Well this was a journey, I've got a way better design in me but I love the trail and error and I know you like seeing it all to, stay tuned for the ultimate garden swing. Limit stock available on the merch so get it quick www.colinfurzeshop.com

Dry your grass clippings and then run your lawn mower on the power of LAWN!

Colin's delight at the thing starting suggests just how difficult this is to get working in any way.

Imagine being Colin's neighbour, your at home and hear "ITS WORKING, ITS ACTUALLY WORKING" over the noise of a lawnmower running rough

And the neighbors had no idea you were actually digging a tunnel at that moment. Nice decoy Furze!

There’s an easy way, a hard way and a Furze way.

“Honey the weird guy next door is mowing his yard with a steam train”

Gasification has always fascinated me because it seems like such a simple, easy concept at first, but in practice take quite a bit of knowledge and experience in particular in order to make an actual working, reliable system. The key seems to be cooling the gas down enough (without using water) via a seemingly comical amount of surface area (via tubes forming a radiator) to air cool the gas.

Can't we just take time to appreciate how much skill this man has, and the work is done in a 3x3 shed. :O

Imagine making a wood powered chainsaw, which feeds the sawdust immediately back in the engine to power itsef.

I see Colin is bringing the Industrial Revolution back to England.

Never realized how much of a skilled fabricator Collin is till I got in welding class

Colin: Maniacal laughing over the sound of a lawnmower His neighbours: Oh god. Right, what's he done now?

This is the most steampunk thing I've ever seen. I love it!

work of art!

This guy's "first" gasifier build is on the level most could ever dream of being able to achieve with years of experience.

Many, many, many, congratulations Colin! I don't think we've have never seen you more elated and satisfied with a project! What about a secondary burner to get rid of the tar? It was such an amazing and interesting project...we all wish we had a best friend like you.

Up next: a multi-vaccuum system to take in all the grass clippings, remove the air and deposit the clippings to be turned back into more fuel.

You need to bubble the wood gas through water. This will absorb a lot of the particulates, water, and tar from the gas as well as cool it off. Similar to a bong in concept.

"Honey, can you go out and mow the lawn please." "Yeah, in a few weeks, just gotta make the mower run off wood first."

Unbelivible, giant congarulations for a 1850 styled wood gas powerd lawn mower! I love it

Ya know, I watch a lot of KZfaq and sometimes I'll get bored/tired of a channel. I've watched you for about a year and a half and not once have I gotten bored of what you do. Fire, explosions, electricity, machines etc.. idk how you do it, but keep up the good work👍👍

The Missus: "Colin, would you mind mowing the lawn today?" Colin: "I'll get right on that, dear." _Three weeks later_ The Missus: "Colin, when are you going to do the lawn?" Colin: "Still working on it, luv!"

I love his reaction when his mad scientist contraptions actually work! He's soon happy! Good on him...

If Colin had been the professor on Gilligan’s Island, they would have been home in a week on a coconut powered jet boat! Amazing!

Hey Colin! My shop teacher is actually going to let me build a drift trike for my semester project!

“What IS IT Colin? And how does it work?” I love this man

It all adds together, I can see the underground door winch and can see the carpet is ready to be rolled up

One of my totally favourite channels here on KZfaq, keep as you are🥳🥳

"Why am I doing this inside?" "...Cause it's the shed. ...Everything happens in the shed, donnit?"

Make one powered by grass then you don’t even have to obtain wood.

The artist doesn't copy, the artist makes his own. He who draws the perfect circle for the king sends the most powerful message.

11:05 Try and bubble the gas through a liquid like a water. This should catch most of the tar to avoid damaging the engine. The steam produced by burning the wood gas is actually not relevant to whether the wood is dry or not, but instead water vapour is produced when wood decomposes, which is what the gasifier gadget does, and it doesnt matter how dry the wood is because the water vapour will still be there. Again, bubbling the gas through water may fix this (haven't tried it myself so I have no idea) and hopefully clean the gas up substantially. I would like to see this project get revisited and tried again because I do have hope for this concept.

I didn't know Colinfurze could exist without a shirt and gray tie.

