# Generator **URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/generator/1422 **Category:** Charcoal Gasification **Created:** [March 4, 2015, 4:22am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/generator/1422 "2015-03-04T04:22:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![Wayne](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/wayne/32/9839_2.png) [@Wayne](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Wayne) #### Post date: [March 11, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/generator/1422/6 "2015-03-11T20:56:50Z")
Hello Tim. I think the WK will scale down OK . Just playing and experimenting I have built them small enough to run lawn mower motors… One of my problems the fuel has to be scaled down also. I have tons of wood fist size for the truck gasifiers but had to go to a lot of trouble to cut wood down to 1 inch chunks or less to scale with the small gasifier . ( chips could be easy to get but may not flow as good as very small blocks.) The smaller the gasifier the smaller the fuel should be . To prepare the charcoal fuel one can take large blocks of wood , make char then easily crush them into small sizes . In making the charcoal you may loose half the energy of the fuel . No big deal because we are not talking about needing much fuel to start with . In short yes I think the wood gasifier can be scaled down but depending on how small and how you are set up for wood prep it may be best to go with a Gilmore style Just one other note . The ash /char clean out of the bigger gasifiers are just about the perfect size for the small char gasifiers . --- _[View the full topic](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/generator/1422)._