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Re: Wood chunks for Smoking

Post by NASH » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:04 pm

Personally, I use almost strickly chopped up oak booze barrels. There's a huge amount of wood in one, and oak is a really great smoking wood.

That said, HH is a helluva lot closer to home and sells most kinds of wood chunks you'd ever want by the 10 lb bag:
https://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/inde ... R-I6432953


And these fellas used to sell lots of chunks for smoking, not sure if they still do but an email would yeild results one way or the other...
https://www.follymountaingrilling.com/home-1

Must be lots of other sources around this land of wilderness and woods, just to find someone that'll chop it up with a table saw, sans oils.

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Re: Wood chunks for Smoking

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:50 am

NASH wrote:Personally, I use almost strickly chopped up oak booze barrels. There's a huge amount of wood in one, and oak is a really great smoking wood.

That said, HH is a helluva lot closer to home and sells most kinds of wood chunks you'd ever want by the 10 lb bag:
https://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/inde ... R-I6432953


And these fellas used to sell lots of chunks for smoking, not sure if they still do but an email would yeild results one way or the other...
https://www.follymountaingrilling.com/home-1

Must be lots of other sources around this land of wilderness and woods, just to find someone that'll chop it up with a table saw, sans oils.
Definitely agree with using local. The bulk of my smoking wood comes from the maples in my backyard - they need a bit of trimming each year, so once trimmed, the chunks go into a bin for seasoning and get used the following year. The real bonus came when we cut down the apple free at my fathers place. That kept me going for a few years.

I've had a bit of oak from the local barrels as well and really liked that as well, but I ran out!

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Re: Wood chunks for Smoking

Post by Swine » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:12 pm

When you cut yours up, do you chunk and split before letting them dry? My dad has a couple of apple trees, he said I could take a couple of branches from it. May also sneak a branch from his pear tree...

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Re: Wood chunks for Smoking

Post by LeafMan66_67 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:53 pm

Swine wrote:When you cut yours up, do you chunk and split before letting them dry? My dad has a couple of apple trees, he said I could take a couple of branches from it. May also sneak a branch from his pear tree...
I chunk them up in 3" to 4" lengths and split anything that's more than 2" diameter.
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Re: Wood chunks for Smoking

Post by DanL » Mon May 31, 2021 8:07 am

Almost all companies that sell firewood do not sell logs or chips in small batches. I finally found someone named Sam who will. Call him at 902-864-4650 if you are interested. I'm hopeful that he can source some apple wood, but he has oak and maple for sure.

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