Got tired of smoke and such on the bottom of the pans when cooking over the fire at the campsite so took a load of cement block and stove parts down there and put them together to make something to cook on.

Spent part of the afternoon today (wed) with a shovel and bucket getting dirt and filling the cavities in the block. After getting them packed I got a bucket of dirt and added water and mixed till a nice mud was formed. After 2 buckets of mud was applied and worked into the block around the top, front and sides are close to done and well covered. Got a fire in it to dry it as much as possible. Will have a lot of cracks to fill this way but will get it done quick. And it’s dirt cheap! 😉

Next step is to build a large smoker chamber on the back where the flue comes out. Gonna try to build it to take refrigerator shelving. Figure if I build it with a 4 foot high area with the width and depth of the fridge trays that should allow up to 200 pounds of meat to be smoked and/or slow cooked at a time.

Will try to get some pix of the basic stove sans smoker tomorrow.