Hey Mike ,
Thanks for the offer. My problem is just getting time to start the build.
Hope your trip over the weekend went well.
Hello Don,
I will be watching the northern sky and smiling with you .
BBB
Wayne .
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I could use some light at the end of the tunnel, or pipe. I’m coming at my cooling rack with a Miller Syncrowave Inverter TIG soon by invitation of my shops owner. I WILL WIN. Don, do you have snacks and mosquito repellent?
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It’s a gasifier! It’ll repel the skeeters all on it’s own. 
Bet that’ll come in handy on Wayne’s tractor when he’s in the fields with it. Probably won’t help with snakes though 
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Hey Wayne, I wish you could see Lake Michigan right now. The water was crystal clear and ice cold when we were there. I turned white dunking in it … We both got sunburned as heck but neither peeled so we must have needed it. If we do Argos again, maybe we can plan a day trip to the Indiana Dunes ??? There are even lizards there … We have a parade on Sunday but I hate tarring up my stuff doing parades … My flag is up on the maple tree
http://ftp.intergate.com/~mlarosa/images/woodgas/Wayne-Keith-Wisconsin-trip/having-a-smoke.jpg
My beard was black in this picture … was around 9/11/2007 … Better make tracks !!! I have to get some metal to put a shroud on my new gasifier … Mike
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Wayne,
I figured I’d better post these other links …
from our local paper
http://ftp.intergate.com/~mlarosa/images/woodgas/Wayne-Keith-Wisconsin-trip/091307chronicle.gif
and of course success
http://ftp.intergate.com/~mlarosa/images/woodgas/Wayne-Keith-Wisconsin-trip/gulf-to-great-lakes.jpg
For those who haven’t seen them …
I’m going to be history on the internet soon so save them locally if you want them. They keep moving my web stuff around from server to server … Mike
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Glad to hear you are close!
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Hi Steve and Wayne, On timing my tractor I just let the gaifier warm up and turned the distributor to where it sounded the strongest and best and set it there. I never put a timing light on it , it runs well and smooth enough, some day I should check it.
Ron L .
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My son cut son trash ( one mans trash is another mans treasure ) of some fence lines and I was wanting to test the gear ratios on the soon to be wood burning tractor .
All seems to work very well , tractor is just idling along enjoying the day and the chunker speed is as fast as I need it .
The gear ratio on the pto can be adjusted fairly easy . I can have several different size sprockets to bolt on the bottom sprocket if needed but for the work I plan for the tractor this ratio ( one pto rev to two motor revs ) seems just right .
The tractor running 100% wood didn’t even know it was pulling a load. I chunked some good size pieces although they were green .
A video below . Sorry Mike L. and Mr. Steve , video about ten min long but I know terry L will enjoy.
The tractor chunked much more fuel than it consumed !!!
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Got the second video… Gotta like it Cuttin wood with wood to drive on wood!
The first video says private
Thanks for putting them up!
TerryL
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New gasifier thread for tractor.
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Wayne,
That tractor is a wood chunking beast.
I have a couple of questions. Did I notice a hole in the line for air and a valve near the tractor? Also, when you disconnected the gas hose from your truck, Is it important to seal the truck up right away as to not get oxygen creeping into the system while the hearth is still hot?
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Yuppers it’s working now… Sure like how that tractor is running it!
Thanks again!
TerryL
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Hey Bill and Terry , Thanks much for the nice comment.
Bill ,
" Did I notice a hole in the line for air and a valve near the tractor? "
The hole in the line lets in close to the amount of mixing air the tractor will need. The valve is for fine adjustment.
" Also, when you disconnected the gas hose from your truck, Is it important to seal the truck up right away as to not get oxygen creeping into the system while the hearth is still hot? "
As long as the gasifier is warm there will be a light positive pressure through the system . When the gasifier cools of enough that the air flow might seep back in the gasifier there will be no fire. Each time I shut down I try to remember to close the intake air but often I forget . I do try to remember venting the hopper before sticking the lighting torch in at next light up. .
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As this farm my be pasted down through posterity and the year of our Lord 2014 may be last date these pastures were maintained with none renewable fuel sources.
Just need time to build the gasifier .
BBB
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you on Sir!
Yes, if we only had more time…
Or a cloned “brother”.
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You haven’t finished the first revolution in motoring and there you go with the next.
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Hey Doug ,
You should have seen the eyes roll and the ears perk up on my old plow horse when he heard me mention farming without diesel or gasoline !!
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Well Wayne, my lunch time co workers were teasing me about being the only woodgas vehicle possible in this state. I said not really, if you count that green Geo Tracker 5 miles away on YouTube, there’s always someone silently building one…
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A few years back this garden spot was so sorry it wouldn’t grow a weed .
I added rotten saw dust from my mill , fed the cattle hay in the spot in winter until it gets too muddy for the tractor . I also dump the ash from the trucks in the garden spot.
Picture below shows daily picking of just the peas .
I love those black eyed and whip-poor -will peas
In the years past I have plowed the garden with renewable sources ( horse ) but am looking forward to doing it with more modern applications of renewable fuels .
BBB
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