My Truck runs on "FIREWOOD".
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- This truck gets about 1.5 miles per pound of wood, and can run on trash, wood, grass, cow dung and just about any other dry organic material. This is called gasification and is a easy way to make fuel for a vehicle or generator, this simple design can be made at home with easy to find materials. This was the very first time the system had been used, so the constant turning of the starter is only needed when you are first tuning the valves, once tuned the truck started very quick.
"Alright kids , don´t forget to get up earlier than usual, dad is gonna take you to school in the firewood truck"
I just gotta warm up the wood to warm up the car... give it a bit...
I'm out! dad
Ironically, for a low tech system, this would really benefit from a computer to automatically adjust air/fuel ratios as the fuel quality fluctuates.
Hey honey, throw another log on the fire so we can make it up the hill.😂
I've watched this guy for a few years. I have been completely off grid, in the woods, for the past 5 years and I have tried it all! Lot's of failures, I must say. But I have to admit, I admire this fella, he never gives up and always finds a way to perfect these alternative projects. After a couple months of curse words and tempertantrums, like a toddler, I usually move on to another simpler alternative. But this guy, nope, just keeps goin. Great job Sir! You are truly a man among men.
His enthusiasm is so contagious that just listening to him fills me up with joy.
hey it's your Uber, am outside.
LOL!
car thieves will have trouble with this one
Umar O that’s really funny
not really just tow it on a dolly
For sure, they can't drive a manual transmission.
they'll slowly back away from that lol
The walking dead gas problem solved
Between that and actual steam the only major problem would be sourcing clean oil and engine parts as stuff fails over the years.
The hash slinging slasher. There would be plenty of good car parts though
You need a PA system that plays the beverly hillbillies theme while the engine is running. This is amazing lol
Now he only needs to reach 88mph and he can go back in time.
He now needs to engineer an alternator capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts.
somebody has ruined that franchise for me
he just needs to add a banana peel
Old Man Peabody! Great Scott
while is using wood to power this truck . add a bar b que grill on the side you be cooking too while going to point a to point b ...
the perfect smoker for meats.
The Cider Bark makes a nice crusty musky flavour to t-bone steaks that no other car can provide, not even the Teslas with the Microwave oven glove compartment.
@Craig Schultz I can't believe this is actually a thing....
This is amazing to watch, that its possible. lotta work and amazing to see you sticking with it. Caught myself saying "This is why you learn mechanics, chemestry and fysics in school, i aint going to the moon but this is why!" in the middle of the video. Thanks again, stay awesome!
my thinking is same idea only on a very big generator. That way it can charge the batteries when the solar panels can't. For example heavy storms and the like. Very cool
At that point using a high efficiency stove with a steam generator would be better. Well.. If you plan on going off the grid and not for emergencies then this also provides charcoal so I guess there's pros and cons for both
I was thinking Gravity fed on a PMA Generator
Great job, a little tweaking and it should be good to go. A lot of people don't know that wood gasifiers were used extensively in some European countries to power tractors during WW2 because of the fuel shortage created by the war.
Phill Huddleston Yep. Wood-gas tractors, trucks, cars were a common sight in Finland in the 1940s.
heh, "were", still used nowadays by non-industrial farmers.
my grandfather, born 1922, told me about wood gas trucks in estonia during the war... i actually plan to build gasifier that could run electric generator
You need two people to operate your car: A did driver and a fireman, like on the steam locomotives! No, seriously, its the best idea ever to fight gas prices raising.
So it also forces the population into carpooling too.
Or to redesign the hopper into the floor somehow
Will it pass California smog inspection.
Reminds me of the Mr Fusion on the Delorean lol
When this baby hits 88 mph you are gonna see some serious shit :-P
How hot does the tail pipe get?
I ask because my thought is to have a second flameless reactor with an exhaust heated pipe system in the bottom to cook up more fuel. That would add efficiency to longer trips, if the exhaust was hot enough to cook the solid matter.
The gasses will be around 350° and the pipe around 250°. It is around 500° just passed the catalytic converter.
Uninportant that hot gas, important thing is energy that gas have.
If every morning when we starting our car have this much of fun and excitement. Life would be fun.
Awesome! I always wanted to see one of these going. The mother earth news article about gassifier trucks really inspired me when I was a little kid, inventors can do great things!
people like you now make me want to build something new. This would be great when I want to do some canning ect and not have to buy propane, This I have got to try.
Looks like ya fuel lights on lol
Awesome!! My friend has his doctorate in biomass gasification and this impressed him!!!!
That is so awesome and congratulations but what I want to know is how far can you go on a gallon of wood
He said up top, it gets 1.5 miles to 1 lb. of wood, which is the accurate way to measure.
