<div>Hi Jeff,</div><div><br></div><div>On your Mr. Charcoal. Larry Dobson did a design for gasifying brush with the rr tank I have, but it cost the guy I got the 80 hp. 150 psi Milwaukee Boiler from, $10,000 to have steam fitters hook it up, over 20 years ago, so I didn't have the money to follow Larry's plan. Recently I spent $4500 for welding, knowing that at 80, if I don't experiment now, the tank will just be another dust collector. In that the tank is 30' X 10' dia X 1" thick, a 7' X 7' door, at 2200 lbs. was cut, with a neat, simple hinge, that swings and latches securely, for unloading biochar, with a skid loader. The top of a 11' dia fuel tank, that hangs over the 10' dia tank, was cut off, so it can be easily removed with the log truck. The end of April, when I can get the old log truck running and more brush comes to this compost site, I'll start experimenting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When I put a 10' dia. tank, 8' in the ground, started a burn at the base and added brush every 15 minutes, for 6 hrs., until it was full of red coals, then put a lid on, with only a 4" dia. hole at the top and obviously no air from beneath, the cover was too hot to touch, for 4 weeks, there were no visible emissions, just an acrid smell, down wind and it charred all the brush. I put a 10.5' dia X 16' fuel tank in the ground and started a fire at the base, which also burned, where as a 55 gal. drum doesn't burn well, without bottom air, so it will be interesting for me to see, if with a 10' dia. tank, full of dry, compacted brush, what a TL, without the lid on and no updraft, will do, in that with the large dia., it makes it's own top draft. I assume that if that works, then with another batch, after it is started, the lid, with the 4" dia hole at the top, can be put on, which should put the pyrolysis out, but maybe not. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Will quench whatever, from the top, with compost tea, knowing that when the door is opened, the ensuing dust and blaze would be unbearable. There are pictures of the tank on the web page. Would appreciate any thoughts.</div>
<div>Thanks for listening, Dick</div><div><br></div><div>Dick Gallien <br>22501 East Burns Valley Road<br>Winona MN 55987<br><a href="mailto:dickgallien@gmail.com" target="_blank">dickgallien@gmail.com</a> [507]454-3126<br>
<a href="http://www.thefarm.winona-mn.us" target="_blank">www.thefarm.winona-mn.us</a><div><br></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Prison bars do the confining, allowing the prisoner a mental freedom not possible in schools, where an endless barrage of assignments, lectures, questions and tests, serve the same purpose, under the guise of education, while distracting as efficiently as the cracking of whips, keeping the imprisoned from discovering and pursuing their passions or noticing that there are no real bars------and by the time they might realize the purpose of their confinement, it is too late.</span><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Jeff Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff0124@velocity.net">jeff0124@velocity.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Shark Tank,<br>
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Slated to be an after burner for the next Mar's mission and it's round!<br>
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The Mr. Charcoal PDF can be down loaded from the below link:<br>
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