Wonder if my grandpa’s 50s Chevy pickup bed trailer would count. 
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Haha, VERY funny Jakob 
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Where to go? Checking the brakes after repair made for a reason to DOW. Wife helped me with bleeding. @Bobmac, I promise I will blame the dogs if something is not right 
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Hello JO .
Thanks for the video and letting us ride along with you . I also am running over with motor fuel and have no place to go .
I have asked wife many times if anywhere she needs to go . Now when I call her name she just answers with no.
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Had me sweating there JO, glad the dogs are not going to get blamed. Thanks for the wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside. Glad the old woodburner truck is running great.
Bob
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Thanks for the ride! Still crazy to wrap my little mind around the other side of the world looks so much like my home mountain range…
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Promised @Bobmac some hayfilter swimming. Brought a bag of fresh hay, dogs, wife and a friend of hers down to the river.
Also, I remember last summer @don_mannes wanted to see what black hay looked like.
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heck maybe that’s part of my filtering problem, I am using what I would call straw, where your hay looks much finer
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That is about how my straw looks. I had grass hay for a while but that was too fine and plugged up when it got wet.
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Is everyone still doing a annual hay wash? I’m doing it every 2 weeks to keep things breathing well… yall have seen how much soot is setting on top of my hay, its like that every 1000 miles
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It might do you good to try and find some wool batting and lay that in on top of the hay.
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Marcus, wool is excellent filter material. With your soot production you may need to wash a tighter filter more often than every 1000 miles though. But it’s less and cleaner work pouring a couple buckets of water on top of everything more often, rather than replacing the material.
Take a look at my latest post on the Volvo filter. That’s a wollen pillow case stuffed with hay in a 3 gallon bucket. Very little soot gets through. The old pillow has been staying put in the bucket for 6000+ miles.
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Marcus, I also used a lot of hay at first and lightly filled the barrel, but now I have a metal net rolled into a roll at the bottom of the gas inlet, so the gas has a chance to spread over a large area, then I press a layer of ground dried grass , excellent is the grass mowed with a lawn mower or with a mulcher, which is finely ground and broken. So a layer of pressed fine grass, then a fine wooden planer, then again a layer of fine ground grass, all together well pressed and covered with a cotton cloth, and at the end I have an ordinary air filter. Below is an even smaller hole for draining water, I find it works great and doesn’t cause resistance.
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Jan I just realized your Mazda has the exact same Dash layout as my 86.
That hole is where I placed fuel cutoff solenoid switch 
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Also, how exactly is your cooling rail flowing on this truck? Is it forcing the gas to go through one pipe at a time or is it a sort of split flow?
Edit: it’s been a while since I’ve read through this but did you leave the gasifier as grateless or did you add a grate later on?
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Cody, on the Mazda pickup two pipes feed the rear tank and the gas climbs from there in 4 rails in parallell, drops behind the cab and enter the hayfilter bottom. I wanted the rear tank to be somewhat heated for winter temps.
The gasifier is still grateless. Everything is exactly the way I built it in 2017-18, except a larger choke and a fresh inner hopper/funnel.
I shut the gasifier down an hour ago after delivering a trailer of firewood to my fathers place 
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So that’s one reason why your pipes have a more drastic angle, to promote it to fall back into the tank.
So in a way your condensate tank is like a drop box after your cyclone? Very interesting.
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That’s right. It catches quite a lot of soot, which the cooling rails don’t need to deal with.
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Sunday amusement
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Haha, I was about to use the word amusement again, when I noticed that’s what I wrote last time I checked in here in September 
Not to repeat myself I’ll just say I had some fun today.
15 min of DOW with the Mazda
3 min chainsawing
1 hour of swinging the vejnic knife
15 min of running the rebak
That’s what it took to have 300-500 miles worth of fuel drying on the trailer.
Most of the time I just do small batches like this. Just enough for a drying layer on the trailer. This way you never get bored.
Another trick is to have plenty of dry chunks already bagged up at all times, so you can afford to wait for a nice day to play. Makes a little outdoor excersize something to look forward to, rather than a must.
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