DOW Driving Habits

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#581

Hello Bruce .

I have a log skidder that has a 5 cylinder motor ( deutz ) that sounds much like the v-10 .

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#582

Donā€™t mind if I do take a break from working on this sterling crane that wonā€™t start for a joy ride Wayne!

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#583

Thanks for the ride in the V-10. Yup Lisa is a good camera video operator that is for sure. She even got a pay back on you with your face when you were not lookin. Lol good job Lisa
Bob

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#584

Wayne, I heard my name mentioned in your latest video and that I donā€™t put enough videos up.
Of course I took the bait right away :smile:

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#585

Thanks a bunch for the video JO . I enjoyed it and real glad you took the bait.

Here in my state we just had a tornado cross the entire state ( 170 miles ) . Missed us by about 15 miles .

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#586

JO, that was a great ride. With all the log loading you do. It must be keeping yourself in shape. Next video have the wife go with you and let her hold the camera like Wayne does. When she puts the camera on you we will see the SWEM on your face.
You say Last year at this time you still had a lot of snow. Well Spring just came early this year so just enjoy the Blessing of it.
Bob

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#587

That was awesome Jan, I remember when I found this forum a while back yours was the first build thread I had found and it wasnā€™t done yet. I had totally forgotten about and and now I got to see it completed donā€™t mind me Iā€™ll spend the next few hours reading your thread all the way through again :+1:

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#588

Watching you woodgas back up with that trailer shoving snow J.O. - I think you need to name your system; ā€œMiss Finesseā€.
Regards
Steve unruh

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#589

Thanks for the ride JO, fun to see how well your car is going.

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#590

Red paint must be a real bargain in your area. I enjoyed you video. You speak better English that I do. Iā€™ve never backed up a trailer without using four letter words.

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#591

Thanks for the thumbs up guys.

@Norman89 , I guess we havenā€™t yet had the opportunity to talk. I just want you to know Iā€™m following your project with interest.
Keep it simple, see to that you have no leaks in the hottest parts, always use really dry wood and you will be SWEM in no time.

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#592

The dry wood will be the battle Iā€™m sure, itā€™s a very wet temperate rainforest here. Hoping to setup some sort of drying station depending on if Iā€™m using wood from tree jobs or lumber from pallets at work which are usually pretty dry

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#593

Then focus on the condensing hopper. The more tubes the better. The more fins on them the better. The less water vapour dragged through the charbed the better.

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#594

Iā€™ll keep that in mind as I go, I definitely value your input as a veteran of DOW. Idk how much difference it will make but I have a scheme in my head hoping to double the preheat air temp before it gets to the gassifier mounted hx, my hopes being to help remove water condensate better for the wet wood we have here

#595

Mix some char with the raw wood .

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#596

Iā€™m planning to do that for the first few runs to try to help establish a good char bed and I think I will supplement as well. I did just score a truck load of cherry from a tree removal that hopefully I can do some testing with. Our wild cherry here I would bet borderline the density of your southern oak. Incredibly hard to split even green right off the tree. It may make great gas as is or maybe even better as char I donā€™t know

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#597

The dryer I made seems to work real well but is a little awkward unless I made a couple of steps and platform to fill it. I was thinking about the rocket mass heater I have in the greenhouse. That has six inch ducting and I want to mention that if you ever build one for a greenhouse go bigger. You get way more heat out of an eight inch. Anyway taking readings off the bell you are looking at over 700 F feeding into the storage bed. The ducting runs out 17 feet and back the same and the temp at the exit flue seldom hits 90F. I think that even with a 4 inch rocket heater with the duct run though a series of say four 55 gallon drums, laid horizontal, with a hinged fill port on the top and emptying slot on the bottom you could dry a lot of wood quickly. Anyway it works great in my head.

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#598

Hey JO .

Thought I might show you a little more of the green stuff you where referring to on Jakobā€™s thread .

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#599

Thank you for the DOW ride. Let Lisa know she does a wonderful job of handling the camera and video work. The blue skies I am sure are a welcome sight. Beautiful green country side. Looks like summer there.
Bob

#600

Thanks for the nice ride, I scond what bob mac said.