric stove tops, wouldn’t even use one - now I use one daily and I have grown to like it. Just a tool. Learn the tool, use the tool, and eventually appreciate what it can do for you.

Canugghead · July 21

^^^ totally agree with @Ozzie_Isaac, btw, if you like electric go for full size induction!

lousubcap · July 21

@WeberWho - once again, Better to be lucky than good!

fishlessman · July 22

Ozzie_Isaac said:

fishlessman said:

if you remember the neighbor lady that was sneaking into my yard to plant trees in the lawn. well she is building a new house next door. she didnt want the propane heat pump next to her house so she bumped 30 feet out into my yard last week when i wasnt there. theres also a propane line right on the boundary line with a three feet clearing in my yard, assuming thats where she is planning on putting the big propane pig.......... gonna be a fun week anyways i was getting a big backhoe to move some other things in a few weeks........not to hard to bump it back with the right equipment.

not sure about my math here, you can rebuild a house here 30 percent bigger by volume. her foundation is about 30 percent bigger by area....then she added a full sized second floor.....

Full sized second floor, assuming a full size basement is already 50% increase in volume.

theres so many violations over there its crazy. theres no basement as the ground water where the house sits is about 30 inches deep. im guessing the house is 160 percent too big. the new septic is less than 50 feet from the lake (drinking water supply for the southern part of maine), supposed to be a minimum of 90 feet, its designed for 1 bathroom, theres 3 new ones. over 30 trees taken down and she got a permit to take down 17 and replant 17......a marina sets about 50 feet across the river with hundreds of nosy viewers daily. only thing i can think of is that the inspectors arent showing up. plumbing and wiring is already behind foam insulation and the sheet rock is up

Bellavista52 · July 22

First man on the moon @lousubcap! I took pictures of it off the tv !

DoubleEgger · July 22

RIP to The Prince of Darkness. They’ll never be another like you.

Legume · July 22

DoubleEgger said:

RIP to The Prince of Darkness. They’ll never be another like you.

So glad they managed to get that last show in.

WeberWho · July 22

The pellet smokers drip pan/defuser was pretty much a solid piece of rust. I took wire brush cup and was able to knock most of it down.

What I didn't realize was how bad the drip pan/defuser was warped when initially removing it from the grill. Feeling pretty good about how well the defuser cleaned up I set it back into place. This is when it realized I have a whole new issue. To the point where the grease might not even drain down to the grease trap given how warped the plate was.

I pounded the crap out of it trying to get it to lay straight with a plastic hammer. I was having no luck. It was getting dark out so I cut down a couple pieces of plywood to sandwich the plate between and clamped it down with 8 clamps overnight. I knew this wasn't going to work but I felt better not giving up before calling it a night. While the warp was better when removing the clamps this morning I knew it wasn't the right answer. It was time to get serious....

I ran and bought some flat steel stock early this morning. I cut down the flat stock into a couple pieces and drilled some holes into it. Now the plate had no other option than to sit flat!

With that out of they way I was able to take some time and clean up the grill. It cleaned up really nice.

It's currently warming up. Waiting patiently for it to come up to temp to make sure everything is working right. I still need to pick up some pellets for an actual cook. Signs are looking good that it's 100% functional.

Canugghead · July 22

^^^following. Research on heating pellets, don't be scared into buying so-called food grade pellets with infused flavours at quadruple the price.

GrateEggspectations · July 22

RIP Ozzy. Guess he finally went off the rails on his Crazy Train.

alaskanassasin · July 22

My nephews said they can both bench press 335lbs. I was pretty impressed so I thought I would share.

alaskanassasin · July 22

I’ll add that is seems like the one in high school is incapable of lifting a 40# bale of hay.

Ozzie_Isaac · July 22

alaskanassasin said:

I’ll add that is seems like the one in high school is incapable of lifting a 40# bale of hay.

Bales of hay are work.

Also, 335lbs is pretty serious, good on them - for a 200 lb male, that’s elite level weight.

Corv · July 23

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