Stick- I'm located waaay back in the holler in N. Central Kentucky. I built a rustic,Adirondack style building out of live-edge oak and tulip poplar boards about 16 years ago that is my wood house.I keep a bunch of various hardwoods in there-Red oak,hickory,apple,maple,cherry,grape vine,etc. Would sure like to score some alder logs and limbs for my fish smokes in the future! Maybe a road trip is in my plans!Never know with me!HA. Basically a cold smokehouse now with the fire box downhill about 8 feet. Fire brick lined with a heavy metal confinement lid . It draws phenominally well. Can get it to hold 70-80 degrees cwith no problem. Can also get it up much hotter. I'm sure I'll experiment with some hot smoking down the road-just don't want to burn the sum bit%% down quite yet!