When I smoke, and I only want to burn 3 or 5 pucks, it takes 5 or 7 in the tube just to advance the last needed disk in my smoke time, then the last one before the burner seems to burn a little without even being on the main burner, and the very last one I need to manually remove it after I'm done...
How can I stop the waste of pucks, is there a ceramic puck or something else to use to advance the last puck in the burn...
BcBobster
Snag'm Smok'm and Bag'm
Get yourself some bubba pucks from www.chezbubba.com It is exactly what you need. They have very fast and friendly service.
Steve
Steve
Funny you should ask.....Bubba Pucks are available from http://www.chezbubba.com. Spun aluminum the size of a puck. I use two with one more puck in the tube when I smoke. the last puck on top pushes the aluminum over the heater plate, and just stays there during the smoke and final hours in the smoker without smoke.
Bill
<i>There is room on earth for all God's creatures....on my plate next to the mashed potatoes.</i>
Buy 3 BCB, Kummok NEEDS a bigger boat![:D][:D][;)]
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
Kummok,
You are a riot. I don't know how we keep this forum together during your off season. I guess we'll just all have to come up to Alaska to see wus up after you sign off for the season....
and.....I will finally break down and order some Bubba Pucks this week since.....
Kummok Needs a BIGGER Boat!!!!![:D][:D][:D]
and you know what.....those drying racks are looking pretty tempting...
Later,
Doug
Jaeger,
Sprechen sie deutch?
Kirche
http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?
Come on up Doug!! We should have a Bradley convention up here!! Of course, I can only put up 4 people in two beds so they'd better be married or REAL secure about their manliness (is that a word?) [:D][;)]
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
Kummok,
I couldn't think of a better place for a convention! As far as sleeping arrangements....not to worry, we're a pretty tight bunch here..eh...
by the way, just out of curiosity, do you do any big game hunting up there???
Doug
Just a word of advice - and this is from personal experience:
don't try to take the aluminum pucks out of the smoker right at the end of the smoke. Let them cool down a while first. Even if you think you can quickly snatch them with an oven mitt on and get them out of the smoker, you can't.
Pete[:I]
Does that mean you have some "Bubba blisters?" No extra charge! [:D] [:D]
Bill
<i>There is room on earth for all God's creatures....on my plate next to the mashed potatoes.</i>
RhinoDoc:
You REALLY should post a "Cover Monitor" warning before you post stuff like that....I've been wiping up "sprayed coffee" all morning after reading your post[:D][:D][:D][:D]
Bill:
GREAT IDEA!! Hmmmmm......Bubba Juice (bottled cold water) to pour on burned fingers, sold as an accessory to Bubba Pucks.....Big Boat[:p],Big Boat[:p],Big Boat[:p],Big Boat[:p] [:D][:D][:D]
35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
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<br />Kummok,
.......by the way, just out of curiosity, do you do any big game hunting up there???
Doug
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Doug
Sorry about the photo quality...they were taken during remodel projects....
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/DadsMounts.jpg)
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35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
Nice pictures Kummok! What an awesome view off your deck. (of course, you probably have an awesome view out of any window in your house!!!)
Doug
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Hey Kummok,
What is that mount that appears to be "under glass" must be a display case of some sort...the one between the caribou and the sheep?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/whitetailfan/wtbuck.bmp)
<font color="green">whitetailfan</font id="green">
"Nice Rack"
Lethbridge, AB
Kummok!!!
Thats it, <b><font color="blue"><font size="2">I AN FEAK'N JELOUS and EVEN ON MY WAY TO SINN"N LOKING AT YOUR PICS.</font id="size2"> </font id="blue"></b> Simply bea~utifullll. After my boat ride to AK, I have always loved the place, cold, no~cold, I don't care, it's a wonderful place. Seems like great people and just a great way of life. Hate that corprate crap...However one problem with your pics...<b><b><font color="red">NO DUCK MOUNTS!</font id="red"> </b> </b>
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SmokeOn,
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mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie
If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...
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<br />.....However one problem with your pics...<b><b><font color="red">NO DUCK MOUNTS!</font id="red"> </b> </b><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Sorry about that mistake, MW......We ARE Equal Opportunity hunters here!! [:D][:D][8D]
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/AKDucks.jpg)
P.S. to WTF....That trophy in the glass case is a "yellow belly crawling lilly livered PETA wacko". We are infested by them at times so they allow us aerial hunting permits to make cleanup easier...Not much sport, but necessary for population control[;)][:D] (Actually, the guy is "Larry", a pretty cool local helping put in new glass!)
35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
Kummok,
Nice veiw~<b><font color="blue">thats it's I writing to Chamber of Commerse on moving a sugestions. Youve got Ducks! </font id="blue"></b>Nice to see that you are well rounded hunter. Nice Woody mount, I have a Hen and a drake. Did not know they had Woodies in AK. Is that other mount a Sqwall(sp?), some sea duck or something??
Signed,ENVIOUS.
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SmokeOn,
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mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie
If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...
