You can also dig a kiln shaped hole in the ground to create biochar using the fire cap method! #biochar #gardening #sustainable #sustainability #fire #microbes #landlabs #acornlandlabs #offgrid #homestead
While I don't disagree....its easily debatable if he actually knows what he is doing/ talking about. First off charcoal burns at 1,100°F.....so the only way to burn off the charcoal is a prolonged extremely hot fire. You can accomplish the same results by starting a fire, burning it for less then an hour and then smothering it with water and or a fire blanket. So does he actually know what he is doing, yes but he made it way more complicated for himself and anyone who thinks this is the best/easiest method to obtain charcoal for fertilizing purposes.
wrong, no microbes live in biochar or your water filter in your house would pollute you.... so many lies about biochar people just repeat and repeat..... sad.
@@commoncents9732 I get that! Just making a fire will create charcoal! The issue is the charcoal to ash ratio. Also you won’t get much charcoal. The bigger the feedstock stack, the more ash will be created by the time it’s all caught on fire and burning. The fire cap stacking method gives you more charcoal and less ash.
the old Mayans also used to do something like that. And in europe we also burned our fields to clean them without the use of herbicides and pesticides. Controlled burnings are an interesting toppic
at this point in human reality even if you go 100% off the grid you will have manmade microbes in your lungs. either adapt & survive now or die of weak immune system later. @@virtualenvironmentfellowsh6671
@@virtualenvironmentfellowsh6671 why don't you tell us just how many "chemicals" are in store bought charcoal, anyways? We're literally supposed to cook food with store bought charcoal if you didn't know. Chemicals don't just automatically come in things you know... 😂
@@MrTrevortxeartxeI mean chemicals do come in everything. Because everything is a chemical, or a complex system of chemicals lol. The real question is what are these so called "chemicals" and like you said, why should we be scared of them in our garden but not our food 😂
Bio char is supposed to be mostly just carbon. The stuff coming out your rear end is probably high in nitrogen (therefore it's also really good for plants in the right circumstances)
With the kiln you had a high level of wood ash, so do use a double barrel retort. Great video, keep up the work. Can't wait to see more agriculture systems! 🙌👏👌
Maybe to you, but have you considered that other people don’t like the smell of leaf smoke, and maybe it’s not their “smell of autumn”? Plus, it’s unnecessary and bad for the environment
Just use the original kiln... If you punch a hole in the UNDERSIDE of the INNER barrel you can use the escaping wood gas to heat the charcoal container and almost keep itself going. This way you are WAYYY more efficient.
You can definitely use fancier and more efficient kilns, it’s just a compromise between efficiency and difficulty. They prefer the latter which is valid. *Personally* i am definitely team high tech lol.
@@abuhasb33 The goal kind of is to steam the wood.. Take all of the water out open up and expand the pores. keeping the flammable carbon intact. Otherwise burning up the carbon leaves you with pot ash. There by destroying the structure of the biochard which allows air and life to colonize the soil.
@@prima164This "kid" did both methods. So I would rather believe him rather than a keyboard expert such as yourself. Then only kind of fertilizer you can make is the mornig poo. So please..... leave and forget.
@@prima164 no, you are insufferable if you have such a problem with "kids these days" that you'd literally stoop to such a level of needless criticism. Karen.
@@prima164You just hate smart people. People who work hard to gain knowledge and dedicate their life to research actually know things about their field. You're just a dillatante with Dunning-Kruger
This is combustion and produces charcoal. Biochar is very similar to charcoal but produced under different conditions in either pyrolysis or gasification and consequently has different properties. Importantly, pyrolysis is performed in the absence of oxygen and no combustion occurs, while gasification is performed with a small amount of oxygen to limit/ control combustion.
Great point! The fire cap burns off oxygen above, helping create more stable carbon below. It’s not perfect compared to a double barrel retort, but it’s much easier for every day gardeners.
@@Hilman_Faiz And you don't have to maintain an actual fire actively, and you don't need to rinse it off or drain the water...? It does seem like a nice way to go if you just want to use an already available kiln/fire pit.
