Hi TomC,
As I explained above in the 60’s, 70’s, even up trough the early 2000’s woodgas for engine power was never an interest for me.
I am sure you will understand this well; and it matches WayneK. explanation of his awakening wood gas possibilities.
Younger’s here will not realized we’all by the 1960’s in the US were far, far removed from the concept of making our own engine fuels. Farm alcohol was a 1920’s, 1930’s thing in the US and a Canada. Hammer to death by the Big-Oil companies backdooring the illeagalization of personal use alcohol making. Even after all of the legal hoops jumping subject to an added on $1.00 a gallon use tax.
The name of the game for us come of age post WWII was stretching pump supplied fuels for different goals.
Shear horsepower-speed.
Use stretching in hours and MPG’s.
Later: minimal emissions.
Anything I did back then by my late 1990’s (approaching Y2K) was with my evolved matured reality values not of much use.
Gasoline, diesel, propane, CNG and I was still 100% dependent on a whole chain of layers getting it.
Fall/winter of 74/75; and then again in 1980 showed well that dependency chains do not stretch. They whip-back hurt. They snap. They break. For reasons far, far outside your control.
The sun only shiles but a small percentage of the the time.
The Wind worse than not blowing, storm-gusts too hard killing your equipment. Micro-hydro; the same. Feast. Famine. Destroyed.
I make no claims for being 100% energy independent. This is actually silly and near impossible to do. The anti-tech Unibomber was a dodo insisting on making his letter-bomb switches by hand from found scrap. He had to tech-ride an 100’s year evolved bicycle to scrounge his scrap. Had to depend tech-culture shed/cast-ways for that bicycle and his switch making materials. Gee. Dude. Go to a corner grocery/hardware and buy the damn switch. Bone out a cast off refrigerator, microwave oven for door switches!
Every day I do buy and use some Big-Grid electricity every single day. The consumption/use cost is still amazingly low. The conform/permitting buy-into their system is amazingly HIGH. $14K to change over one of the houses from and old in-ground tanked fuel oil furnace to an central electric furnace. $4,000 was just for the Public Power system engineering and permitting/inspections. NOT for actual hardware or installations labor.
Every week I do have to buy-out vehicle gasoline.
Once a year have to buy-out a bit’o tractor diesel.
Once a year buy-out a 20 lb. bottle of camping stove propane.
Yet now any day, any time I can, and will replace any of these with woodgas now.
This capability in addition to the 80% heating with our own property grown wood is the F-R-E-E-D-O-M.
And freedom is not free. You work and sweat for it.
Not working. No sweating, you are just mind-masturbating with yourself.
I am speaking out so stronly on this topic as it was began by a fellow with access to lots of mill waste made sawdust.
He was asking for specific information on a developed evolved sawdust-to-engine grade-woodgas system.
More than topic drift has occurred.
DISCcounting of Ray Rislers systems works has occurred.
Occurred by I-know-better’s; and I-heard’s.
No. You do not know better. You ain’t put in the verifiable operating hours to know better. You speculate. You pontificate.
This is insulting of that man lifeworks.
I object.
I will continue to object until banned.
Steve unruh
Ha! Ha! And TomC the very best gasoline stretcher I had in that time era was a made-in-Wolfsburg(Germany) 1st generation Volkswagon Rabbit. Four door full hatchback, super practical. Smurf-blue. 35-38 mpg even while leadfooting. That rascalie Rabbit just had too many fool-you, Fool, reliability fleas. ALWAYS having to work on it. And it only really like expensive VW dealer parts. S.U.
Install auto pilot in truck. Now we eliminated the man driving and you can run the equipment in the back of the truck. 
