Thank you, Marvin!
With time we know more…
Max
Here to admire the videos, they improve the gasification heat!
Max
Thank you Steve!
More than a fount I begin to feel too historical myself…
My “birthwright” would allow me to use “BMC”, but no decision yet.
Max
Thank you Terry!
Hopefully some grains in the overwhelmingly exaggeration could be found.
This is a vivid place to be in, free of the lately “agenda,agenda,agenda…”
Max
Good Morning Max.
We feel honored to have someone like you on the site. With people like you and Steve Unruh and many others the site is blessed with a wealth of knowledge.
I have been fortunate enough to have logged a lot of woodgas miles but learning each day from site members . The only way an old dog wouldn’t learn new tricks is being a dead dog .
SWEM
Wayne
What SteveU SHOULD HAVE DONE
Last Saturday the Wife refused to continue on with her main gardens planting until I restored the removed for manuring and power tilling eastside fence.
Two of our three dogs have come to love the sunwarmed/dried loose dirt as much as she does. They are digging and denning helping stir up the dirt.
I’d used the removed panels to replace the old sagging fixed wire on the garden ends with now bent nail/hooked, hung removable fencing panels. She plants pole climbing beans and even now putting pumpkins and squashes to climb onto the perimeter fences.
Needed to go buy more new 16 foot/4.9 meter welded rod panels. Took the opportunity to get some 16 foot local mill western red cedar planks to restore the picnic table top and seats with.
Well . . . what SteveU ‘should have done’ was soapy hot water washed off all of the been sitting all winter idle rainforest green grow off of the truck FIRST.
Might have then drowned out, and found the built-up hornets/wasps nests inside the door frames and under the two gas filler door flaps!!
Interesting travel trip/re-fueling experiences. I have now been multiple arthritis treatments bee stung plernty for this year.
Very few snakes here as too wet and cold. But all of our bug eating BUGs predators like black widows, brown recluse’s and hornets/wasps are very territorial and aggressive when disturbed!
S.U.
What SteveU WANTED TO DO
Hey BillS your pictured solar drying shed is nearly optimal for high latitudes green housing too.
Home growing greehouse seasons stretching this would need also translucent end walls. Back wall should be thermal passive mass storage concrete or concrete filled cinder blocks. Foam block insulated/sealed then on the OUTSIDE/back side of this wall.
Wood drying or greenhousing need front bottom lower and upper peak controllable operable ventilation panels.
Commercial available kit is available here:
Their Phoenix models.
I have stood in these in on a part sun, cold windy February day trying to “sell” to the Wife. The Phoenix was very good. But metal framed, not nearly as warming as some of the wooden framed models. Humidly the wood rots out in a few years without annual work.
Charley’s is a good source for materials and ideas.
Wife will not let me improve/convert her fathers built heritige greenhouse to these heat conserving principles when I wanted to ~8 years ago.
So I moved onto to woodpowering it for the lighting then. A bit of the “Rest of the Story” of how I got to here.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Memorial Day in Duluth, MN
Hey Max, What is a Micra ??? I can’t post pictures here because I have a wood burning computer … Maybe you can. I guess you can be BMC and we can honor you as the latest RAPPER in the woodgas world… Thanks for getting us caught up on what Fredrik and Eerin are doing … They really helped both me and Wayne back around 9 years ago now … I think Eerin got my head straightened around having a reliable restriction and a planar oxidation zone. Wayne caught it right away as well and did a “choker” and then did his expanded oxidation zone. He had to add the fins to deal with the extra heat. I’m happy with what I have here … Stay well, Mike LaRosa
Steve,
Be sure to thank Mrs. Unruh for steering you towards woodpowering! The woodgas community would not be the same without her refusal to your greenhouse improvements!
Mike,
I’ll do some checking for a more central gathering spot, something in Arkansas/Missouri/Kansas would be great! Perhaps Carl would also have some ideas.
This is surely one of the best Woodgas sites on the planet.
Lots of do-ers here!
TerryL
Thanks for the info Steve.
I want to make a wood dryer like this except narrow and long. I also want to be able to make it movable due to the trees in the yard and the difference in the sun angle in the four seasons.
As Billy B said, thank the Mrs for us. I am among those that are grateful for the knowledge you bring to the site. I have gained an understanding of why I am building a certain way as opposed to just building.
Spot on Terry L!
Billy B, The same or similar area would be perfect for the week after or 2 weeks after labor day. I was friggin pissed that I had a hotel room in Pittsburgh when it was 105 degrees every day and they didn’t have the pool filled yet … One morning about 7AM they started up some gasoline powered jet blaster right in front of my door and I just walked out the door bare ars nkd and told them I had got home real late and needed to sleep and this is why I got the hotel room. It was insane. They shut right down … Imagine that !!! … What a crazy country !!! Doug B who bought Wayne’s old ford may have some ideas ?? Mike L
I’ve added four more panels to my solar system, bringing the total to 8. Four more will be added shortly, now that I am officially tied to the grid with a dual register watt-hour-meter. I also just purchased another small Chinese inverter that will run off a 12 volt battery so when I test run my charcoal powered dc generator (alternator), the battery will feed up to 300 watts into the grid, which will either be consumed by the freezers in the house, or be used to run the watt-hour-meter and feed into the grid… which could also be considered to be a large battery.
Hey Ray,
Can you give me a phone call for some questions I have for you about your solar set up?
612-834-0091
Bill S
If we all chipped in, and all moved to Hawaii . . . http://auctions.tigergroupllc.com/cgi-bin/mndetails.cgi?tigergrp117
It takes more than bio-mass and $$ to be sucessful.
Probably designed and built by the same people that said Wayne couldn’t get over 45MPH on woodgas.
Hello Carl ,
I guess sometime things might not go as planned .
HWWT
Wayne
do a better job of representing Mobile Gasification a week from today someone please drive here to Iowa and shoot me!!!
Herb I think you will do a fine job of representing Mobile Gasification next week from the video that I have seen about your Cadillac.