Ive been using a barrel method of creating charcoal for years for my forging. I have a large metal barrel thats vented but otherwise sealed loaded up to the brim with small log splits. I then sit it over a good fire for 6-8 hours. Eventually around hour 4ish a flame will start jetting out of the vent. Thats all of the gases getting burnt off. When i no longer see smoke or flame out of the vent i let the fire die and leave the barrel to cool overnight. When i crack it open i have a huge amount of clean burning charcoal for my forge. Low amounts of smoke. Smells good when it burns. Burns very hot. A full barrel will last me probably 4 months for my forging. I do commissions for farmers locally making horse shoes and tools. I also make knifes and blades for commission as well.
You can use ash as fertilizer as well. It's a pretty good source of macro nutes with trace micros. Composed mostly of carbon still. The issue with biochar as fertilizer, if used disproportionately or not buffered, it can actually absorb nutrients from the medium. However if used correctly, it can prove beneficial to plants.
How does the nutrients absorption work? From the soil or from the plant? I put down a foot of wood chips 7 years ago in my 150 ft perennial garden and still see nutrient deficiencies, only learned of the nutrient leaching after laying it down, no regrets haven't needed to supplementarily water in 3 years despite drought. This biochar concept seems like much Ado about nothing, not getting it.
For anyone who can’t use google Yes, ash can contain carbon, which is usually its main chemical component. The amount of carbon in ash can vary depending on what was burned and the conditions of combustion. For example, wood ash typically contains 5-30% carbon, while fly ash can contain 2.3-25.3%
me and my parents do this accidentally when burning things like logs and bush trimmings, minus adding the liquid fertiliser of course, but good to know this is actually something we can put to use in the future
I normally make small batches of charcoal with a paint can with a hole in the lid and fill it with dead pine needles. Because you can really stuff the can full
The irony of this is it's the "wrong" way to burn waste for the purpose of disposal(cause it doesn't compact down from being completely burned) but the right way to burn for better soil.
Ancient Aztecs & Amazonian people weren't static, ill mobile. They used what was around them & created mounds that they piled up. This conical shape burn pits weren't reported in the archelogical sites.
Soaking it in water also increases the micro-pores in the charcoal caused by the thermal shock which increases the surface area within the pores to house more microbes
This video was well done! Despite my snobbyness on some other videos of yours, credit where credit is due. Also for those interested, this is often called a “Cone Kiln” @codyslab did a good video comparing this to the retort design. I am unsure on the issue of soil leaching pollution etc, but you can even do this method with a hole in the ground!
You can do it in normal fire pits with ventilation, just keep throwing stuff on top to cut off oxygen. And when you get really serious dig long ass trenches, i had 2 28 foot trenches for a year b4 i turned it into a forest, i got thousands of pounds of char from those trenches. It really helps in my florida sand.
I used to have what I called the hot box, it was quite literally and upside down version of your pit, but with lift hatches that folded out and down. The beauty of them, you can get air flow locked to where you get the proper carbon utilization. The amount of carbon we used to get for making filters and such was remarkable. Back then I wouldn't have thought to use it for fertilizer anymore than mixing a smidgen into my live soil turnover pile
Still think it's easier to run my woodgas fueled trucks and use all that fuel and then harvest the biochar bi-products for the garden. Then I also get the mineral rich condensates to use and the tar as well
What all do you use it for? I’d love to hear! I’ve read up about “Pyrolysis Oil” a bit, but I’ve heard it’s nasty stuff. Do you capture it in sawdust filter, I’ve heard tar fouling of gasifier pipes and whatnot can be a pain.
@@ericlotze7724 tar production can gum a engine in a heart beat yes, the key is good and dry wood and a hot hot hot gasifier. Both my trucks are Wayne Keith designed systems that run between 2 and 3000°f those temperatures will thermally crack the Tars into more hydrocarbons producing a more calorie dense gas for the engine to run on. Hardwoods are preferable fuel, but they are far and few between in my area so I run on soft woods primarily Doug fir and pine. These produce more soot and char bi products which means more cleaning things like the hay filter. I have been lucky to never produce tar in either of my trucks, due to the high temperature and the condensing hopper that gets rid of tar and a lot of moisture before the wood chunks ever get down deep into the hot fire. The tar can be useful for some things, the hopper liquids are so hot in minetal content it acts as a all natural weed killer I put it on my gravel driveway to keep the weeds down. Some guys will cut it with water I don't know the ratio but they then use it as a miracle grown all natural replacement in the garden, some use it to innoculate the bio char as well. If you want to know any more feel free to ask questions, my channel here on TH-cam is also chock full of building and operating videos in both of my trucks, and everything I know is available on the driveonwood com forum. Anything you want to know about woodgas and all it entails is there a long with a very helpful bunch of people
@@BigBeavrSlayer Neat! Also on the note of feedstocks, it has it’s own disadvantages of course, but no need to worry about tar with charcoal! I’ll go check out all the stuff on your channel, exciting to learn more about all this.
