JO, you remember when government demanded gas-stations to have atleast one renewable fuel available?
Some guy’s up north had some bags of wood chunks available, in case a woodgas car would show up- instead of investing millions in tanks and pumps for e85.
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Seems weird to have a Swede say Up North. It would be like Marty saying Down South. 
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Haha! That was clever. First time I hear about it actually 
@tcholton717 You’re right, Sweden is kinda upside down compared to the US. Up north is where they run around with firearms mounted to the truckbeds and such. Also where it’s too cold to use road salt and you can find the best preserved vehicles.
Oh, I see, you mean we’re far north enough as is.
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Tone let me tell you a DOW truth . . . all of the really good contributors are annoying at times!
On Chris’s “could-we-use-an-expansion-change” topic can’t you sense the annoyances?
The Dow premium-side paywall was done for many reasons. Some re-stated again there. One reason is so Mr Wayne shaking up all of the previous published books, and previous systems Believers, is not endlessly subjected to “peers” criticisms. And endlessly have to re-prove his evolved traveling capabilities. HIS goal. Achieved.
You could say he was the most annoying man in all modern-era wood gasification.
You, me, he, and all others, do develop and use in our own set of:
Climates
Woods posibilites
Regional conditions of humidity, temperature ranges, altitudes and so forth . . .
To MEET our own demanded specific needs.
Same-same for all responding here on GorenK’s topic.
All Raw Wood gassers for their own purposes.
Much to learn from him, you, and all others here for raw wood turned into useable shaft power.
Ha! Ha! My good friend J.O. recently sold cheap what for him is poor quality spruce wood.
Ouch! Poor quality?? My regional predominate trees are Douglas Firs. Actually a spruce. My #1 heating fire wood. My #1 must-use woodgasifier input wood.
So wood stove, wood heater, raw wood fuel gasifier MUST be biased to produce results on this considered by many this poor-quality, resinous conifer, junk-wood.
Take just two of D.F.'s characteristics. Super low, below 1% ash. Makes very, very soft cannot be disturbed or handled char.
The evolved discoveries are you really must use a holding up grate with this wood. None of that gas velocity blow it all clear carried through (to-me), nonsense. You will turn that soft char into fine char particles most would call a soot. It is not. It is then wasted carbons fuel.
And that grate must never have any upwards motion crushing to dust the soft D.F. chars. And the whole hearth system must NOT have vibratory excessiveness also particlizing the D.F. soft chars to flows clogging char dusts.
Once a fellow learn this then all chain hanging grates with their upward swinging will seem crazy, foolish. Never, ever go back to hopper shakers!
So I have many times in the past be super annoying insisting I will not consider, or discuss, any grate-less, blow-thru systems. Max Gasman had a V-bar ash shielded grate basket design he was promoting and others did adopt and use for benefits. Him, them, all had hard charcoal hardwoods to use. Never using the junk woods of spruces and pines. All very annoyed by center vertical post held, and sifting motion activated grate insistent: me.
Tone I like much your works for the intent to utilized ALL of a woods energy factors within the gasifier hearth core. “Waste not; then want not” ( never waste in-the-now; to not have lacks for needs later)
You are the one that clearly simply have made me understand the benefits that can be had by 2-3 rows of air jets.
Thank you
Steve Unruh
Edit correction: above I’d said we were on JanA’s topic. Nope. GorenK.'s topic. I changed the above.
Hey @Jan JanA, just shows I was thinking about you, and do respect your works and contributions to raw-wood gasification a lot.
S.U.
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Pretty photos Tone. Not only the chimney and flair - the surroundings also.
Annoying people who don’t know anything about gasification often ask me where the chimney is hidden. Requires a lot of explanation. Now you can just point to yours
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Hi Giorgio, sorry, forgot to answer, the filter screen was 200 mesh, the finest available at Amazon, i know there are also 400 mesh, but i don’t remember where it was up for sale.
If i get some spare-time ill try to count the holes, a 10 mm ×10 mm square.
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I guess this confirms it, I don’t find anyone that I read about or talked to here even close to annoying, we are just different which is a good thing. This must mean that I am the weird and annoying one
I just find a lot of the topics interesting and everybody contributes in their own way to the conversations if it is facts or experiences or questions.
