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Putting the pipe into the throat of the carb is restricting the amount of air into the engine, making it run rich and in so doing the engine cannot rev. This is why the engine ran better when releasing some of the excess gas. I'd refit the air filter to the engine and remove the engine breather pipe and feed the gas through the breather hole in the air filter housing. This will give the air and gas time to mix before being drawn into the engine. Then you can set the air, gas mixture from your release tap and hopefully that will solve your problems.

This guy worked his A** of trying to make this work .....I give you props brother

Showing the failures is the best part of this and what to learn by what ppl forget to show keeping their ideas selfishly instead of making ideas free..

It is men like you Joshua that make this world a better place, thank you for perseverance in this very important endeavour.

If you research the ancient art of distillation of pine stumps for turpentine, you will find the condenser coil in a horizontal configuration, inlet at the top, discharge of heavy substances at the bottom into a catch can. This will remove the tar from the system, rather than clogging your coil and filters. The outlet of clean gas from the top of the catch can then is bubbled through water to remove Ammonia.

Thanks for including the failures and the fixes or work-arounds. In general, those are more informative than the cleaned-up "this is how to make a thing that works". Showing the process and the setbacks and the "never give up" should also be motivational for other tinkerers, showing them that they can't expect everything to go according to expectation the first time. re your chickens, I recognize that behavior. When I'm doing things outside and let my chickens loose, the usually just run around and scratch and do their thing but sometimes they want to see what I'm doing. One hen in particular is curious and wants to be in the middle of things.

This is a perfect example of why it cost so much to do research there are always failures to any invention. I love what you have done. GREAT IDEA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love that he’s burning scrap from his laser cutter in a mud oven he lit with a flint and steel

Bro if there was a public inspirational award I would hand it to you.

I love how excited this guy is with a wood gassifier... like it's the 1930's again....

I have work to do tomorrow but I just can’t stop watching you with that trial and error tehnique. Good job!

The pace of this video is awesome. Comic timing is on point. You burn stuff good

I think they should play this in schools so kids learn some science but mainly so they see a rare example of perseverance and how to learn from mistakes. Brill.

I think you should add pressure gauges. The gasometer is about 10 inches radius. That is 314in² meaning you need to weigh it down with 314 pounds to get 1 psi. And I would pull the pipe out a bit from the carburettor to not choke it. And finally: the eco mode spins the engine down under no or low load, so during load it should not make a difference. I love this project. It is really inspiring. I have wanted to do this for years and you might be the one enabling me.

The first time I am seeing one of your videos and I only had to listen for 1min before I Subscribed. This never happens, but I knew we were in good hands and focusing on truth and logic which is so rare to find in this day and age. Thank you!

I'm autistic and ADHD, watch every video at 2x speed. This was one of the few vids that was a good pace and I slowed it down to 1.2x. I appreciate the showing what didn't work and letting that help us learn too. The constant failures along the way, help us see how to problem solve along the way and not give up. The two months is an great lesson on determination and willingness to admit not knowing helps people see that this is a process not the usual youtube "here's how you do it" and nothing really learned. The pipes look slightly restrictive still, part of what engines need is a level of the turbulent airflow that turns into a twisting cyclone-ish flow that actually pushes more air in through the carb. If you notice that the port you connected to, it is tapered into a larger area for the reason of allowing air to accelerate to and overcome the filter and still let it swirl. My hypothesis about having that one valve opening and it helping, is that it allows the fuel to get a bit more oxygen in the mix and then the engine tries to regulate the pressure through the fuel system. I wonder if moving the inlet of your fuel being moved about a half inch away from the carb throat would allow it run well without having the other valve open. I agree that going up another size on the line would help, probably. I'm going to send this vid to my Grandfather, he was in the Airforce (20yr enlisted then 20yr contractor) as mechanic and engine field engineer. He did a lot of work on sterling engines, so I'm certain he's got better input than I do. Last thing, on a non-mechanical topic, the topical/political joke about threw me when I was looking to learn something. I totally understand if it just part of who/what you are and it isn't something you're interested in hearing opinions on. This is just me sharing that it took me out of following the lesson for a couple mins and it would be helpful for me personally. I don't want you to think I'm trying to police your speech or anything goofy, just sharing and no hard feelings if it isn't something you even care to think about. Awesome vid, and I'm excited to see more projects and the progress through iteration and experimentation. I'll be doing this with my kids this summer. Never a bad use of a summer to learn to experiment and gain independence.

Love how the chickens are always around and don't give a fuck! 😂

Pyrolising wood produces a lot of hot acetic acid vapour which rapidly degrades silicone sealants.

Churning through 5 minute videos all night to satisfy my ADHD, and your video snapped me out of it. Watched the whole hour easily. Such a good video. I would love to see you create something from this "prototype."

