Hi Larry,
Sadly, Rodney passed away 10-05-2004. I hope he finally got some respect.
My favorite comedian. You’re right about the news being comedy show.
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The wife and I just bagged 700-800 pounds of wood and spread more out to dry.
I don’t want to get too far ahead on my wood chunking and chores because I have some free labor scheduled to be here a couple of days before the Argos event .
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I wonder who the free labor will be? I would gladly help you chunk and bag some wood for a few days of room and board at your place Wayne.
Bob
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Bob and I could round up some cows too.
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Bagged wood and spread more to dry
Have Wood Will Travel
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I’m so envious. Can’t wait getting into the chunking business. I’m down to a couple of months worth of fuel bagged up so I’d better start soon.
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Haha Wayne thats too funny 
l count exactly the same when l do fuel prepping
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What Kristijan said. Ha ha. Me too. (BOWFEM) Bags Of Wood For Every Mile.
Bob
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JO, I might have a month of wood left. But I’m not driving the truck at all with all this snow on the ground, so it could be three months supply. My two wheel drive truck, which means only one wheel is giving you traction on the snow just doesn’t cut it for winter driving around here. The next build will be a 4×4 truck or all wheel traction vehicle.
Bob
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Good afternoon Bob Mac, Good luck with your 4×4 wood truck, i got one on the back burner too gasify once i replace the crank shaft and or cam bearing. I got it for 550 off craigs list, runs good till gets the oil good and hot, then can here a tapping sound, still it was a fair price, i better replace parts before it gets bad. my old vehicles end up getting traded for slitely less old one, thats why i am leaning too a light trailer mount next. could use on any vehicle too choose, other than building a air cleaner/ air/mixer.
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You know is is hard wood when the wedge breaks off your splitter instead of actually splitting the log in 2. That wasn’t even a very big chunk of wood. Atleast I have a backup splitter I don’t like as much but which works. That entire tractor is frozen into the ice by now. Been there most all winter.
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Haha, I like the shoveling (counting)
Unfortunately I’m only counting my bags backwards at the moment. If spring doesn’t arrive before Argos I’m screwed.
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Well it is like having an old friend back i dragged out the old wood splitter and got hoses on it today got a little wood split. That is the same splitter I used as a kid growing up it still works just not as fast as the broken one in the background because you waste a stroke on the return with this old one. But using it I fell right back into the old rhythm from growing up with it.
I couldn’t guess how much wood I have split on that splitter in the past.
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Is it possible to get the ideal size wood chunks for the wk gasifier only using a log splitter? You would have to cut the wood against the grain, which seems a challenge for a lot of log splitters. What is the best size wood chunks? Thanks, Tyler.
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Hello Tyler.
I don’t think you will make much progress using a wood spliter to shear the wood against the grain . You would do much better with some type of saw. Maybe a table saw .
Before I made my chunker I would process wood fuel by using my chain saw, sawing 2-3 inch disc from a log and then us a hatchet to bust the disc into chunks.
As far as the size of the fuel I use everything from sawdust and spliters up to peaces the size of my fist . The average size that I shoot for is about the size of a cigarette pack.
Many pictures of my wood above at 1745
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Like Mr. Wayne says-- cut the log with a chain saw into disks/ patties, and use your log splitter instead of a hatchet to cut the patties into proper size chunks. Depending on the diameter of the logs you are using, you can put two wedges crossed, which gives you four chunks each time. On youtube you can find some wedges that are made in such a way as to cut up to eight pieces out of each Pattie.TomC
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Cutting across the grain on a wood splitter is very dangerous the wood will fly off with high force once the grain snaps you could get seriously hurt as a result don’t do this.
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That is what I expected, a chain saw or table saw is a good start, I will someday have something like Wayne’s setup. I was thinking I could just have a setup like the one in the video link below to cut split firewood into small enough chunks. Another idea would be to use scrap pallet wood, because where I live by Milwaukee there is ample wood that is put to scrap and not even thought to be used in something like a gasifer. Thanks, Tyler.
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We had discussed a similar setup around new years. @JO_Olsson had pointed out that using a saw in reverse like that will tend to wear the nose sprocket, which is usually just along for the ride.
A chop saw or table saw can make chunks, but all those methods are slow going. What you want is to at least bundle a bunch of pallet wood, then buck it up with a chainsaw, or go for a rebak or WK type chunker. Look up those vids…
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