“As a farm kid, I grew up with a smokehouse right outside the house in the front yard.
It was a small brick structure without any door. My parents called it a smokehouse, but it was never used to smoke anything.
The sole purpose of the “smokehouse” was to burn things… garbage, boxes, etc. Eventually they removed the smokehouse from the front yard to construct a fence.
Jesse started talking about building a smokehouse soon after we bought the farm. He finally turned his vision into a reality last summer. After a lot of research and sketches, he came up with a design…”
My grandparents had one on the farm… now it had a door and could hold entire winter worth of different meats…. by the front door my grandmother had a bucket for a lye drip in the corner… My granddad had 2 bushel baskets by the door on other side… one with hickory one with apple… he had turkeys, pork, deer, beef, fish, even chicken hanging from the rafters on hooks…. he had enough that he’d barter with others for what he needed / wanted. It was the size of a small bedroom had a fire in the middle in depression. made out of cedar like the barn….now the meat got moved when it was cooked but it never went bad… I’ve always wondered about that as to why..? any opinions on this please? thanks, Pam / CO
Jeff Urness
i wouldn’t bother with the asphalt shingles, but this is pretty much the design i was thinking about.