I know fireplace ash is great for gardens. It looks like they are trying to find an economic way to do fuel reduction on the forest margins. Maybe you might want to do something on a local scale where farmers would be bringing in finished mulch (crop waste/manure?) to mix with ash and char to get the free potash in the ashes that you would get with a burn pit. Wood smoke is pretty much carbon neutral, and most humans already have the biological means to cope with it at lower levels. Keep this in the distant farm/rural interfaces and there would be a way to compensate for the coming (already here?) potash shortfalls. Dump the mulch into the burn pit to fix the ash and make it workable, then merge it with the char. You would get more than the 15 tons or so an hour of production, turn a lot of damaged logs into useful potash, and create a fairly cheap amendment for farmers to use as productivity improvements. Bring in a load of mulch, leave with a load of "trimix?" that could be spread anywhere. Pasture and crop land would probably benefit?

I am a tigercat 6050 owner as well and would like to get in touch to find out about your experience with the machine.

How do I get more info on this carbonator? The website doesn't seem to have anything on it