They did that to get better gas mileage so we use less oil or fewer emissions, which is about the same thing. As higher efficiency creates fewer emissions.
The electronics are so embedded people with superior mechanical skills have a hard time with the electronics, nor it is encouraged to mess with them as it is illegal so you aren’t seeing a huge number of people messing with the electronics and gaining those skills like we see who mess with the mechanical side of things.
Here is what a couple of pre-spring days can make happen . . . .
I can only still show these too many seedling trees (have to be thinned once; twice; thrice to eventually get a productive tree every ~11 feet) before the grasses grow and hide the majority of them.
Nature herself will decide on many;
Day before we had the brunt of a windstorm, mixed torrential down pours, heavy wet snow then the sweet spring day yesterday Steve got as well. Wind blown alder almost took out my rabbit hutches but refreshed the wood stove pile that was danger levels low, burned near 3 chords this winter. Dry standing dead alder is not common in my area normally decomposed quick and shatter in the wind, this one heavily spalted but still good dry stove ready
This little husky is growing on me for firewood duty, I like it
This is no fun. It took me 45 minutes of hard shoveling to get the thirty feet from my front door out to the car. We are at 15 inches of snow and it’s still coming for the rest of today and tonight. Horizontal snow with 50 mph plus gusts. I don’t think we are going anywhere. In the upper peninsula they are talking about over 40 inches. I have no idea how you get that cleared. Neighbor, who is partly responsible for the half mile of road out of our place to the main road is in Hawaii and his big tractor with the front mounted snowblower is in his polebarn. It will be all me and my 30 inch walk behind blower can do to get out of here. This will take a while.
I heard you guys were getting dumped on plus the winds, and an ice storm somewhere between us. We just have the gusts of wind and horizontal snow but not much accumulation. It was 70F here yesterday at this time. 26F now with a low of 16… good for another run for syrup, but Im not going in the woods in these winds… Widowmakers are real. Im not even going to try boiling what I do have.
Just really happy we didn’t get the ice storm. Still snowing and blowing though. I did get the snow off the roof of my hoop house and greenhouse. Not sure how much more they could have taken.
Far from done and a lot of editing to do but yesterday the 2-71 Detroit took its first super charged deep breath of diesel in many years
Marcus, I have always been interested in these two-stroke diesel engines, although they always produce a cloud of smoke when they are put under load, but they run very “smoothly”. Probably no one has tried running these engines on wood gas, I imagine they would run very nicely and cleanly on this fuel, if you have the chance, try it on wood gas,… 
I dearly wish I could but this one in particular I’m fixing up for dad to sell he is retired and ready to see his machines head off to the next farm. I would be interested to see how YOU would go about converting one to wood as they do not have glow plugs only penetration into the cylinder is the injector (which there is plenty of views of in my upcoming video) and the exhaust ports which do have an access panel to be viewed through the side of the block? I know they run extremely well on waste motor oil and waste veg oil those two are well documented fuels used with them. Would be interesting to see it be done as they are supercharger fed forced induction engines, other variants are turbo as well
There is one way how to run two stroke diesel engine on woodgas. It is Atkinson cycle. You still need some diesel fuel as ignition, but limited to minimum consumption needed to ignite the air/gas mix. The price you pay is lower power output because your working amount of mixture is lower than in normal cycle. The benefit is better efficiency.
Marcus, Kamil said it well.
The two-stroke Detroit diesel engine has an exhaust valve in the head that opens before the piston reaches the bottom position when the fresh air ports open. The compressor that prepares the overpressure and the amount of fresh air is probably volumetrically matched to the volumetric capacity of the engine, or rather, it probably prepares a slightly too large amount of air, so this amount nicely ventilates the working volume of the cylinder. If you imagine, the ignition of diesel fuel requires a temperature of over 400°C, which is achieved with high compression, so the cylinder must be filled with air, we must not throttle the air flow too much like with a gasoline engine, but we can change the ratio between wood gas and air, by slightly throttle the fresh air, and simply open and close the gas, depending on consumption. The easiest way to test this is with propane, well, limit it beforehand. dosing on the diesel pump with the stop lever, and place the rev increase lever in the middle, the engine will want to increase revs, and the stop lever will limit the amount of fuel so that it will run at low revs, when you start adding gas (propane, wood gas), the revs will increase. Combustion is clean and complete, because gas also ensures clean combustion of diesel fuel.
