The second to last picture makes you a shadetree mechanic Marat. Pulled an engine like that several times in my youth. Kind of makes me nostalgic. I have tried to pull apart a few transmissions as well. They never got back together.
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You know itās spring when . . . .
The first mow of the season.
The humble SimpleFire proves itself once again.
Thank you Gary Gilmore.
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Steve I see the soup can and the air adjustment valve but I donāt see a starting blower. How do you start it?
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Don,
A good question. I have a stand-alone blower with flare burner which I connect up to the mower to start it. Iām not as good as Gary Gilmore, who in one of his early videos referred to it as a ādanceā when he would squirt gasoline in the air inlet and pull the rope until the engine started. This video shows how I do it:
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Steve, you make this look easy. Just as it realy is. Great job.
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Warm spring weekend here, lotās of stuff to do..
Iāve ran over our small vegetable patch with the rototiller, i know Iāve been tilling this too deep (4 inches) but it was needed, because it was really overgrown.
My antique chainsaw is almost done, and was allowed to come out in daylight for a photoshoot, and soon a test run.
Many things to fix and get running
I feel āaliveā when muscles and back hurts in that good way.
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Huh? That is crazy, right? Evil Knievil tools?
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Wow, that chainsaw is wild. How do you even make notch cuts? Iām not sure I like being squarely in the path of the fall during that cut or even the felling cut!
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I went over it a little lightly with the tiller, and thought Iād wait a bit until it dried before doing anything more, maybe it wonāt be necessary with all the help I have.
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I should have been working on an ark. Rained buckets yesterday and they promised much more all week. At least, being stuck inside, I was forced to get the taxes done. I still had three days before the deadline. I donāt usually get them done so early. Iād have rather had my fingernails pulled out.
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This might give you something to think about with all the grass clippings. He is adding sugar, yeast and ammonia. to essentially the lasagna method for composting to kickstart the bacteria. The dried grass I think is considered a brown. He is claiming two weeks and only flipping it once after a week before applying it, in a partially broken down state. It will be beyond the point where it molds and such like straight grass clippings.
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Last week l payed a visit to a nother woodgas enthusiast. He contacted me trugh Facebook. His name is Marjan, he is retired and earns a few extra bucks selling electricity.
He got a old 5.7l V8, US engine (forgot the make), and a grid tyed asynchronus motor he generates about 30kw power with. Heats the house with the heat.
He uses woodchips as his feedstock, doesent realy dry them much. He has a updraft gasifier, interesting design, a upside down FEMA almost but in reverse, the auger fills chips at the bottom.
He uses a water scrubber to wash the gas. It works real nice, his gas seems clean and dry. Uses a O2 sensor gas mixer.
Been runing since 2020.
And, he too has got a thinking chair! I have no dubt Mr Don will find it. But it has a double function.
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My autistic eyes see center bolt Chevrolet valve covers
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Wow, thatās really interesting, thatās what Iād like to doā¦ Using wood waste in the form of chips and also using the heat to warm the house is the best way to make the most of waste. Congratulations, itās very inspiring, I hope to achieve the same result one day.
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I think if thatās his thinking chair I get that component off it. Unless of course itās a ball warmer. hopefully not a shredder. 
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maybe 1987-1995 5.7L V8
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Sounds like he breaks all the rules and yet gets good resultsāamazing!
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Marcus also look at the after HEI generation, small diameter distributor cap.
And the center cylinder exhausts coupling says for-sure a Chevrolet.
Kristijan I was once sent an informational link by Dutch John about a European fellow proposing an auger forced feeding chips upwards system. The claim was that the upward at the top reduction zone would then not have any production gases flowing through the raw chips stack. That then, ALL of the lower down made pyrolysis gases would have to flow upwards through a spread out oxidization zone. That then the gases and steam oxidization made; would upwards flow through the then made char reduction zone.
Using the principals that heated gases always want to rise upwards.
Iād told him someone would have to put it into real metals loaded production to prove.
Nice to see that theoretical system in real metals making electrical power and heat.
Thanks for this.
Regards
Steve unruh
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Mmmm yes! Early TBI motor, 88-92? Previous to the flat cap distributor spider injection
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Your guess is better then mine. There is some letters on the exhaust manifold, but I canāt quite make them out. they changed the exhaust manifold in later generations. It could be after market or marine maybe.
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