Yes its a BCS, good eye! And you are right about it being old. Its about twice my age. Wery popular here still. Every house has one. In the past times this was a work horse of the farmer. It powered all sort of things. The slow turning 500ccm engine has “woodgas” written all over it but unfortunaly a conversion wuld be hard. Those things work on extremely steep terrain, often so steep only one wheel touches the ground.
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Given the size I would think charcoal maybe use an old propane tank from a gas grill. I have a good friend who loves those little walkbehid tractors. I was spoiled by growing up with big equipment. 
Yes charcoal wuld work best but the thing is when you balance the cutter on one wheel the extra weight is not a friend, plus the question is how things wuld work rotated allmost 90°. Firehazard is allso a concern, if the thing flips around.
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Well once you set the field on fire you won’t need to mow the rest. Lol. Maybe not such a great idea after all.
A little trick I learned watching FB. 
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Clearly a tree farm to have them all the same size and in long straight rows. But it looks dangerous as heck to me. Either a hangups waiting to happen or a strong wind before your ready blowing them over probably where you don’t want them to go…
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Haha, maybe two at the time by mistake, but never a dozen 
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Hello all.
I have trees down from recent storms and won’t have time to tend to most of them but here is one that is easy to get to and should be enough wood to fuel a truck for at least a year. 
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That is the best kind of tree to fall, easy to get at and fuel for the truck. You are surely Being Blessed Wayne.
Bob
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Woodfuels are NOT STANDARDIZED fuels.
There are many books and on-line reference sources that list this out by tree-woods species.
Virtually nothing published up on the wide range of BTU’s, and the energy release rates of different "cuts"of a tree within a given species.
Let alone the wide differences of remaining ash even within different cuts from a single tree of the same species.
Why does this make a difference in using wood-for-powers??
THIS is the factor that will always make wood-for-power an Automation FAIL.
Not about the automation sensors, servo’s and control logic problems. Of which there will be many.
Go back to the transition from actual whale oil, and olive oils for lighting to the first roughly boiled out coal-oils and petroleum tars lighting kerosene’s. Historical reference stories were with these you never knew from supply can to can whether it would soot-smoky hardly illuminate burn; or flare-up nearly explode.
Go back and re-read the story of John D. Rockerfellers development of the Standard Oil Company. He used Lab chemists first to find the right illumination oils characteristics. Then had them set the “standards” for that. Then had the production plants engineers develop the techniques and in-plant product testing to insure that each and every can’o branded STANDARD Oil was consistent and safe. This was in the late 1860’s, early 1870’s.
Now 150 year later we expect every Honda engine of the same model to perform consistently the same.
Every branded shirt and pair of pants from the same manufacturer to fit consistently the same. Wear the same.
Well folks in the real natural world organic products are NOT the same! A fish is not an all-the-same fish.
Why the best of wines are labeled with their grape species AND year of production.
Our standardized foods products are generally blended for a somewhat bland middle-of-the-road consistency.
Watch the cooking shows chef cook offs. A REAL Chef/Master Baker is expected to to take what ingredients are made available, and produce good results irregardless.
Want woodgas to work??
Put a good working human in the gas making loop with decision making capability.
THAT is how we 19th and most of 20th century built our more and more energy using societies.
The coal fireman were very experienced at getting the best possible results with widely varying fuels-coals supplied to him.
The steam engine operating engineers had to years learning work up to getting the best possible results from their double and triple expansion systems.
And as good seamstresses, and good kitchen cooks show well; woman are just as good at experienced on-the-fly getting the best possible results as men are. Women really are not clamoring for all-one-button dumbed-down lives!
To “standardize” any tree for a fuel to be able to one-button-use means rejecting out a high percentage of that tree as having inconsistent characteristics. Taking the remainder and grinding it up and reforming it into consistent fuel chunks. Consistency for store-abilty, automation handle-abilty, energy release rate and left behind ash percentage and fuseing
Huge, huge waste of Ma’Natures resources there to make your Marie Antoinette “fuel-cakes”.
Think about it. Any Dependency developer/manufacture/supplier wants you to trust their product. Become stoopid dependent on it to the exclusion of all other possibilities. Oh, but my chickens love stale refined white bread chunks! Would work to eat nothing else if I would just supply them exclusively with this empty nutrition white-crack-addiction.
Consistency standardization from Levi jeans/pump gasoline/bottled propane to cocaine/PCP/LSD/crank to anything else you would buy into is the name-of-the-game.
Be independent. Make do with as wide of range of input stocks possibilities as you can train yourself to get usable results from.
Sun don’t shine every day. Rain is a good necessity. Winter is a good reset/rethink time. I think Mediterranean climates would be so very mind/efforts numbing.
I love on-the-fly adjusting my winter space heating wood stove to wood-fuels variability. Much more fun and rewarding than one-button sending off a monthly payment check to the electric company.
tree-farmer Steve unruh
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Words to remember and to live by…
Its not a good gasifier to build, but to train the human to operate it…
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100% with you Steve, we are on the same team.
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Here is a video of my buddy Steve Cross that some of you may enjoy .
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Dang Wayne you southern boys sure do make some complex but really nice saw mills. Puts my purchased bandsaw mill to shame… I still have to push mine by hand…
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Amazing Another way of sawing Indonesian style,
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How many cigarettes does it take to cut a board foot of lumber? TomC
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Lol, That’s a good one, I notice the smoking too.
OSHA what have a fit. In our country.
Bob
I wouldn’t want the job of the guy in the red shirt push too far on that edge and it could be bad…
That must not be too dense wood either judging by the shoulder lugging because I wouldn’t want to toss an oak log on my shoulder…
Rebak making video
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Thanks for the video Pierre.
I’m curious as what the wood stove looks like that uses wood from the Rebak. Why wouldn’t they cut the pieces in 45-50cm lengths? They must have a different style wood stove?
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