Smoke house?

If you're going to make a big smoke house, you can make your fire in a metal drum or wash tub and set on the floor. Keep a dolly handy so you can wheel the fire out when you have to go inside. It is a life saver. The smoke is hard on the eyes. If you're making a smaller one. You can get a wood burning stove and some stove pipe and run the pipe to the smoke house. You can make a good fire box out of a piece of pipe real easy too. There's a million ways to do it. Most important thing is to be able to keep the temp wherever you want it very easily with as little wood as possible.