Welcome to the DOW DavidP.
The fact that you can post up an input means you are a registered member with access to 14 years of accumulated, expressed, and pictured knowledges.
Some active here have chosen not to become Premium Members. What do they miss? Access to the evolved internal details on Wayne Kieths system. And details and pictures of others building off of his, and Chris Saenz’s WK systems book.
This system was evolved and designed for high-speed, hi-way traveling, down to slow speed city driving.
What does Wayne Kieth winter heat his house with? Not a wood gasifier. A bulk raw wood stove. What did he woodgas fuel his little electrical generator with when USA touring to be able to with electric saws cut found wood to re-fuel his truck gasifier system? His large engine pulled up hot, and working, woodgas truck gasifier.
I’ve busted ass for 16 years pursuing different small woods gasifiers for stationary electrical generators for home electrical power. Look under the stack papers top bar tool Icon for the “Small Engines” category for mine, and others, systems attempts.
Ha! Any one of the vehicle guys can laugh at these . . . just electrical generator fueling off of their actually working daily commuter vehicle wood gasifier systems. Many of these only having four cylinder engines. Their system are NOT WK’s. But DIY mixed-systems designs.
All of this is now open access to you. Months sorting through, reading; and viewing the 14 years of accumulations now.
What are the real tangible befits to Premium side membership?
All of the fellows there are darn serious about practical today things.
No woo-woo; futurist; maybe-someday; crapola gets discussed.
Instead huge amounts of the other 75% of effort making a woodgasifier system; any system, actually daily working in Operator encouragements, details, and experiences.
This last is brought over to the open membership side but often gets buried behind the woo-woo; futurists, and idealisms, discussions.
To get someone to step forward and take the risk sponsoring you; you will have to make yourself known with your current wood-for-your-homestead energy activities. Then someone will see the value in taking a risk on you.
How? Easy. We are northern hemisphere into the winter heating system.
Show yourself heating with wood.
I’m 73 now and have weakened and just did not get in enough wood early enough, to by fully dried and seasoned. Now I’m having to make-do with the too wet of wood I do have. I’ve had years experiences, of evolving to be able to do this. Benefit of lifetime living in a temperate rainforest.
I’ve explained this in my last Summer of 2025 (Fall time) posts. And now my Winter of 2025 posts.
Having to in-house crib stack, and dry down the wood for just-in-time usage. Then still having to forced burn up all of my in-stove made wood charcoal to produce the heat energy to deal with all of the excessive wood moisture I am bringing into the house.
Forced so firebox hot, that I no longer get soft fluffy wood ash. I am getting fuzed melted silica clinkers.
Just what you will fight in a small engine wood charcoal gasifer! See-it. Believe-it.
So . . . show your efforts and results: “show your wood fuel piles” and someone will step forwards for sponsorship.
Could be me . . . . after April/May. I have to financially finished up with this years Foreign Exchange student.
Regards
Steve Unruh
