Small Efficient Charcoal Retort
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- This video is about How I made and used my small, efficient charcoal retort. Enjoy and build your own. They work great, so leave me a comment on how to improve it and what you did with yours.
Thanks, Minister Man OutDoors (MMOD)
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Thanks brother, charcoal gets expensive when we are out here feeding the poor. Thanks for your great ideas, sometime even a TH-cam video can be a divine appointment
Oh Praise His name! I am so honored to help support your ministry even by a video. Thanks for watching and continue the work of the Lord.
@Minister Man Outdoors thank you brother, check out channel and if you email (in our about on channel) us your address I'd be glad to send you some Everythang Sauce from our company that supports our non profit
I just subscribed to your channel. Please come back and check out the upgrade I do to the retort. It generates charcoal in a little over 3 hours.
That is an EXCELLENT. Idea !!! It’s small enough to be used in the community but large enough to make a decent amount of coals. I am genuinely glad I watched this video. I was going to use a 55 gallon drum but I was worried it might be too much for the back yard as I have neighbors all around me. But this is small and portable.
Thank you for the idea sir.
Man two awesome comments! You Sr. are an original gent. Thanks for watching.
this is what i was looking for! small, (no big foot print) efficient and all natural, no binders. Real wood + some sweat = great BBQ!
Glad you like it! I'm updating it to prevent the gasses from escaping.
@@ministermanoutdoors6179 i'll stay tuned!!
I’m christian, I pray, I love god and I love your videos 😊😊✝️✝️❤️❤️
Thanks Noah I appreciate your comments. Love your name it means rest in Hebrew.
thanks for this...this is perfect for my urban home where i cant do the big fires
Hi subotai108, thanks for watching! That is exactly why I made it. I too live in an urban and HOA neighborhood, but I'm a country buy at heart. I also have the ultimate one that makes charcoal in 1.5 hours with no smoke. I'm thinking about selling that one. Happy New Year!
You sir are a good man. Thank you for sharing yet another way to build a very useful tool. The end talk , well said. May God bless you and yours.
Thank you Gregory. I have not purchased charcoal in years. Living life with focus on others makes life simple smooth and blessed. God bless you and yours as well.
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It’s like I was told. It doesn’t have to be pretty when you build stuff for yourself just has to be functional. I remember in high school for shop class I used scrap metal and lost points for my project for my grade cause it didn’t look good. I had a two inch hole in a pipe for a Dixie harrow for a tractor to pull. I just drop a piece of metal in and welded it. It’s like I could have taken more time to cut it to fit but it’s like I’m not selling it or charging others for my time.
You’ll have lots of bad projects but overtime you get good at welding. I remember when I first started welding aluminum and it took a while to get decent and good so the welds look like the original welds on the trailer.
Also I’ve seen videos where they seal cracks with clay. Wet some clay and form it around the crack and it might work for ya.
Thanks for the comments. I have been using mud/clay to seal the bottom. But I am going to rebuild the entire retort base to be more solid. Again, thanks for watching.
Thank you sir, great setup and nice quality charcoal.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.
Love the small size!!
Thanks, it works great! but I am improving the design with the help of comments I received.
Love the sound they make. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching. It works great.
Thanks for sharing, awesome works. Cheers
Thanks for watching, it works really great.
Amen! Great video.
Blessings David, thanks for watching!
I just stumbled across your video while trying to learn how to build a charcoal kiln. I love what you are doing, and really like the used rim firebox! God Bless!
Awesome, thank you! God bless you also!
Sweet build!
Thanks, I enjoyed it.
Love this 👍 will have to try and build one soon thanks
Thanks! I'll be making some today so I'll have it for my cook tomorrow on the 4th of July.
Good information, thanks for the video. 🖒
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
great video
Glad you enjoyed it
That's a top job mate.
Awesome! glad you like it and thanks for viewing.
Thank you for sharing this very informative video on charcoal making. Very good.
Greetings from Europe & with very best regards to you & yours.
Awesome! thank you RT 99. Thanks for watching.
Great idea!! Please be consistent and post more. I will watch all of your content. Be blessed man of God!!
