? For meat smokers

With Hickory. Does any form work better than another? 4” diameter cut up limbs, big splits, small splits, all the above?
Giving my brother some hickory for xmas, so I want to make sure It’s what he needs for cooking pork.
Does it need to be seasoned hickory?

 

Small splits/short 6-8 inch and yeah it should be seasoned

 

im assuming the op is using a small cooker and asking about adding smokewood for flavor

 

I know he has a smoker, but I want to give him enough to pit cook a bunch of shoulders, or whole hog.

At this price my gift should be worth more than $500.

 

I like small branches cut 4-5" long and split in quarters.
It doesn't take much wood smoke to flavor meat. You just want wisps of blue smoke coming out the stack

 

So cutting these splits in half?

 

i would...unless hes got a commercial sized offset pit

 

Depends on what smoker he has. A side box might take 12-16 pieces where an electric or propane may only take small chunks or chips

 

Thanks, I will give him shorts and long and scraps to make sure all bases are covered.

 

If he has a small outdoor smoker he might be used to chips that are the size of what would come out of a commercial chipper.

 

Maybe the wood will force him to gift himself a smoker to match the wood, or build a cinder block grill in his backyard.

 

Sawzall, chainsaw or hatchet can make whatever sized pieces he wants