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naw, i was being serious, thats why i said something about email the other day.. a thin steel should be ok for flashing, but a plywood enclousre would probly need a couple of fires in it first to season it, right?

also, a steel fire pot should be ok..i think.

We lined the lower interior of ours with the .020" gauge SS roofing flashing. That keeps the radiant heat direstcly off the wood sides and will not burn the frame. Yes we have a hardwood plywood frame that has been "seasoned" many many times over. But the heat your smoking at is lower than what will burn the wood.

You have to understand the basic physics of a smokehouse; you have a heat source in the bottom that is pushing heat to the top, rising vertically. The walls contain it but the flow is from a bottom front vent to a top back vent, so your heat, and likewise your smoke, is contantly travelling upward. You're containing the heat but allowing it to flow in a regulated manner up and out; it's not staying still and overheating the sides. Yet, your temp is holding at 250°-280° in the center of the upper chamber as heat rises and that's where you want it at.

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Posted by Ole Geauxt

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Posted on 11/15/12 at 10:32 pm to pochejp

Ours was a 20x20 ft. made with logs and chinking, just like the log cabins.. they were built by workers on the farm.. inside it had curing boxes, where we put hams in salt for a certain number of days then hung hams and sausage from the rafters. In the middle of the room, there was a fire pit on the dirt floor.. I've always wanted to recreate something similar, but on a smaller scale.. Then I saw yours and figured that was the answer to my 30 year "want"... BUT, everybody I talk to about materials have mentioned fumes,,, but, you're right, it's not gonna get hot enough to allow toxins to "burn off" of the materials..

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