@@ericlotze7724 for simplicity sake a charcoal gasifier is the ticket, but you don't get the bi products and then there is more work in fuel production before it can be used. Some like char some like chunks both do the job!
Nice to see you getting into the chemistry of the process, Joe Biochar may help with the biology, but what it really does is increase the cation exchange capacity of the soil In a nutshell, it means the ions will be hold and keep available to plants roots on biochar, instead of being washed down by rain or irrigation It does the same job as clay, but far more efficiently due to the aleatory molecular structure of the carbon atoms created during pyrolysis Not to mention some 5 to 6% of wood dry mass is mineral ashes with anything a plant needs, so, biochar is also to some extent a fertilizer too
You should actually put the charcoal into the biodigester. Studies have shown it increases efficiency and reduces the co2 and h2s level of the resulting gas. It will also increase the pH which is usually good for a digester depending on what you’re adding.
I like to add water to the ash/char mixture so that the ash falls to the bottom while the charcoal floats on top for easy separation. Only downside to this is it needs to dry if you plan on using it for fuel
Good! But this wastes a lot of heat and frees a lot of polluting particles in the smoke. I'd like to devise a solar-powered variant of the double barrel, collecting and separating the water and burnable liquid fractions by condensation and getting the charcoal without pollution. I hope to have enough time next year to try that (got my hands full with renovations now).
Hi all, sorry for my ignorance, but on the first system the idea was to cook all materials without them being burned by flames isn’t it ? How this method is similar? And what about the bones? Can we still add bones in this new method? Last question how much of this final product should we add to our soil? Are there any cons to use that? Thanks
It's better to just turn it into ash as it's potash. This potash helps turn out nutrients into the soil. Just how we use to put sodiam bicarbonate and burned plants in the ground.
While this works, your first design is way more fuel efficient vs output of charcoal, I think anyone capable of safely having a fire, should really consider the more efficient design, as they'll have a lot better results more easily once initially built :)
Rule number one of fire safety, clear the area around the fire, no dry grass, no twigs, if your fire is hot enough (or your truly careful) you also remove living grass from the area.
Is this one of the contenders for what the Amazonians used on their poor soil to make it excellent? I think it was called black soil and it was very effective.
Did you purchase this or make it? If you purchased it could you please provide the link to the seller? If you made it what are the required materials and steps?
You could do this far easier. Get a metal drum, metal trash can, or anything else that is metal and can be sealed. Put the wood in the drum, put the lid on and just put the drum into a fire. It will carbonize all the wood inside. Maybe this won’t work for some reason but this is how my family made charcoal my whole life.
How long should uou wait after cutting the wood before burning it like this? Will it work with freshly cut limbs or does it need to he stored and dried for a while?
Double barrel is MUCH better as there is very limited o2 intake. An open top kiln is very inefficient and should only be your stop gap until you get a retort set up
Seems like it's going to be a hell of a lot more inefficient than running a standard charcoal oven. Going to end up having to use more wood as you're loosing huge amounts of heat just to create a low oxygen zone and will probably have more of an uneven cook as well.
I admire people who understand what they are doing.
cooking the oil and water out of wood, meaning only carbon is left in shape of wood. Then little earth microbes lives in crevices in wood.
While I don't disagree....its easily debatable if he actually knows what he is doing/ talking about. First off charcoal burns at 1,100°F.....so the only way to burn off the charcoal is a prolonged extremely hot fire. You can accomplish the same results by starting a fire, burning it for less then an hour and then smothering it with water and or a fire blanket. So does he actually know what he is doing, yes but he made it way more complicated for himself and anyone who thinks this is the best/easiest method to obtain charcoal for fertilizing purposes.
wrong, no microbes live in biochar or your water filter in your house would pollute you.... so many lies about biochar people just repeat and repeat..... sad.
