Marcus, you’re having way too much fun. Remember chunking is addictive as well. Your helpers risk being wood-junkies before you know it.
I’m sorry to say I’ve stored away my chunker for hibernation until spring. I already feel a little itchy and by April I’m probably about to explode 
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Must have plenty of fuel stored up if it’s put away for that long!
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I do 
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I’m up to 14 bags right now which is about a week and a half worth. I’d like to get a month worth sitting ready to go but I don’t know if I have enough wood to cut up without getting into my lumber pile. Plan to bring my chip saw down to work and cut pallet material down to wear I can load it in the back of the wood burner and bring it home to process so each week I hopefully bring home a week worth of fuel. I’ll have to de-nail some of it but it’s pretty easy work on the big 2x4 framed pallets we get
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Alright feel a little better about my fuel situation now, 22 bags ready to go. Got into my extra pile of fire pit wood, 4 year seasoned Doug fir, nice and dry good stuff
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Hi Marcus, pallet wood works great in gasifer nails too. The wood is free. The only draw back is putting the biochar in the garden, old rusty nails that have not rusted away and your Wood cutting blades. I use a sawall with a metal cutting blade. I try to only
Use nail free and the pallet pieces with nail goes into the retort barrel a magnet pick up the nails out of the charcoal.
Bob
Jan, I can have 5, 7, 8 , 10, or 12 nozzles. Tar can not get by the proper size restriction open for your gasifer design and engine size that you are using. With the proper depth from the nozzles to the restrection opening and then reserve charcoal depth to the grate.
High velocities nozzles to low velocities nozzles it is all going through one opening the restiction opening. If it is to larger it will make tar. If it is to small it will limit how much gases you can make.
Think about it. I have 12 nozzles and my velocities are lower at the nozzles at a 1000 rpms of the engine then with your 5 high velocities nozzles. the air is colliding with the air shooting across from the other nozzles through the hot charcoal. Your hot lobe area might be a little higher than mine because of the velocity at the same 1000 rpms. of the engine. The one thing that is the same in my gasifer and yours is the restiction, just one opening for all the air and moisture and gases to pass through.
Different Gasifiers but one and the same restriction opening. Sizing it to the engine size you are using and gasifer design and you are good to go. Lots of other variables in operation of the gasifer to be considered like fuel types and sizes. But for tuning the gasifer seems to come down to the depth and restriction opening and to the grate or bottom of the gasifer in a grateless gasifer making a good charcoal reserve.
Bob
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I’m lucky that many of our pallets are made of 2x4x8’ for metal roofing panels and are held together with about 16-20 nails. I can disassemble and de-nail these in about 10 minutes each. I have been salvaging all the lumber up to this point for framing projects and have a good store of it
My car trailer is one storage device for it right now and another pile of 2x6x12’ from big pallets. All of this my work would have had to pay to dispose of. Don’t mind if I repurpose them and save the company some money at the same time!
If I really needed fuel I could chunk all this up but with how the lumber market has been the last year … I’m happy to sit on it for later projects. I have had people stop by my house and ask if I wanted to sell it, that tells me it is worth keeping around for the time being. But if gas goes higher? Becomes unavailable? You bet I’ll be rolling to work with a happy SWEM on my face
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Yes those are some nice pallets you are getting hard not to reuse them for building.
Bob
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Hey @Norman89
I already have reason to regret I stored away the chunker. I will have to roll it out once more, because this load wanted my attention today.
As the famous saying goes: - I don’t need it, but…
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Love seeing these pictures of the mazdaratti out doing some heavy lifting
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What kind of wood do you have on the cart?
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I’m glad someone shares my disorder. Wood and what Wayne calls southern tecnology are my favorites 
It’s a mix of birch, alder, bird-cherry, mountain-ash and piss-willow
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I confess, l neglected this topic a bit. Shame, lmissed a lot of interesting things!
Today l have one too. Yesterday, at the local grocery store, l saw this
Hmmm… Makes me think… Didnt this sort of thing happen happen before? In early 1940s?
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They are getting ready to do it all over again. You are in the right business with your lump charcoal production setup you have. And with your saw mill. Oh wait you will be using all you can make. Right. DOW or DOC / HOW / COW or COC. Heat on wood, cook on wood, or cook on charcoal.
Bob
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That’s kind of surprising Kristijan. I’m liking your area more and more. We have people around here that probably have to have someone show them how to put gas in a car.
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Kristijan, are those chunks really for sale for gasification purpose, or something else?
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Nah, just kindling for the lazyest possible human beings that rather pay good money for stuff they can make them self in a few blows of a hachet but it was interesting to think about… I imagined being in the 1940s, and this being a standard motor fuel. Itsnit realy that hard to do…
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They do something similar around here setting armfuls of firewood kindling at gas stations and small grocery stores. Pretty funny if you ask me.
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I used to sell campfire wood for 5.00$ a bundle, and you would be amazed how quick it would sell to lazy people heading up the mountain to camp. Also got a lot of hate because it might start a forest fire. There is no shortage of un-inteligence when they stream out of Tacoma Seattle burien heading for a weekend getaway in there Subaru loaded full of half the house usually see them coming back through town at about 10-11 at night cause of mesquitos, rain, cold or fear of bigfoot 
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They do the same thing here Cody. All along the road people sell these little bundles of sticks for 5 bucks for people to take to the beach for campfires. I’m thinking one of those bundles would probably last about 15 minutes, if that.
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