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
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
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…
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
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.
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…
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
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.
Last spring when Dana and I went camping/fishing up at Banks Lake we took two vehicles, the Motorhome and the truck to pull the boat. The bed of truck was full of fire wood. We had plenty of wood when we left. Enough for a few more days. Someone had plenty of wood when they parked in our spot.
Yes Cody fire wood wraped in plastic not even enough for a fire to cook on. $5.00 to $10.00 a small bundle. Lol
Bob
I think I’m going to do some modifications to my current splitter.
It uses a huge extra wide wedge that usually makes the logs explode apart. Not fun. It’s made of some thick stuff but it’s actually a few plates welded together. With a little plasma cutter surgery I could make it into a 4 way splitter. Re-grind the edges and then use it to crack my rounds down into my jenga blocks. Big big logs I can use a maul and driving wedge. Figure I could cut my rounds like I have been, roughly 4 inches tall and just set them up in a conga line.
Too bad black alder doesn’t grow here. @JO_Olsson is it true that it is a favored wood for gasifiers? I remember watching an older video of a Norwegian gentleman that favored it during WWII.
I wonder what an equivalent species would be to black alder?
Alder, is there anything to have for firewood for the car?
It weighs almost nothing, I would get alder in a place we clear, next to a road, but is it worth chopping this?
The Alter we have we use it for smoking fish and meats. It many grows on the west side of the mountains where there is more rain fall. @Norman89 Marcus have you tried Alder wood in the Wood Truck yet? I do not think we call it Black Alder in Washington.
Bob
