My Wood and Concrete Block Smokehouse build

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s9601694

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Sep 25, 2014
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Conroe, Texas
Well.. decided that is was time for a new project and to jump on the smokehouse bandwagon..

First things first:

the concrete slab:


My 6yr old helped me and got to write his name in the concrete.. A little larger than planned and i had to redo the design a little, but no problem!

I played around with the concrete blocks for a while and ended out with this design for the lower part (firebox and base):


half blocks on their side to connect the firebox to the smokehouse:


After an afternoon of masonry work (which i am not good at), this was the result:



I am pretty happy with how this first phase turned out! I am currently putting together the wood frame which i am pretty much designing as i go and I asked a friend of mine to weld  up a door with adjustable vent for the firebox which will be pretty big.. 


thanks for watching and i'm happy to receive feedback or answer any questions!
 
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I have never built a smokehouse but that looks like it s going to be awesome. Nice work.

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Be careful bringing up to temp. That style mortar blocks hold moisture and will break if you get them hot to fast. Is that going to be a fire box or will you transfer coals into it? Great looking build I like the idea.
 
Be careful bringing up to temp. That style mortar blocks hold moisture and will break if you get them hot to fast. Is that going to be a fire box or will you transfer coals into it? Great looking build I like the idea.
I'm thinking that i'll try to not go over 250F in this smokehouse.. Especially in the summer of South Texas that will be a hard thing to achieve.. So i think i will be sticking with coals and wood chips or chunks.. Try not to get i too hot!
 
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  Looks like a good start. I am watching this progress as well. That was the reason I joined, for building a smoker. Welcome to SMF and enjoy. Keep up with the pics. 
 
This is how far I got with the wood structure last weekend. Using regular premium studs for the frame and will probably use cedar for the outside.
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Fire box door installed and I lit a little fire! The smoke is going where it's supposed to and it has good heat coming out of it.

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Pretty much done! I blew my back out putting it on the concrete blocks but oh well.. now let's see what I can produce.. 99cdb0925cc07c192034acbdc67d6023.jpg 73a4c9cac042aa154e5f3beae6425034.jpg f038947adb97b97087e362c5ee029868.jpg e68eea245854bfe04cc8f7db9c34f8de.jpg


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