Curing Chamber from the box up My Build

[AmaxB]

I was so EXCITED this morning pulled a sample smoked some and have been smoking it all day! I thought hey good deal I can get this stuff out of my box and tomorrow start a batch of FLUE CURE.
Really want to see how it all works out, the racks, the box, all of it. But spent a big part of my day researching bright leaf and at what point do you want to harvest (prime) I want to get this right sooo bad.
The conclusion is I think my leaf needs to show more yellow than I am seeing so I am going to wait a little longer.

 

[Fisherman]

Here is a link that shows another curing chamber configuration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOhIiWV74s

Sorta like the racks you designed Also good footage of priming.

 

[AmaxB]

Great video full of information from health, to grow, types, and history...

 

[DonH]

Great video full of information from health, to grow, types, and history...

And an added bonus is the glorious English afro of that one historian. Wow!

 

[Fisherman]

Actually was a little bit biased for the History Channel. But the good parts were as good as the rest was slanted

 

[AmaxB]

I got a little more leaf to get out of the chamber will do it in maybe 2 more hours. Than I'll test the racks for fit (they will) if the weather is good tomorrow I'll start pulling leaf and get a load in to cure.
Can't wait to do this I want to see how much the racks will hold, and how the leaf works out yellowing and wilting.

 

[DGBAMA]

I am worried about the yellowing part for me this year. So far not warm enough to get any change on the plants and I think high humidity/low temps are going to slow things down a lot even after priming.

 

[Fisherman]

I got a little more leaf to get out of the chamber will do it in maybe 2 more hours. Than I'll test the racks for fit (they will) if the weather is good tomorrow I'll start pulling leaf and get a load in to cure.
Can't wait to do this I want to see how much the racks will hold, and how the leaf works out yellowing and wilting.

You are not alone bossman........... We are all waiting on pins and needles

 

[AmaxB]

DG I hung some in my garage just to see, we have high humidity temps in the 90s and rain every 2 -3 days the last week and a half. The leaf has been there about 2 weeks has not colored to yellow / orange but turned a nice light tan.

Leverhead you had said your watching to see how the racks work out and you might go that way in 2015. If you do, it took about 4 hours to blacken a rack I am sure you have access to a torch rig be sure your gas bottles are full and linseed oil worked great.

Checked the racks for fit last night and for a wee moment thought I screwed up, it was looking like I would not be able to close the chamber door because of my chamber window in the door (the window frame) was touching. But with a soft push it closed. They fit just right...... I don't need gasket material on the ends to seal large voids I got little cracks.

Fisherman non more than me.

 

[leverhead]

Leverhead you had said your watching to see how the racks work out and you might go that way in 2015. If you do, it took about 4 hours to blacken a rack I am sure you have access to a torch rig be sure your gas bottles are full and linseed oil worked great.

Checked the racks for fit last night and for a wee moment thought I screwed up....

For me 700 F is defrost, a warm oven is 1450 F, a hot oven is 2100 F. Just make sure your bricks are dry.

I'll bet checking the racks was a warm incontinence moment!

I wish you a big smile next week.

 

[AmaxB]

Thanks ---I got the smile now -incontinence- had to look that up **....---.....** the only ways I can think of that you have obtained a vocabulary of this sort are 1) Your a medical student or grad. 2) You just have an interest 3) You have problems. Hope they clear up!
Yeah Man Pissed me self slightly

 

[leverhead]

the only ways I can think of that you have obtained a vocabulary of this sort are....

Sometimes I need to be rude in polite company, I just use it for fun here. It's the most fun when the victim is the last one to understand what I said.

 

[AmaxB]

Sometimes I need to be rude in polite company, I just use it for fun here. It's the most fun when the victim is the last one to understand what I said.

 

[johnlee1933]

It's the most fun when the victim is the last one to understand what I said.

Yeah but isn't that kinda like shooting a dead horse?

 

[AmaxB]

Loaded Racks pics
Top 9 inches of one rack is VA brite the bottom is Stolak 17 / Top 9 inches of the other rack is Commom Smoking Tobacco the bottom is Kutsaga 110
I got em in the chamber.
A note here I will be starting a new thread for the Flue Curing
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[AmaxB]

Short video of the racked tobacco loaded in the chamber / am ready to start the flue curing of this tobacco.
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[Boboro]

Thats a nice stack of leaf. When I dry a lot of midrib in the kiln I some times get a soured smell. It goes away when it drys.

 

[AmaxB]

Don't know what it is going to smell like but will find out..

 

[Fisherman]

Mr Amax............... You are fearless I am here in south Texas rooting for you .

 

[Knucklehead]

That looks like the professional set ups. Good job.