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Best smoker in aus
amun-ra:
buy from the club lone you missed a great meeting on the island hope to see you at the next one Mick
BeeMaster2:
--- Quote from: Lone on October 13, 2014, 03:54:25 am ---Thanks, Hotdog.
I was made aware a little while ago that some of the cheaper smokers don't have an extra valve, or something like that. I'm not sure how it works. There is another larger smoker here, but I think it has the problem of only the one inlet/outlet hole and doesn't seem to ever work too well. (My brother is a physicist and took all the brain cells before I was born so my brain has empty space in the physics department).
Looking around on the net, I've come across these smokers with an internal stove. http://www.bobsbeekeeping.com.au/product/listProduct/id/12/page/3 Does anyone know how they work and if they are any good or better than a regular smoker?
My other trouble is my Smoker person, and I want to make things as simple as possible for him. I have to instruct him on how to use a smoker every single time: not to blow flames or hot wind onto the bees, to smoke the bees when I need it where I am actually working and not over his shoulder out bush, to limit billows of smoke into my airways so there is a break for breathing, to smoke the opening when I lift the lid or super, to stop touching the hot smoker onto my hand, and to keep the thing going especially when working a hive with attitude. I keep him around because.... he loves his job.
It sounds sensible to buy a large aussie made SS smoker, so I'll look into that in the absence of a better working model.
Lone
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Lone,
Sounds like you are not packing your smoker tight with fuel after you get it lit. Here I use pine needles. When packed properly my smoker will burn un touched for about 5 hours. I would bet that I could pack that small smoker and have it last for at least 3 hours. When you pack it tight, the un burnt fuel acts like a cooling filter and stops any ashes and high heat from hitting your bees.
Schawee and, I think, maybe Hardwood that did a great video on this site on how to properly light a smoker. If I can find it I will post it on this site.
Jim
Lone:
Mick, I've got a feeling those club ones are the cheapies without that extra hole. I was working the day before maggie island unfortunately, but I can't understand why you went ahead and held the meeting without me :'( I'm going to try hard to make the next one.
Jim, I might have to go about 1500km to find a pine tree. I'm going to get new bellows for the small smoker too and then I'll have a standby for when my smoker man gets distracted and starts chatting with someone. My supply of hessian dwindled so recently I've been using coconut palm. I need to cut some up. I'd like to see that video (not sure it will help smoker man though)...
Lone
prestonpaul:
Beeco all the way. High quality, Australian made and works way better than the cheap Italian one I had previously.
jayj200:
try coconut husks they work well too
and they come compressed
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