Air is your best insulator. Another chimney idea is insulated outdoor chimney. Wrapped in stainless.

You could easily put a cover on your chimney. A piece of tin riveted or screwed to the chimney would keep rain off of it. You could also put a coat of high temp paint on it.

This is a very clear and articulate video, without all the needless speech. You get right to the point and those points are important ones. Simple, easy, yet detailed and specific. You are no politician or used car salesman, that's for sure. I'm going to watch a lot more of your videos. THANKS

"Seems like every time I want to smoke anything the wind starts to blowing". The story of my life, too. Thumbs up!

Just a suggestion, use firebricks to line your smokehouse walls, then cover with 1x12 boards, which will give you insulation, and the wood will absorb the smell of the smoke and with hot and cold, will breathe aroma back during heat cycle. The same principle as oak whiskey barrels breathing in bonded warehouses during aging process.

This is one of the best videos of making a smoke house I've seen

You put a lot of thought into your smokehouse. Thank you for all that you have shared. It will certainly help me when I build mine.

This smokehouse is just fantastic. I truly envy this and when I move into my own home, I very much look forward to trying to copy what you did here. Really, excellent work. Something to be proud of.

One of the best videos I've watched. Clear and to the point. Well done!

Good looking smoker. Thanks for sharing. This is definitely on my to-do list

The best straight forward description and design I’ve seen so far. This is what I’ll model mine off of

one of the best smoke house i've seen so far,great thinking

Thank you for the good information. I saw this one when I was watching the one on curing bacon, I'll go look for the sausage one. I received your sweet potato manual a couple of days ago, it is a good one and now I basically have that video plus some history in print so it is all still here if the lights go out. Have a good one and as Mr. Spock says, Live long and Prosper. J.R.

What a great smokehouse! My father was a butcher, so I grew up on homemade hams, sausage etc. Come fall was a very busy time for him, for he would butcher for all the neighbors. I have been wanting my own smokehouse for more years than I care to remember to share the art of smoking with my now grown sons and grandchildren. You gave me many great ideas for mine. Thanks for sharing.

More binge watching KZfaq videos by deepsouth homestead! It’s become a part of my daily routine!! Y’all are such a blessing! I’m Learning more and more each video I watch. God Bless y’all!

Excellent video! It gives me a lot of details to build my own. It shows how well you planned the project which I will apply to mine. Thank you very much!

Thank you for showing us your smokehouse. Great ideas you used.

That is a great, meticulously planned structure. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Danny and Wanda: you are in my deepest thoughts and prayers for recovery. Love you guys. If there's anything we northerners can do for you please ask. If i can do it I most certainly will. Praying for the best outcome

Good looking smoke house, thanks for the tour

Danny you have a really nice smoke house you have done a beautiful job and lots of thought in building it God Bless .

Good smokehouse. Thank you for taking the time to make a video about it.

Very nice work sir. It is great to see a smokehouse built by someone with real world construction experience. Thank you for sharing the reasoning behind most aspects of your construction.

Now that is a nice smokehouse! In times of no refrigeration,smoking will be one of the only ways of preserving food. I definitley need to do something about that.

A lot of good ideas in here. Thank you for sharing them

Excellent design! As for insulation, I'd use Reflectix behind the metal.

Wow buddy you did a great job. I am really impressed. I’m going to try to build me one this summer. Thank you so much for this knowledge that I never had but am learning.

Wow. Awesome video. Glad you have thus venue to pass along all this priceless knowledge to future generations. Thanks for sharing.

What a solid smokehouse! Fantastic job!👍

Tnx for sharing, very helpful.

A smokehouse that is simple,nice, and effective is very hard to come by but you have nailed it my friend

Well thought out. Thanks for sharing.

Definitely a project to do soon! Thanks for the good explanation.

You are such a wealth of information. You can make anything! You remind me of my dad. He is very resourceful too!

This is something we want to build in the future. Thanks for explaining everything!

Thankyou Sir! Very informative. & insightful.

Beautiful job. Thank you.