For better results, you could finely chop the pieces to a size of 2 cm and preheat them beforehand to remove as much moisture as possible. Additionally, you can add other residues such as biomass, all preheated to reduce moisture content, before placing them in the container where you intend to perform pyrolysis. Heating them to a temperature above 400 degrees Celsius would result in gases, charcoal, and also bio-diesel. @Joshua De Lisle

It's amusing to watch you re-invent the wheel. This was done successfully 100 years ago. Cars and trucks were converted to run on wood gas during WW2. Old Mother Earth News magazines from the 1960s and 70s had articles on people doing this. Fun to watch all the same. Thanks for the videom

"let's face it, me and my wife can't do anything adult in this.." That's PRICELESS! Love your channel, Joshua- keep it coming.

I cannot wait to see how you improve this next. I am cheering you on from down south in South Africa. We are the loadshedding capital of the world!

The most entertaining instructable gasifying biochar making, hot water creating video I have seen so far and I have watched many. Keep up the good work!

Great video, this is one of the few channels on which I never skip ahead in the video, very interesting topic, looking forward to the next stage, cheers from Italy.

Holy moly, this is the most epic build of all time, the frustration fades to black are the funniest thing I've seen since the early days of Monty Python. I hope this video hits a billion views someday.

I wish I had two months to play in the clay and chat with the chicks. Love your video.❤️ I was right there with you. Thank you so much 👍🏽👍🏽

This is one of the best KZfaq videos I have seen in months! I salute your extreme perseverance! Well done!!

Great video of showing many failures and a will to keep going! The education through failure is invaluable and this video proves it. Thank you for sharing, doing the research, and educating us in a very entertaining way.

I love all the attempts/failed, attempt/failed - builds great knowledge - thank you

The sigh says it all. Amazing job and thank you for going through the whole process.

I Thank you sir for not quiting on this project. It's definitely been an eye opener for me.. 🎉

Absolutely fantastic video, showing the engineering process, warts and all. Seeing the mistakes and learning from them is a refreshing change to most YT vids out there. Really informative stuff. Ta!

The most informative wood gas I've seen.

I loved this video. It had it all, success, failure, tension, depression and triumph. The things I was thinking were issues have been mentioned by far more qualified people than me but your experiments have given me the motivation to try something like thing myself, not for a generator but for water heating. Love your channel

Newly subscribed! First time I was glad to fall asleep on a video. Not yours, I woke up to your video, which I'll have to view from the start. But very impressed with your efforts... THANK MUCH!

You doing this process is hugely valuable to the community. God bless you Joshua

This is way beyond my understanding and capabilities as a woodworker and overall general fix it man, but your unrelenting attitude and spirit is inspiring and helped me get out of my current hole of depression. So thank you and keep up the inspiring work and attitude. “Never give up never surrender!”

The comment about black boogers was gold. Plenty of jokes throughout the super helpful video. Thanks for this, I've subscribed. :)

Wood gas and charcoal production where I come from is called APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY, not "ancient"! Well done and thanks so much.

Perseverance, perseverance, perseverance. The best video I have seen in many, many moons! I wish I could help but alas I will be learning from you. Inspiring, invigorating, humorous, tenacious and a fabulous insight into all things self sufficient and the requirements for success. We need "UNITY"... I believe unity will come when we all realise that selfish existence, because of mainstream reliance on currency that is manipulated, lacks intrinsic value and is established as legal tender by government regulation instead of individual value, is not the path to true freedom. May you be blessed Sir!

"Instead of teaching Hammas how to build better tunnels" 😂🤣😅😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

I LOVE the flint /steel / cotton firelighting technique.

Well now I understand how crude oil was made and it didn't take 6 billion years of time to complete or a whole world of dead layers of dinosaurs. BRAVO!!! you are also a HIS-STORY debunker 🎉 it was fire 🔥 before the water 🌊..😊

We must protect this man at all cost.

wen i was a lad we used a gasifier . to make gas we had a problem with damp gas . my answer to the problem was to fill a 2" pipe full of charcoal on it side & weld the pipe in the middle so the fier in the fier pit got the damp wood gas though the red hot pipe . that Brent the oxygen in the wet smock . it rely is that easy .

Really appreciate your putting all of your steps in there, even the failed ones. It helps cull the worst of the ideas, and a lot of learning comes from it. I don't quite get why your running gas both ways into thengasometer and the engine directly, but will assume that that is just for experimentation and would be removed in a "production" run. This video is 2 months old, and I can't wait to look through your channel for a follow up. Thank you.

Dude you are amazing and very persistent. I two know the struggle of trial and error all to well thank you for the way you filmed your video I know now I'm not the only one that goes through what you went through. Thank you again you have helped me out in so many ways.

