Children are dependents. Says so on your tax forms. Adults need to be independents otherwise they are just children to some corporate or government entity. People should grow at least some of their own food and produce at least some to their own power and do at least some of their own mechanical repairs and building or they need to hope the government is kind and has big teats. That’s not my experience.
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Joep, one minor correction in terms of diesel fuel, contains a good 10kWh of energy per liter, and gasoline 8.5kWh per liter. Engine efficiency is another story, good efficiency is due to the large volume of each cylinder, small combustion space, high compression ratio, low friction losses of the engine. let’s say that a diesel engine from this period would reach 30-35%, and a petrol engine 15-20% in optimal operating conditions. Mala Kubota, which drives my generator, has a rated power of approx. 6 kW at 3200 rpm, now operates at approx. 2700 rpm and develops 4 kW on 10% diesel fuel and wood gas, which is very good. In my opinion, a diesel tractor would turn out well. .
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I like it!
Thanks Tone for the correction.
I think so too. Running every day now?
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Tone, that’s amazing performance.
Is there a noticeable differance in rpm when the electric motor starts pushing current vs pulling?
How sturdy of a grid is needed for running an asyncron motor in generator mode? Would it be possible to run off grid, with just a smaller syncron machine in parallell?
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Jo, a 5kW electric motor at a rated power would supply 7.2A per phase to the mains (if reactive current compensation is performed), this is a negligible “disturbance”. The speed does not increase significantly when switching to generator mode, it is only felt on the sound of the engine and the belts occasionally slip. The network can only be excavated: -if voltage regulation is performed by changing the capacitance -if the gas quantity is regulated according to the required power or it would have at least 10kWh of batteries to store or charge the electric vehicle
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I brought this beauty today, he was nearby and the price was reasonable and I couldn’t resist the temptation. It’s not Fergie or Ford, but it’s their YU cousin, IMT 533 … he offered to breathe wood, … 
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The front sheet metal and hood look exactly like that on my TO35 as far as I can tell.
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Tom not just the sheet metal it has the same Ford front end assembly with the funny I beam and holds all through it for adjustable width I guess never really studied the design much but it jumps out at you. Very utilitarian looking.
I suspect it is another clone or rebranded ford with all the same parts.
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Yes, yes, now I became jealous again, do you think it works well to have diesel as a basis, I have not looked so much at these, but there are many more of diesel than gasoline here.
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In our country and in Serbia, they produced IMT tractors under the Ferguson license, they bear the IMT designation 533 and 539. I have been studying the 533 model for a long time, it has a three-cylinder engine, a displacement of 2.3 l and a compression ratio of 1: 16.5. Rated engine power is 35HP. As you can see, it has almost ideal characteristics for operating on wood gas and also for regulating power and operating speeds. Tile engines also have some disadvantages, such as oil sealing, otherwise they are easy to maintain and work reliably. So I will start with a major engine service, and then …
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Maybe this post will seem a little confusing, but I will write my own thought anyway. I look a little at the likes and responses on a particular topic and I have to say that by today’s norms you are an abnormal society and I find myself here too. Facts suggesting this: - If someone buys or has an old used machine and benefits from it, or at least tries to use it, he receives a lot of support -if someone tries to create something from waste material, he also receives a lot of attention and support -if someone is doing well, most of them can afford it -if someone writes something unpleasant, they withdraw the contribution or apologize -respect, tolerance, modesty, … what can I say, these characteristics are beyond the standards of modern man, but I wonder if we are normal or we do not know how to adapt and we have been run over by time, or modern man is running out of ground? I’m glad I’m not normal! 
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Tone, I get the feeling you’re a bit of a philosopher, as well as a tinkerer. Good combination 
Jokes aside - I agree. It’s my experience tinkerers are good people in general. I don’t partisipate in any other forums on the internet, but this forum certainly manages to attract good people only 
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I have to say this forum is the most well behaved and kindest out of any I’ve been to. I think it’s because it started on a foundation of good-will and everyone else paying it forward.
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I remember a few years ago at Argos someone looked around and said " There isn’t a clean pair of jeans in the entire bunch". All the folks I talked to took it as a compliment.
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That’s why I like my black red kap pants. Supplied by my work and dont show tar stains
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It may be different in your part of the world Tone, but in a country as large as the US there are really very few people running around that actually do anything but consume and most of what they consume comes from the far east. People that do things with their hands are looked down upon. A banker or Hedge Fund manager, who produces nothing and benefits no one is considered a higher type of person than someone like you or Wayne or a hundred other guys here who actually have skills that mean something in day to day existence. I have great admiration for the folks out of the old Soviet Union because they all faced really hard times and many times thrived just because they could take old junk and make really useful stuff out of it. The shit is hitting the fan in the world as we speak and those whose whole existence is wrapped around manipulating money or having money are going to discover how useless their lives actually are. You and the rest of us will do fine. Big thumbs up for doers, no use for manipulators.
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Well; Mr Tone . . . . thanks for noticing the differences on the DOW.
These differences are not accidental, or luck.
Mostly in the beginning it was Chris Seanz and Wayne Keith setting personal examples.
Then some of us early-on’s striving to set examples with ourselves.
Some of us had quit other forums in disgust. Others had actually been banned off other forums.
So the funny rules . . . . like no “spirted” discussions. Presentations, yes. Suggestions and questions, yes. Don’t like what was presented - - - look away. Just Do not read that topic.
A Heart-felt like 
button.
But no un-like 
slamming button.
No Grand standing, allowed, or admired. No Polling allowed.
You Say-it. Then expected to Do-it. You prove-it.
Only one person actually been banned.
Spammer linkers Flag tool ID’ed. Booted out quickly.
4-5-6 topics got too hot and were locked out. Two were mine by my own request.
All flows have a bit of turbulences. Expected. But kept minimized.
Abby-Normal SteveU.
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Thanks, I feel the same as the above posts. And I agree about the Sovjet. I had a business partner from Poland. Golden hands, fixes everything, started improvising. Why do you do that? It was this way in Poland, we had to every day. Still one of my best friends.
I am working and if not, my head is filled with woodgas. Still fighting the exhaust on the Yanmar. Almost woodgas.
Thanks, this feels like home.
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I think this happens because Wayne set the precedent. He is a farmer and comes from early pioneers in the United States. I saw this kind of thing among farmers in Vermont when I was growing up, people who still eat their biggest meal of the day at noon and call it dinner, people who are usually trying to get more calories in their bodies not less… Hard work + careful creativity + faith = life. The old pioneer paradigm.
Rindert
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