Click below to watch a video tour of my plan for building a backyard meat smoker using a steel barrel. Add some plumbing valves and a ready-made grate, and you’ll be enjoying great tasting meat, fish and even vegetables. Download the printable plans below the video.
I hope you found this content useful!
Your generous support helps me produce more practical, hands-on content that I hope you’ll find useful.
Steve Maxwell
Keeping your car in good condition is vital if you want it to last as long as possible. By following a few simple maintenance tips, you can help prolong the life of your vehicle in big ways. Regular maintenance is…
Click below to watch how to reconfigure your seasonal water system so priming becomes much easier. This is part of lesson#9 from my video ebook KEEP IT FLOWING.
I’ve been doing some wood chipping lately with a tractor-mounted implement from Woodland Mills that I really like. I bought it in 2019. See this chipper in action in the video above.
Milling rough lumber for workshop woodworking projects saves money, but it also opens more creative possibilities than standard, pre-dressed lumber. Greater creative control is one reason I work with rough lumber when building furniture, but success demands more than just running boards…
Even though I have many outdoor power tools in my shop, including several gas-powered weedeaters and brush cutters, I still find it useful to have a good, old-fashioned scythe on hand. That’s the tool that’s sometimes depicted as being used…