Your prototyping process is like my prototyping process, only more outdoors and more on fire. Great energy created here.

you have the tenacity you'll get it! glad to be a part of your experiment. godspeed!

Some out second pair of eyes notice. Get the fuel feed away from the intake about an inch roughly. Your running rich. Also a water catch before the filters. You have a great idea don't give up!

Super exciting. I had a blast watching. I love green business. You are a lean green machine indeed!

For a seal , you might want to try a flour and water dough/paste. Look up how moonshine stills were sealed .

The proper air. Fuel mix is 14.7 parts air to 1 part fuel so you need to regulate the fuel flow.I would also have a gas storage method for excess gas(maybe some kind of weights has bag so the weight pushes gas back into the line when needed,also the air filter needs to be on to stop particles entering the engine

If you are not after the charcoal you can also turn it into woodgas (combustible carbon monoxide at this stage) by letting some, but not enough air into the glowing charcoal chamber. The Boudoir equilibrium will make sure the outstream is mostly CO. Check for plans of the FEMA wood gasifier. There are great videos about that on YT. The greatest advantage is that it is an open system where the engine sucks the gas flow through the system. No overpressure, and it creates a constant gas flow on its own.

Good scientific method. Trial and error. Fascinating! Nice hens, I have two myself.

As an over thinker myself that was a fascinating watch, you worked through everything so methodically until it did what you wanted. Also your editing is amazing as didn’t see you jump up turning the air blue once!

🌞 Excellent!!! Could just imagine the 'trial and error' the old timmers had to go through before getting results. Guess the key here is burning a 'good fire', getting the right gases, pressure and filtering processes that would yield viable results. In turn providing aid to the eco system for sustainable farming and more. Fantastic and very interesting video indeed!!!

You might try to improve the wet filter by using layers of fine screen with a few inches of space in-between layers. Stack them on top one another making a large cartridge that can be removed and cleaned fairly easily...

Loved this whole process. The iterative design, the depth in which you explained things (using char clothe and Flint and steel to start your fires!) Very cool.

You are my favourite, after Churchill of course, Briton! I have a pint of your favourite waiting for you in any Worcestershire pub of your preference any weekend of the year! Pure genius, hats off to you, sir.

"... instead of teaching Hamas how to build better tunnels." I'm dyin'! Thats good shit right there.

I bought a book a few years ago with detailed plans. A year or so back that same book was selling for around $450.00!

You are an engineer and a go getter! Bravo my friend! You never gave up and came up with Brilliant solutions! I'm only 30 minutes in and The only thing I could say is to put silicone on the parts that clamp down on the vessel and buckets. Or some other type of sealant. Over all? Great Job 👍

Compliments, enjoyed that video start to finish. Really a gem of a docu. Thanks!

"Let's all be doers" ❤ Informative and entertaining as ever J. Thanks for making the effort and sharing. Cheers 🍺

A good, cheap and simple method of sealing the lid of the barrel with the wood is, covering it with dough. Fire solidifies it and creates airtight seal.

interesting, i may try something like this, also good to see the ground birbs (chickens) helping out

Best hour ive spent all week! Genius.

10/10 for your fire lighting skills 🙂

Man this man is doing something great why so less likes please like this video guys 😄👌🏽

I've had an ecoflow river for about 3 years, and I love it. Best solar generators on the market, in my estimation. I charge it from solar panels, the car alternator while I'm driving, or by plugging it into the wall. It's run my electric cooler, fan, phones, computer, and lights.

It was nice to see you struggling to create a modern version of the wood gas engine. Imagine that all of Europe's cars could drive around like that 70 years ago. Keep up the good work, subscribed to this!

Awesome , thanks for the video . I saw someone do this with plastic bottles they collected. Then they filtered it a few times and ran an engine. I think he had another video where he then tried cow dung which also worked. If the eclipse is the end of the world I'll be happy that I watched these videos. I'm in western NY where they're warning us to expect 12+ hr traffic Jams, gas stations running out of gas and the cell network dropping. Over 1 mill people are expected. I guess we're having 100% eclipse for almost 4 mins. I should rent out the top unused bunk in my son's room Thanks

Fire needs oxygen to burn, force some air into the system right at the end. Use another one way valve, your system is sealed all the way. Good luck - great idea.

Your tenacity is to be applauded Sir. Would love to try something like this. However, as I live in a terraced house, in a grim northern town, I can't imagine it would go down well with the neighbours!

Great vid and thanks for sharing with us. Im thinking it would be really cool if you did the same thing basically but instead with a steam engine and show us the build. Just a thought Thanks

Thank you, for all effort and hard work. Please continue. I will chip in how i can. Looking forward to more

After all of THAT, you deserve a like, a subscribe, and a comment. I have been struggling for 5 years just to gather supplies including the generator. I still have a ways to go with supplies and a power supply or two. Finding affordable containers that will work to do all of this is not easy. Copper piping is very expensive. I have a forge. I wish I knew how to pour my own copper pipe. I'm sorry I can't help you much but I am learning from you.

