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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: powispigs on September 23, 2011, 05:37:31 pm

Title: hog roast
Post by: powispigs on September 23, 2011, 05:37:31 pm

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????   :pig:

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: robert waddell on September 23, 2011, 05:40:24 pm

ages ;)

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: powispigs on September 23, 2011, 05:42:15 pm

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

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: robert waddell on September 23, 2011, 06:40:47 pm

you need a temp probe as well :farmer:

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: powispigs on September 23, 2011, 06:47:02 pm

got one!   :)

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: skidley on September 24, 2011, 12:43:03 pm

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.

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: welshlass181 on September 25, 2011, 05:17:28 pm

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)

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: powispigs on September 25, 2011, 08:24:06 pm

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

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: robert waddell on September 25, 2011, 08:39:06 pm

are you sure there was enough power in that tractor to turn the spit ;D :farmer: ;D

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: powispigs on September 25, 2011, 08:42:41 pm

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

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: robert waddell on September 25, 2011, 09:08:25 pm

the motors from the electric wheelchairs work best :farmer:

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: skidley on September 25, 2011, 09:16:09 pm

My OH used an old stannah stairlift motor!

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: Barrett on September 26, 2011, 12:54:50 pm

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 ;D

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: tobytoby on September 26, 2011, 07:17:44 pm

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

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: powispigs on September 27, 2011, 07:40:11 am

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

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: robert waddell on September 27, 2011, 08:37:58 am

well that is a new twist on pigs in blankets :D :farmer: :D

Title: Re: hog roast
Post by: Blonde on October 01, 2011, 11:01:07 am

Quote from: powispigs on September 23, 2011, 05:37:31 pm

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????   :pig:

About 6 - 7 hours in an oven that does not rotate, but cooks with gas.