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What do YOU think will be my smoking outcome?

RRP
RRP Posts: 26,449
edited August 22 in EggHead Forum
59 years ago in 1966 I was in public accounting with a company then called Price Waterhouse & Co. That fall I was on an audit of a Magnavox cabinet plant in NC. It purchased felled trees, kiln dried them and then made the cabinets for their sister plant in TN which installed the electronics. Anyway...I ended up buying 24 pieces of rejected unfinished pecan cabinet legs roughly 8" long and 2.75" in diameter...Anyway those legs have moved with us 3 times now in these 59 years and it is now time to do something or just be thrown out in the weekly trash!

Because of their size I think I will cut each one into 2 pieces and try to smoke with them. 

I really have no fear of using these for smoke, but with their age then any guess whether they will smoke enough to be worth my while cutting them in half or should I just put them out for the garbage man?
Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,660
    @RRP- yes they are seasoned, but if they have been outside and thus weather exposed then they will be just fine as smoke wood. Even stored inside the moisture content will be in equilibrium unless in an atmosphere controlled environment.   Here's a link I used quite frequently in a previous life:  https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/62200 especially Chapter 13.
    Go for it-what's the downside?

    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,513
    I would have thought they had been treated with some sort of finish, but it sounds like this is not the case. 59 years of seasoning for smoking wood has to be some kind of record. 

    If you ultimately don’t like the wood or simply have too much, then I say it could become a promotional tool - Buy a Rutland gasket, get a free pecan smoking chunk. 
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    edited August 22
    Thanks guys, especially for that link, Cap! These were in my dry basement all those years. They are raw wood that were mfg on a huge lathe machine that rapidly spit out these short legs. As I said these were rejects which have some sort of imperfections such as parts of knot holes, some discoloration streaks, etc.
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Dyal_SC
    Dyal_SC Posts: 6,526
    Aww man, that’s pretty cool.  I would recommend making some bge handles but they sound pretty small. 
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,449
    Dyal_SC said:
    Aww man, that’s pretty cool.  I would recommend making some bge handles but they sound pretty small. 
    hmmm, I might have to use 2 to make one 2 piece handle, but then there wouldn't be any waste since the wood was going to be used for smoke anyway.

    OTOH I'm 81 and I already have a backlog of things to make and do on may bucket list and I'm running shorter on time than I am on buckets!
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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