@@commoncents9732 I get that! Just making a fire will create charcoal! The issue is the charcoal to ash ratio. Also you won’t get much charcoal. The bigger the feedstock stack, the more ash will be created by the time it’s all caught on fire and burning. The fire cap stacking method gives you more charcoal and less ash.
And i hate that i don't understand what he's doing
You KILN it man!!! keep up the good work.❤
Nice pun!
take my like and get out, you punny man.
@@flickeringtorchActually, it isn’t a nICE pun, its a nFIRE pun. badum tishh
@@DeXyfero🥁🥁
Hahaha this had me
the African technology in my country Zambia we have a system of farming that is called Chitemene, this is exactly what we do on a larger scale.
now i want to know more about Chitemene
not even surprised at this revelation. africa be holding lots of knowledge
the old Mayans also used to do something like that. And in europe we also burned our fields to clean them without the use of herbicides and pesticides. Controlled burnings are an interesting toppic
When I have a bbq I always put the burnt charcoal in the garden. It's amazing
Also the ash add valuable minerals to the soil which your plants will convert into tasty nutrients for you to enjoy😊
Gross 😂
Have you considered all the chemicals on it, leaching into your crop?
Assuming you are using store-bought charcoal rather than home made.
at this point in human reality even if you go 100% off the grid you will have manmade microbes in your lungs. either adapt & survive now or die of weak immune
system later. @@virtualenvironmentfellowsh6671
@@virtualenvironmentfellowsh6671 why don't you tell us just how many "chemicals" are in store bought charcoal, anyways? We're literally supposed to cook food with store bought charcoal if you didn't know. Chemicals don't just automatically come in things you know... 😂
@@MrTrevortxeartxeI mean chemicals do come in everything. Because everything is a chemical, or a complex system of chemicals lol. The real question is what are these so called "chemicals" and like you said, why should we be scared of them in our garden but not our food 😂
I create bio-char on any Wednesday
after Taco Tuesday.
Whoa
@@acornlandlabsGod bless his/her anus and rectum for only God knows how much biomass he/she dropped
Yu DOOO?
Kin to that 0ther Dahlmer?
Bio char is supposed to be mostly just carbon. The stuff coming out your rear end is probably high in nitrogen (therefore it's also really good for plants in the right circumstances)
You could do a close container to get wood gas to run a generator for electricity so many uses at once
Yes, then use that energy to power a plastic pyrolysis machine and then capture the gas
@craigallen9731 yep..exactly..work smarter,save money and help save the environment..good recommendation
Soo much work and generator maintenance though for just a few hours of electricity. Good idea in principle, not so much in practice.
charcoal burners were integral for medieval people's survivability
With the kiln you had a high level of wood ash, so do use a double barrel retort. Great video, keep up the work. Can't wait to see more agriculture systems! 🙌👏👌
Your videos are amazing and inspiring dude, loads of love❤❤.
I knew they'd bring back leave burnin
Alright! Aah the smells of autumn
Maybe to you, but have you considered that other people don’t like the smell of leaf smoke, and maybe it’s not their “smell of autumn”? Plus, it’s unnecessary and bad for the environment
That looks like so much fun. I love playing with fire!
Just use the original kiln... If you punch a hole in the UNDERSIDE of the INNER barrel you can use the escaping wood gas to heat the charcoal container and almost keep itself going. This way you are WAYYY more efficient.
You can definitely use fancier and more efficient kilns, it’s just a compromise between efficiency and difficulty. They prefer the latter which is valid. *Personally* i am definitely team high tech lol.
Ive never thought of utilize wood gas in that way.
Amazing ❤❤❤❤❤
You made this 100% more complicated then it has to be.....I do the same thing without the complicated explanation.
Tell me i didn't understand completely. Is it like the burnt wood that's not completely turned into ashes?
@@abuhasb33 The goal kind of is to steam the wood.. Take all of the water out open up and expand the pores. keeping the flammable carbon intact. Otherwise burning up the carbon leaves you with pot ash. There by destroying the structure of the biochard which allows air and life to colonize the soil.
Ikr it's just inefficient way of making charcoal
Nice system!
dog is just throwing around bushcraft buzzwords but i still got it lmao
The other barrel is much much simpler
@@prima164christ your insufferable, either bait or just idiocy
@@prima164This "kid" did both methods. So I would rather believe him rather than a keyboard expert such as yourself. Then only kind of fertilizer you can make is the mornig poo.
