My First Smokeouse

[pignut hickory]

I live in south east Texas on thirteen acres raise  sheep and chickens.For my smoke house wood I am using pignut hickory a hard wood a little harder than pecan and a little softer than hickory..We cut four trees 1 pine,1 pignut hickory,and 2 cypress on our land and had a band saw mill come to our home and cut lumber ..we got 2600 board feet of lumber..we will use pignut and cypress on smokehouse..

I will be posting pictures along the way and would love any suggestions along the way..

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• Jan 18, 2016

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• Jan 18, 2016

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• Jan 22, 2016

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• Jan 22, 2016

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• pignut hickory
• Jan 22, 2016

 

[gary s]

Looking good !!

Gary

 

[SmokinAl]

Very Nice, so far!!!!

Al

 

[Bearcarver]

Looking Good, Pignut !!! 

Is that a lake behind the Smokehouse???

Or my imagination?

Bear

 

[pignut hickory]

Thanks for comments ..yes Bear that's an old creek lake.. 

 

[pignut hickory]

Red oak chips ..Personal choice for smoking chicken..If anyone is ever down Texas way I would be happy to chip you 20 LBS for free your would or mine..

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• Jan 22, 2016

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• Jan 22, 2016

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• pignut hickory
• Jan 22, 2016

 

[gary s]

Now that's a nice guy,  But he is from Texas after all  !!!!     

  

   

Gary

 

[freiesleben]

That is a really nice build already :) 

Sounds interesting on the wood chips :) I am in Houston, TX how far is that from you :)

Soren

 

[pignut hickory]

Freiesleben.I'm at Bon Wier on LA/TX border 149 miles from you...We do sell blueberries you pick $6.00 ..so if you or your wife like blueberries June may be a good time to come .. 

 

[freiesleben]

Sounds really good, unfortunately we will be moving back to Denmark end May, so will not be able to make June, that would have been nice though :)

 

[pignut hickory]

Update on smokehouse ....

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• pignut hickory
• Jan 25, 2016

 

[gary s]

Now that's a cool smoke house  Love your design  

Gary

 

[pignut hickory]

Thanks Gary..Looks like no work today ..It's been raining all night with no end in sight..

 

[gary s]

 
Thanks Gary..Looks like no work today ..It's been raining all night with no end in sight..

Yeah you guys got the rain it missed us stayed south,  it was in the low 70's yesterday 40 right now

Sure going to have a nice smoker

Gary

 

[pignut hickory]

Hey Gary

Wife just cooked me an egg,green onion sausage,and sauerkraut breakfast burrito..and it sure was good ..a first time recipe..

 

[pignut hickory]

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• pignut hickory
• Feb 2, 2016

Added door

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• pignut hickory
• Feb 2, 2016

Build fire

 

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• Feb 2, 2016

hour

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• Feb 2, 2016

Two hours

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• Feb 2, 2016

hours

 

[gary s]

I really like the way it turned out  Nice Job   

Gary

 

[pignut hickory]

Thanks Gary it was a test smoke run...should get all my thermometers Thursday..

 

[Bearcarver]

Beautiful Job, Pignut!!!!

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I love it!!

Can't wait to see all the Awesome Smokes you're gonna put through that thing!!! 

Bear