gasified Case 310

Just finished working on a Case 310 that I fixed up alittle and put a gasification unit on.

Runs very well, on gasoline or wood.

Not sure how to post a pic here...

That is a super neat job of converting it. How long will it run on a charge of wood. Can you add wood while it's running or do you have to switch to gas for a while?

Thats a nice conversion! May I ask what design you used to build the gasification unit and if you have a link to the plans for it? I've been thinking of doing that to one of my tractors but haven't been able to decide what design/style would be best. Thanks and good job!

That is fantastic. I am very intrigued... Plans??? Have you had it on a dyno? Does it make enough power to be usable?

Welcome to the gasifiers club!! Nice looking job. My father built one several decades ago much like yours, based on an Imbert Gasifier. His is mounted on an E27N Fordson. My Dad operated several such units in his native Holland during WW2. After coming to Canada in1950 he farmed and ran a small welding and repair shop. As such, it was sort of a gatheering place for farmers waiting to have their repairs completed and the stories naturally went to whose tractor could pull what.My Dad responded that he had one that ran on"...fence posts and tree stumps..."Not believed by anyone (No one in here had seen these at anyntime) he vowed to buid one himself. Once I bought his farm in the eighties,He had the time to build one. The Imbert plant had long disappeared (after the war, farmers were once again able to buy gasoline) so he had to rely on his memory to make one---he had rebuilt his units inHolland several times because the heat would eventually thin the metal and burn it out. Several tries later, he was able to make one run and has since taken it to a few local shows. Some people still refuse to believe the tractor runs on wood!
Great to see your inventiveness and skill in making such a unit.
Thanks Ben

I have a unit that has never been used. It is of WW2 era it came from Australia. What I have been trying to figure out is the controls. How did you do yours. You have a very nice looking unit.

Jim

Very nice, I would like to know more about it. We have a gasification boiler so I am somewhat familiar with the principle, but I have never seen such a neat and orderly looking conversion on an engine.
Zach

Maybe you should start building them and selling them as a kit. I just happen to have a Case 311.

I too would like to learn more about this conversion. Do you have drawings or a web site we can go to to get more information

These units were called gas producers here in Australia, and were in common use during WW2 when fuel was very scarce here.

At that time Australia did not produce any crude oil, but had a small amount of shale oil. All the rest of fuel needed for transport, farming and the all important war effort had to be imported and run the gauntlet of Japanese subs. For that reason many gas producer units were built and used especially by farmers.

There were many scrap units around when I was a child in the late 1940s, but I do not remember seeing one working.

Hello, you've done a very nice job with that. I too am one of your growing list who would like some more information. I have been planning to experiment with a gassifier for a pick-up in the next year or two. Thanks Sam

An ol boy that use to live up the street gave me some plans/schematics on how to build a gasifier about 10-15 years back. I should dig them out

I found this web site, see link. If you click on "Wood Gasifier Plans" in the upper right of their web page, it should take you to a book and a video. This guy has made improvements to the old designs.
Gasifier Plans

Sorry for not getting back here sooner.

This is my design, base on my friend Stephen Abadess' work.

I guess you could call it a modified Imbert, but only because it has nozzles.

The unit is designed to work on chipped wood, pellets of small blocks.

I really should have made the hopper larger as it only gets about 3/4 an hour on a load (soft wood chips, hard wood or denser fuel would give longer run times)


Compact gasifier 39” x 15”

Removable hot plate restriction

New co-axial double pass air preheat

Replaceable nozzles

Monorator hopper with removable swirl liner

Easy open, low pressure puff up lid

No shake adjustable grate

High capacity cooler/condenser

New cooler/final filter with 100% wool blanker final filter media

These are our current system specs... AS we build these for sale I really can't talk about things that are proprietary to our unit. that being said, if you had questions I'd do my best to help you with answers where I can.

This isn't my first tractor, i did a John Deere M for a fellow is southern Ontario. And have two more tractors and a stand alone system in the works.

I have some videos on youtube... you can look them up under industrial supply, or wood gas tractor project.

Please like and share as I'd appreciate that a lot.

(quoted from post at 10:59:38 01/14/15) I found this web site, see link. If you click on "Wood Gasifier Plans" in the upper right of their web page, it should take you to a book and a video. This guy has made improvements to the old designs.
Gasifier Plans

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Ben built very nice systems... sadly he isn't doing that anymore. though you can purchase his book for around 50.00. a very good deal for a DIY'er.

You would have to then mod his system to fit your needs, but that should be doable.

(quoted from post at 08:29:21 01/13/15) I have a unit that has never been used. It is of WW2 era it came from Australia. What I have been trying to figure out is the controls. How did you do yours. You have a very nice looking unit.

Jim

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this is a picture of the drop leg carb that I use. wood gas comes in one side, air the other ( a quarter turn valve is mounted near the operators seat so it can be manipulated) mixes and then goes down to a t where a quarter turn valve has been modified so that a linkage from the tractors govenor can move it freely. then I have another quarter turn valve so that the whole woodgas side can be separated from the system and gasoline used. I built a woodgas inlet plenum and the regular updraft carb mounts to it. hope that makes sense. In the picture I have a carb block off plate installed but I usually just use another vavle between the air cleaner and the air inlet of the gas carb to shut that side of the system down.

starting the John Deere M... I'll post up a starting vid for the Case once I make one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8OnPqxXtE