Firing up the woodgas truck

[LegoLawnmowerguy]

I was wondering if this is street legal? Great job! Looks professionally built!

[egn83b]

This is a redneck invention but I love it because its truely free energy from the sun via the wood. Basically phyrosises.

[Toerme]

Does wood gas cause more wear to the engine?

[OneEyedCyberchicken]

wouldnt it be cool to see tree farms growing to supply Gasified vehicles?.

[biminitwst]

Do you use gas to heat the wood?

Why not just use propane to run the truck?

[lysolbombs470]

Can't wait for this to become popular again.

"Yeah I get about 25 miles to the 40 pound sack of wood chips."

How much I would give to hear someone say that in casual conversation.

[hmpeter]

Woodgas cars were quite common in the 1930s and again after WW2 over here.

Nice to see this again in modern times!

[purpleravenstar]

American engineering FTW :)

"Improvise, adapt, overcome"

[ProSimex]

This guy is ready for the collapse, I wanna see what his canned food and ammunition stockpile looks like.

[videodude4]

I am interested in gasification. Where can I begin something like this?

[kotdrop]

Can you send me some links or instructions on how to build a Wood Gas Generator and plans to attach it to a car. Thanks!

[bigeyetuna55]

How many miles per chord do you get?

[bentwreck]

1 person cant light a fire ....

[isuzuwolf]

I live on a fifty acre tree farm. There is a lot of fuel laying all over the ground here. I wonder if I can run a generator on it and power my house.

[Cpharest]

Great job man! Think you could send me some plans? Pharestc@yahoo.com

Thanks !

[dallasbub]

I think most people miss the point entirely. This sort of build is not for when you can just as easily stop at the 7-11 and fill up for $3 per gallon. It is OBVIOUSLY for when there IS NO GASOLINE to be had or for when gasoline is $20 per gallon. At that point pulling over to toss in another bag of coal or wood chips makes you the smartest coolest guy in the county...

[Rafterman27]

Did you say that you had a fan to pull the gas through the filter? Great video

[jason867]

Was that a 300 inline 6, or one of the v8s?

[Highdoom]

Thanks for the video, What is your top speed while operating on the wood gas? I assume that is a v-8....I have a 76 GMC pickup with a 250 straight 6 that I'm thinking of converting....think it will have enough power to sacrifice with the switch to wood gas?

[madmaddragon]

Just think, if you can run a truck on it. Then setting one up to supply fuel to run an AC generator could bring on hole new light to power outage. Thank you Sir for adding this video.

[jab0805]

That's great. I just learned about this technology. It's been around a long time! It's almost like it's been hidden from us. I will be building one. Thanks for sharing.

[TheBeeperman]

Very well done!

[bluemoondiadochi]

very nice truck!

could you tell me at what are the best PRMs to drive on wood gas?

[supermatic9]

are you saying that if i go to the grocery store or Grandmothers house i will have to run two or more electric fans just to keep the down draft fire burning?

can you turn off the fans and open the top of the hopper and let the fire (up draft) out of a stack while the truck is parked in a parking lot or outside Grandmothers house?

[supermatic9]

what if you need to turn your engine off for 15minutes or half hour?? do you need to keep the fan running when parked??

do you have some kind of bypass valve to let the smoke out while parked?

how do you keep a down draft fire burning when parked

[Tuxster3]

How fast can a wood gas vehicle go?

[VisionQuest2012]

This could be used on a farm tractor or an electric generator. I believe these were used during WWII.

[supermatic9]

what kind of wood works the best? i remember reading something a long time ago about Cottonwood to fuel cars...

[KenMacMillan]

It looks like a fun project but it seems like allot of work to go 25 miles. Do you have to go through that every 25 miles?

[dirtTdude]

i think your missing the point, this truck will go without buying gasoline - ever again..... No, you have to refuel every now and then but the fire doesn't go out

[KenMacMillan]

It's a fun project but it's not very practical.

[dirtTdude]

your still missing the point bro... This system may not be practical for you for 5 min trips to the market in suburbia or for a long trip to grandmas house but I'm sure that if you put your mind to it you could see the practicality in rural areas or say for example a fuel shortage... If for some reason, say for example a natural disaster prevented you from buying gas you would be riding a bicycle as that wood gas truck passed you.

[sasop117]

@dirtTdude what about electic wood gas hybrid, electric for short trips, woods gas for long trips, the batterys could also be using for starting the wood gasification

[krimzonghost1987]

I'm a bit curious on the mpg of your truck if it were running on gasoline? Trying to figure the ratio of MPG vs. 25 miles off 40lbs of wood chips. Also, Have you tried different wood's with different densities and what were the pros and cons if you have? Does it run longer on high density, slow burning wood, or does it have any negative effects on the motor doing it that way?

[KenMacMillan]

My 2WD 79 F150 with a 302 would get roughly 15 mpg. If this is a 4WD 400M it probably got around 10 mpg on gasoline.

[dirtTdude]

there are no gallons of fuel, it runs off wood gas (smoke).... milage between refueling depends on your driving habbits. yes, hardwoods last longer

[pharosfilms]

How long will the truck run on that sack of wood?

[oldplaner]

One forty pound sack of wood is roughly 40 kilometers or 25 miles driving in my truck.

[flaviusicafsz]

please help with adivece on my new project, watch my video wood gasifier...

[oldplaner]

I sent you a message with some links that I hope will be helpful

[dirtTdude]

can you send them to me too Sir?

[bubbah12345]

aaah that looks like the 1978 f100

i hav one like it

[loverjackson1342]

my father is doing the same thing as you making a truck run on wood and biomass

[KB8OOE]

This is the best video post yet....Hard to edit it all isn't it? Nicely put together Paul.

