I saw this done once and decided to try it I love it. the hitch is removable so the implements can be hooked up. It is the fastest way to move trailers around a lot or property. 
I thought this looked cool the cutting oil caught fire so it looks like the metal is on fire.
I had this truck follow me home the 360 in it turns over but I was told the electronics are shot. It is the wrong year models to match my dakota’s so I will see what i do with it
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I have been looking for an engine for my truck and have had a hard time finding one. I ended up finding a 95 dakota wrecked , in northwest KY just south of evansville IN. My grandpa and I left out early monday morning with a minivan and tow dolly. Got there about noon or a little later loaded the wreck up. On the way home and the transmission in the old minivan stops working just north of Nashville. we get off the road and into a parking lot and spend the night there waiting for our people to come get us. My grandpa on the other side and my brother drove north with a 3/4 ton pulling an equipment trailer with another minivan on it . When they go there we loaded the broke van on the trailer and used the van they brought to pull the truck home.
That has been what I have been doing on woodgas recently, since I got home Not actually woodgas but getting an engine to replace the one in my truck.
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I Might have posted some on this somewhere else But I don’t remember. I thought I would post a few pics that i took when I went out to see Dr Larry In oregon for two weeks I left out mid to late July and then home in the first week of August. I have been running non stop trying to get caught up from it. I spent about 3/4 of my time out there helping him rebuild his deck. The guy who built it 20 years ago didn’t use treated lumber so it was basically completely rotten.
I don’t have a complete before pic. but you can basically guess.
After it was down
All done
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Also while out there we went to the coast, A beautiful place!!! Pictures don’t do it Justice.
We Also went to a place on the coast called Sea lion caves it was pretty cool they had a water filled cave that sea lions like to hang out in that they have turned into a park.
They don’t cook much just being the two of them (Dr Larry and his son Robert) so I tried my hand with it.
Beef Stroganoff
Macaroni casserole.
Beef and bean Burritos.
Baked fish
I was going to try Kristjans Goulash but I couldn’t find any venison. That was already butchered I did have one walk out in the back field when I was replacing some baton boards on the green house glass on the back of the house.It was about 20 ft away from me eating blackberries. It would look up at me every 10 seconds and go back to eating. She hung around for about 15 minutes. It would have been some easy hunting but we didn’t have anywhere to store the meat.
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Dr Larry built this gasifier for hay bales a long time ago.
This is the greenhouse, the deer was under the tree limb on the right.
This is a cool cyclone I found in Dr Larry’s junk pile.
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This Generator followed me home. I had a hard time getting it to start. Lots of variables. Dad came out and helped me get it running. 100% woodgas . It runs really well, Has been running now for 1.5 hrs. Now to the wiring problem.
This thing has one set of wires coming out the front that consist of 4 big leads with one small wire in the mix. Then there it another set of two much smaller wires coming out the front in a second conduit. There is a third set of wires 4 small car harness size coming out the back of the control box. Can anyone help me with telling me how to wire this thing up and which wires do what?
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Tone,
Accurate content. I have studied this subject for years, so I knew what I was reading. The trouble is, the author isn’t a native English speaker/writer, and made many glaring grammatical mistakes. Basically, he needs a good editor, and all will be well.
I love the subject matter.
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First Run.
Update: I ran it for 3 hrs today it took about 60 lbs of wood and I had to shake it down a few times. It will definitely need to get set on the stand with the gasifier to vibrate the gasifier and maybe even a stirring motion in the hopper to keep it from bridging. the only filter I had on it was the sock filter in the red pipe It seemed to function properly and have really clean gas. In the permanent filter will get a hay filter and maybe a final paper or washable mesh filter. Still in design Ideas would be appreciated. Still have to put time into figuring out the wiring. Thanks Tone for the link I will get into it more in the morning. Now off to shower and Bed.
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Did the generator come out of a motor home?
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No it is a household size backup generator. Chicken house back up only ever run to test for a few min every 3 months for a few years.
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Go here for all you will ever need to know about that generator:
Be sure to supply the complete model and serial number when you post.
Pete Stanaitis
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Thanks guys for the help. We had a tornado and hurricane come through and the power is down. We had two trees over the road that took out half a mile of powerline next to us. We spent yesterday getting the generator hooked up. We managed to get the generator producing power mostly by trial and error. We now have it wired into the main breaker box just after the main breaker. We have been able to run all the freezers, the well, and the hot water heater. It is running very well, I have it plumbed into the air breather on dads truck with a sock filter right before the engine. It has been using about 40 lbs every 2.5 hrs. that’s about as often as I refuel. It seems to be holding around 370 degrees Fahrenheit on the rail.
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I have an update here on a few projects we have had going.
We have been working on a small addition to the house but I don’t have any pictures of that. I made the trim the other day we have to finish the floor, trim, and the ceiling. we just finished sheetrock and the painting.
