Thanks mate, yeah it was a bit like what does one have to do? cheers

Thankyou very much, much appreciated, I get a lot out of watching other guys ideas, problem solving etc, thought it was only fair to share some of mine, and am only too happy to contribute, plus I'm actually having fun doing it, so all good, thanks again, cheers

Thanks mate, hope your test run goes well, cheers

Thanks Mate

Thanks, at least this test was better than the previous one, get the agitator sorted and move forward, cheers

Thanks mate

@@whathappensintheshed are you planning on putting the filter before or after the condenser? The stone media would filter out most of the ash I would think. There are designs for hot side filtering with a welding blanket like Ben Petersons book or steel wool like flash 001 USA

I think that might be outside of my skillset at this point in time, but always looking for innovative ideas, cheers

A biogas digester now that's a different beast, it would be a very good solution, I have worked on some very large ones at waste water treatment plants, but I don't have access to that sort of waste, but I have plenty of timber, cheers

Thanks mate, yeah with the cyclone separator not sure, I followed the formula all based on 2" pipe, but in future will extend outlet pipe further down, might even do a comparison on a test bench, cheers

G'day Pete, yeah I did buy some, a type of stainless flex pipe, but it leaked like a sieve, not sure I got the right stuff, for now I'll stick with the silicone rubber, cheers

Thanks mate, the last two runs it was completely tar free, got a few changes to make yet, cheers

@@whathappensintheshedcongratulations I would like to see that in your next videos, keep it up

Yeah I know, I will insulate it at a later date, maybe sooner than later,

Thanks, I missed your comment, my fire tube is more based on the Drizzler type gasifier, cheers,

Yeah I'm changing the hatch door seal arrangement, I've just modified the grate, fewer & shorter slots. The floor scraper pushes the ash into a port at the rear and into a collection chamber, not built yet, blanked off, the agitator seems to be the weak link, will try to sort it out, before ditching, cheers.

@@whathappensintheshed nice 👍 I look forward to seeing the next attempt almost there now. It’s going to be a nice build better than my Frankenstein machine I’m working on a down draft a bit like the fema design with a few bits automated like shaker and waste flap just cobbled together bits really basic design. Most likely explode when I try it💥🔥🌚

I went back through a couple of your older build videos to get a better look at how your air intake is set up . I don't see any nozzles or a pipe that brings the air down to an area below the surface of the fuel. Are you just letting air in from the square hole in the lid? Most down draft gasifiers usually use some type of nozzles that concentrate the air near the restriction opening. This way you get one area that gets super hot instead of the whole contents of the hopper. If you don't have that super hot zone you may not be able to crack the tars which will get tar in the downstream piping and blowers. Did you end up with tar in the blowers? Now you could run charcoal instead of wood but you waste a lot of energy making the charcoal. Anyway thanks for the show. I mostly ran pellets in my gasifier and made a lot of tar till I got my reduction zone sized correctly. It would plug up on me and the more blocked it got , the lower the temperature got. I even started mixing charcoal pellets with my regular pellets and got better results but pellets are just hard to run without making tar. That's why I decided to ditch the pellets and build a custom wood processing machine that will be able to take logs and and turn them into consistent sized cubes. Hopefully I'll get it done soon if I knock out a few other little projects first. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next. Joe

@@mazdalorean Thanks Joe, my build is a bit different from your traditional Imbert down draft, instead I've based it on the Drizzler or (Re Spanner) types where minimum fuel is feed in, always on the verge of running empty, controlled by a charcoal bed level switch, the jets aren't needed as the temperature is not suppressed by the dominating fuel load above, with the fire tube above empty the combustion will not migrate upwards through the hopper like it would in a traditional stratified setup, the rectangular hole is for fuel in feed, the 2" toe nipple on the side will be air intake when ready. Checkout the Drizzler guys in Europe, in particular Luke and Pascal. However if need be, I will run air ducts down the inside with jets above the restriction. I look forward to seeing your fuel processing machine, something I will need to look at soon

@What Happens in the Shed , yes I have seen all of there videos. I'm very impressed with their flares and their entire setup. They usually ran on pellets from what I remember. I think they ran a 4 cylinder vw engine. They also captured the waste heat from the engine coolant and stored the heat in large water tanks. I haven't seen anything new from them in quite a while. I always wondered how they got such good results from that style gasifier. Also they referred to their gasifier as "grateless " I don't ever remember seeing the bottom of their gasifier. Maybe somewhat proprietary? Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to your next episode. Joe

Yeah, once running on an engine this should change, I could do with a larger blower I know, cheers.

huh?

On the next run I'll try with just one blower, see how we go.