Your awesome mate..! That's so cool ... I wanna make one ...!!
Simply amazing! Makes me want to build one for the vehicle & one for the house!
I'd hands down pay a grand or two to get one of these installed on something of mine... Especially my 84 c20 with the old 350. It chugs gas but if I could drive it for the price of a fuel system upgrade and man power to get firewood, I'd daily it. It would pay for itself in a month XD
I was thinking the same thing about my 84 c20!
@Craig Schultz researchers have found that wood gas is three to ten times greener that natural gas
You’d need free supply of wood.
Hey boss, I"m gonna be late for work. Couldn't get my car going. Had to go cut some firewood first.
watch out, your car is on fire *🔥🔥🔥*
Added to my Favorites list
Seems like all the money you saved on gas will go directly to new batteries LOL. Fun to watch this video.
Once again I mention, How long has government known of such application's & possibilities? It also brings up many question's of what else do we as a society, NOT KNOW? ALOT I AM SURE! When it comes to electromagnetic forces, I believe that is where the public needs to be experimenting & developing alternative power & also considering & pushing THORIUM power plants until humans perfect electromagnetic power sources well beyond the mainstream electric motor/generator's that are currently on the market! This guy is awesome!!!
Technology like this hes been known for decades like Tesla this would have a conspiracy theory not that long ago and this guy would have been offed go hang around some party's in cambridge Massachusetts you want to know what you don't know about imagin 10 to 15 guy's like this guy just batting ideas around now think there are people who this guy's to be quite or worse
People know this, it's not a secret. Gasoline is more efficient.
@@nelsonariza4075 , I would venture most people don't.
I get wood hearing about atruck running on the power of wood:)
Not the daily driver. Its gonna be a fight to see who goes starts the car in the cold morning
I say you can heat your house and leave it running and just take off and you can probably cook with it to so very cool also i dated a girl from Alaska they have to start a fire under the car to heat it to start im sure your supposed to use a plug in heater but some may not have it i guess
yea and so does a steam engine but theres a reason why no one bought steam engine cars when they were being made
Cause people are racist against steam?
SteamLivesMatter
The russians in the war used wood instead of gas, and they have -20 or maybe -40 celsius at winter,,,
It starts better than an old Ford, though 😉
Starts better than my Clio, to be fair.
"The exhaust smells different!" LOL!
"Lets see how she goes down... the... road..." What road? Great vid!
"You can see I'm smoking a little bit"😉
I can't think of a better vehicle to pull into my work office carpark with.
Very interesting, very cool! Living off grid is looking better all the time. This, combined with some of these generators I've looked at, give you everything you need. A steady stream of water, couple good rifles on a few acres of woodland and you'd be set!
Simply fantastic. You never cease to amaze. Great work!
Now turbo it. Jokes aside, this is amazing. thank you for sharing
This is the most amazing thing ever. This man is a genius
I know I'm a bit late to the party but something that may help you out with that idle is an EGR valve plumbed into a fuel bypass system and maybe a belt driven vacuum pump with the actuator attached to the throttle linkage to mimic low rpm so that when you are at closed throttle, you are allowing a higher amount of vacuum to affect the EGR valve. That EGR valve will open to dump the excess fuel gas through an air filter or just into the exhaust stream. It would be very easy to tune with an airflow regulator for the amount of vacuum applied at closed throttle. You could also put a glow plug in the exhaust stream to burn off the excess fuel gas. Just make sure it's upstream far enough to prevent throwing fire out of the tail pipe. It sounds fun on paper, but the last thing you want is to be too close to something flammable and start a fire.
Now that’s what I call a woody wagon!!!
that starter motor is a superman, strong like bull
About 30 years ago, there was a guy drove a Ford Thames with a trailer around Australia on directly produced gas generated in a wood burner. The gas producer was in the trailer. The later Australian Ford Thames vans were fitted with an Australian built six cylinder engine versus the original and dreadful V4.
He would start it on petrol ( gasolene ) until the fire was drawing well then change over to the produced gas. If he found a shredded bandag off a truck tyre on the road, he would stop and ram that in for about a 25 mile free bonus.
During WW2 when petrol rationing was full on, many automotive charcoal fueled gas producers were made and sold. I was told that the small four-cylinder engines were not much good with it but the big american sixes and straight eights ran well on it.
I can see this rigged up on a duel generator. One running on wood gas, the other using the resulting charcoal to power the boiler for a steam engine 🤔🤔.
What a time to be alive!
Better than a tesla. Lowtech at it´s finest. Clean and sustainable!!! Even Greta couldn´t say anything against this car. :)
It seems like the ultimate application for this set up would be a boat, wherein you could take advantage of the infinite cooling effect of the water. You need to build a newer version of the “African Queen!”
