You had me at G'day. Aussie here and you reached me. You really reached me well.

THIS is SOOOOOO WONDERFUL!!! What a fantastic thing to do, make your own bio-char!!! Gardening is my main jam, and I really wish you lived next door to me right now!! Hmmmm... maybe I can talk my husband into making me one of these things... ? I'll work on that! Thanks again for another excellent video!♡♡♡

Not sure if you are still reading these comments but do have a few for you and if they have been said I didn't see and apologize. 1. Overall nice retort. I like it. 2. Use sand on top of the bucket to help seal the leaks and additional insulation. 3. Put an extension on the chimney after pyrolysis starts to increase the draw and shorten burn time. 4. Put you nifty pot holders on top to cook some beans while you're at it 😜 5. Lastly let it burn and fully cool to limit oxygen contamination PS. Remember charcoal removes everything to make sure you "season" it before you add it to garden or it will suck nutrition rather than give it. Keep up the good work I enjoy the videos 👍

The new welder looks like a HUGE improvement! This is the first I've heard of bio-char. I'll have to look into it to see if it can help my plants and landscape grow better. Thanks for the ideas.

What I've noted when stove started pulling wood gas (mix of Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Hydrogen (H2)) that your rizer is too short to make all that extra fuel burn completely 23:40 (woodgas is rising from rizer without being); Two suggestions: 1) either that wood gas, filter it and use it to run generator, or store it and use it in your vehicles or stoves- you can use charcoal and feed it in rocket stove 2) extend rizer to provide space for burning extra fuel (might need to add extra pipe for air intake into rizer, too) Take care. Thank you for being an inspiration!

Goddag Tom (Goodday Tom) I've been watching your vids for a long time. Tnx. From Denmark ✌️

Awesome work Tom! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

This is outstanding!

I was sure wondering about managing ash as you go. A tray or grated door...good plan. Also beginning to understand welding could be fun. The nifty welder tech is cool!

Nice welder Tom and well done with the biochar.

That's a great setup. I'm really glad I watched this. Good job. Also, well done on the welds. I've been looking for a decent way to produce charcoal. Now I've found it. And, you have shown me a superior stove design as well.

Excellent Tom! I really need to get a welder

TANK YOU MR GREENSHORTZ A BIG IDEA SEE YOU LATER BE GOOD

glad to see somebody using proper protective gear. great job!

Thanks for another great video

think I'm gonna make one of those.. thanks from Malaysia

Very Nice, You could use some mud to seal around the chimney, it will also help to insulate the heat

Your charcoal didn’t sound like glass because it was wet. The extra density made it sound dull. You did a good job. Try to seal it better and this is great.

Love the movie magic! You're funny!

I like this idea but I'd try venting the exhaust through the barrel on its side through a false bottom.

Drill some holes in that round plate an plug weld instead of welding the edge and save the edge and grinding

Dobar dan (or - Zdravo) from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Your welds look like they do because your pulling with a mig instead of pushing the puddle When using flux core (no gas required) you pull

Muchas gracias desde Argentina

Hey, it's my first time watching one of your videos. You have talent and are versatile. Look up "push or pull MIG welding" it can be useful for different results. I'll show your videos to my students for sure. Nice job!

Howdy!

In Finland we say hi ::" hei sun heiluvilles"

Magandang araw. Good day in PH

Try packing around the top of the lid with mud next to the rocket vent pipe to help cut off the oxygen flow into the Char-Kiln.

Great Video!!! As far as burning the wood gasses off. I know you put the holes in the riser. But how does the gas escape into the riser? Does it come out of the square you cut on the bottom of the can? Also. You didn't speak about the air riser you put on the riser. That might be the answer to my ?'s One more thing. I have a cheaper welder. I was taught to heat up the area with a torch before starting the weld in order to keep a hot pool. I have to turn mine all the way up and run the wire feed slow. I'm really curious though about how your burning off the gasses. How are they escaping? Great Vid. I've been making my charcoal out of gallon paint cans with holes in a 22" Weber bbq. I've only been making paper biochar that I blend up and make briquettes. Thank You!!

Ia orana from tahiti 😉

I really enjoy your videos!! And I was wondering. Can you reuse cob once it has been fired? I have a bread oven 1 year old. It is holding up great, but I want 1 in a different spot.

Next time, cut a U out of the bottom place instead of a hole. That way you don't have a double thickness of steel over the horizontal part of the rocket stove.

I use a tracking concentrating solar furnace to make charcoal.

Couldn't you try to collect the wood gas to be used in other ways instead of just burning it instantly? That way you are making this an even more efficient set up.

Hallo, means Hello in Germany :)

Santanite work real good with kale wool it's good for extreme temperatures

Put it on a cradle and tip it out into a metal wheelbarrow and the quench.

Türkiye den merhaba❤

Great job!

AY YO ! [tats brooklynese]

Dzien dobry (Poland) - mean "good day"

Very interesting. Thanks. I'm curious why you didn't put the mineral wool on the outside of the bucket...?

Greeting from taiwan😀

Do you want to drill air holes near the very top of the pot stand? So there is less smoke.

Marhaba ; from morroco .

