A question about smoking meat?!
Answers: Could i just pick up any twigs or break up any logs from any tree and use it in a smoker to smoke meat?
You could if you wanted to cook and had no other way but you really need dry,seasoned, hickory or pecan wood. Old nasty damp rotten wood will give your meat a musty nasty mossy taste that sucks big time . Bitterness and nastiness because the wood is moldy and wet. You need very dry hickory wood or pecan wood. Pine might be good to cook breakfast in a pinch, but smoking meat with it will have a tar taste that aint worth eatin unless you would like to eat chicken barbeque'd using old roofing shingles.
Remember the addage garbage in...garbage out. Each type of wood that you use in a smoker will give you a slightly different flavor. I would avoid using anything that still has bark on it because when bark burns it creates more ash than the hard wood. Your best bet is to mimic the chips that you see marketed for the use in a smoker.
I read that you can use any hardwood that has no bark on it, also do not use any wood that is not thoroughly dry. Most fruit wood also works.