I’m going to be real interested in seeing what you come up with Marty. I think that maintaining a low center of gravity would be crucial. Like SteveU’s machine rather that the first picture. That thing is going to roll over sideways on any kind of hill. I’ve been thinking as well about how much easier it would be to gather firewood off my hills. Probably won’t get to it, but I have the motor and trans assembly from a 80’s Honda Civic that seems about ideal for such a machine. Would only need to build a frame of some sort under it. Of course I also have an 80’s Chevy S10 blazer sitting out here that I have wanted to build something like Jan’s Iller from. Probably won’t get to that either but trying to get to some of these things might induce me to live longer. Right now I’m pretty tired of everything I see in this world.
Honestly, after looking a bit more closely at Unruth’s pictures. It looks like it is just a rotortiller and the wheels are driven off where the tines go. Add a belt with a tensioner for slip on both sides so when you press the lever it will turn.
I am famous within the family for my response to such ideas: “Well, that should be easy to do!”
At that point, my wife would smile at me. It’s the smile that means “I love you, but I do know better.” 
Her only decision is whether to multiply my time estimate by a factor of 2, more likely 3, but could be 8 to infinity.
The cheapest and easiest way to build these is an old zero turn mower.
Tom, you’re probably not aware of how well your writing sometimes fits my thinking. I’ve come to realise sticking my head into a project - inventing a new piece of equipment for example - is when I feel the most satisfied.
How about a quiz? This comes a Swedish car magazine, December 1941.
It’s about what make/name on these different (vintage) gasifiers, i know i could be very hard, i can’t name them all, without looking them up.
Give it a try, look in historic pic’s section, use google, or just come up with a name. Or: just give a answer if they are charcoal or wood.
Could be some fun.
Just at the top of my head no5 looks like a Svedund charcoal gasifier and no10 a Hesselman wood gasifier. I could of course be completly wrong. Or maybe no 8 is the Svedlund.
Sorry JO, all wrong😁
Haha! Now you know my level of knowlidge 
I googled it, and used translate. I came up with this list:
- Black Magic
- Char-broil
- Got a Woody!
- Chunky Gas
- El Cheapo
- Freedom Fighter
- Odin’s oil
- Valhalla Cruiser (this one probably didn’t sell very well)
- Motoring Madness
- Storsjöodjuret’s Revenge
BTW, just joking. 
göran, you see the schoolboys payed not much attention in the history lessons…
i see a källe, mako , imbert, albin, svedlund, hasselblad…
this picture would be nice in the history collection…
History is important because it shows us pictures from the past that we can learn from, specifically I have a hard time remembering numbers, years and names, but I have shapes, sketches, faces in front of my eyes. … I try to learn from “history”, but when creating a new system I will try to take into account the good qualities of historical creations and add some innovations,…
Goran, sorry, I don’t know the names, Jo I know even less, I was behind in the first grade. 
Sean, you get the honorary award for most imaginative names!
How the heck did you came up with Storsjöodjuret?
Hi giorgio, you’re good on gasifier history 
I post a list later with names and numbers, maybe to next weekend.
Well, there has been a lot of stuff to do this time of year, not only the usual gardening stuff, and wood, and fix lawnmowers i left under the snow and like. There has been a lot of work with the local country fair, and just two days after a local motor show. 
Now all stuff is back home again, just stuff it back, then it’s woodgas, wood cutting, woodchunking, woodgas… and fun again.
Ill share some pic’s.
At work: not everyday you change oil on a Dodge Challenger Hellcat, if i become a billionaire some day (yeah, right) i would put a gasifier on one of these.
Showing vintage wood-chunking at the country fair, my hot-bulb engine pulled the chunker good (with some syrup on the belt)
Some engines.
I brought one small and handy chainsaw.
The old truck had to work a lot to put stuff in place.
Then we jump some days, to the car/motor show. I displayed some chainsaws.
My friend Bill brought his old Scania truck, with his two-cylinder, Bolinders hot-bulb engine on the bed, it sounded wonderful.
There was a tractor parade, i drove my Ferguson.
This going home to the splitter, some for firewood and some for chunks.
I saw your video this morning Goran. Why didn’t you post that as well. Is that boom truck yours? I rather have that than a Hellcat. Also you have much more green around you than I have. We are still a week and a half or two before we get leaves on the hardwoods. Been cold and damp here for the last three days and I can no longer get motivated to go out and work in that weather. Going to kick some ass today though.
Hi Tom, yes, that ol truck is mine, i use it mostly to move stuff around.
At the moment it is registered as a tractor/equipment which means the higher gears a blocked, the frame shortened, and no rear suspension. In the future i want to find a rear end from a similar truck to weld back, and put a bed on it again.
The green has really exploded last days, the time of the year when it looks different outside every morning you get out, i like the somewhat “surrealistic” feeling it gives in the spring/early summer.
A mythical creature, for a mythical fuel and simply revenge against oil supplies that got off. Besides that what is more Swedish then Storsjöodjuret? How could one not mention it?