In reo tahiti (Tahitian language) you’d say « ‘Ia ora na », which in « phonetic » english turns approximately to « yo rah nah ».

This seems to be a lesson in the long way around the hen house.if all you want is char for your garden all you need to do is go buy a bag of 100% hard wood lump charcoal $10-20 a bag. That's about 5x more than what's made in this contraption. That welder alone costs around $1500 +months to learn how to weld properly plus all those other metal working tools. All you need to make biochar cheaply is a bag of lump charcoal, that metal bucket, and an aluminum baseball bat. (Buy it, pulverize it, inoculate it, apply it). And with all that time and money saved ,get a nice seat for the garden and a cold libation for you and sit back and contemplate your next move for your garden

Any ideas on how to capture that wood gas & bottle it in old propane tanks? Seems like a wasted resource to me when that wood gas could power a propane generator, gas-powered water heater, etc.

Mmmmm bacon 🥓

lasers how cool

@Whoop!!

Yes, you get it. Ohayo.

It’s been 2 years since you posted this video. I noticed this video and thought of your bio char videos. Is there a reason for putting insulation inside vs outside the retort? Always appreciate your insight and educator skills. Wishing you and your family a blessed week. Peace brother.

Yep its called plug welding

Seems like you should heat water or something while you're making biochar.

We say Shlama in ASSYRIAN it’s the lords language

It's a great welder you have but it's time for some practice. Wire speed is too fast, voltage is still too low (not penetrating) and your nozzle is WAY too far from the weld. You CAN grind the bead if needed. The objective of a welder is to bond metal by melting it together not glue it with a separate material pooled on it.

You have to upscale it brother

Should have waited for it to cool over night before emtying

Buenas Dias

Oi Tudo Bem, (Hi, how's it going) common greeting in Portuguese.

You need a hopper for the dump

I saw in one of your previous videos you are playing around with aircrete. If, check out a video from Honey Do Carpenter. He made a chimney and insulated the pipe with aircrete instead of mineral wool and had great results. Also, How long did you let it burn? Is there a reason to put it out vs letting the wood chips sit in the bucket until the next day? They would cook all night then.

The chamber must be air tight so no oxygen can get to the chips at all. No, No no oxygen or they will begin to smolder when you just want them to gasify to a charcoal that will only burn with oxygen much like lump BBQ charcoal is. Fun fact the lump charcoal makers furnaces run off the gas of the batch of lump charcoal being made.

why did you put the off gas holes at the bottom and not at the top?. im no pro at this but every vid iv seen there always vented at the top and with hot gasses rising it makes sense

I like your video; However I have a few Questions . 1 . Why are you using OIL on your drill Bit ? . Oil is a lubricant . Drill bits cut by friction. Friction causes Heat. Heat is what destroys drill bits . I use ice water. It works better. Bits cut many times more holes before wearing out. It is a whole lot cheaper. AND a LOT less trouble to clean up if you wish to paint the metal later. 2. You are not utilizing the wood gas. What if you drilled a few holes at the bottom of the riser , high enough to let the wood gas out of the retort and into the riser . If it does not work . You can always weld the holes shut . 3. Getting the biochar out of the retort . Us a water bath filter system and shop vacuum. JUST;; Do not use plane water. Use compost tea instead. You cool the biochar and activate it, at the same time. Not trying to be an “A” hole. Just want to help.

marhaba

Lmao I do work in the same kind of sandles

Adiu ! (hi in Occitan) :)

Hallo in dutch. The a is a “ah” sound. But not a typical English “a” sound

Howdy. Lol

Loved the video, but was confused as to why you thought you needed a gasket at the bottom of the bucket? I wish I had a Bio -Char Maker....

Hi there, noticed with my charcoal that dousing with water meant there was no glass sound to the finished charcoal which to me makes sense. Did the Living Farm video douse theirs with water before or after they did a sound check? Thnx for the video!

What is a ridgidizer.? Waterglass?

I know I'm late. In Russian hello is Здравствуйте (zdravstvuytye). Sorry, Russian is infamous for long words.

why did you bother with mineral wool just put the wood inside it will work just the same I just use the small drum close it with a small air hole and just throw it on an open fire same outcome.

Mineral Wool - is that also known as Asbestos?

Welsh, Bore Da! (Bora dar)

Bula Vinaka from Fiji

Say ''Jambo'' or ''Habari'' in swahili. Hallo, wie geht's dir?

Zdravo! Serbia *EU*

Welding gloves on hands. Open toed sandals on feet. Mkay.

Alfie mate

One version of this is a continous production one. Screw auger in, screw auger out at base This one was very basic (didn't have a top auger, not very professional, and wasted syngas) but sounds like a great project/variation of this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p96HnLV0362mgo0.html

Vanakkam - translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=ta&tl=en&text=vanakkam

Hello in Urdu salam, Hindi Namatey. Arabic Ahlan selan,

Your rocket stove is poorly designed! It does not have enough draft to combust the smoke and achieve optimum heat. You need to add a squirrel cage blower style to your burn pot area and then you will see better results. Or change it to incorporate a 'V' design when the bottom intake controls the air and the 'v' is the wood supply shoot.

cool project no disrespect but i can't stand when people refer to charcoal as bio char its just weird