@Tone, is that the kind of thing you have?
Is it difficult to make the screw for this?
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Jan, this is my chipper, with a conical screw, but this one has a straight screw and a conical housing, otherwise I intend to make something similar for cutting wood up to 15 cm
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Thanks Tone. I think this seems to work well and quite easy to do.
One more question to you, my zetor gets quite hot when I drive a little longer, and I think it looks like water is coming from the front cylinder foot, could it have something to do with the heat?
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Jan, I think your Zetor is somewhere around 70 hp 4 cylinder engine, this tractor model does not have the most fortunate installation of a cooling system thermostat, because, as I remember, the thermostat only opens the line to the cooler, but does not close the water circulation in the bay pass. It is possible that the thermostat is worse, first you need to check this in hot water on the stove. Also check the fan - propeller of the refrigerator, whether it is installed correctly.
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The weather pattern has finally turned in Cental Washington State. It is turning hot and dry. So what do I do? Start chunking up wood that was pruned and trimed out of the cherry orchard in January, February of 2022.
I checked the moist content of a 4" across piece.
We have had a very wet spring and at the begining of summer. Normally this piece of wood would read closer to 20% ,but in this dry heat it will be ready to burn in a week or so, if it stays dry and hot. How hot is the temp. Is at 106°f right now and still raising it is 03:00 pm and the heat of the day will be after 03:30 pm.
This pile is about 15 minutes of run time and I can’t even tale I worked on the pile.
I am still trying to figure out a way to hook this up to change this engine over to chargas with out pulling it all apart and still use the air filter that comes with the engine. The old Briggs and Stratton engines were KISS easy to convert. Lots of plastic parts on this one.
This pile is so I do not lose or pinch any fingers. I watch others trying to chunk the very end of the wood up. Not me, I get nervous watching people chunk up these little shorties. It give me the Hebie Geebees watching. So the shortys and the to large to chunk go into my retort to cook down into charcoal. Hint, hint every one needs charcoal Right. You can store it and it does not rot or get punky. It can even get wet and all it does is wash the fines to the bottom of the pile.
I am thinking now that half my cherry wood will be chunked and the other half will be put into my retorted and turned into charcoal. I have one more WK Gasifier in the making. And six Charcoal Gasifiers being made two Down draft 12 " firetube and two Cross Flow Diagonal and two simple fire gasifier setup. I have One Double flute is completed it just needs a new filter built for it. It is going to be a busy year for me. Also filters too and cooling rails on some.
HW/CWT (Have Wood/Charcoal Will Travel)
ACWH=TFF (Air Carbon Water Heat = Traveling For Free)
SCWAB (Solar Carbon Water Air Battery)
Bob
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Bob your chunker is pretty violent, I don’t think I would run the tail pieces either. On mine I just kick the last piece less then 6" through and burn it up long. Not worth fingers to cut it in half! And I know Wayne knows what I mean by “the flick” of the last piece, keeping your fingers clear and a smooth motion to kick the last piece through without it touching the cutter
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Yes because of the cutting chunk chopping motion it has the chute that I feed the wood limbs into. And most of the limbs are not these beautiful strait limbs. they have been pruned many times once every year. Some of the 4" to 5" limbs are 18 years old. Fruit tree wood prossesing is a different bred chopping through knots very different from nice strait clear wood. It is 05:00 pm. 110 °f it is time to cool off.
Bob
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Bob. Prior to the start of the gardening season I had over a hundred gallons of inoculated bio-char. I am now just about out and still need another hundred gallons for some experiments I will be working on in my Greenhouse. About a quarter of the char I make goes into Bio-char and the rest is fuel or can be rerouted to water purification if necessary. You just can’t make to much charcoal.
110 f.? You can stick a fork in me at about 85. Of course I had heat stroke when I was young. That screws up your bodies ability to regulate temp I guess forever.
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Yes and that was with no wind. Way to hot for me. Today a gentle breeze blowing and clouds in the sky, no clouds yesterday it will be cooler today.
I agree about the charcoal making. I mix it in my compost pile for next year batch when making it.
Heat stroke I have had it, no fun and it can kill you. Hard to recover from it if you had a bad case of it and servied.
Bob
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I was 22 year old Bob. Pouring a large concrete slab for a warehouse in the blazing sun trying to get sections screeded out before they stiffened. I totally passed out. Woke up being dragged to some shade. Bag of ice from the beer cooler over my head. You can’t stop a pour like that. Some times you just have to man up. Never been able to tolerate heat after that. If I get hot my face turns red and I start looking like one of those cartoon thermometers that blows it’s top.
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An old timer I used to pour concrete with taught me to eat pickles by the jar full in the summer, and when thirsty to drink the pickle juice. I don’t know what about the pickle juice keeps you hydrated but been doing it for many years now. Yesterday was over 100 degrees in the shop while I was chunking, was sipping on pickle juice the whole time. Its actually very refreshing in the heat
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Vinegar and salt gives you a lot of electrolytes.
If you don’t like pickles try some Switchel.
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I was way off on my prediction of the wood piece. Same piece of wood I checked the moisture content yesterday.
I am sure the other pieces of wood in the wire fence silo is not this dry. I placed this one on the metal roof where I store my bagged wood.
Bob
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HI bob - is there a good reliable brand moisture meter you mighjt recomend too buy , i havent bought one yet.THANKS
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I think most of them work. Mine was given to me.
Bob
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Somewhere I read that you can only get an accurate MC if you check along the grain not end grain
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That would make sense, considering moisture leaves out the end grain before anything else, so checking the center of the block would tell you how much is really left. Could get a falsely high % if there’s moisture leaving the end grains.
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Hi Mike I did both with the same results and readings. That piece of wood was sitting on the hot metal roof yesterday. I should of taken a heat reading of the roof in the direct sun light. It was a couple of Mississippi putting my hand on it. Hot!
Bob
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