Tom,
We didn’t get any snow at all here. Down the beach, Round Lake got 52" of snow. My son in the Sault got blasted and he spent 8 hours in the loader, cleaning out the lumber yard he works at.
Fellas,
About the Detroits, to run them on gas, you’d have to disable the rack somehow so that they would just spray enough fuel to idle. You’d need a throttle valve ahead of the blower. Definitely would want the e-stop flapper in working condition. The big danger is snapping the blower drive quill shaft. The blower would need to be cared for if there was any danger of a tar event. Really though, they burn any kind of liquid hydrocarbon, so if you were so desperate to get an engine running that you couldn’t fuel a Detroit with used motor oil, I would think there would be all kinds of four stroke gas engines to had.
I find Steve’s gas bitching very interesting. For once, I am not the peasant desperate for road motor fuel. All last fall, and winter I put back barrels of gasoline, and diesel. I have also put back several idi ih diesels, dt466s, tall deck gm big blocks, and of course ford i300 sixes, and Chrysler 225 slant sixes.
I will look for the VW diesels. There were a bunch of cabriolets for sale here earlier.
I do have two Datsun SD33 non turbo diesel sixes I’d sell. They were married to torque flite 727s. Some sort of jeep tug type concoction.
Immna prolly stick with the 6.9 idi or the dt466 this summer. I don’t really go anywhere anymore so fuel mileage isn’t a concern.
It sounds like you will need it. I don’t think the snow is going to be melted by summer, if you do decide to venture out.
Spring is here! I really come to life, and want to live outdoors.
Thanks for the picture Goran. I don’t think we’ll be seeing spring flowers anytime soon. Still stuck back here in the woods and the snow is slowly melting with a couple of sunny days but now it’s too solid to do much with the snow blower so we are just waiting it out. Ran out of coffee cream but otherwise we could stay back here for months.
We finally turned the corner into autumn down here. It might as well be winter. The last week of summer was rainy and we had the wood stove going the whole time. Might get a sunny break for a while though and an “Indian Summer”. I need it to complete some roof repairs. It bums me out that this summer sped by so quickly, but on the other hand it cheers me that my northern friends can finally look forward to the end of a particularly nasty winter.
Hey BruceJ., you are living example of the wisdom:
“Only having One; puts you just one step away from having None.
Having Two; then gives you a back up for the One Primary.
Now having Three; you have the backed up; backed up.”
Plus the 2nd and 3rd gives you, if same-same, available spare parts. Or versatility; in-sizing and use-capabilities.
My pump fuels in Washington State is a cautionary to head-in-the-sands fellows . . . “They” came here with their forced Beliefs systems spreading up and outwards from California; eastward from the NYC; forcing their social changes through our own pocket books.
And with no more new made simple, easy to understand and use, small internal combustion compression engines allowed imported . . . then the old ones still existing, become the only diminishing-quantity, way.
Fortunately most guys are lazy and not willing to spend out on anything but a turn key solution.
USA and Canada we are lucky. Still old gems to be had.
S.U.
Hello everyone,
I’ve had to put my gasifier project on hold for the time being to prepare the vegetable garden for spring.
I would like to share my work with you here.
First, I reinforced the concrete borders with Corten steel.
This allowed me to improve my arc welding skills (fixing the brackets to the concrete), but the vertical welds were done by my cousin, it’s his job (he owed me a favor).
The bending prevents slugs from getting in.
And here’s the horse manure I had to add to reach the correct levels.
All that’s left is to use the rototiller at the new moon, weather permitting.