As Kristijan said (or wrote): ’I am interested in anything interesting’ and I couldn’t agree more.
There is only one way of putting it, you guys are my kind of people.
Thank you for being here contributing.
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In Michigan the phrase going up North is used by people from the lower part of the state to describe traveling to anywhere below the bridge. Going over the bridge is heading to the UP. That’s were Bruce Jackson lives. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a yooper say they were going up north. Of course they’d be in Lake Superior if they did. Canada is farther north but that’s just going up to Canada. A lot of that part of the state was originally settled by Finns. People up there have different ways and a different way of speaking. I get a kick out of it.
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Just to clarify the UP stands for Upper Peninsula. And the ‘bridge’ refers to the Mackinac bridge that was the worlds longest suspension bridge, but is currently 5th. It is still the longest in the western hemisphere. It is the only connection between Michigan’s lower peninsula and the upper peninsula. Otherwise it is a 4 mile swim.
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Thanks Sean - for the clearification.
I get a kick out of stuff like that too.
Nordic countries consider themselves pretty much cousins. Finland being the weird one Much due to the language.
The Scandinavian trio can understand eachother pretty well. Over all western European languages are at least related and you can pick up a word here and there. Finnish - no-no. It’s completly unique. Swedish is still a mandatory second language in Finnish schools, but nowdays many prefer communicating in English.
I’ve listened to some Minnesota accent on Youtube lately, since that’s where most Swedes ended up back in the days. Trying to figure out if their accent has some Swedish tones to it. Maybe, just maybe - some vowels pronounced similar and a little bit of singy ups- and downs like we use.
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Well, i don’t think Denmark has a understandable language either 
It’s readable anyway.
I think saying up North comes from Swedens elongated shape, where as you say the true rednecks living North, the Southeners just talking funny 
Found an article, the gas station was in Korpilombolo- that is up north
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My pyro-starter (as i call it) hasn’t worked since i had the “wire-fire” so i decided to fix it yesterday.
I needed some kind of insulated connector, that could whitstand heat, and couldn’t find any, when the idea hit me: a sparkplug! What could be better?
Here i’ve threaded the plug in the lid for the igniter, and winded the old ni-chrome wire on it, on the electrode end i welded a piece of a bolt, to act as a threaded connector.
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Maybe you mentioned before, but where is your pyro-starter located - in the nozzle compartment? And how does it work? Liquid fuel?
On another note - I couldn’t sleep last night. I think your report about burning your last bag of chunks made me worry and kept me awake 
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The “pyro-starter” is located in a pipe, ending over nozzle level, it’s fed with some air from the blower. When gasifier is vented from gas, the glow-“coil” is hot enough to dose in some ignition fluid (mix of gasoline and barbecue lighting fluid) about a tablespoon.
Then the fire is going on.
This is a invention from Mikkonen, i just adapted it for my gasifier and materials available.
I also put in a electric pump for the lighting fluid, and a remote, to be able to light it from the kitchen table, yeah, im lazy 
and lazyness is the mother of many inventions
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Minnesota and North Dakota. You know right away where a person comes from when you hear talk.
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Modern Finnish started in what 1910 or something like that, but it wasn’t officially adopted until a few decades later. ‘it sounds just like it is spelled!’ When in doubt double a letter like LL, KK, OO,UU, etc. 
The Finnish in the upper peninsula settled to prior to the language change and may have been running from it.
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The pyro-starter is in place.
Now most troubles are fixed, just the heater fan needs a check, in this rainy weather the windows fogging so ill have to stick my head out to see the road.
My last chunks, wet as sponges.
My fuel shed is empty…
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Did you get hit with the emerald ash borer? That little prick wiped out hundreds of trees on my land. Great for wood burning but there was so much that it’s going to get punky before I can make a dent in it. Saying that despite burning at least 10 full cord a year for heat and a fair amount for charcoal.
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They have a cure for that wet wood spongs. We use plastic garbage bags or feed bags will work too. Unless you forget to close the bags like I do some times, then water pours out bag. Then in your case the net bags are just as good.
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