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  1. shawnwatson

    Struggling with Wood

    Cool, thanks. I just spent an hour trying to reach our local orchards and they either had phone numbers that didn't work (typical of this town) or, in one case, "the owner takes it all up to his cabin in the mountains." So I called our most popular smoke house and he laughed at my pecan...
  2. shawnwatson

    Struggling with Wood

    Yeah, there's got to be something around here besides that garbage from the grocery store.  I just need to get off my lazy arse and look.  Thanks for the tip. Shawn Edit:  I rarely see pecan as the recommended wood and I don't believe I've ever had anything smoked with it.  How is it, flavor-wise?
  3. shawnwatson

    Struggling with Wood

    I was doing the coal bed thing for awhile and it worked well for the first hour or so.  Then they would start dying down and I had to transition to straight wood and that caused problems and I still had five hours to go .  I bet that problem goes away with some decent wood to burn. And yeah, my...
  4. shawnwatson

    Struggling with Wood

    You're correct and I didn't realize it was a problem until after I had snapped those pics.  Another thing that helped with ash content was starting the fire from kindling instead of on a bed of coals. Good catch, though and thanks.  I sure appreciate you guys offering your help! Shawn
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  6. shawnwatson

    Struggling with Wood

    Thanks for the ideas, fellas. I had some luck placing my next chunk on the firebox until it was time but that still didn't cut it.  Last Sunday, I was able to get it to run right around 300* for just over an hour and, just like that, it went out and I killed my kitchen torch trying to fight it...
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    Thanks for all of the replies, fellas.  I've been under the weather and didn't receive any notification that anyone had responded anyways. Health permitting, I'll try to post up some pics of my set-up and answer your question. Thanks! Shawn
  14. shawnwatson

    Struggling with Wood

    Hello fellas!  New member with a question here: I'm using wood sourced from my local Albertson's and it's made me smoking experience extremely frustrating, to say the least.  The brand is "Barbeque Wood Flavors- Grillwood Mini Logs". It doesn't seem to matter where the dampers are, the stuff...
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