There is more room in a boat for the system, spare wood and cargo, but there is no extra wood available off shore, so in that sense this fits better for a car. I like sailboats better anyway than motorized.
I think the steam engine in the African Queen would be mutch more efficient. Probably more torque definitely easier to start just wait for her to boil.
The boat will grind up fish and run on the oil
At that point why not build a steamboat?
Loved it !!! Thanks for posting.
Great Job, Mr Teslonian
This guy is a genius
If Dr. Emmett Brown had this idea he probably wouldn't need the dangerous train approach.
Drinking game! Every time he says "biochar", take a shot! xD
R.I.P. starter motor
Just learned about this process really impressed brother keep up the good work. Ryan from Detroit
Well the backfire burns under the hood are a nice touch, lol.
You bring new meaning to Rollin coal.
That is just absolutely awesome! Hell of a babe mobile
Wood gas vehicles, using technology like yours, were used during World War II as a consequence of the rationing of fossil fuels. In Germany around 500,000 wood gas vehicles-type were in use at the end of the war.
I wish I had 1/100th of your ambition, you are amazing!!...
WELL DONE MAN!
wait WTF only 9800 views how in HELL does this not have millions
Very cool!
I can see it Now: Honey, its 3am can you start my car so I can leave by 7
I think you did a fine job thanks
all I can think of is the Futurama episode where Bender downgrades himself into wood.
That's really interesting. Great work.
In the eightie Gm/ Oldsmobile produced a few Delta 98s with a system like this . Its unknown why they abandoned it . But they have a habit of developing the technology only so they can own it .
Awesome, you’re a genius mate, keep it up 👍
good job. You could put some TEG's on the hot surfaces, and make some electricity while cooling it.
Dig your Chevy Luv! I think your wood-burnin' rig has more power than mine did on Shell gas back in 1978.
So, the next Mad Max movie will be about fighting over wood chips.
Very cool. Great job!
Very cool. Nice job!
One love brother, thx for sharing
That's awesome! I need one of those, North Korea makes them but they don't sell them, as far as I know. You could probably sell those if you cleaned up the design a little.
Cool. I've read about gasifiers used back in WW2 by people. I'd say it would be hard on the valves though.
all jokes aside your a freakin legend mate , great work!! im inspired!
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you to the all new mobile locomotive.
You are the man 🤘
Where you at? Desert ofc...just can't tell which from the background. in SW AZ here
The water tanks....not sure I'm clear on that part. (EDIT: Just noticed all the other step videos. Going to check them out). SUBSCRIBED!
Somewhere I have a print out of the actual plans for a gasifier that were issued for use by the public in the UK during WW2. A shown example was basic compact enough to fit on a small tractor. I need to find them. Is for a simplistic build that is easy to remember but seeing the plans again would make it easier to streamline or improve on it.
Unless I end up selling it...gto an old Toyota w/ one of first 22Rs that MIGHT potentially end up being a test vehicle for something like this...be more practical if had the long-bed though.
From what I recall the setup had a hopper-like burner. Air came in the top and outlet near the bottom. The air//gas mix was then sent through an actual radiator...functions exactly like an intercooler since the gas is going to be quite hot. From there it would go through an air filter then directly down the throat of the engine...no carburetor. Throttle is controlled with a simple throttle plate. Could probably take a carb and remove everything above the throttle plate.
Getting back to the future vibes
Where's the flux capacitor? Kidding aside.. I saw some WW-2 photos of French cars with gas bags on the roof and the generator hanging off the rear.. I think they called it a "Gasogen". Swedish farm equipment uses this system because steady load/rpm drew an even draft over the flame which helped produce a steady flow of CO gas. This works well at steady speed/flat land.
Nice, very Mad Max.
Add a place to smoke some meat while you're at it, road trips will have never been more worth it.
Man I wanna make one of these now, this would be pretty cool to have to drive around my property, but really I just needed something to build haha
That’s pretty sweet man perfect for the apocalypse
Best video I have ever seen.
this needs to be part of a zombie apocalypse movie
Very cool.
Wow! thats awesome nice work, I looked into how this works, stil ltrying to wrap my head around it
This vehicle needs to be featured in The Walking Dead.
How often does the engine requires cleaning?
Super cool!!! Sweet mod.
Have you tried to run it on dry cow pies.?
ok so how much is a load of fuel? and how far will it go on that load?
Your a Good Man .
Cool truck!
Dashboard needs a lil' bit of upholstery repair work....my brother used to have one of these Chevy Luv trucks, a 1978, thing lasted forever. . . . enjoyed the video