This was beautiful and brought me to tears. To see what's possible with clever ingenuity inspired me deeply and gives me hopes of manifesting greater self sufficiency. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this content.

1. Use wood as dry as posibile 2. Use as small pieces of wood as possible to fit as much wood as possible 3. Whatch Mr. Teslonian

You definitely got a subscriber! I was supposed to sleep an hour ago, but I had to see your video. Absolutely love it. I don’t know where you get that patience but I have it myself but seeing you, I think I might already have given up a few trials ago. Next time, I’ll be thinking of you when I’m running low on hope.

Sweden ran most of their motor vehicles on wood gas (Swedish: Gengas) during the Second World War and a bit into the Cold War due to the shortage of regular gas. They even had standard addon modules to hook up to many vehicles. Buses even had these funny lil trailers with wood gas generators.

Really interesting project, and well done for persisting through all the tribulations. I've seen quite a few people attempt similar projects, and it seems like it is very tricky to get optimised. Agree with the comments to add pressure gauges, and wonder what sort of sensors might be available to measure things like H2, CO, moisture content. If someone can figure out a repeatable method, then I think it has a lot of potential - especially for offgrid living in areas that cannot use solar in winter. Please keep going, and try a scaled up version.

Mr Teslonian has a great series where he runs a truck.

Yeah I always wondered how they got those old Saabs or Volvos or a Soviet rig we don’t know about in America, to run with there gassafiers towed behind! So thank you so much! If you don’t know now you know!

Loved this video - especially the perseverance and tenacity- trying, failing, figuring it out, learning iteratively improving the design… two ideas - build a turbo burn barrel or build your rocket stove above ground in the UK ;) I can’t wait to see your next version. Consider whether you can store the heat in a thermal mass and use it to warm a greenhouse, warm your compost, or heat water. Great video! Will subscribe for more.

You could connect an old fridge compressor to the floating tank, collecting the gas into a pressure vessel giving you a much larger pressurised supply. It would involve extra pipe work and pressure switches etc but would be well worth the additional hassle. The additional churn tank could also be connected and used as a secondary wood loading chamber. while the first is burning

17:26 Reminds me of a joke : man goes to the doctors with a lettuce leaf stuck up his bum. Doc says 'that looks like a problem? - man replies 'Yes ... and that's just the tip of the iceberg' 🤣🤣

THUMBS UP ! ! I have thermal dynamics experience in (HVAC). for your cooling coils you need to wrap that entire coil tightly with cotton cloth or similar and keep a spray bottle there so you can keep spraying it during the run HOWEVER; a more fool proof and long lasting solution is to build some kind of tank around your coil that can hold water so that your coil is completely submerged in cool water. This should last a full batch without changing the hot water but if necessary you can drain the hot and refill with cold. you also might be getting some steamy brown gasses off your cardboard in your charcoal filter - the baffle design was great but should be thin sheet metal instead of cardboard.

Amazing paprika clay sculpture in the back yard! Reminds me of the thing the levitating space travelers beamed into my grey matter 😱!?

steam engine, or sterling cycle... no need to complicate things so much using an internal combustion engine just to have to filter so much. Use a simple alternator to charge your batteries and either build a custom regulator that maintains motor rpm at or above a safe idle, or just undersize it so your engine demand never exceeds your fuel/fire.

32:10 this is the exact way to filter red diesel. Takes the red die out of perfectly. 😂😂😂

You pretty much did the impossible imo. My sponsor that helped me get 15 yrs of sobriety drew me into the gassifier concept experimentation. We almost got a gen going but never quite made the grade. We tried so hard to make it work. btw, I knew you were running rich for the gen engine about mid way through the vid. But you accomplished so much more than we did with your Britt don't give in attitude. My HAT is off to you Sir. I know personally how hard this is to figure out. You are truly brilliant and inspiring to the inventors out there that don't take the status Quo and accept it as the end all. Ron would have been proud of you.

53:48 you're changing the lean/rich mix of the gas. Fun and educational! Vevor makes a distilling pot, might be more heat friendly. Or some kind of wood stove.

LOL, "unless you're a believer in natural selection." that's my religion.

Why not use the steam and turn a electrical turbine !

Loving your videos and have rinsed quite a few and much from from Northern Ireland where we also have 'Northern Irish' pounds, 'Scottish' pounds, Welsh Pounds and not just 'British Pounds'

Dig into aspiration? You are awesome dude. I've wanted to mow this approach down for years. I was actually at the edge of my seat as your success made painful defeats. Great fun, highly educational, and practical. Thanks again!