Sorry Goran, no Erik but Lange Jaap. Near Den Helder. Googled Jan, but he is in your Olland too 
. I think there are no names more Dutchier then Jan Erik Johan Willem Pieter Arend Emma. funny
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Me neighter.
8-8 m 24-24’ silo. Height 4 m 12’. I work on therapy basis . Good that I am a featherweight when connecting the pipes.
Dont show me those pictures please, no holiday until 4 weeks 
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Showers on and off all day today, managed to make a fairly sturdy farm trailer from the chassi of an old caravan in between the rains. I had a specific task in mind when building it, drying chunks. Made it with 5/8 gaps between the boards.
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On the 29th we had a big storm come thru here. Power out, no cell service, no internet, no stop lights, and railroad crossing arms down. Power back on yesterday and the internet today. With no power and freezers full it was time to bring out the generator. The gas stations in this end of town either didn’t have power or internet to operate. I just wheeled out my M-1 Thrive off Grid charcoal unit by Matt Ryder. I will save the lawnmower/generator gas for a real pinch. A 55 gallon drum of charcoal came in handy. This is my first actual use of this setup for myself. I have ran several test runs at home testing in the past. It usually gets set up to run the generator to make popcorn to give away at boy scout shows and a couple car shows so I can talk about woodgas. But now its earned its keep on a long-term use at home. I thought about Steve U and the northwest US guys that need a lot of temporary power and how lucky I am to for the most part have stable power here. The M-1 unit did a great job in a long-run endurance test.
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Practical application and a report of good when it was needed! Can’t beat that for a woodgas/char gas advertisment!!!
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Hi PaulO’
If you are summer running an engine driven generator here is a trick to get easy hot water:
Just place one of these old all aluminum 20 cupper coffee perk-pots up on bricks or on a metal stand in the muffler out exhaust stream.
Keep the basket in without coffee grounds to just make tell-you-ready boiling water for your sweetie.
Be the real family hero then.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Helped a friend cut his hayfeald with the BCS, what shuld be a 3h job turned out to be about 8 hours. Big grass and unknown terrain. And l ran out of fuel. No problem, we just made it on sight! Took less thain an hour to produce about 4 hours worth of motor fuel. Cooling included. Try doing that if you run out of petrol!
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Cool! With the Tone gasifier? It doesnt have to be totally completed charcoal?
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No, l have that one on the tactor. This is my own design. Excelent performance but its wery picky of fuel. It needs exactly right size and moisture charcoal.
Tones gasifier is less picky and will eat partialy chared wood too.
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Extra cool to make fuel that way👌. Never tried that barrel method. Works good then?
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Excelent. Tilt it 45deg, start a fire and just add twigs as they burn down. In no time you are left with a full barrel of char. Admitedly thugh, this char is much less dense thain kiln baked (popcorn effect) but for things like biochar etc it is excelent.
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Thanks, some other guy overhere was a big promotor of this method. Lost his name. The reason I didnt yet was the smoke. Did you fix or have any problems with that?
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I think you mean @Chuckw Whitlock. NW Oregon USA. He has his own forge making company.
This method is called the flame cap method.
S.U.
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I almost exclusively use this method. With relatively dry wood you have little smoke.
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If you feed it gradualy there is no smoke. We were eager to finish the work fast and loaded it full so there was some smoke but not much.
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Didnt go to my land for a few weeks, next time I will try this for sure. Yes, Chuckw it was. He burned complete trees this way
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Hasn’t been real hot here since early in the week. The dog days are approaching though. In about three and a half months this returns. Better than 90F and our 80 % constant humidity but I must admit it has lost much of it’s appeal now that I’m a geezer. A trip through what we call the big city.
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You have to admit. You guys do have a sense of humor. The irony of turning the sanitarium into old geezer apartments is funny. Funnier is I know someone that moved into them. I couldn’t do it, but I poked through those before they were remodeled…
There is also a good mexican place right there.
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