Can't wait for this to become popular again. "Yeah I get about 25 miles to the 40 pound sack of wood chips." How much I would give to hear someone say that in casual conversation.
There's an old trucker that has replaced the sleeper in his Kenworth with a massive wood gas engine, when he needs to fuel up he just pulls over and goes out with his chainsaw and gathers wood. If you happen to see him go by hauling a lode, listen carefully and you can hear him laughing "cause he ant payed for gas since 1972" Around the country he is known only as "The Mad Hillbilly"
Just think, if you can run a truck on it. Then setting one up to supply fuel to run an AC generator could bring on hole new light to power outage. Thank you Sir for adding this video.
If you google woodgas emissions you will find much information on the subject but the short answer is the emissions are quite clean,mostly CO2 and h20.The exhaust from the tailpipe doesn't have a petrol exhaust smell to it. Before the smoke turns to woodgas,it smells like any other wood smoke but gradually takes on more of a faint creosote smell as better gas is produced.
This is pretty cool. I'd only ever heard of this used in world war tanks, and some guy's tractor from back in the day. For the time being there is ample waste cooking oil for my needs as a diesel van driver, but I could sure imagine a stationary electricity generator running on woodgas though!
@@williamkirkland2222 can’t think of any alternatives, though. gasoline goes bad after a few months. would be great for a militarized faction in a zombie apocalypse, too
Stigge, God jul og godt nyttar to you and your family too! I am glad to hear you have the van running again. The secondary fan works okay but it is still weak and takes 15-20 minutes to make good gas.I continue to search for the type you and Johan use. Paul
How long will this vehicle run before it starts to have problems associated with burning wood gas? I assume there are plenty of differences between gasoline and wood gas, more impurities, tars, tannins, sulphurs, etc. any notion?
I think there are similarities to taking care of a horse and running a woodgas vehicle.You must prepare the feed before hand, and cleanup afterward. Ash must be dumped and the gasifier and cooler cleaned occasionally. Tars are going to be a problem if the gasifier wasn't built properly or wet wood used.
Hey Paul, I commend you on your project. It certainly is environmentally friendly since burning wood is actually carbon neutral. Have you looked into motors that run on water? A friend of mine recently did a conversion to cooking oil bio diesel. He gets all the waste oil from local restaurants. Pretty cool! Sassan
My boyfriend sent this to me, saying it would be good for us to drive when we go to the sahara, but... I dont think he knows where trees and wood come from... Definatly not the desert
.....no, not the desert...the chemistry of the process requires damp or humid air. A steam generator can added . .It'll work on coal ,charcoal any carbon source . It's called producer gas .
Thanks for the positive comments. RU-vid doesn't seem to allow links but here is a lead to where you can find more info from others that have successfully run EFI's on woodgas.Look around the site and see what Jonathan and Mike done. woodgas d o t net
Do a search for woodgas dot net and you will find information on things like why woodgas isn't easy or cheap to compress. To run a propane powered engine on woodgas would require some modification but nothing too difficult.
I don't believe that either. What I said was a 40 lb sack of wood chunks will get the truck 25 miles or so down the road,or 25 miles per 40 lb sack. The power loss numbers I hear for woodgas compared to gasoline are a 30% power loss and I think that is close to what I experience also.
Isn't this great? My mother saw these during WWII in Sweden. Mileage is about 30-40 miles per 50lbs of pellets. This is an alternative people, not a cure! 20 min. start-up, so no quick get-away!
+Chris Jacobson Taking the time to cut your own fuel and understand the work involved to drive to town is something I would recomend to anybody.It helps teach us to conserve. It's nice to slow down,quick is overated.
There has to be a way we can treat the wood gas to liquefy it. I've been trying to make it into methanol, but had some logistics issues with catalysts and tar formation.
That's great. I just learned about this technology. It's been around a long time! It's almost like it's been hidden from us. I will be building one. Thanks for sharing.
You can make a smaller gasifier for a generator but using the truck as a power plant would age the engine faster idling. My brother suggested the same thing at first.
Thanks for the video, What is your top speed while operating on the wood gas? I assume that is a v-8....I have a 76 GMC pickup with a 250 straight 6 that I'm thinking of converting....think it will have enough power to sacrifice with the switch to wood gas?
I thought that you said that you were using a secondary fan. Is to make up for the back resistance on the system so that the engine doesn't have to work as hard to draw the fuel from the system?
WOW Thats about 80.5 Km to the kilogram for us metric guys. What is additional weight of gasifier? Is it only suitable for a truck? 5 stars and straight to favourites. Thanks for info.
The Wide Open Life no, if it was coal it wouldn't leave clean smoke. Wood gas burns the water off then starts breaking down into methane and butane aswell as small amounts of hydrogen...
It does work with coal. There is a 6-episode series from the BBC called "Wartime Farm." I think it's episode 5 where they convert a 1930's era ambulance to run on coal, which, while rationed in Britain during the War, was not as strictly rationed as gas (petrol). I think it was able to go 40 miles on a full "tank" of coal. There were also natural gas-powered buses in the cities, which they could fill from the mains. (They're pretty funny looking; like a hot air balloon sitting on top of a one-decker bus that looks like a double-decker because of how tall the gas balloon is.) But out in the country there were no gas lines, so some people converted old vehicles to run on coal.
@dirtTdude what about electic wood gas hybrid, electric for short trips, woods gas for long trips, the batterys could also be using for starting the wood gasification
Which book do you use to build the gasifier? My brother has the fifty Dollar book I bought him on Amazon but so far it only talks about smaller generators.
It was a set of plans from Mother Earth News but a better place to start is driveonwood dot com They have a great woodgas community there with better gasifier plans and gasifiers than the one I built.
they say dont go. wooo hoo on Pemberton mountain. if your looking for a wife. sorry dont know what prompted me to sing that. sweet truck i live in the desert though i dont know how long i could keep it running on just sage brush and tumble weeds lol
I'd love to know if it could be used to burn trash or trash compacted into bricks since we already make recycle bricks for a rocket stove and what it would do to an engine.
why not gasify all of the wood and clean it with some steel wool or sawdust before routing that gas into some water and eventually compressing it into CNG tanks in the bed of each truck ?
shayson1357 do not compress wood gas, I doubt it's safe to have a fuel air mixture compressed into a liquid or even high pressure gas because there is a small amount of oxygen in woodgas
look its the arkensaw chugabug from whacky racers lol no realy this beats all idears ive seen what about state laws n dmv also whats it do to the inside of engine over time and will it work with efi system
Hi Oldplaner Thanks for the good videos What do you do when you reach the town, and the wood is´nt used up. Can you let the car stand and just smoke ?? Or how ???
