Five miles later it was sunshine again, go figure
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Good Morning Jan .
The video was made several years back in my ford wood burner.
We may have these flood conditions about every 5 years deep enough for us to be stuck at home . ( can’t think of a better place to be stuck ) 
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I did a very interesting DOW you tube scearch on any latest wood gas vehicles being shown. Most that I see are the regulars here on our site. Why? 5 years and going back to 12 years ago by others Gasifiers vehicles. But now no one recently. But there is one person that stands out of all of the You Tube videos that is still driving regularly every day driving on wood. Can anyone guess who that person is? Hint his initials are W.K.
Now with the price of fuel going up all over the world you would think there would be a boom of more videos of these other people DOW with new up to date of what happening with their gasifer vehicles. Nothing as of yet. Maybe it is just a little to early in this gasoline high prices for the next wave of new DOW videos to show up on You Tube. Or maybe the scearch on You Tube is blocking things like this to be getting out. Here is a test for the DOW members scearch out vehicles driving on wood gasification. And see if any new videos come up for you. And post what you find. Only new videos like 2020 and newer. I have Marcus’s, JO’s, Wayne’s videos and some other members.
I think maybe we are getting blocked out. WHY? BIG DADDY PETROLEUM Lords?
Bob
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I think the hard work involved is a big filter for it. It both is and isn’t an everyman’s solution to gasoline. Even a charcoal gasifier takes initial work in planning and materials resourcing. Then if they can’t schedule time to Feed The Beast they give up. “Oh well at least I went a week with no gasoline”.
When gas prices shot up here, all the cooking oil was bought by the diesel heads around. Sure bet there’s going to be a lot in the shop in the next few months of gummed up injectors and resined covered filter screens.
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This could be very true Cody. They just gave up, DOW members must be a different breed then. But even some of the members when I started a few years back built their vehicles and video driving them and that was it. Oops I guilty. Lol. Some are no longer on the DOW site as regulars.
Bob
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I search every week with every search term I know of. Woodgas syngas gengas holzgas and only “new” I have found is a fellow in India small scale pumping into a motorcycle inner tube and then pushing it into carb of a moped and driving 20’ or so. Very very little movement, even less with char gas that I can find. A few experiments with small scale in a paint can to show woodgas, a few stationary operators like new Hampshire hobby logger and cnc machining is fun both doing some woodgas content or charcoal making. Another fellow I think in new zealand building a very very hefty unit for stationary use. That’s really about it that I have been able to find. Search back for months and only thing relavent to DOW I find is Wayne’s, Jo and my videos. I have showed a lot of people my truck, gotten several people to come check out the forum, all seem silent. My YouTube channel is growing steadily with the woodgas content, hoping to bring it along best I can that this is an option for some self reliance. Not to mention it’s a lot of fun!
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Thanks Marcus, I think it will be the same with other members searching the web. They are in control of what they want people to see. So you are doing the right thing. Face to face contact with people word of mouth. They can’t stop that. We will win if we get the DOW word out this way. The DOW website is not being blocked out and that is good.
Bob
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I was surprised if you Google search woodgas or chevota my truck pops up, and links to the DOW. Not at the top but it is findable, and for Google that’s saying something. I refuse to use it, I use brave but that’s my preference and it kinda sucks for finding specific things. I would be curious how often lately woodgas had been searched on the web? I know I am seeing a resurgence in bio diesel and black diesel. So people are looking into alternative fuels that is for sure
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That is how I found you on You Tube Google you just popped up. Google knows I like Gasifier related things. They are listening and watching your every move. Spooky? No it is A.I. just say hi.
Bob
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Every thread I have found on here that had a video from a DOW member I went to there channel and subscribed, went back deep as I could and watched all there videos and that was before I went for the premium and the book, I learn easiest from seeing something so dug in to all I could. Read through every comment that had some substance, ran into @ForbiddenTuna Cody’s comments several times on lots of those videos 
Wayne’s videos have been priceless, little things you can pickup on that I didn’t understand till I started driving then made sense. Sad to see how little people have been posting, people that were once greatly involved here now silent. I’m sure they could help the next wave of new guys with wise words of experience. I’m grateful for everyone here, and all I have learned in the last 14 months. Motivated me enough to build my own which has been so much fun I’m building another, plus the chunker I built to keep them fueled. Need to really start squirreling away the wood now, didn’t chunk anything the last 2 weeks what with moving and starting to get low
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The first time we met at Mike’s place I knew you would be a high visibility type person for this DOW site. But I was wrong, you are a really high viability with all the videos you have done. Lol
Looking forward to this year’s Washington State Wood Gas Meet Up.
My truck is running great let’s hope it stays that way. And not like last year. Yuck. Sticking with the hard cherry wood, no mixing the crappy popular in with It.
I did figure a use for it though. Use it for my retort heating and cooking my cherry wood to CHARCOAL.
Bob
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Do we have a rough date set for that yet? Maybe I’ll have 2 trucks to bring Mike has gotten to seen my toyota but you haven’t yet, and I’m trying to get to cruising speed on the Dodge build
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Well if @mggibb wants to host it again he will have to let us know what will work for him.
We can have it at my place too. I have lots of good hard cherry wood. By the way the asparagus is still not ready yet, up north in the Chelan area on the Columbia River.
Bob
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Marcus, I agree. A portion of the 75% was already in place when it was time to switch off the fuel pump for the first time.
I’ll never forget the feeling of that very first smooth purring. I remember exactly where I drove, how the sun was shining and that fantastic smell. Windows were down and that mix of woodgas exhaust, fresh paint heating up and rubbers braking in was like a warm breeze of freedom 
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Great description JO. That breathless moment when you turn off the electric fuel pump and the engine doesn’t miss a beat. Kinda like my first solo flight.
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Oh, now you have softened up and described the feeling in a poetic way, almost in the verses of the sonnet, …
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Glad you liked my poetry, Tone
I have only a vague idea of what a sonnet is, but I get the idea
Mike, you’re right. My first ever flight with a paraglider was a solo flight. Took off from the top of a mountain, 3,330 feet above the field. Similar feeling
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Jo, I love art, beautifully composed verses of poems, short stories, novels,. …as well as the art paintings and statues, I admire the beautifully designed cars and, like you, the beautiful and kind girls we want as members of the DOW. 
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Yall get in and we will take a little ride .
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Wayne, thanks for the ride.
I’ve never ever considered the risk of hitting a turtle
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