Piggy arrived late and did not get cleaned up. So there was more prep than I had hoped to spend time doing also still partly frozen. Gave piggy as good of a cleaning as I could. Injected apple juice and rubbed in the last of my Bad Byrons and the rest of Gizmo's rub. Put as much rub on as I could - all over the inside.
Also started to try to figure out what to do with this big boy to mount him for smoking in the bradley. First Issue, I wanted 10 to 12 pounds and got 14 lbs 8 oz. All the extra wieght seems to be in length.
Went through numerous periods of angist, panic and failure and finally decided to try some inside meat hook approach. The two clips by piggy are what i used - just some real heavy wire. One shaped with hooks to the outside and the other was shaped to go through the vent and grab the internally mounted hooks. Lots of visions about this pulling through especially when piggy got hot - but just pushed them out of my mind.
I gave the hook idea a test and it showed promise as seen below. A couple of lessons here is ... the rug on the floor in front of the sink should be moved to avoid dripping blood. A second lesson is you should put the pan on the floor right after you move the rug and before hanging up piggy. The third lesson is that if you put the pan on the floor and have already moved the rug before your wife comes into the kitchen it will extend your life. Anyway piggy did just fine while all this was going on so to the next photo. CAUTION THIS IS GRAPHIC and NOT FOR YOUNG VIEWERS.
Now you have to look closer than you might like... but you can see how well the internal hook has seated and how far "internal" it is located. I really needed to maximize how close piggy is to the top of the tower.
Now you see just how big of a fit problem I had. But he was in. I used a vice grip on the external hook to hold piggy. It would rotate perfect with the vice grip holding the external hook above the vent. The specs on his skin is the excess rub from the counter. Again, I intended to put all the rub on the inside but life is not perfect. When I knocked the half gallon of apple juice over i gotta admit i spilled some rub also.
Really things did look good at this point the mounting was working and other than piggy's ear being on the puck burner and not a puck, and his nose being on the bottom of the tower - and i still needed a water bowl and drip pan we were set... after all most of the sweat on my brow had stopped after the flurry of activity cleaning up the apple juice / blood / and my jar of rub.