Thank you for keeping our culture alive 💓 we have such a beautiful, strong heritage ✊🏻

That is THE BEST instructional video I have seen on smokers (as all of your videos are!!!). EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE and PRECISE. Keep up the good work. You are teaching me many, many things.

Very cool and nicely thought through. Thanks for sharing

Now that’s a Jim dandy smoke house. Really like the fire box design

Very well thought out and put together

You sir are brilliant. Thank you and God bless you.

oh wow...I have been wanting one for a while. Thanks for the video!

WOW .... you have set the bar really high for the rest of us. Nice.

Excellent job. Thank you.

Just brilliant 👌🏻 thank you for sharing you knowledge 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Most information on a smoke house ,, Thank yu ..

Looks good, and well thought out 👍

Outstanding smokehouse! Really like the design of it.

This is great instructional video. Thanks

Good job. Thanks for the video, sir!

Thanks for the good description of the design and the reasoning behind the design. The subject of insulation interests me... Possibly put some rigid insulation on the outside of the wall and sandwich it between another sheathing of some kind.... perhaps corrugated sheet metal.

Excellent video. Very helpful. Thanks!

Great Information Right to the point, no jibber jabber Nice smoke house Well done Thanks Hammer Down

We just found your channel it is GREAT!!! We are on the same thought process as y'all are prepare prepare prepare... we are going to make it a goal to watch all of your videos,as fast as we can.... times sure are changing. Blessings to you and yours

Nice work and ty for sharing. thumbs up!!!

Love the smoke hours.thank for sharing.my friend.

So glad to see cold smoking coming back.

Amazing video - very informative. I am beginning to think I might be able to build one of my own. I hope you will be doing a video about maintaining the fire, how you go about it, monitoring it and tips on what to do and not do. That would be great! Please, keep these wonderful videos coming!

That is a nicely built smokehouse sir! Definitely shows the skills and knowledge you gained during your construction business.

Nice smoke house! Thanks for all the tips!

Outstanding job!!!!!!

It's a great little smoke house looking to build one thanks. God-bless

Nice. Very much needed on my farm.

Great video ! Very informative and too the point !!! 👍

Nice piece of work. Like your way of thinking.

AWESOME!!!

This was very informative. Thank you!

Great design, thinking I’ll build one.

Great video. Informative and interesting. Brilliant design. I'm going to check your channel out to see if there are some videos about operating this great smokehouse....which would be awesome. Also, what you then do with the smoked meats would round the story off to perfection.

Thanks for your expertise on the smoking of meat. You have the best idea I have seen. I plan to build mine according to your specs. New subscriber...I loved your video! l

Great smokehouse build, I've been wanting one for a while, but right now we're still in the development stage. (mostly due to we don't own were we live, but we're working on that as well)

Great work and a very inspirational video.

This is one of the projects I want to do next summer. Thanks for the good ideas.

wow you are so smart when it comes to this stuff. thanks for the info man

Another awesome video thanks for taking the time to share.

Flawless, thanks👍🏼

Great video!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge y'all. Sharon from Habitat Homestead YT Channel

Excellent. Great useful info. Thank you. Shared!!!!

Great information can always rely on it could also the man to get things street I'm planning on building one just like yours I appreciate it and I do have stainless steel double pipe

Great ideas for your smoke house. I plan to build one next year. George Washington had a smoke house at Mount Vernon that has a dirt floor and it's a huge one so I guess there was little danger of fire from the fat dripping from the meats. Thanks for sharing your ideas!

I would insulate the outside 4" of fiberglass should improve the properties of the smoke house and resurface the outside with sheathing and you Will be able to protect the smoke house better by putting a second roof with a 2-4" dead air space and extending the roof with more corrugated aluminum/tin overhanging the edges by 10" since you know the human looses a large amt. of heat with a head uncovered no hat. An extra layer of roof will help hold heat as the smoke will still vent but a dead space with snow on top of the smoker won't cool down the inside. Why tear up such a nice insides and decrease your usable space?

😉👍 Nice, Been wanting to build me a smoker, thanks for the ideas.

