Fricken awesome Jakob!
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Congratulations Jakob and thanks for the pictures !!
BBB
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Congratulations, you all did it , that is a beautiful sight East Coast to the West Coast.
Bob
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Tom,
Iāve been thinking to make a wick type waste oil burner. But I didnāt want to use such a thing inside my garage, at least not until I got all the problems worked out. But your idea to heat the underside of the oil panā¦ On the farm where I worked we had a 1960s IHC 606 diesel. Of course when it got below zero up in Vermont that tractor just didnāt want to start. That is until an old guy told us you could put old crank case oil in a kerosene lamp base, put a cut up soup can on there in place of a chimney and put it under there. Stank but it worked. Thinking 
Rindert
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Jakob,
Congratulations on your DOW accomplishment. Will be praying for your safe return trip.
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Great job Jakob on achieving your goal!
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I write this about to walk out the door to light the truck. We are planning on heading north to Oregoncarlās then to stop and visit w/ Steve then hopefully make it all the way to Kent today. BBB
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Jakob, did I understand that you are back to only having wet moldy wood from Wichita to make it to the coast and up to OregonCarl?
How did the funeral go?
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I have some of Tom wobigās wood left but mostly the wet stuff from Wichita.
The memorial was good. The Catholic prayer service I didnāt get much out of but the one that Aprovecho hosted was very good. I met a lot of people who had worked with Larry. All it was was a picture slide show and an open mic. Everyone had a lot of heart felt things to say.
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Sounds like our lovely wet temperate rainforest here on the west coast! Itās a wonder Jakob doesnāt get to exsperience our soggy weather while he visits. Archery deer season opens tomorrow morning which usually signals the cold dew covered morning and soaking mist that covers everything for the next few months. Itās a blessing he gets to visit the west side in a dry spell. Hey Jakob if you take hwy 167 to Kent wave as you go by Washington cedar in Auburn next to hwy 18 intersection and Iāll see you this weekend at the Washington woodgas meetup!
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I think he said he has to stop to dump condensate more often than he has to fuel upā¦with this wood. I think that probably has something to do with the oil sludging up too. With that much water in the fuel, some has to be getting into the crank case.
Apparently that wood is really wet.
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I am mixing Tomās wood in again and I am now able to drain only when I stop for wood but Iām still getting about two gallons a stop of condensate.
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The real wonder of it is your rendition of the WK system can keep going forward on too wet of wood.
Many of us here on the DOW it is only the systems able to use year around picked-up wood that have any interest. Have any real useable purpose. Have any real value.
Not the idealist and the futuristic systems. The āfor Othersā systems.
Steve Unruh
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Not to take anything away from Wayne, but Maybe thatās where faith comes in. 
LOL Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.
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With all of this wet wood and talk makes me think of someone else. Joni who uses a hopper vaccum line that goes to the exhaust ventrui pipe that sucks a small amount out of the hopper mostly water vapor in the top of the hopper.
This could be the cure of all of the extra moisture going through the charcoal bed and through the hole gasifer system that is not captured in the upper hopper tubes, gutters and condensation tar/water tank.
Bob
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Hi All,
I met up with Jakob, sister, and grandfather for lunch passing by.
Ha! We talked for a couple of hours. So they will be late, late dragging up to Michaels.
All was fine with them.
Systems running good.
Real nice to smell that woodgas smell again; and get to hands-on paw over a system.
I expect they will post up pictures of their latest travels tomorrow.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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We are now at Michaelās house. It ran well it is time for a cleaning again. We started out this morning a little late out of Corvallis. We met Carl and his family and loaded wood. It was a short visit I wish we had had more time to visit. After we left there we went and met with Steve Unruh. We had a very good visit. And he bought us lunch. After that we got back on the road and made it to Mikeās.
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That is a very stoic looking baby!
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