Thank you.
Wonderful Sir and thank you , best wishes David uk
You are very welcome and thanks for watching.
Great video , like the way you have done this charcoal burner I live in the UK and have 4 acres of woodland and hoping to have a go at this soon ! Thank you !
Good luck! Working on a way to make it more efficient by using a different heat source.
Your technical explaning is like a journey with a profesional guide... Your are a pacefull man and your silence arrive near in RO! A really pleasure your time for us.Blessing for all!!
Wow, thanks, blessings to you as well.
Good job 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️
Thanks for visiting
God bless a man speaking from the heart ❤️ I enjoy your videos
Awesome, Thanks Brian, let me know when you build yours. I'm still trying to get the time it takes under 2 hours. Thanks for watching.
Good Job,there thanks for sharing Brother James from Australia,keep covid save !
Thanks James, and you do the same and and thanks for watching.
I'm definitely copying the rim fire pit you are using. 👍
Awesome, it concentrates the heat is a small area. Thanks for watching.
I'm considering building another retort. I may go smaller than my last one - more like the one you have here. But I need more charcoal for a forge. Now, that's not to say that some of it won't make its way to the grill.
a larger model would be nice. You can add a larger firebox and attach the cover to the retort chamber instead of the way i did it. Sometimes it's hard to flip the retort over on the firebox. I have to hold the cover on and balance the retort as i place it over the firebox.
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Thank you, and I appreciate you watching my video.
Muito bom parabéns 👏👏👏👏
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good job! I like how you vented the retort. You might want to experiment with clay and sand to seal cracks. Keep it up.
Thanks, I will incorporate that in the upgrade I'm working on.
The clay/mud worked great. Checkout update video.
forse that "off gas" down into the fire to contribute to the heat in making the Charcoal.
Thanks. The off gas goes up the heat riser to heat the retort from inside out. This video a lot of gasses escaped.
First, I know nothing but ... do you need bigger or more holes in your inside chimney so the gases don't force their way out of the bottom of the barrel? Nice design tho so thanks a bunch for that.
I wish I had waited to comment, thanks so much for declaring Jesus, you are a blessing.
Yes, I do need bigger holes so I will add them son. I thought it would allow the fire to get into the chamber if I had to many holes. But with all the gas escaping I need to add more. It works great, blessings to you and thanks.
@@ministermanoutdoors6179 If you can direct the wood gas back into the fire chamber (or chimney?) then it will burn and make your retort even more efficient. Less fuel wood will be needed because the flammable wood gas that is released from the wood that is becoming charcoal will be converted to the heat that drives off even more wood gas :)! Perhaps holes at the bottom of the internal chimney pipe or even in the plate at the bottom of the retort will direct those flammable gasses into the burn.
Thank you for reminding me of God's faithfulness and goodness. Love what you said about change starting with the man in the mirror, and the reminder to pray.
With the amount of off gassing coming out the side would it be prudent to increase the number of holes in the pipe to reduce the back pressure?
That a great idea. At this point I'll have to angle the holes as I can't get a drill in there now otherwise.
Thats cool, I want to make one my self. How long does it take to make the lump?
It takes about 4-5 hours.
Have you ever thought about making Japanese binchotan type charcoal?
Hey thanks for watching. Yes, I have, but I don't know the process to make it. Also, the temperature needed would be hard to reach, don't you think? Does it use a special type of wood?
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thanks!
Maybe add an oven gasket to the bottom to help seal it off
Thanks for the suggestion Alexander.
Hi, Can you tell me, how many hours do you keep putting woods for burning? and other question is I think you have made only 8 holes inside the middle pipe at bottom. I want to make it for coconut shell charcoal
Hey thanks for watching! I think it's 10 holes, 8 or 10 will work or this size retort. The main thing is the size of the holes. You don't want to much pressure building up in the wood oven very bad! (to small hole size). Also to large of a hole size will allow to much air to get inside retort chamber and then pyrolysis will not happen and wood will burn to dust.