Thanks for checking out my burn in video.

Mike

[DannysCam]

can you conpress wood gas? into a tank?

[KB8OOE]

No.... too many different gasses to deal with. There are many issues with compressing it . Join the yahoo woodgas group.

[MockStoneLLC]

ive seen people try and distill it like moonshine but they only get a non flammable tar.

[smokyatgroups]

Wow fantastic....In Australia they'd impound our vehicles if we don't pay homage to the blessed oil baron's using our cash.

[scrajet]

how do you regulate the gas and the air mixture and are you using a carb

[JonathanErber]

Very Nice! Just curious if you've had any problems with tar in the engine? What does your filter consist of? Thanks much!

[oldplaner]

No problems with tar so far.The filter is a combination of a cyclone, woven fibreglass cloth,moist straw,sawdust and foam rubber.

[oldplaner]

Do a search for woodgas dot net and you will find information on things like why woodgas isn't easy or cheap to compress.

To run a propane powered engine on woodgas would require some modification but nothing too difficult.

[mcz1987]

I am dreaming to make something like that, only my idea is to make higher temperature in pyrolysis chamber, ad some water in that high temperature to make more hidroged in woodgas, make it moore explosive, like propane gas.

And at the end compress gas, storage it in steel gas cylinder ?

Is this can be possible to run unmodified propane powered car with wood gas...?

[mcz1987]

1km = 0.45kg wood.

100 km = 45 kg wood in metric.

0.1 m3 of wood for 100 km.

its possible to drive daily with this unit...

How about mileage in your truck with woodgas ?

Does engine like this fuel, engine resource isnt smaler with wood gas ?

[oldplaner]

There are some that drive on woodgas daily but I don't,There is a engine power loss of roughly 30%.

[lookout816]

BIG FAN!

[DrunkenHippy]

Whaaaat the hell?? thats awsome man!

[ezkad]

I appreciate you taking the time to video your build with us. It takes one to take the right initiative to motivate lots of people. Even if wood gas isn't the most efficient for transportation (maybe it is, I dont know). It leads to innovation for other fields. Thanks agian.

[motorolarules]

How dirty is the smoke, or harmful to the air?

[oldplaner]

If you google woodgas emissions you will find much information on the subject but the short answer is the emissions are quite clean,mostly CO2 and h20.The exhaust from the tailpipe doesn't have a petrol exhaust smell to it.

Before the smoke turns to woodgas,it smells like any other wood smoke but gradually takes on more of a faint creosote smell as better gas is produced.

[mcz1987]

this is great video, looks like its a lot of time need to make gazifier? only i dont believe that you can drive 25 miles per 1 lb wood, wood have 2 times less power than gasoline and this car eats 20 lb gasoline on 90 miles...?

[oldplaner]

I don't believe that either.

What I said was a 40 lb sack of wood chunks will get the truck 25 miles or so down the road,or 25 miles per 40 lb sack.

The power loss numbers I hear for woodgas compared to gasoline are a 30% power loss and I think that is close to what I experience also.

[gengaswerner]

Hi there Paul!

the sec fan, have you try to start with only that fan???

seems to work very good!

my wodgas-chevy past the yearly car inspection this year too!!!(then it´s roadtax about 3000skr)

See you!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all you and your famely from all of us!

Stigge Werner

[oldplaner]

Stigge,

God jul og godt nyttar to you and your family too!

I am glad to hear you have the van running again.

The secondary fan works okay but it is still weak and takes 15-20 minutes to make good gas.I continue to search for the type you and Johan use.

Paul

[ChrisPCrunchy]

WOW Thats about 80.5 Km to the kilogram for us metric guys. What is additional weight of gasifier? Is it only suitable for a truck?

5 stars and straight to favourites. Thanks for info.

[molinobeer]

@ChrisPCrunchy

80.5km/kg? How? I made the calcs it's ~2.2km/kg

[ChrisPCrunchy]

How many miles to the tree do you get?

[oldplaner]

25 miles per 40 lb sack of wood

[bdhcarbon]

40lbs x 8000BTU/lb = 320,000BTU

Gasoline = 125,000BTU/gallon

325000/125000 = 2.6gallons worth of BTU.

[servteqh]

thank you for the answer

But i don´t understand it.

please try again

[servteqh]

Hi Oldplaner

Thanks for the good videos

What do you do when you reach the town, and the wood is´nt used up.

Can you let the car stand and just smoke ??

Or how ???

[WorldStove]

I really like your secondary fan idea. If you take requests, I would like to see you light your gasifier and at the end of your run empty the ash/char. By the way, holy cow do you live in a gorgeous place.

[radicaldan0]

Great job with the woodgas. I'm looking at an old '80's model I.H pickup as my woodgas project. Nice videos. Peace

[oldplaner]

Thanks for the positive comments.

YouTube doesn't seem to allow links but here is a lead to where you can find more info from others that have successfully run EFI's on woodgas.Look around the site and see what Jonathan and Mike done.

woodgas d o t net

[marthale7]

You can put links in your info about your video when you upload it. Thank you for showing us it can be done!

[oldplaner]

Thanks Mart,

I'll see if I can do some editing and put up a few proper links.

[STUDMUFFINUSA69]

DAMN GOOD VIDEO AS ALWAYS! keep them coming

im looking for a good truck to convert for a while now i dont want anything really old but i understand you have 2 change the timing and im not shur if ther is a ecu truck out there that i can get a programmer for and change it on the fly im checking into that

let me know if you have any suggestions as i follow your posts regularly thanks