Where is the fly tying desk? Got to have a fly tying desk in Alaska!!! I figure as a fisherman...you got to hit the salmon runs with a fly rod once in a while!! that is my dream trip...fly fished all over Colorado and the carribean...one day will hook up a couple of alaskan salmon on my fly rod...These colorado stockers are nice...but nothig like a sea run salmon for a good fight...then back to the water it goes to make more!!
I am in the process of finishing my basement...it will come with a 12 ft long bar....keg mister included...a view of mount royal...goes up to 12,000 ft....and a fly tying desk that will probably be close to 8 ft long...a man has to have a hobby...and has to have a beer to do his hobby. I have always figured if you can't enjoy a beer with your hobby...what is the use of having a hobby!!
Isn't it awesome to live in gods country?? 15 inches of new powder...just waiting for me!! We got three seasons where I live....Ski season...mud season(run off)...fishing season...just about like alaska!![;)] but we don't have the big salmon.
No fly tying desk Andy...at least not yet[;)] I leave that to my son-in-law when he comes up each summer! Besides, there's too many guns taking up space right now to add any more hobbies. Building a private museum this year if things go as planned. Then I'll be able to move all the gun collection and other collectible "stuff" to the museum, freeing up space for new toys[:D][:D] Museum will also look out on Bay/mountains/glaciers from the upper level of new building w/ shop/garage below....need space to store and work on boat, quads, snowmachines, old motorcylces, etc.
Sounds like you also have a piece of God's Country...there's a LOT of it out there and Alaska, puuuurty as it is, doesn't have the corner on grandeur. Not too long ago we were looking at 20 acres in waaaay northern Montana. It was timbered piece on a hill with a small open pasture looking out across the Tobacco Valley to 90 mile long Lake Koocanusa and the West Kootenai Mts....elk herd passed through it and flocks of wild turkey wouldn't move outta the way of my noisy Ford PSD! Then there's the Yucatan Peninsula, The Jaspers, Snake River Canyon, and the......well, suffice it to say that God IS the Master World Builder**!! [:D][:D]
MW:
http://www.homeralaska.org/relocation.htm Come on up, there's still lot's of room, but bring a source of income because the work opportunties come and go[xx(] Not a problem for someone who doesn't mind hard work and sacrifice for a year or two. I shoveled herring from the holds of fishing boats years ago until firefighting in the Interior started paying well.
The white duck is called an "Old Squaw" and it's in its winter plumege (sp?) Got to be honest though, I was funning with you....I didn't hunt them[;)] They were a gift to my dad from a local biologist. They are native species and are hunted up at the head of the Bay...guys go in to the closest safe harbor in their fishing boats, then take small boats up the estuary fingers or four-wheelers along the beach to their duck shacks to hunt these things. I've never developed a taste for duck so I don't hunt them. Could be like salmon to some folks though....maybe I just never tasted it cooked or smoked right?!?![:)]
35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
**
He's pretty awesome in the special FX department also[8D] (taken on a recent morning from the front deck...similar colors to smoked salmon)[;)]
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/Sunrise.jpg)
Kummok,
After all the stuff with the in-laws around my part, seeing that last picture......Baby I do dream, Oh how I dream....Thanks for the pic. You know, some times, and I do mean (very) sometimes, the grass could be greener. Darn it, slap me so I can wake up. Folks if you only knew..... Hay I have 2 great kids, a hot and foxy wife, and my house IS paid off on 46 arces, I am very Thankful and Blessed. So goes the greener grass.
I thought that was an Old Squaw...
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SmokeOn,
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mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie
If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...
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<br />Kummok,
After all the stuff with the in-laws around my part, seeing that last picture......Baby I do dream, Oh how I dream....Thanks for the pic. You know, some times, and I do mean (very) sometimes, the grass could be greener. Darn it, slap me so I can wake up. Folks if you only knew..... Hay I have 2 great kids, a hot and foxy wife, and my house IS paid off on 46 arces, I am very Thankful and Blessed. So goes the greener grass.
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S' okay MW.....probably wouldn't like it here much anyway....water's <b><font color="maroon">too rough</font id="maroon"></b>...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/Untangled.jpg)
And the fish are <b><font color="maroon">too small</font id="maroon"></b>....(My neighbor, Bob, who's kid also caught a world record Ling Cod)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/Kummok/123-2336_IMG_2.jpg)
[:D][}:)][;)][:D]
35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
Kummock- you are a fortunate one!! I sure am glad you have a camera. [:D][:p]
Cold Smoke
Uh, Kummock . . . have your read the Geneva Convention on what constitutes torture??? [;)]
John
Newton MA
That is a <b><font color="blue">Helluvahalibut</font id="blue"></b> there.
I just thinking,>>>>>greener grass, YYaaa maybe... Thanks for rubbing it in, keep those dreaming pics coming.
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SmokeOn,
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mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie
If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...
Kummok.....I am so impressed. Those pics are fantastic. Keep adding to the collection pal.....Love 'em!!!
Ernie....Weymouth, MA
These are some of the best pictures I have seen Kummok. That sky line is absolutely beautiful. I agree with Humpa keep them comin.
