You kind of scared me maybe taking your eyes of the icy road to turn the camera behind you. I grew feathers when I got old. 
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Thank you Jan, that was a great drive and with you. Like Wayne said our gasifers are different because everyone builds custom made gasifiers. No two are alike. My questions is this, in your opinion were you making good gases to run your truck on? I would say yes buy just what I saw in the video. Do have any way to tell what your temperatures coming off your grate, or just leaving the bottom of the gasifer area?
Great driving on all those ice roads.
I still have not driven my truck on those kind of conditions yet. My truck came from the south part of the USA where there is hardy any snow fall at all.
Bob
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Yes, I think the gas is pretty good, but what do I really know, I have only taken a small turn in JO’s Mazda, and it’s been a long time, so I do not have much to compare with.
I have no meters closer to the unit, and on the outside of the pipe I do not know if it is an idea to measure.
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Hey Jan . No ice or snow but signs of spring
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Gets a little jealous, I have a long time left before it starts to bloom here.
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Thank you, Jan and Wayne. You make me wanna crank the camera up again 
I’ve been contacted by strangers three times for the past couple weeks - all woodgas-wannabees.
Two guys visited me today in the middle of my firewood splitting for a show-and-tell. Took them for a 100+ km/h woodgas ride in the Volvo 
Jan, both with the Rabbit and Mazda I see simular temps coming from the cyclone. I back off at 300+°C.
The Volvo gasifier has a deeper charbed (and wider) and I don’t recall seeing more than 250°C no matter how hard I push it.
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Yes, it’s like I think, I’m wondering if I should make the new one for the car and have the other one on the tractor, but at the same time it works quite well, and I drive quite often slowly in the woods, and if I have a larger charcoal bed, the easier it is to clog it with soot.
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With the tractor’s low rpm I guess a gasifier would need quite small internal dimentions. How much would you realisticly be able choke down the pickup gasifier?
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Depends on where you look, but down to 2 "seems to go, according to gengas.nu, think it is after SMP.
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I was thinking more like looking down into the gasifier. I don’t remember your current meassurments, but your original 8-9"? firetube with a ~3" restriction would probably fit the tractor’s needs.
Yes, but I had problem with the wood hanging in it, so I do not know if I want to use it.
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Didn’t you have a small tube before too?
Did not you have any problems with wood hang then?
Could it be the angle of the cone down to the tube that was wrong on my old one?
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Yes, the Rabbit gasifier was an 8" firetube. It liked to bridge if I used square fuel. Roundies - no problem. Also, if it sat for more than an hour or so, poking down the glued chunks was necessary.
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JanA, tractors bump and bounce much. Maybe be O.K.
Only way to know is to try.
S.U.
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Well, I thought it would power a generator too
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Out working the old truck . No gasoline used 
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There sure are some genius engineers out there that seem to hate trailers. I can think of a few spots round here that are the same way
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Wife and I went out visiting on this Sunday afternoon . On the way home I throttled up some to make sure the gasifier is breathing well.
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Hmm, when I drive over 60 mph, my wife shouts, how do you behave, or maybe your car is more stable, because it can not be due to the driver?
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