big dude
Sous Chef
I've spent my entire adult life surrounded by the hardwood forest of East Tenn and never gave much thought to having ready supplies of hardwood, until I started reading about the difficulties of city dwellers and those from the deep south getting wood. I now know I'm blessed to be able to expend a little effort and have all the wood I want for smoking and my fireplace. This first pic is a pile of new oak (except the small cross stack hickory on the left) I just finished stacking. It's about 3'x 6' and all came from a piece of wood 25" long x 29" dia. I had to cut a large red oak that died and still have the 28" dia x 30' long main log to cut into firewood. I'm fortunate to have a farmer neighbor with a tractor mounted splitter. My other neighbor just brought me a load of hickory from some trees he had to cut to build a house. I hate that all of you are not as lucky as many of us in this respect and have to go long distances or pay high prices for your smoking wood.
A couple of pics of my cooking area, the wood on the smoker rack is wild cherry from local trees that blew down in a storm.
A picture looking down my drive at the wooded hillside. It looks the same in every direction except the trees are 30' from the house in two directions. Notice it's nearly are hardwood.
A couple of pics of my cooking area, the wood on the smoker rack is wild cherry from local trees that blew down in a storm.
A picture looking down my drive at the wooded hillside. It looks the same in every direction except the trees are 30' from the house in two directions. Notice it's nearly are hardwood.