Thank you for sharing them!!
Steve
I don't know about living there, but I'm telling you guys, if you don't go visit at least once, you're nuts! I've never had such a WOW!-filled vacation in my life.
Kirk
http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?
OK Chez....let's go!!!! BTW bring your fishing rod!!
Ernie....Weymouth, MA
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<br />I don't know about living there, but I'm telling you guys, if you don't go visit at least once, you're nuts! I've never had such a WOW!-filled vacation in my life.
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Bubba has it SOOO right, been there and there is nothing like it. Forget those cruses to the Caribean, go to AK.
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mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie
If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...
Unless you really enjoy the cruise boats, I wouldn't do that again. We had a <b>MUCH</b> better time the week & 1/2 preceding compared to the week on the boat.
All the boat ports are "Vegas-style" and don't really give you a true sense of the area. The "excursions" they offer are touristy and WAY overpriced. You can manage to set up your own at a fraction of the cost if you do a little homework.
Some things are expensive no matter what, but when you realize these people only have a 4 month window to make their money on 12 months of maintenance, it makes sense. Car rental=$1000.00/week. You can stay at Fleabag Bob's Motor Inn with <b>COLOR</b> TV for $175.00 a night, or spend $225.00 for the Hilton.
Then again, the boat ain't cheap either. Once you do the math, we were paying $650.00 a day to be on the boat. <b>Plus $3.50 a beer![:(!] Even in the casino!</b> Pop was a bargain, only $1.75.[:(!] Yes we could have saved some money & got a lesser room, but I can't think for the life of me how I would be able to stand 7 days staying in those closet sized interior "rooms".
What also amazed me was the people in AK. They're the largest group of courteous, kind & helpful people I think I've ever been around. In 2-1/2 weeks of being up there, I interacted with <b>one</b> person I would label an asshole.
You won't regret it.....
Kirk
http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?
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C'mon CB, I wasn't THAT bad....I even fed ya local brew berries!![:D][;)]
P.S. Folks COULD stay at Dirtbag Sandy's "Captain's Cabin" for a lot less! No color TV, but the "Bay view channel" on the front porch has many great reruns!! [;)][:D][:D]
35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA
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<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Chez Bubba</i>
<br />.... In 2-1/2 weeks of being up there, I interacted with <b>one</b> person I would label an asshole.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
C'mon CB, I wasn't THAT bad....<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">We both know that statement is about the farthest from the truth as it could possibly be![8D][8D]
http://www.chezbubba.com
Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?
Kirk,
I can agree about the boat deal but a couple of thoughts. This was the Hen Mallards and I second cruse, we kind of knew what was coming. A cruse it what you make it, some of the off shore things can get expensive but you can have a great time without all those things, remeber you are talking to cheap butt here.
The worst part of the boat is who you might get stuck with at the dining hour. Some day I will tell you the story on how me missed the first day of the trip but any way we cought up with the boat in Kechikan and we had to take what was left and we got stuck with these well seasoned (over seasoned)(6 of them) crusers lets call them, we did not fit into ther style of stuff at all. That was worst time we had was sitting with those know it all's and them trying to tell us how to do things. About the Vegas type stuff, not for us either but I will tell you this I will ALWAYS remeber the time I spent with my wife sitting on the back of the boat with a great cup of coffee while EVERYONE else was doing the vegas thing. The day/dusk light way into the evening, very few other people using that place on the boat. WE LOVED IT and was tooo beauuutiful.
However I do understand that many boats have cured seating issues with a much more diverse dinner times avaulable. This was a few years ago, I beleive, with air fair, it cost us 2700 for two, nearly 400 a day, it was worth it to us anyway.
This kid will do the boat thing again
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SmokeOn,
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mski
Perryville, Arkansas
Wooo-Pig-Soooie
If a man says he knows anything at all, he knows nothing what he aught to know. But...
Cruises are not exactly a BS Forum topic, but what the heck . . . I can add my $.02 here . . .
Our family took our first ever cruise last Christmas on a big Royal Caribbean ship, cruising the southern Caribbean. It was great, because my wife and our 22, 20, and 14 year old kids (and our best friend's who have 19 and 22 year old children) all had plenty of things to do without having to be together except when we wanted to be (dinner, occasional excursions, etc). That was exactly what we wanted, since it was the last holiday season where all of us are together (the oldest is graduating from college in May). One or two nights we did the Vegas thing, most nights we had a drink on the top deck looking at the beautiful sunsets--just like Duck-man said. Couldn't care less about dinner times . . . there's always good food available 24/7.
Total cost per adult was about $220/day, plus air fare from Boston-Puerto Rico (another $400). If we go again in a year or two, we'll take a cruise out of a Florida port during Jan-Mar, but not a vacation time. The air fare will be about $250 and the cruise about $100/day. Even with tips and the bar bill, the cost is <$130/day plus the air fare for a week of complete relaxation. We loved it as a "change of pace" vaca and as a "family reunion" type vaca.
John
Newton MA