- Nov 13, 2017
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You don't need wood to create a good smoked flavor, but it does bring it up a notch. I've smoked many meals on nothing but charcoal on my cylindrical brinkman back in the day. Charcoal after all, is wood. Over the years, I started adding chips of mesquite or hickory, and now I only use charcoal to help get the wood going and occasionally throw some in to keep the ember base. I get all the wood I need for free, you can too! Contact local tree services, they'll probably even deliver. You may need to buy a chainsaw and/or a log splitter, but talk to them as they may offer that cut-to-length/split for a small fee. Most of them have to pay to dispose of logs, so it saves them $$ to give it away or work with you. I have to buy mesquite as it doesn't grow in NJ, all other wood is NP for me, but then I fix chainsaws etc. at my "other" job.Thank you. Well, since im fairly new to smoking i dont want to spend money on wood since i seem to go through it fast. But i might just have to stop being cheap and buying some. There are no leaves but ive been looking around the neighborhood for similar trees and i think its some sort of tree with needles.