Is that some sort of machete? Limb remover?
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JO,
Did the “elderly gentleman” DOW? If so, his gasoline might last a long time. I have to put stablizer in my Toyota. I usually start up, drive, and shut down on charcoal, so a little gasoline goes a long way–really just as an alternative backup fuel.
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No, I don’t think so. I think @Wayne should tell his story. I will most likely mess up the punch line.
Haha, I have the same problem (gasoline getting old)
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Found this site in English. Answers a few questions, maybe creating new ones? 
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Wow! Cool page!
Never even heard of the term “billhook” before.
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This is my 3rd truck and trailer load of Douglas fir, hemlock, and some alder.
Now days of splitting and stacking… but I sure am aware of my TV and recliner training methods.
I sure wish I had a sawmill, 2 of these firs were 30” at the base and 70+ ft tall.
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JO, I hope Wayne will chime in. I would like to hear his story with punch line.
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Hello Steve
Back in 2005 I visited an uncle with my wood burner . At the time it was new to me and I was all hopped up about it and was saying something to him about me being the only one around with enough motor fuel to last me the rest of my life (I was thinking of my big wood piles and timber growing faster than I can use it ) He implied that most folks his age and having over 1/2 tank of gasoline could make the statement !!
He said he din’t risk buying green bananas anymore !!
I offered to show and give him a ride in the truck but he declined . Said he had seen enough of them while in France during the war. He said the vehicles would pass the marching soldiers but a few miles down the road the troops would pass the smoker as the operator was poking and trying to get it to go.
He said all he wanted while there was to be back home !
I don’t think my uncle wanted anything to take his memory back to the war.
He passed away in 2008, RIP uncle Tom
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They say smell has a direct connection with memory in the brain and woodgasers have a wery distinct smell so l understand your ouncle completely. Such storys are much more comon here. My grandfather told me they had a callender at work (he was a border policeman) with a picture of a hilly feald from somewhere south of the country. Once they had interegated someone in the office and he saw the picture and stared at it as if petrified. Afer a while he pointed a finger on a spot on the feald and sayd “here is where l shot a Lah (italian fachist)”. He did not say that with pride but as if a big stone in his chest just moved again and landed right back on his hearth.
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When I had the Cornbinder with the MEN gasifier my grand Dad pulled in the driveway while I was fanning. Dad got in the back of the Cornbinder and took the notion to open the lid. After the mild explosion and Dad’s trimmed back eye brows my grand Dad got back in his truck and drove away.
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Sad stories—unfortunate that people have bad memories and experiences associated with DOW.
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Different story here.
Sweden has managed to stay out of war activities for 200+ years. Not always by fair play I have to admit, but politicans always managed to pull things off for the best for its citizens. Times were rough during ww2, with shortages of most goods, but no one starved and no one was shot.
Sidewalks of Stockholm city were covered with tall, beautiful piles of stacked firewood and thruout the entire country hatches were heard swinging, making chunks. Welders ran close to 24/7 in gasifier factories and garage mecanics dismanteled carburators and installed gas-mixers on endless lines of cars, trucks and buses.
From what I’ve heard no one here rememebers woodgas with angst, but rather as a salvation during hard times. Hard work for everyone, all the way from governmental intitutions, engineers and down to chunking farmers. Unity created. A successful large-scale top-down implementation Mr @SteveUnruh 
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Some porn from Wi. for JO’s eyes only.
Didn’t get any wood chunked this summer because my chunker needed work after going through the fire. Normally, I just lay the chunked wood out on a black plastic sheet for a couple of days, but the sun is too low with winter so close, that I have to pull this wagon out on sunny days and push it into the shop for others. The way the wood fractured, I thought it was dry without putting it in the sun— that story continues under “Tom Collins Gasifier” TomC
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Can’t stop looking at them
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I dont know, JO, some of those saplings in your picture look pretty young… You counted 18 rings on all of them, right? 
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Tom what is the old rock building in the background of the first picture?
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Haha took me a while to figure that one out
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Sure, and 27 rings is the upper limit. That’s when you start seeing structural sagging
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Allwas nice when you got this knollege and some fully dried wood.When low on funds can Poke around and DOW !
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