[AT] OT Gasifiers

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Mon Oct 12 09:44:25 PDT 2009


It seems like a high % of the web videos I've found about gasifiers come 
from your part of the world Mattias.
With the uncertainty in the world right now, I'm thinking having one of 
those rigs might come in handy.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gasifiers


> Well I've seen a few of those gas generators around here since there are
> still a few left from WWII and also a few enthusiasts toying with new 
> ones,
> there was a guy a few years ago travelling from Ystad t Haparanda some 
> 2000
> km or so,
> Mattias
>
> 2009/10/12 charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>
>> Thanks Ken,  I've done a lot of Internet searching on the subject and 
>> found
>> a good bit of information.  I just wondered if anyone on the list had 
>> ever
>> played around with it.  I'll check out the links you sent too.  Some of
>> these guys are building some pretty efficient rigs.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ken Knierim" <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> >
>> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gasifiers
>>
>>
>> > Charlie,
>> >     I caught Planet Mechanic's bit on making a wood powered vehicle (a
>> > little pet project I've wanted to work on). Since this was done in 
>> > Europe
>> > a
>> > lot during WWII there are a number of references. Check out:
>> >
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwR18kILPWQ   This shows the gasifier
>> (made
>> > from what looks like a stainless steel water heater) and some other 
>> > bits.
>> >
>> > And:
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator
>> >
>> > They have some links from there. It might give you something to search
>> on.
>> > A
>> > lot of motive power in Europe during the war was done with gasified 
>> > wood
>> > and
>> > a lot of the available information comes out of there these days. They
>> had
>> > a
>> > Swedish lad on Planet Mechanic that showed the guys how to optimize the
>> > system and get the engine fired up for the show that seemed to be quite
>> > adept at this. Probably a little time searching and reading would yield 
>> > a
>> > rough sketch?
>> >
>> > You can buy a kit from these folks:
>> >
>> > http://www.gekgasifier.com/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Ken in AZ
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:53 AM, charliehill
>> > <charliehill at embarqmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> I was having a conversation off list with Ralph about gasifiers.  Does
>> >> anyone on the list have any experience with them?  FEMA put out a 
>> >> paper
>> >> in
>> >> the 90's telling how to make small scale units for home or farm use.
>> >> They
>> >> seem simple enough to build and the result is free energy if you have
>> >> some
>> >> bio-mass for fuel.  It seems to me like corn stalks or Ralphs flax 
>> >> straw
>> >> would work just fine.  You might have to run it through a chopper or
>> >>  hammer
>> >> mill first.  Anyone ever tried to build one?
>> >>
>> >> Charlie
>> >>
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