Homemade bbcue/Pig spit with pics

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For feet I just welded on some 1 inch round tube and used tent stakes to secure it to the soil.

Worked great....
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Whats your address and whens the next roast?
 
How did you keep the pig stationary on the spit, and not just have the spit turn with the body hanging in a dependant position? I don't see any lateral ties on the spit- just a tube.....
 
Doc said:
How did you keep the pig stationary on the spit, and not just have the spit turn with the body hanging in a dependant position? I don't see any lateral ties on the spit- just a tube.....
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Thanks for the comments...

I'll get some more pictures that show the 3-4 stubs of steel that basically are in the jowel, and two decending like legs. So there are three limbs not visible on the spit that we used to tie the pig and support it from just spinning in place.

We used kitchen twine to secure the pig, but after about 2 hours of cooking, the twine loosened and the meat began to loosen as well. I made a run and bought some stainless steel wire which after 3-4 tight loops secured it very well.

Distance from the fire.....Our research said to get the pig about 15-18 inches from the coals, which it was in this case. STill, it was a bit far. I think if I fabbed up some sheet metal umbrella, it would contain a bit more heat. The v shaped pit, lined with rock, radiated the heat rather nicely.

Cook time was about 6 hours for a 25 lb pig (15 weeks old). The meat temperature was over 145 (everything bad dies at 137) before serving. Though, we did wrap two hams and the head in foil and placed them right on the fire to make sure they were nice and cooked....
 
Oh...before I lubricated the spit with canola oil....the metal on metal made a horrendous screaching sound. While getting a beer inside I overheard my older son explaining to a younger neighbor kid that the screach was the sound of the pig being cooked.......I had to laugh....then quickly corrected him before the kid sprinted home in tears.
 
Build some walls around it with cinder blocks. The heat will stay in better..
 
Pretty Sweet!

This reminds me of a story from one of my real estate pals. He went on a listing interview for a nice home in a good neighborhood. The people were very proud of the built in spit that they paid 17k for in the back yard. After the agent went through his whole spiel and told the folks the house would be worth X, they got pissed because he wasn't taking into consideration the 17k that they had spent on the roasting pit. He got flustered, and blurted out that the spit may have cost 17k to construct, but it was going to cost 3k just to bulldoze it, and another 5k to fix the back yard.

Needless to say, he didn't get the listing. The home is still on the market almost a year later.. Pretty funny...
 
mattlock said:
Pretty Sweet!

This reminds me of a story from one of my real estate pals. He went on a listing interview for a nice home in a good neighborhood. The people were very proud of the built in spit that they paid 17k for in the back yard. After the agent went through his whole spiel and told the folks the house would be worth X, they got pissed because he wasn't taking into consideration the 17k that they had spent on the roasting pit. He got flustered, and blurted out that the spit may have cost 17k to construct, but it was going to cost 3k just to bulldoze it, and another 5k to fix the back yard.

Needless to say, he didn't get the listing. The home is still on the market almost a year later.. Pretty funny...
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Was this the "midget house" ?
 
ojaij40 said:
Was this the "midget house" ?
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Nah, it was a house on the west side, prime neighborhood, but the spit doesn't seem like a selling feature. I wish I had a pic I could show, because the thing is sweet, but, it takes a certain buyer to want a full fledged hog rotissery in their yard...
 
mattlock said:
Pretty Sweet!

This reminds me of a story from one of my real estate pals. He went on a listing interview for a nice home in a good neighborhood. The people were very proud of the built in spit that they paid 17k for in the back yard. After the agent went through his whole spiel and told the folks the house would be worth X, they got pissed because he wasn't taking into consideration the 17k that they had spent on the roasting pit. He got flustered, and blurted out that the spit may have cost 17k to construct, but it was going to cost 3k just to bulldoze it, and another 5k to fix the back yard.

Needless to say, he didn't get the listing. The home is still on the market almost a year later.. Pretty funny...
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Thats a funny story....
 
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