Clearin g an auger jam - Michigan style

Former Member

Had the auger on one of the FE's jam just after putting ribs on at Dundee. Didn't find out until I went to baste an hour later and found a cold pit. Managed to cook on the other one but it sure changed the process around. No way we could clear it Saturday morning. Thanks to John Ford for the help and advice.

Now to how you cleat a jam in Michigan. Load the pit on a trailer. Drive aorund some back roads for 50 miles then do 130 on the Eway hitting the odd rumble strip when your in the construction zone. Get home, plug in FE and the auger starts feeding right away. Lots of pellets came out but they were kind of small pieces.

7/9/062:17 PM

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Former Member

Good fix. When you get a jam, just relax, load the trailer and drive on bad roads.

7/10/068:12 AM

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Former Member

I guess our roads in Illinois aren't that good then... Ours are too smooth and I had to clear mine out when I got home from Shannon... ;-)

See you on Friday Ford.

7/10/069:59 AM

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fasteddyMember

Quality of power at these cookoffs are a huge deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don't know what your getting, you may think it's a jam but it's not. Don't think because your plugged in a cookoff that the power is good. You should have a meter and monitor it in your trailer or RV. If it's low use you inverter on your RV battery instead.

7/10/0611:07 AM

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Former Member

You don't need to tell me twice Eddy. ;-) Thanks for the help yesterday. I'll be using my invertor from now on.

7/10/061:48 PM

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Former Member

Eddy - I was plugged in to my motor home generator and it is 7000 watts of good power. But I agree with you on supplied power. I have a new jump start unit that is just 300 watts but it should be enough to run the 2 fe's is I don't havethe motorhome an power is bad.

Think I'm starting to figure out how to cook on the FE finally. I'm going after Scottie this weekend.

7/11/068:14 PM

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Former Member

Me? I think I maybe finished 6th last year. You might think higher and try the 2 time defending champs... ;-)

7/12/069:34 AM

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