Well, good to know you still have just as much trouble with filtration when you build a gasifier the right way. Makes me feel pretty happy with my getting an engine to turn over with a bee smoker chamber and gallon paint can filter.

Great to hear you’re attacking the bunker with the wood powered generator great job mate

Skip the combustion engine. Burn the wood from the bottom and put the air in the bottom. New wood needs to be stacked very high on top and will capture all the ash and tar. This means the tar will be burned later too. Then ignite the wood gas in the exhaust stream by providing air and a heat source and heat the bottom of the a cylinder of a sterling engine. The other side of the engine can be cooled with a deep well water which is pumped in a cycle. Should be nearly quite, smoke-free and by introducing oxygen into the exhaust stream very early you avoid that sud will collect in the chimney.

'Oh dear, Colin's mowing the lawn again. Honey, bring the kids inside."

ah, Colin creating a solution to a non existent problem.

I just have to say, your fit and finish editing for youtube is inspiring to people novice or advanced.. Well played sir!

I made a gasifier out of stove pipe years ago, happiest moment ever when the 5hp motor started. The next day I learned about valves welded shut with wood tar! I never built in a gas option to clean the motor out after my run. Your build was incredible, as usual :)

When Colin's inventions don't work, he keeps building a new, bigger, more complicated versions of them until they work. Every. Time.

direct the gas through water tank, thats how they filter the gas on an old wood gas vehicles.

Finally. A sustainable efficient fast way to mow lawns

Aw, Colin! I want to see more of this!!!!

This video got 18k views in 12 minutes. I guess that reflects on his pure talent

"Slag Catchment Area" There's a few of those kind of places in my town.

Proof of Concept! Great job Colin! I really liked this video. These guys I heard on the radio the other day said you can run a car on a gasifier. You just showed me how! Thanks for all the cool videos

"What do you want to be when you grow up, young Colin?" "A lunatic"

Mrs Collin: "Colin, you promised to mow the lawn this week." Three months later, Colin: "Now, I just need a better filter system..."

Filtering the gas trough a saturated saline solution would dry the gas, cool it and remove any water soluble impurity, then a activated charcoal filter will remove tar. Steel wool in a copper pipe should work great as a distiller for heavy stuff coming directly from the burner, but would require frequent maintenance. Impressive how much energy there is in wood.

Great vid ! I think the first design could have been good enough. The tar issue is because you filled the reactor with 100% wood. To make it work normally, either you have to fill the reactor with charcoal, from the grate until the air intake. And the rest you can add wood Or if you fill with 100% wood, you have to wait until the wood below the air intake is converted into charcoal, in other words you have to pyrolyse the wood below the air intake, which produces a lot of water and tar during this period. Once the wood is converted into charcoal, the gas will be good and clean, and you can turn on the engine !

10:35 the happyness in ya voice is as awesome as the project itself! very good job!

Let’s be honest, we all never imagine in our wildest dreams what this man can create ! If someday i see a Dolorean flying at 80mph im gonna know that its this man inside it with a safety tie on.

Random person: How would you survive a zombie apocalypse Colin: Yes

Man alive!!! Colin has flown over the coo coos nest.

Some how I have only just found this mans KZfaq. Going binge watch now. Awesome stuff mate!

5:42 that's a genius practical solution to marking a cut like that!

I love to see Colin's Plumbing background shine through in his fantastic metal working skills.

Man i love how you experiment with things, I can definitely say that I'm very lucky to have you making such awesome content and I want to thank you for that!

Add conveyor belt to lift cuttings from grass up in to the gasification chamber. Add self-driving computer to mow autonomously. Take it out to a massive corn field after harvest with lots of debris on the ground and see if it will run forever. Create a TikTok to document Mowie's walk about across Europe.

Let's see now, he has a: Shead Gasifier Lawnmower Safety Tie I guess the next stage is the wearing of a flat cap and telling us of the glorys of the Victorian age of steam while working as a steeple jack.

the most impressive and learning video related to wood gasification. God bless you man

It´s alive! IT'S ALIVE!!! But also really awesome!

The entire time watching this I was screaming 'just put a damn water scrubber on it!' should solve all the filtration issues and some of the gas temp problems.

