Okay now you are making my eyes get all teared up. Stop it! And GO chop some wood.
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göran, not the lazy ones are the inventors, but in reality the inventors are the busy ones…they have no time, so they invent improvements for saving time…
the lazy ones are also mostly too lazy to invent something…
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You are correct Giorgio, i believe a inventor never have the peace to act lazy, it applies to me anyway, often spend much time and work to make something easier, but the saved time?, no rest, carry on with next task.
I mostly say it in a humourous way…
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Seems i got some chunk’in to do 
A friend that sells firewood gave me this, from cleaning up his wood-yard, even delivered it to me
Bone dry, so nothing for the rebak, probably the little fergie starts spinning instead of the pto.
Delivered by dump-truck, there of the messy pile.
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I guess those will be saw cut and then split?
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Awesome Göran. The biggest hurdle is overcome, does your -40’s chunker take dry wood? Or is it just elbowgrease and sweat left
Unless you have some other miracle machine hidden away 
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The stuff over 3" goes to my “vintage” chunker, it actually chunks dry 2 by 4s cross-fibre without cutting first. But im going to cut-chunk this, it saves on the machinery
The thinner stuff im going to revive my axle chunker for, it takes 3" dry without hesitation, just the guy holding the wood hesitates some 
.
And ofcourse, i have some chainsaws thats needs exercise
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That’s cool.
Perhaps you already told us but do you know how old your vintage chunker is? I just guessed -40’s but it might just as well be from the -70’s
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200 mesh means 200 holes per inch, so divide 200 by 25.4 (mm per inch) to arrive at 7.87 holes per mm.
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thanks mark for the information about mesh size…i am not very common in mesh measuring unit, will say per nothing…
can you say something about how much micron is it …max gasman@ has told somewhere that his woodgasser friends use 20 to 25 micron stainless net for filters…
i try to find out what micron size my final water irrigation filter has…
in ebay i have seen a filter net in us with 5 micron, but maybee this would be too restrictive…?
thanks giorgio
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1943, i bought it from the son to the manufacturer, well, he worked building them to, and at 15-16 years old he drove Sweden around with an Opel with trailer, one of them cutter/chunkers on the trailer as a demonstration machine, this was during the war, Opel ran on charcoal-gas.
They made around 4000 of this type.
That man became sort of my “mentor” in wood gasification, helped me through the first, stumbling attempts
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200 mesh is about 74 micron.
25 micron would be about 500 mesh. From what I am seeing on Amazon for local choice, it is very expensive in stainless steel.
Edit: Until we can take a look at Goran’s throttle body to see how much soot it gets, a good indicator of his hot filter working well is the cooling rail condensate doesn’t look too dirty.
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I should document some condensate, and pull the gasline to woodgas throttle soon, im curious myself 
All i can say at the moment is the condensate up front seems very clear
Edit: it has gotten clearer and clearer which probably is due to soot-cake build-up, or soot left from the old, broken filter?
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That is awesome
Yes, that would be interesting
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Here we go, did some maintenance on the chevy, im going to order some sparkplugs for it this coming week, i was unsure if there was tapered plugs or washer seal, so i pulled one and look.
No luxury to replace these
I also found the reason for it, running little rough, “limping” some.
Yes, im a lazy man, i only replaced these two leads (im going to replace the others when i get the sparkplugs
)
And as we talked about soot build-up earlier, i thought i check and document it now.
I realized i cant pull the mixer to reach the throttle, it’s between the y-“splice” and the shut-off valve. I didn’t really remember that.
Then i need to disassemble this, or lift the mixer from the manifold.
Second best option was to pull this hose, that feeds the gas to the mixer.
Thin layer of fine soot, less than i expected
“Fatty” soot.
Inside the hose.
Some condensate from front collector, not chrystal clear, but good for me
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Too bad that it is hard to get to but that was not much soot at all, how long have you driven since last cleanout?
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I’ve never cleaned this, first time i opened this hose.
Only thing I’ve cleaned is the condensate collector.
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Well, good news is that you probably never have to look at it again so it doesn’t matter that it is hard to disassemble
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I found some old pic’s of my woodgas “mentor”, it started with me placing an wanted-ad in a classic car magazine, i searched a vintage woodchunker. He called me and said he had one for sale, even if i don’t wanted it, i HAD to come visit, talking some woodgas.
I belive this could be around 1999-2002?
Alf with his Chevrolet -37 with “special” engine.
I know there are atleast two men getting a speeding ticket on woodgas, Alf was one of them, 137km/h on 110km/h road, police motorcycle chased him.
When he saw i suspected he was lying, he showed me the copy of his speeding ticket
May he rest in peace, he was a great inventor, and always ready to share his knowledge about everything technical.
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Göran, there’s an old lightup- and ride along video of that Chev on Youtube. Are you by any chance the man behind the camera?
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