today we moved our nomade coalery down near to the ram-pump…
now with double bath tub system…the fork loads always in the middle, nearly nothing falls beside…
less than 2 hours the whole work was done…really the method of the lazy coaler…
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Gioegio, now that is the way to make engine grade charcoal. Good job on using the two tubs for more and faster producion.
Bob
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I planed to clean some land on the other part of the property today, and l thod it wuld be nice to have a nother bathtub. Wife insisted on an morning walk, since it was her day off work. We went exploring a bit in the nearby woods, and behold.
A old bathtub, probably ment for watering animals, that must of slid from the abandoned farm above. Coincidence?
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I gave my old bathtubs away as i had always made most of my charcoal indoors in my slow combustion fires , but i do have a large round cone for the bigger branches and this is my smaller continuous retort with auger in the bottom .
This was a old stainless steel filter box i use the bottom flange for the 80 mm auger and the top one is for a chimney should i ever put the lid on and need it to vent .
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I would call it a answered prayer.
Bob
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gratulation !!! also in our area there are bath tubs, once used for give water to the sheeps…since there has been introduced wolves by WWF nearly all people had to give up sheep-keeping…
also a good use for bath tubs : using as a little mice -safe " green house"…filled to half with earth and covered with a old window…
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bob, indeed, my wife asked jesus for a bavarian beer-garden table…not easy to find here…
she goes to search mushrooms about three kilometer away and found a place where people trow away stuff in the forest - and there was the desired table!!!
also she found a old “gas motor”, she told us when she comes back…my son and i, exited, because in this time we began thinking about gas production, hurried to the place, but the" gas motor " was only a damaged air compressor…
i dont know till now if it was a trick from her in way that we go immediately with the horse cart to take her table…but we found also some other things as 5 liter bottles for our wine…and the table was really nice and well conserved…
of course i have not prayed for a gas motor…otherwise…
ciao giorgio
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today we emptied the bath tubs …in the middle is to see how the coal in the hotter center shrinks more down as on the side, where the coal cools down faster…i think important is to close the ash splits every day - i have done only one time- so that through the splits not can enter air to the coal…
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I see that hot baths is really becoming a trend now 
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