# Trailer-based Woodgas System for Conversion Van

**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/trailer-based-woodgas-system-for-conversion-van/2050
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 25, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/trailer-based-woodgas-system-for-conversion-van/2050 "2015-10-25T23:33:51Z")
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### 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: [October 27, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/trailer-based-woodgas-system-for-conversion-van/2050/27 "2015-10-27T23:47:56Z")

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Hello Paul.

You are correct , Orbit was a poor choice of words , I should have said certain radius of the wood pile.

" Are there ways to expedite wood drying? Like placing the wet wood in a shed with a circulating fan and dehumidifier? "

If you will pull up the these two topics you can see how most of us dry our wood .

> [@Wood supply](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-supply/220):
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> NOT A GASIFIER but it’s sure handy to have if you do use a gasifer. This video was taken yesterday as I am going wide open trying to catch up on saw work. We had tornadoes last spring knocking down hundreds of thousands of acres of timber. There were hundreds of tons hauled to my place trying to salvage some of it. With good luck I may be wrappings it up in the next week. It’s hard to believe how long I have been running this saw and the amount of lumber it has produced. The reason it…

> [@Wood drying time](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/wood-drying-time/2044):
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> Will do. For you guys without a chunker, what is your “dry time” on green wood that is cut to the correct size? I have a large pile sitting outside on some concrete right now and it has been out there for 2 days now. I think chunked wood will dry faster since wood really only dries from the ends, and the chunker opens up more “ends” when it crushes the woods cellular structure (which look like straws) so there are more ends exposed. In my case I am splitting rounds in a manner much like Herb H. …

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