we made it home and unloaded without incident.
My truck sitting int he driveway on a trailer when we got in. Transmission quit on the way up and we had a friend bring us another truck and take this one home for us. Now we’ll have to figure out what’s wrong with it.
Thanks to everyone for the efforts.
Billy
PS, missed seeing a lot of you guys.
I am so glad l had a chance to come by Friday night to spend time with old and new friends I brought a few sawdust stoves to show next year hope to have wife back on her feet l know it’s going to be a long road but with GODS help we will get through it all.Dan
Thank you Thomas and all the good folks that helped with the get together . I really enjoyed the event and saw places in KY and TN I have never seen before.
While packing up at home I tried to estimate my fuel wood so that I would run out just before I got home . ( years past I have been hauling too much back home .)
The round trip was 615 miles. On the way back I filled the hopper before leaving camp and two more fuelings before home . The last fueling traveling home I used all the wood and was 150 miles from home . This is kinda what I had planed so I could experiment hybirding the last 150 miles. The last hopper should have run me about 75-80 miles before running out. Being on the big road ( interstate ) made it very easy to hybrid. I played and controlled the wood gas /gasoline ratio to where I ran out of fuel just as we reached home. .
Thanks again Kentucky group 
For anyone who was wanting to attend this year, please try and make it a priority for next. @TheIrishEngineer located a nice facility with very accommodating hosts, the food was wonderful as always…thank you Rhonda and crew, I need to learn to eat that well at home, to @BillyAlabama for bringing, and continually repopping, the craziest corn popper I’ve ever seen, to @Chris for ordering shirts and leading the sing along, to @Ron_L who was kind enough to give me a jump, so I’m not the only one still there, and of course @Wayne for developing the WK gasifier and sharing his revolutionary design with us. Also my apologies to the other organizers who I am failing to mention, I know there are many more.
Wood gas certainly attracts some wonderful people.
Thanks to everyones feedback. I seem to have a seizable list of things I want to try accomplishing by next meetup. But that’s not a bad thing. Busy hands keep the mind active
A big thanks to everyone who came out. We had a wonderful time and it was good to see old friends. Especially thanks to Thomas Foster for finding a venue and taking the lead on reserving the grounds. I think we’ll be back. In fact we’ve already started planning next year’s event over here:
We’ve seen a lot of new faces in the group over the years, but some have stayed on. There were several more that wanted to attend but had vehicle troubles or health issues that interfered right at the last minute. Still, for everyone that did attend, we had plenty (PLENTY) of good food, demonstrations and in-depth discussions. Some of us stayed up way too late, and everyone got up early. The kitchen facility was excellent, and the showers were just fine. Billy brought a grain puffer cannon contraption, which was very loud and very fun to watch. Most of our food was heated up in a rocket stove oven, also from the Norths. Wayne gave rides up and down the twisty backroads for anyone who would ride with him. And we ran my electric wood chunker for awhile, which is always fun.
Pictures here:
Yeah, I was showing off my 5-minute fix to a 4+ years long problem. This old van just refuses to kick the compressor on. Still fully charged with the original freon, no leaks, all the wiring is good. Troubleshot this one many times over the years, I think it’s an issue with an ECU pin. One day it was really hot and I just really wanted some A/C before a trip. So I snaked a piece of 12/2 through the firewall, wired up a light switch, and bypassed the compressor relay. Now, you better turn it off before it freezes up the coils, also during stoplight idling in hot weather (no idle compensation), and when the vehicle is off (battery drain). Otherwise it works great. Wife is happy, and she can operate it reliably. This is literally what keeps this 380K van on the road, she won’t drive it without air.
Another fun quirk, I have to reach under the dash to change the valve from hot to cold. The cable broke, and you can’t get them anymore. No big deal, twice a year I change it over. Never really use it in the halfway spot anyhow. I can do it leaning over from the drivers seat.
you would need to put a meter on the ecu pin to see if it is sending a signal. corrosion, could affect it, or the pin could be non-functioning, but usually that is because it was wired wrong at some point or shorted, since you probably didn’t mess with it until after there was an issue. It might be a thermostat circuit that isn’t working. Like there is probably one on the compressor to make sure it doesn’t overheat, and there might be one on the coils somewhere that detects if it is too cold. They make a ‘resettable’ thermal fuse that basically has wax in it and when it gets too hot it melts the wax and breaks the circuits. then when it solidifies it works again, but those go bad after a while. But you probably checked all that. 
THANKS for the nice pictures of truley dedicated wood gas vehicle souls, i would have liked to been there this year, THOUGH i am sure you folks had good times, testing tuning and Happy all went well.
Thanks for the smooth ride and the ring of fire,
As for 2025, maybe combined with a Europe gathering and streaming or something. Someone should set a date…?!
Nice cruise to Whitley city KY
Just adding a few more pics of the meetup in KY.
Maybe not in order:
Wayne telling an interested visitor about Jakob North’s trip
Billy North, Mike Briere, Rene Briere, Jakob North,
Alfred Riley
Ron and Ronda Lemler
I missed getting pictures of my new friends Mike Reynolds, Hans Riem, Thomas Foster and
Chris Saenz—- dang it!
Thanks, Thomas and all the ladies who worked so hard. Thanks, Wayne for everything. Hope to see everyone and more there next year.—-Barry
Thank you Thomas , and every one who organized and helped with this get together .
We geatly enjoyed the time ,good to see Wayne and all who came very well worth the time and drive
The Lord Willing we will see you all next year.