This is the most steampunk thing that doesn't run on steam I've ever seen

Looking forward to when you have the bunker powered by wood gas!! Ultimate prepper dream right there

This man is a genius.

Fire brigade turns up : what’s all the smoke Colin: just mowing me lawn

When Colin needs to mow his lawn and needs to upload a video

Cant wait to see the next version of this . Hilarious stuff , but it could be a life saver is the power is out.

The world is a better place because people like Colin exist in it. Thank you

you already know he's serious building the craft when he took off his polo and tie 😁

If MacGyver had a British fling, Colin would be the outcome.

So glad I had better luck with my first gassifier build. My truck runs sweet on woodgas and gets me to work every day

I can’t believe this mad man is doing all this cutting and welding in a tie!

Not even a year has passed since TeamTrees Colin: *"time to burn them to mow my lawn!"*

I literally got an ad about a book about wood gas when watching this video haha

This is awesome. You could try running your tubing through a reservoir of cold or liquid to cool the gas and cause the tar to accumulate faster before it makes it into the engine while having a vertical run before entering the engine manifold. If it works, it could help keep the tar build up out of the engine but it will just be building up in the coil windings that run through the water. Maybe make that part quickly interchangeable so you can place a new piece while setting the other in solvent to remove tar build up. I wonder if it would be possible to skip the coil windings through water all together and figure out how to possibly use the cooling liquid itself as a filter. Possibly a plexiiglass reservoir filled with cold water which has the inlet of wood gas at the bottom of the reservoir and the outlet with the cleaner air to the engine, at the top of the container. I would figure that the colder the water, the better the coagulation and build up of tar there would be, therefore better filtration. It would be a good experiment to see if adding soap to the filter water would affect filtration.

What's kinda wild is that humans have found a use for every output of a simple woodfire: -the smoke contains wood-gas (flammable gaseous fuel source) and tar (rudimentary waterproofing, construction binder and adhesive), smoke can also be used to dry and preserve food. -the ash can in some cases be used either to make lye (can be mixed with rendered animal fat and water to make soap) or turned into a type of clay/cement for mortaring bricks together. -charcoal is another fuel source of course, as well as a source of black dye, as a writing/drawing medium, as a dry lubricant for some machinery, and in some specific cases used to purge toxins from your system if consumed (I think). -it produces light and heat of course Really puts into perspective how valuable the domestication of fire was for early humans.

Use grass as fuel “I used the grass to mow the grass”

03:00 You know he's a fabricator when he refers to wood ash as slag xD

This guy never runs out of refreshing crazy ideas ^^

This guys awsome. Thank God for UK and Warhammer 40k and This guy. Best things to ever come from there.

I’m Amazed how Colin hasn’t aged in Years

You're one of the only KZfaqrs who gets me genuinely excited when I see a notification for a new video! Never change Furzey

This is a bit good engineering and crazy at the same time. I love it. I can see myself mowing my lawn with such a contraption..

Colin is the person you want in a zombie apocalypse!

Colin is a madman.. When the apocalypse hits, we all need to be on his good side.. 😨

It's so fun looking at this video and seeing the crane above the hatch to the underground tunnel. You also see the wooden beam the carpet is screwed to. Nobody had any idea what was going on lol

Great stuff Colin and what a wonderful shop you've got there 😍

trial and error makes for great content!

Colin, you are a legend, I hope you see this, I’ve literally watched every single video of yours and I’ve been watching your channel since I was really young, you have even inspired me to build up some of my own creations 👍🏼

Great workout pushing that around for several hours !!!

3 long years I've been waiting for the bunker sequel to this project...

*STEP 2:* Make it grass powered insted of wood powered.

Colin takes things that are really convenient and makes them inconvenient and that’s why I like him

if you use the gas from the gassifier to run your lawn mower, you can turn the wood into charcoal and use the charcoal to fuel your next lawn mowing session! Or, you could use the charcoal for a steam engine to power your personal vehicular transportation, but then you aren't making charcoal as effeciently!

Keep up the great work Colin lovin it mate

Imagine being this guys neighbor and seeing him roll that thing out onto his lawn.