re: If you could buy a new smoker?

I have an older upright, bullet type smoker with the coal/wood pan in the bottom then the water pan and then 2 grates for product. It has worked great for several years now and just last week I smoked two 10 lb. Boston Butts on it with great results.

I just finished building a cold smoker so I can do salmon, jerky and make my own bacon using pork bellies. The box is complete and it 4 ft. tall, 15 inches deep and 25 inches wide, had 3 wire shelves in it for now with room for at least 2 more if I decide to put more in it. The way it is now, I could put at least 30 lbs. of sausage at a time to slow smoke or about 6 full size pork bellies and enough jerky to keep me in it for months at a time.

All I'm waiting for to use it is to finish my fire box that will sit about 5 ft. away from it so the box can maintain a temperature between 80-90 degrees once it starts smoking things.