# Charcoal powered mower for harvesting grain
**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069
**Category:** Small Engines
**Created:** [October 10, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069 "2021-10-10T13:41:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@KristijanL](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/KristijanL)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/61 "2024-06-14T21:26:07Z")
I only recently found out about this practice. Makes your stomack turn.
Reminds me when my wifes aunt once told us how briliant her heighbour was. She used to spray gliposate in the fall on her fealds and garden and next year there was much fewer weeds. Then she added “well but now she cant garden any more, she has stomack cancer”… hmm
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### Author:  [@tcholton717](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/tcholton717)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 12:54am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/62 "2024-06-15T00:54:52Z")
If I could clear the rhizome grass out of a big enough area I’d plant my own wheat. Low end average is 40 bushels per acre and 60 pounds per bushel, so 2400 pounds per acre. That sounds like a lot. If you averaged eating a pound of wheat products a day you could grow that amount on about a 75 foot square piece of ground. My math may be suspect. No experience but I assume that there is quite a bit of grain lost by manual cutting and threshing.
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### Author:  [@madflower69](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/madflower69)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 2:04am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/63 "2024-06-15T02:04:13Z")
Manual cutting and harvesting is typically higher yield because you are more careful then a machine. The harvesters average about 3% drop. It used to be higher.
I would try scalping it with the mower, then hit it with an organic weed killer after it comes up again
This might work. Arbico usually has most of the organic stuff listed. You can poke through other products as well.
> **[Torched Weed Killer](https://www.arbico-organics.com/product/torched-weed-killer/spring-2024-catalog)**
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> Note: This product has formulation has changed. Please see Technical Tab for updated ingredients.
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> Torched is made with a combination of natural ingredients including Clove Oil, Cornmint Oil and soaps in a concentrated formula. This makes it a safe...
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### Author:  [@FruitvaleFarmer](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/FruitvaleFarmer)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 4:55am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/64 "2024-06-15T04:55:02Z")
Just go carefully and read a lot before your spread stuff around. Certified Organic _may_ mean the food is safe, but stuff that kills may do evil things to you, Organic or not. Clove oil made the place I used to work smell like Christmas baking for a while, but not everyone was pleased.
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### Author:  [@tcholton717](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/tcholton717)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 10:41am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/65 "2024-06-15T10:41:23Z")
I’m not sure what my grasses are called but they act like bermuda grass or Johnson grass. You have to totally get all the roots out and they run deep, otherwise it will just regrow. I have covered a bed with a tarp for a whole year. No sun, no water, and it still didn’t kill it.
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### Author:  [@madflower69](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/madflower69)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/66 "2024-06-15T13:49:40Z")
You probably have American Beach Grasss
> **[Ammophila breviligulata is American beach grass](https://hoffmannursery.com/plants/details/ammophila-breviligulata)**
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> Ammophila breviligulata, know as american beach grass is used extensively in dune stabilization.It depends on wind to whip up the sand around its stems. This provides nutrients for the plant and stimulates more rhizomes to form and send up more...
Apparently, there is also a european beach grass that is invasive in california and crowding out native plants. They introduced it to save the dunes, which sound familiar, but I don’t know if they introduced it in Michigan.
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/67 "2026-06-24T17:21:16Z")
[Vatter ´s erleben: # im Einsatz, Fahr HML Bj 1955 mit Getreideablage beim Linsen / Hafer mähen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvwAY0MYhPw)
interesting reaper mechanic…our mower is ready now, but today comes some rain so one or two farmers vacancy days…
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2026, 5:28pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/68 "2026-06-24T17:28:46Z")
as the gasifier is mostly placed on the garden tiller , and there gots some modifications with a new bigger filter with water channel, it was a great surprise that the new filter enters perfect also on this engine, only a new straight hose to the carburettor manifold was needed…
the water channel is not a bubbler but keeps the filter medium humid…
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### Author:  [@Tone](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Tone)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/69 "2026-06-24T20:37:55Z")
Giorgio, when one sees this creation, one does not know where to begin to think and connect the logic of the system,… in short, a marvel of technology, a product of the “old German school”. But this is a fragment of your creation, here is a picture that shows two people clearly immersed in a conversation about,… 😊
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### Author:  [@Pelletpower](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Pelletpower)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/70 "2026-06-24T21:00:08Z")
i professori at work. The best making bether? And wind Giorgio?
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2026, 5:18am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/71 "2026-06-25T05:18:46Z")
too much praise, tone, it is more based on “by case” and try and error and some observations about it…and trying to make best quality is only lazyness , for not to rebuild after some years about rust…but one must find and get also the material, and thicker normal steel is also good, but too heavy for small mobile engines…
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/72 "2026-06-30T17:56:49Z")
[Coltivazione e lavorazione del grano a Vigolo Vattaro (TN)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Wf8362S30)
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/73 "2026-06-30T17:59:27Z")
 interesting combined harvester, seems a claas? ??
who knows the model?
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/74 "2026-06-30T18:10:30Z")
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### Author:  [@giorgio](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/giorgio)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/75 "2026-08-19T15:47:48Z")
interesting harvesting method from swiss mountains
[Bing-Video](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=landtechnik+schweiz+getreide-drusch+auf+alpinen+acker+terrassen&view=detail&mid=4BDA2F6D7A2C3702F8A14BDA2F6D7A2C3702F8A1&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCWeehNEmK971k2-HfUEV15g&ru=%2fvideos%2fsearch%3fview%3dchannel%26q%3dlandtechnik%2520schweiz%2520getreide-drusch%2520auf%2520alpinen%2520acker%2520terrassen%26churl%3dhttps%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCWeehNEmK971k2-HfUEV15g%26form%3dchlate&mcid=30E263E964294C6A8A8B743808C5E242&FORM=BCPLLV)
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### Author:  [@madflower69](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/madflower69)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/charcoal-powered-mower-for-harvesting-grain/6069/76 "2026-08-23T18:28:18Z")
If you are looking at building one, I would recommend looking at a stripper header. Namely because it strips it and there isn’t many stalks that go through the thresher, which reduces volume, wear, and speeds up the threshing process. It leaves the stalks standing in the field so if you want the straw, you would have to use haying equipment to go back and cut the stalks like hay.
I think you can build just the stripper part then bag it to run through the thresher. It does however, change your drying process.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6vxTXIrMyE)
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