How To Make Your Own Charcoal 

yeah, wait til the kids are "on a mission" with dad's classic Ferrari!!! Viva Feris Bueller!!!

@@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 hahahahahahah

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Thank you Robert - you, made my day for sure; Booyah!

Shold we enlighted the methane on the chimney ?tq

I agree

how good is it!! I been trying to find a good video and design and he nailed it

Yes, he did a great job of identifying the various stages of the burn. I have a degree in Chemical Engineering, and I found this to be fascinating stuff!

Buddy Carroll I believe gas (propane) grills are to blame.

Thank you Zachary!

Let the wood species experiments begin!

yes but because of the 'open fire' under the barrel I think there is a lot of loss in energy efficiency and the proportion 'mass charcoal' vs 'mass burned wood' is quite low. But I agree on the nice low tech construction itself.

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Thanks Dave!

Thanks mate - cheers!

Thank you!

Thank you - it was fun to do"....

@@RickRabjohn ,liked, subscribed, and sharing! Will be checking out you other videos

thanks and good luck my friend

Thanks your procedure is simplest and best only exhaust pipe you construction above to minimize entry of oxygen.

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Thank you Chauncey!!

awesome!!!

Best of luck!

Thanks Black Bear appreciate it - good luck making yours

Thanks and welcome to the channel!

Thank you Roger!

thank you ....booyah

Thanks Callan - copy away.......:-))

Thank you!

It's worked great for me and for $99 bucks, it's hard to beat!

He's wasting all the good wood gas it's making. I've seen similar setups, where the purpose was the wood gas and the charcoal was just a bonus by-product. It takes a lot more apparatus to generate wood gas you can port into the intake manifold on an engine, but there are guys out there doing it. One with an old Ford pickup and another with an old farm tractor got quite a few views on RU-vid. just tooling around in their wood-gas vehicles. The only bad thing about the guys who make those videos is they're motor heads, and making their machines really LOUD is part of the joy - joy the've been feeling since playing in the back yard with their TONKA trucks as children, supplying all the engine sounds themselves. I can't PROVE that last bit, but I knew kids like that, and they all grew up to be motor heads who love the sound of a big V8 and heavy machinery, preferably with a bad muffler. Wood-gas could make a comeback, if prices for the fossil fuels keep going up. He's right about there being more water, early in the process, which is why you use a long condenser pipe between the gasifier and the intake manifold. I think the Ford guy used 4-inch pipe to make a super heavy-duty set of racks that he mounted on top of his bed rails. Turned necessity into a virtue, so his wood-gas pickup can handle tall loads and livestock. I'd love to have his setup, only with a better muffler. But very similar to what this guy's doing. It all works much better with hardwoods, and hardwoods tend to be pretty scarce, out West and up high in the USA. East of the Mississippi, you start seeing more hardwoods. One of a few things I miss about Eastern USA.

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Thank you

Thanks Ray - I was thinking that if I had cut the pipe about 6 feet in length and drilled two opposite holes in the drum - top and bottom - so I would have 3 feet of the pipe sticking out the top of the drum - 2 feet within the drum (with holes cut in pipe) and 1 foot out the bottom. During the first stage I would have the top open to exhaust the moisture with the bottom sealed off and then once in stage 2 close the top and vent the volatiles out the bottom. The key would be having good caps for the pipe to seal tight but easy to open and close without getting burned . Anyways - that was my initial thought, but got lazy.

Thanks!

Thanks Jarrod..The charcoal lights quickly and burns very hot. So gar ot's been working well.

I was thinking the same exact thing.

Thanks Brady - much appreciated. Would like to see your set-up if you decide to do it....it wasn't that hard and always fun to have a campfire with the family; Booyah!!

Rick Rabjohn shall do!

Good idea

Good tip thank you!

LOL - good minds think alike - good luck with your build!

Thanks Barry!

hahahahahah maybe panning for gold somewhere.....

Thank you Shane - really appreciate it!

Thanks for the tips and will include on next video - maybe this fall as I'm getting low and need to restock - Booyah!

I think syngas is H2 and CO, I don't know why everyone keeps saying methane in stead of CO... Other than that: good thinking! Next level: try a setup where the heat released in the process has an economic use.

Wow, thanks!

Thanks for checking it out - now you got me hungry, :-))

what about the calcium chloride processing?

@@micahl6961 That is not needed as superheated steam is making the pockets in the carbon structure rather than a hot chemical process as done by calcium chloride.

@@Barskor1 do you have links to a diy build?

@@micahl6961 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G0lhYvKYqds.html or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GNKeps6pIao.html

Thank you!

Procker Dark Walla isn’t a word, it’s Voila!

@@redoakranch1783 it's, according to me

Simplier, you could just ignite that Gas and Save some wood for heating up

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you

Exactly..thanks Mike :-)

thanks!

NOBOX7 hell yea

Yes - it's a good idea to dim the lights the more you age.......:-)

ha ha ha ha ha - I'n sorry my friend.......

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Thank you - I just might pipe that exhaust under the barrel so I use less wood to heat once all the water has passed - tks

Or use to propel a rocket. Did you close the flap on the chimney when you went to bed?

@@jimprovan8866 Yes Jim I did close the flap

I was going to suggest the same thing. Could drill 1" hole in stack and elbow down with black pipes to firebed.

Charcoal has many uses in gardening, soil remediation, plant growth, worm attraction, ph control, water purification, etc... 😊

Glad you liked it!!

thanks Paul