Where is the wood king?

Talked with him yesterday he is still working hard on his current build,, he was hopingt o have some pics to post today,, ask him about the new soldering gun he bought lol
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I have seen those videos many times. Just have to google home made firewood processing equipment.
There are some really scary machines out there. The first 2 are good examples.
I have yet to figure out why the European's cut their firewood so short. A lot of vids that I have watched cut it about 4-8" long.
Loren
 
Larry, that tiller? in the super wet field would work here right now, but I would lose the whole rig including myself.
Richard
 
It'd be like the salesman that came by the block plant one day that was selling drill bits,said they would drill any piece of steel.I said fine I put a block mold division plate in the vice and said you drill a hole in that and I'll buy the drill bits.He couldn't even scratch the plate much less drill a hole in it(LOL)
 
Yeah, the first one with the draw strings dangling in front of that thing!!!

I was watching one the other day, a PTO driven home made circular saw. Older man showing off how fast he could chop kindling... His unzipped coat tail and loose coat sleeves flopping within inches of the blade!
 
Did you ever see a Bark Buster wood splitter? Those things would get you in a heartbeat.The worst were the ones that bolted up to the rear wheel of a vehicle, get a tough old knotty piece of wood and the vehicle would take off instead of splitting the wood.They had lots of lawsuits.(LOL)
 
I worked for the local Ford equipment dealer 77-82, we sold Bark Buster splitters, my boss tried out one of the wheel driven one and stuck a chunk of cotton wood on it to "show" a guy looking at them how you could just put the trans in rev and unscrew it,, it THREW that chunk right past them and just beside his sons brand new Chevy truck he had just gotten for graduation from college lol I Loved the pto ones as they were Fast and worked very well but Boy had you ever gotten caught it would have been Ugly to say the least we sold them a couple years and LOTS of them glad I never heard any injury's here that I knew of
 
Wood gasification boiler. They've got a fire box about the size of a microwave oven. They store the heated water in insulated tanks. Takes about three of those little sticks of wood about every twelve hours. They've got the prettiest little blue flame you every wanted to see. The wood needs to me real good and dry is all. They burn constant to maintain constantly heated water in the tanks. You'll end up with about a soup can of ash a week out of it. Super efficient.

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King,
I think Larry has way too much time on his hands.
Can't you delegate him some responsibilities? He needs a job.
Perhaps you need to have a round table meeting.
Geo
 
Saint Mary's of the Woods, Local catholic college founded in 1840, heats their campus using wood scraps local people give them and use wood gasification process. They have done it for a while now. Couldn't find an article on St Mary's gasification plant. Perhaps others can.
Did find an article on gasification.
bio mass gasification.
 
I sold and installed wood gasification boilers and furnaces. (Evergreen and then Pro Fab), but they took up to 24" firewood. Never saw units built in the USA that burned short pieces like that.
I can see the advantages, but it seams that the USA is behind the times in lots of technological areas, including farm tractors. Europeans had MFWD and front 3pt. and PTOs long before they were ever accepted here.
Loren
 
George, can't you just picture Larry in his flowered shorts, flip flops, and hawaiian shirt, surfing the net while singing along to Jimmy Buffet?? Maybe he also has even got a margereta in hand to boot.
Loren
 
I have my theory on those boilers,you tell me if you think I'm right. I think ours are so much bigger because we don't store the water. I heat with forced air oil,but I assume with "our" wood boilers,when the house is warm enough and the thermostat turns things off,the water stops pumping and the draft closes up so the fire dies down? Then when the thermostat kicks back on,the water starts pumping,the draft opens and there has to be a large enough fire to heat all that water right now,on demand? As opposed to the European system where a real small flame burns constant and stores the water so that when the thermostat kicks on,it just has to pump water that's already hot and stays hot.
 
I have a 210gal indirect storage tank hooked to my wood fired boiler via a water to water heat exchanger in the tank. The tank also supplies domestic hot water during the heating season.
When heat is called for the hot boiler water is pumped to all the circuits calling for heat and also the storage tank is heated utilizing a separate zone circulator pump. All zones controlled by thermostats, except for the storage tank circuit. It is live at all times that there is power to the boiler.
My boiler is not a gasifier, but does utilize a combustion fan which is turned on and off with a temp sensor switch. It turns off combustion air fan at 180F boiler temp and back on at 165F In my boiler, the fire can survive without the fan running as apposed to a gasifier and my smoke goes up the chimney rather than entering the gasification chamber where it burns at 1200F. There is a lot of heat left in regular smoke, which makes gasifiers so efficient.
With my system, I had to put a jumper into one of my heating circuits also so that pump now runs continually. It can get a little warm in that room, but Wwth no heat called for the boiler could over heat and pop off the P&T valves in the system. The storage tank works like a battery to stabilize the water temp, but I still have to keep an educated eye on all the components and temps at the distribution manifold.
Gasifiers effectively shut down the burning process when no heat is called for, similar to pellet stoves, which also adds to their efficiency.
I hope that I did not confuse you more.
Loren
Loren
 
Those Euro systems generally have a solar system working in conjunction with the gasification system. I don't know if you can tell from the schematic,but there are coils in one tank for domestic hot water and coils that have antifreeze running though them from the panels. The house in the picture is where that system is and is in Sweden. It's in the same latitude as Fairbanks Alaska. It takes about a cord and a half of wood to heat it in an average winter. The panels provide enough heat to heat the house and the domestic hot water from April through October.
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Loren,

TMI, Too Much Information. I'm thinking you are right. He has a bad case if Cabin fever and it isn't even winter.
Geo
 

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