[powispigs]

hello all!  built our own spit roast, collected our pig from abbatoir, got loads of charcoal.... how long will a 56kg pig take to cook?   

[robert waddell]

ages

[powispigs]

thanks          planning bout 10 hrs but just wondered if anyone had done it     

[robert waddell]

you need a temp probe as well

[powispigs]

got one!   

[skidley]

At least 14 hours I would have thought we did a 46kg tammie a couple of weeks ago and that took just over 12.

OH home made spit can lift the heat up as well so it had a couple of hours at the end of cooking with the oil drums closer to the pig.

[welshlass181]

What kind of motor are you using to turn the spit?  I've got an electric one but it's not powerful enough to turn a weaner hehe (i had to cut it in half)

[powispigs]

our new holland t6080 powered the motor attached to PTO, we did it yesterday and it was about 14hrs. Absolutely beautiful!!!   

[robert waddell]

are you sure there was enough power in that tractor to turn the spit

[powispigs]

it was a struggle but it just about coped       lack of free time to modify the motor we had - worked brillantly 

[robert waddell]

the motors from the electric wheelchairs work best

[skidley]

My OH used an old stannah stairlift motor!

[Barrett]

Wheel chair motors and stair lift motors I do hope there is not cruelty to the elderly going on out there, I do hope the owners of the machines are not the ones being made to turn the hog roasts

[tobytoby]

Can someone post an idiots guide to DIY hog roasting, how you set it up etc, and maybe some photos?

[powispigs]

that is a photo - if it has worked - of our hog roast, oil drum cut in half and welded together!