@@ministermanoutdoors6179 paralysis meaning , so what if it dont comes to dust but in between, as i have smaller holes but my charcoal does not burn well at all what did i do wrong , my charcoal is lightish and look like perfect charcoal
@@1australianbeacon hmm, that is interesting. It's best to use hardwoods, such as hickory, oak, and beech. Softer woods tend to not have enough carbon content. Sounds like your wood started to turn to ash. Don't use to thin of pieces and try to keep all pieces the same size.
Hi there. I just got to know your channel. May I know what is the inner / outer diameter of the center pipe?
Hi Jeremy, the outer dia. is 4" and the inner is 3.75 (1/8" wall thickness). Thanks for watching.
@@ministermanoutdoors6179 Thank you for sharing. It seem to me this kind of retort kiln will worked the same efficiency as long as it is above 4" inches diameter pipe. I am using 6" inches currently and it worked well on a 55 gallons drum. After watching multiple designs on TH-cam videos, some even uses 8.5" inches central pipe on 55 gallons drum. The only matter is, the bigger the central pipe, the less dry wood to load in and the lesser the yield as a result.
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6" will work on a 55 gal drum pretty good. The key is to reach 500 - 700 degree temps.(200-300c). The inner pipe size to retort chamber size is very important i discovered. Because the larger the inner pipe (heat riser) is the larger the burn box needs to be. I would not go larger than a 1:4 ratio to get a complete yeald. So here in the U.S. a 55 gal drum is 23" in diameter, so a 6" pipe is the correct size to obtain full yeald at above 500 degrees (200c).
Can you please tell what is the diameter, height of the tank?
Hi, the diameter is 12" by a height of 18" (306mm x 549mm) thanks for watching.
How much hor need fair.?? Plz reply
Hey, I'm not sure what you are asking.
Do you know you can just make mud and seal it
Thanks Tony, that's exactly what I use now and it works great.
how many hours it take?
about 5 - 6 hours depends on how hot I get it. Thanks for watching.
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How many hours to burn?
That burn took about 5 hours I think. Its been a while so not quite sure. Thanks for watching.
Is it possible to see the bottom of you retort dear?
Hi there, the photo you see is at the bottom. I place a 1/8" (around 20"x20" size) steel pate over the retort with a 4" hole cut in to allow the riser pipe through. The retort is turned over and placed on the top of the firebox to burn and make charcoal. Thanks for watching. If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Ahaha, mate if you said nothing about the plane, I would have continued to think you had a twin engine retort.
twin engine retort, that sounds interesting, please explain?
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but if you use half of the wood to burn the alloy it will become charcoal where the profit lies
One wood is hard wood for grilling the other is scrap pallet wood for fuel not for grilling. Check out other video (charcoal retort update) where I used a oil burner for fuel. The constant loading wood took to much time.
just put dirt around it
Great idea. I used dirt with the upgrade as I turned the burn box into a waist oil burner.
A Lot of smoke..
Yes, bottom does not seal so I'm working on an upgraded model. But it works great so that's all that matters.
@@ministermanoutdoors6179 i see. can't wait for the update of your hard works. im sure you'll get it succesfully. :)
Thanks
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Also it’s kind of funny. It took the Rona to get people to wash their hands. I was washing my hands for years before haha. Before and now years after the Rona I still see people leaving the bathroom without washing their hands. It’s like even if ya don’t want the jab or ya believe in natural immunity it’s like hygiene is key. I think it was Nostradamus during the black plague that figured out those people that washed daily got sick less or more likely to survive or not get the black plague.
Speaking of god it’s like sad people or rulers and experts focused on reaction or take a shot or a pill rather then saying look. God created our bodies with natural immunity or the ability to fight illnesses. It’s like being in the sun just being exposed to the sun the body produces vitamins with sunlight. Sadly I think more people get the idea to just get a yearly shot. They have ads for the flu shot and the rona shot. It’s like there’s no discussion society wide to being outside more, eating things to boost your immune system or exercise or just walk the block. It’s hard. I’m heavy set and got a rower. Some days I work out and others it’s super easy to say I’m to tired.
Great comments, and you seem to enjoy history. Sadly, it took corona to wake people up but then they are right back to the same old ways.
Thanks for watching.