How does charcoal perform in a wood gasifier?

[ForbiddenTuna (Cody Edison Tate)]

Here’s the charcoal grinder that I built.

You don’t even need bearings, could just drill holes in wood to fit the shaft. I eventually made a hopper for it and I set the grinder on a table that is over a plastic child size pool, a tarp or anything else would work I just used what I had.

Take round bar and flat bar, drill holes in the flat bar and braze or weld into teeth.

Then opposite of that make the static teeth with about a 3/8" gap.

Charcoal Making Anecdotes

No it finally died on me. I made a prettty simple crusher using some bar stock and flat bar. Drilled center holes in the flat bar to accept a 5/8" shaft and had them alternate so only 2 teeth would engage at a time. Right now I’m using an old steering wheel to rotate it. The grinder itself is set into an angle iron frame and I built a wooden box to make a small compartment to put the Charcoal. Even with just hand strength it bends nails. Not a whole lot of dust from it either especially wi…

With a 17" steering wheel I have enough leverage to bend nails.