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Abo:
Thanks Beadman I'll rig up that way it just so happens I have about a 1/3 piece of a drum that I can use. Do you just set the drum on the ground and get your coals going and go to smoking or do you need a draft hole?

Pappy:
I use punk wood and I want cool smoke, the longer and more smoke that rolls the darker it gets. I sew the hide up like a sack with the bottom open, the bottom [neck area]  I also have a pants leg from the pipe to the hide that goes over a pipe coming from my smoker/1/2 of a 55 gallon barrel with a hole in the top. I put hot coals under the barrel and then cover them with punk wood I have about 6 foot of pipe to cool the smoke before it gets to the hide, I don't want to cook it just smoke it and I want the smoke to penetrate the hide well for water proofing. :) Takes about 30 to 40 minutes a side if I have a good smoke rolling. You can also do like Eddie if you just want dark. ;)
 Pappy

Abo:
Thanks Pappy.

chamookman:
Steve Davis smokes His skins by hanging them in His TeePee, with a smudge fire. Bob

Pappy:
I have thought about making a smoke house to do several at a time and it would save sewing them up, the only problem is if all you want is the color that is fine, but to get true water proofing the smoke has  to penetrate through the hide and the Christos deposit from the smoke gets between the fibers to keep them from binding back after it gets wet so it will dry soft again without having to stretch and pull until it dries, that is what the sock does, if forces the smoke through the hide not just around it.  :)
Pappy

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