Pine Log Smokehouse?

[Wolfemann3]

Hi all,

Brand new user here. I searches for an answer to my question but havent found what I am looking for.

My friends and I have been making and smoking our own pork sausage for many years now and it is time to build a new smokehouse. We have a wild idea of making it in a lincoln-log butt and pass style construction and I am wondering if using only pine logs would create a fouling odor/smoke given the pitch and terpenes in pines. Ponderosa pines grow abundantly here so we considered using them simply because they would be easily procured. Thoughts?

 

[archeryrob]

No it will be fine. Pitch could run out of the wood on the inside if you hot smoke, but it won't bother the meat. Some of my 2x4's did that.