A few sheds we built with an old boat dock for the floor. One for a hay shed and one for a fuel shed. I don’t have a finished picture of both sorry.
This was an old boat trailer we got from a scrap job that I straightened out and put a deck on for a utility trailer.
These are a few pictures of things I have been building in the shop. The gun case was a gift, and the other was my attempt to make a hair stick dagger for a friend of mine. I made the blade out of a stainless steel bolt.
Jesse with a good flare on his charcoal lawnmower
I was getting a lot of charcoal and moisture in the gas after the hay filter so i built a booster pre filter for it.
The tornado that came through blew over a bunch of trees we drug them out of the woods yesterday with a skid steer for the big ones and the horse for the smaller stuff (firewood)
My best friend got a call the other morning asking him if he wanted some cows that got hit on the road. A friend of his had five of them get out and get hit by a semi truck. My friend got the biggest and the smallest one.
Something I saw in the scrap yard the other day i have no need for them but it seemed like a big waste to me.
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Wow it has been a long time since i updated this thread.
Monday i took a trip to our local scrap yard (One of my main sponsors for the woodgas cross country trip) and also to the steel place that i can get seconds for about half the price of new. I bought 40 ft of two inch schedule 40 to rebuild the rails on dads truck it needs it very bad. I went to the scrap yard and found 500 lbs of #1 steel that i couldn’t live without.
This is the seconds steel place.
A few pics of the scrap yard.
this pic is a pile of stuff a bridge building company dumped out. it was full of pipe fitting s and it looks like they dumped out their bolt boxes there as well, it is sad to see all that go to waste.
Stainless pile.
Fire tube pile 
this is what i couldn’t live without.
the plate is 3/4 inches thick and 8 inches wide probably will make the side pieces of a rebak if they don’t find other jobs by then. I have a bag of stainless bolts and flanges that i don’t have pics of. the buckets and bag are full of 2 inch to 3/8 inch new galvanized pipe fittings. Also some bolts i just couldn’t leave there.
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Since getting home from out west and up north i have been moving from project to project trying to get caught up with life. We are still busy but caught up with the have to’s. I have been down with a sinus infection and fever for the past three days finally broke the fever today.
A few of the projects we have been working on.
We were working on milling lumber for a while when i got home then we had two bearings on the mill go out. we ordered a couple in a few days they arrived but we broke them while trying to install so we ordered more but they apparently were stuck on a ship because they took about 4 weeks to get here. once we go it fixed we finished up the milling. the shorter boards are for building wood chunk crates. I don’t have the room in buildings for storing a big enough supply of chunks so we are building these crates using three pallets each then one by lumber on the sides. to fill with chunks and fire wood then we can put metal on top to keep them dry. i can build a crate in about 5 min so as i get pallets from the ice route i can build the crates. when we get loads of wood we can fill and cover them. I can also double stack them if i need to.
We have been parking the wood trucks in the shop but with all we have going they were getting in the way so we built this shed. We replaced a giant church roof a few years ago and ended up with a stack of 39 ft 6 in metal. One of the guys we do mechanic work for has a land fill they dup lots of used cross ties in there i have hauled a few dump tuck loads out. using the cross ties for post and using lumber we milled last year built some weird trusses. I don’t think it would handle any snow load. Thankfully we don’t get much around here.
the blue car in the background it planned to be the test vehicle for the gasifier Larry and I were working on.
The stall between the two trucks is for bags of wood chunks.
We have been cutting fire wood we have enough for this year and part of next we are still cutting. We don’t like cold.
It has been a few years since we put gravel down and the rainy season is here so i built a set of side boards for my dump truck with a removable gravel spreading tailgate. i can haul up to about 6 tons comfortably on it, after that it gets freaky.
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Wowee
You guys don’t mess around! I really need to build a shed cover for where my mom parks her toyota. Big old hickory tree drops nuts right on her car every year. Hail damage sized dents in the roof.
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In times past i would have asked Dr Larry to help me with this.
I am trying to figure out how to design an underground room for a storage freezer for my ice company. My thought is to be 24’/48’ on the inside. I am thinking to pour a slab and build a block wall on that. My problem is I don’t know how much support I need on the roof so it doesn’t fold in. I am wanting to put a generator shed on the top of this, use the roof concrete as the floor of the second story. I really don’t want to put posts in the middle. I have access to a lot of 1.5 inch /3 inch square tubing. I am thinking about making bar joists out of that but I don’t know how to figure if that will hold the weight. I am trying to get away with 4 inches of concrete on the top but if that is unrealistic I could do 6. I anyone could point me in the right direction i would appreciate it
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Hi Jakob, I don’t know if I understand you correctly, I would like to build an underground ice warehouse? You may have thought of a round shape, in this way we built underground rainwater collectors.
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