So please..... leave and forget.
@@prima164 no, you are insufferable if you have such a problem with "kids these days" that you'd literally stoop to such a level of needless criticism. Karen.
@@prima164you're just too dumb to understand
@@prima164You just hate smart people. People who work hard to gain knowledge and dedicate their life to research actually know things about their field.
You're just a dillatante with Dunning-Kruger
Love what your doing! Didn’t realize people get so picky on making Soil amendments we do similar shit around our farm and our crops are doing great!
I love this channel
WHOA!!!!!……😲 cool !
I think that this is more labor intensive, and the barrel system is more automated
Let's acknowledge that he said simplistic and not efficient. He shows the efficient way but uses the most convenient and easy way. 👍🏻👏🏻❤️
This is combustion and produces charcoal. Biochar is very similar to charcoal but produced under different conditions in either pyrolysis or gasification and consequently has different properties. Importantly, pyrolysis is performed in the absence of oxygen and no combustion occurs, while gasification is performed with a small amount of oxygen to limit/ control combustion.
Biochar is a type of charcoal
@@omarmrtnx1 yeah but biochar can only be obtained through pyrolysis which produces a stable form of carbon
Great point! The fire cap burns off oxygen above, helping create more stable carbon below. It’s not perfect compared to a double barrel retort, but it’s much easier for every day gardeners.
@@acornlandlabs isn't double barrel retort easier since you don't need to keep adding layer of woods?
@@Hilman_Faiz And you don't have to maintain an actual fire actively, and you don't need to rinse it off or drain the water...? It does seem like a nice way to go if you just want to use an already available kiln/fire pit.
You know you can just use the ashes to improve the soil conditions works just as good 👍, been doing this for more than 35 years.
I think this is going for a semblance of terra preta, the magically fertile soil of the Amazon. Much more than ashes.
One of the more admirable qualities is willingness to teach a fellow
Ive been using a barrel method of creating charcoal for years for my forging. I have a large metal barrel thats vented but otherwise sealed loaded up to the brim with small log splits. I then sit it over a good fire for 6-8 hours. Eventually around hour 4ish a flame will start jetting out of the vent. Thats all of the gases getting burnt off. When i no longer see smoke or flame out of the vent i let the fire die and leave the barrel to cool overnight. When i crack it open i have a huge amount of clean burning charcoal for my forge. Low amounts of smoke. Smells good when it burns. Burns very hot. A full barrel will last me probably 4 months for my forging. I do commissions for farmers locally making horse shoes and tools. I also make knifes and blades for commission as well.
You guys need to know the difference between simple and simplistic.
This is awesome is what it is 💪
Awesome info 👍
You can use ash as fertilizer as well. It's a pretty good source of macro nutes with trace micros. Composed mostly of carbon still. The issue with biochar as fertilizer, if used disproportionately or not buffered, it can actually absorb nutrients from the medium. However if used correctly, it can prove beneficial to plants.
How does the nutrients absorption work? From the soil or from the plant? I put down a foot of wood chips 7 years ago in my 150 ft perennial garden and still see nutrient deficiencies, only learned of the nutrient leaching after laying it down, no regrets haven't needed to supplementarily water in 3 years despite drought. This biochar concept seems like much Ado about nothing, not getting it.
For anyone who can’t use google
Yes, ash can contain carbon, which is usually its main chemical component. The amount of carbon in ash can vary depending on what was burned and the conditions of combustion. For example, wood ash typically contains 5-30% carbon, while fly ash can contain 2.3-25.3%
Great 👍
Some say a soul guards that kiln...
A soul of cinder.
This man is totally ready for the zombie apocalypse.
I❤️BioChar
There will always be someone trying to ice skate uphill.
me and my parents do this accidentally when burning things like logs and bush trimmings, minus adding the liquid fertiliser of course, but good to know this is actually something we can put to use in the future
I like the charcoaled deer shoulder blade
I normally make small batches of charcoal with a paint can with a hole in the lid and fill it with dead pine needles. Because you can really stuff the can full
The irony of this is it's the "wrong" way to burn waste for the purpose of disposal(cause it doesn't compact down from being completely burned) but the right way to burn for better soil.
That's how amazon rainforest became so rich in soil.
Ancient Aztecs & Amazonian people weren't static, ill mobile. They used what was around them & created mounds that they piled up. This conical shape burn pits weren't reported in the archelogical sites.
