DavidP. my concern is not about you.
You are intelligent. And better yet: tough and persistent.
My concern is for the integrity and ongoing life of this DOW forum.
The rules of this forum wisely set up specifically does not allow for debate.
This was based on experiences by many of us on other wood-for-power forums in the previous 15-20 years. All dead and gone now.
Why? The real people with real needs for home DYI power left. Newcomers observing the “vigorous debates” quietly did not jump, unexperienced, into that boiling stew. Did not participate. Read some, and left too.
Who was left? Those who either thrill from watching octagon cage fighting matches. Those whose university exposures convinced them that only through vigorous debate were way to ultimate truths distilled out.
Neither ever being practical approaches to getting real needful things done in real life.
Wanna kill a forest??
Not by cutting it down, harvesting it. It will regenerate and grow back.
Not by burning it down. Many dormant, previous dropped cones and seed pods, are only activated from fire heat. It will grow back.
But allow it to run wild with growing seedling eating animals. Goats. Sheep. Mice. Porcupines.
Get past that, to young trees: then assault them with cows and horses, moose and deer.
You black hands charcoal guys mostly all failed at your 1st, 2nd, 3rd raw woodgasifing attempts. So you declare it cannot be done by common mortal man.
Bullshit.
I ain’t so special.
Others here who gained thru the beginners mistakes at raw woodgasifing and use daily ain’t golden haired Gods either.
Just because you all lacked the fortitude to set aside your preconceptions and bring it out to success doesn’t mean it is impossible. That no one else can do it.
Again. Utter bullshit.
Here. Wanna learn how to not tar up engines???
Tar up, valve stick an engine and then have to repair it:
https://forum.driveonwood.com/t/waynes-international-444-farm-tractor-project
Somewhere in this topics 223 posts; or in an accompanying Premium Side detailed build topic WayneK. (with over 10 years experiences) shows he did tar up and bend valve push rods on his engine. He was still learning the chararistics of his newly built system.
Fixed it. Thought, and self-learn operational techniques for that particular system. And carried on.
What make exceptional people?
Those who chose through hard work, bumps and bruises to carry-on, carry-through difficult times, and tasks.
Every single one of you would not be here if a woman had not with increasing difficulty carried you for month after month. The endured through the hours of pain, blood and mucus of birthing you.
Only people who have chosen to make themselves exceptional are interesting.
You black-hander’s quit chasing new blood away from the DOW with your debates.
Go play with your nearly 1,000 posts nozzles failures topics.
Steve Unruh