My smoker is a big rolling bakery rack covered with roofing tin. You can dig a ditch between the fire box and the smoke house, and cover it with boards to make a very cheap tunnel that cools the smoke. I do a 2 day smoke both on meat and fish, to give a strong smoke taste and preserve it. The tin never gets so hot you can't put your hand on it. I agree that it important to keep some of the fire wood dry, but I soak some of it in a bucket of water. The wet wood keeps the humidity up in the smoker, and delays the burn of the wood. That way, the dry wood smokes first, then the wet wood starts burning a little later, giving me a longer time between loadings of the fire box. I use pecan and oak. When I am going to smoke, I let friends put some meat in, and some fishermen give me a bunch of fish to smoke, and I do it on shares. I can eat or trade off my portion.

Love the smokehouse!

You sound like Hank Williams Jr. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, God bless.

My old smoker was damn near Identical, with minor differences. River used to jump its bank in winter so my base was a lot higher as was oven. We had power to it, long extension chord and bought auto damper that opened two lihhtweigtvents just below roof joist.. Did use stainless ipes for chimney, like an idiot I bought replacement items and 25 years later same original pipe. Bent ice of sheet metal into V to cover pipe keeps weather off. floor of house is rough cut 2x6 old growth and outside is recycled fir barn boards. My fold down salting bench was a 51 ford tailgate with cedar top. 1x1 on innerside. Used for fish beef and game plus cheese smoker with cedar boards no other insulation just air space and once cedar absorbs smoke and fats drippings gives extra flavoring. Roff was regular one pitch but built extra strong dor hanging large bear haunches elk rumps etc. Stainless steel racks got from bankrupt bread place. Needed different hangers, smelt only about 6" and we fabled stainless tubing with stainless rods and hooks could smoke couple hundred at a time. Do you ever smoke your catfish or panfish, hell I even smoked carp. I use vinyl maple a pest bush but pretty in fall green for smoke and if dry for heat.problem is Gotta use my spoke shave to remove bark as it is creosote same as alder bark and others. No bark ever in smoker. Was long ago and I let the "SimplerLife. BULLSHIT ON SIMPLE, SLIP AWAY. Simple never,, what a laugh, you work harder, think harder, play harder and love harder, more on farm, nothing simple about it. Got great position and wage at modern factory, b but every day when watching crews shift changes all I thought was, "Hell they are no different than cows going to and from barns to be milked, Not to put them down, hell I fought management for their benefit for years until burned out, all work is good work if the wages are for man and family's benefit, and they know of no other life. You have a "Good Life", saying have a "good day" is cutting life into small pieces,.when we need to live its.fullness. A feeling plastic and concrete flattlanders will never know!

WELL SAID...VERY NICE SMOKEHOUSE THANKS FOR SHARING..I ALSO JUST SUBSCRIBED..😁😁😁

I can tell you were a fabricator. Great video. I’ll be building a smokehouse when I retire in a few years.

Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls

Great job!

Nice, I like it and your ideas

Man, you don't mess around. Liked and subbed, thanks for sharing!

Hi Danny and Wanda. You built the best smokehouse I have ever seen! I have been butchering and smoking meat and cheese my whole life. I make my own hams and bacon, sausage, I have a great ring bolonga recipe that I make with venison and pork. I was wondering did you ever make a dry cured country ham? I have one that has been hanging one year, can, t wait to eat it on Easter Sunday. Thanks for sharing, God Bless.

Try sheets of mineral wool, it is used in commercial and industrial bakery ovens, just have to protect it from getting wet, leave vent holes at the bottom and top in case any condensation builds up between loads. I mean the size to run 1/4 mle of oven conveyor pans, walls were 10 feet high.

Excellent video and a really nice setup sir.

I was thinking of building a smokehouse similar to this,i have an old Ashley wood heater I was thinking about using but thanks lets me know this design works

Love your smoke house I wonder if double lined stove pipe would work good to keep the heat from the fire. From being lost from the fire box to the smoke house ether way very nice sir

Danny Great vid with that air vent in the smoke box can You get both a hot Smoke and cool smoke ? when You replace the smoke pipe next time have You thought about useing High temp BBQ paint to keep the rusting down? what are Your thoughts about Galvinised pipes or hardware for a smoker