That is exactly why you don’t fix something that ain’t broke
Soaking it in water also increases the micro-pores in the charcoal caused by the thermal shock which increases the surface area within the pores to house more microbes
This video was well done! Despite my snobbyness on some other videos of yours, credit where credit is due.
Also for those interested, this is often called a “Cone Kiln” @codyslab did a good video comparing this to the retort design.
I am unsure on the issue of soil leaching pollution etc, but you can even do this method with a hole in the ground!
You can do it in normal fire pits with ventilation, just keep throwing stuff on top to cut off oxygen. And when you get really serious dig long ass trenches, i had 2 28 foot trenches for a year b4 i turned it into a forest, i got thousands of pounds of char from those trenches. It really helps in my florida sand.
2 barrel system is much simpler and you get a larger yield.
I used to have what I called the hot box, it was quite literally and upside down version of your pit, but with lift hatches that folded out and down. The beauty of them, you can get air flow locked to where you get the proper carbon utilization. The amount of carbon we used to get for making filters and such was remarkable. Back then I wouldn't have thought to use it for fertilizer anymore than mixing a smidgen into my live soil turnover pile
That sounds awesome. Do you have any pictures of it. I’d love to build one so I can make my own filters 😅
Still think it's easier to run my woodgas fueled trucks and use all that fuel and then harvest the biochar bi-products for the garden. Then I also get the mineral rich condensates to use and the tar as well
What all do you use it for? I’d love to hear! I’ve read up about “Pyrolysis Oil” a bit, but I’ve heard it’s nasty stuff. Do you capture it in sawdust filter, I’ve heard tar fouling of gasifier pipes and whatnot can be a pain.
@@ericlotze7724 tar production can gum a engine in a heart beat yes, the key is good and dry wood and a hot hot hot gasifier. Both my trucks are Wayne Keith designed systems that run between 2 and 3000°f those temperatures will thermally crack the Tars into more hydrocarbons producing a more calorie dense gas for the engine to run on. Hardwoods are preferable fuel, but they are far and few between in my area so I run on soft woods primarily Doug fir and pine. These produce more soot and char bi products which means more cleaning things like the hay filter. I have been lucky to never produce tar in either of my trucks, due to the high temperature and the condensing hopper that gets rid of tar and a lot of moisture before the wood chunks ever get down deep into the hot fire. The tar can be useful for some things, the hopper liquids are so hot in minetal content it acts as a all natural weed killer I put it on my gravel driveway to keep the weeds down. Some guys will cut it with water I don't know the ratio but they then use it as a miracle grown all natural replacement in the garden, some use it to innoculate the bio char as well. If you want to know any more feel free to ask questions, my channel here on TH-cam is also chock full of building and operating videos in both of my trucks, and everything I know is available on the driveonwood com forum. Anything you want to know about woodgas and all it entails is there a long with a very helpful bunch of people
@@BigBeavrSlayer Neat! Also on the note of feedstocks, it has it’s own disadvantages of course, but no need to worry about tar with charcoal!
I’ll go check out all the stuff on your channel, exciting to learn more about all this.
@@ericlotze7724 for simplicity sake a charcoal gasifier is the ticket, but you don't get the bi products and then there is more work in fuel production before it can be used. Some like char some like chunks both do the job!
Pot ash is also good.
Thank you for getting us ready
for??
I always used a retort it's much more efficient. You get no ash at all. And it's self burning.
Nice to see you getting into the chemistry of the process, Joe
Biochar may help with the biology, but what it really does is increase the cation exchange capacity of the soil
In a nutshell, it means the ions will be hold and keep available to plants roots on biochar, instead of being washed down by rain or irrigation
It does the same job as clay, but far more efficiently due to the aleatory molecular structure of the carbon atoms created during pyrolysis
Not to mention some 5 to 6% of wood dry mass is mineral ashes with anything a plant needs, so, biochar is also to some extent a fertilizer too
Thank you so much for that breakdown! Really good information. Love it
@@acornlandlabswhat is the background music if you don't mind me asking?
Charcoal and biochar are similar but not the same. The temperature to make biochar is significantly higher than charcoal.
You should actually put the charcoal into the biodigester. Studies have shown it increases efficiency and reduces the co2 and h2s level of the resulting gas. It will also increase the pH which is usually good for a digester depending on what you’re adding.
This seems a lot less simple than the double barrel method..
I like to add water to the ash/char mixture so that the ash falls to the bottom while the charcoal floats on top for easy separation. Only downside to this is it needs to dry if you plan on using it for fuel
Yo I really love your videos! Can you guys use the fire to generate energy through the heat?
In Ghana,we just light up the wood in a hole and pour sand on it
You can also fill an old paint can with wood replace the lid and put it on a fire.
Single barrel method makes less smoke and tends itself better.
Good! But this wastes a lot of heat and frees a lot of polluting particles in the smoke. I'd like to devise a solar-powered variant of the double barrel, collecting and separating the water and burnable liquid fractions by condensation and getting the charcoal without pollution. I hope to have enough time next year to try that (got my hands full with renovations now).
Has been practiced in The Philippines and Asia for centuries.
If you Just phisically restrict the flow of air it achieves the same purpose without so much babysitting. A closed wood fire oven does the trick
Hi all, sorry for my ignorance, but on the first system the idea was to cook all materials without them being burned by flames isn’t it ? How this method is similar? And what about the bones? Can we still add bones in this new method? Last question how much of this final product should we add to our soil? Are there any cons to use that? Thanks
I was under the impression that biochar is largely unproven as an effective amendment to soil and is dubious in it's purported effects at best.
It's better to just turn it into ash as it's potash. This potash helps turn out nutrients into the soil. Just how we use to put sodiam bicarbonate and burned plants in the ground.
While this works, your first design is way more fuel efficient vs output of charcoal, I think anyone capable of safely having a fire, should really consider the more efficient design, as they'll have a lot better results more easily once initially built :)
Rule number one of fire safety, clear the area around the fire, no dry grass, no twigs, if your fire is hot enough (or your truly careful) you also remove living grass from the area.
Is this one of the contenders for what the Amazonians used on their poor soil to make it excellent?
I think it was called black soil and it was very effective.
1st video is the most efficient and smiple way of making biochar
Wait a sec... So we are talking of microbes that withstand the 350-400°C (roughly 660-750°F)?
The miracle of modern fertilizer production... Wow this is cool in theory... Modern fertilizer is so much better
Lotta fancy ways to say “have a big ass fire and mix pig shit with the left over charcoal”
This could also be used for water filtration😊
I love listening to people talk about shit they have no understanding on.
Did you purchase this or make it? If you purchased it could you please provide the link to the seller? If you made it what are the required materials and steps?
Yes please. Link to the seller?
Mans is playing 4D modded Minecraft
Just dig a conical pit (the most ancient and simple method of making charcoal)
I need to watch the previous video to understand context of this.
So, we have to get our methane biodigester up and running before we try for the biochar?
use old tires as feedstock:)
So you can use any old outdoor fire place then. Are there advantages to using this?
this sounds like the microencabulator video
We want a full video of it
You could do this far easier. Get a metal drum, metal trash can, or anything else that is metal and can be sealed. Put the wood in the drum, put the lid on and just put the drum into a fire. It will carbonize all the wood inside. Maybe this won’t work for some reason but this is how my family made charcoal my whole life.
Would that burn well? Like if you use it like charcoal to cook on?
The best way is to cap it with a layer of sticks, then mud and turf. Then almost everything becomes charcoal
Nice Carbon Momnoxide gases
Ducks are experts at kilning.
How long should uou wait after cutting the wood before burning it like this? Will it work with freshly cut limbs or does it need to he stored and dried for a while?
I like the other system more
Vut I really liked that fire
Likes Minecraft: we're cooking Wood into Charcoal :D
So, wouldn't a classic kiln be much more efficient?
Hey man you supposed to keep the
*FIRE*
In the kiln.
We do
How about use this fire to cook?
There is a guy from Asia that has a stove setup like that
Double barrel is MUCH better as there is very limited o2 intake. An open top kiln is very inefficient and should only be your stop gap until you get a retort set up
Seems like it's going to be a hell of a lot more inefficient than running a standard charcoal oven.
Going to end up having to use more wood as you're loosing huge amounts of heat just to create a low oxygen zone and will probably have more of an uneven cook as well.
Creating bio char in the super cagapulator mega 3 speed boost metal funnel inoculator.
Yo man i think some people call this a campfire