NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
Ellendra Nauriel wrote:I've been making my own since last fall, although I haven't gotten around to using it yet.
NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
Mixing it into the soil now allows the biochar to attract minerals before planting. The sooner the better! Remember, it takes time for biochar to situate things.
Winter snow/rain does wash out some of the minerals. Why not let the biochar hang onto them for you while you wait for planting season?
Ellendra Nauriel wrote:
Mixing it into the soil now allows the biochar to attract minerals before planting. The sooner the better! Remember, it takes time for biochar to situate things.
Winter snow/rain does wash out some of the minerals. Why not let the biochar hang onto them for you while you wait for planting season?
Picture an ice skating rink.
Now picture that rink tilted at a 45-degree slope, with parts of it even steeper.
That is my land in winter. My garden starts about 800 feet up the hillside.
Yeah, not going out there until the ice melts.
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William Bronson wrote:Kai, I love what your doing with biochar.
I have made it in a bonfire by stuffing an old steel toolbox with bones, twigs, and such.
I have also built a TLUD stove from a stainless steel 16 quarter stock pot.
I got my stock pot from harbor freight, as the biggest of of a 4 part set, for 25 bucks, with coupon 20 plus tax .
I plan on using it the TLUD to fire a BBQ I've turned into a pizza oven.
Originally I was going to fire it with a rocket stove, and I still might, but TLUD's offer long even heat, and, biochar.
Maybe you could use a TLUD for outdoor cooking, canning,or distilling.
When none of those things are needed, drying feedstock for the next batch could be useful.
A TLUD fired "white " oven could be filled with biochar feedstock and tapped to redirect the gasses back into the flames.
The person behind the YouTube channel Permaculture Playground is doing great work with indoor TLUD stoves.
Their latest iteration includes mass, making it a TLUD mass heater.
I've considered buying the largest stainless steel mixing bowl available for use as a "cone" retort, but video from the purveyor of Skillcult has me convinced that a trench system is cheaper and takes less labor.
Still a big enough bowl would make for a nice fire pit.
A second smaller bowl, inverted in the first, could form a closed retort.
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NON ASSUMPSIT. I am by no means an expert at anything. Just a lucky guesser.
William Bronson wrote:Anyone looking at this thread should check this other thread out:
Indoor biochar producing TLUD gasifie
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William Bronson wrote: John, what do you burn in your 55 gallon TLUD?
I am focused on shorter TLUD's because I want to tap the heat for cooking, but I would like to build a bigger one as well.
I would like to use branches without too much processing, but I'm under the impression that that TLUD fuel needs to be regularly shaped, as in pellets or chips.
Because of that, I've leaned toward retorts for charring irregular chunks and branches.
If you are getting results charring chunks and branches in a TLUD, I would like to know more.
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William Bronson wrote: Yeah, he does use a blower.
I'm kinda torn on using electricity on woodburners,.
I like the idea if self sufficiency, and needing electric reduces that.
OTOH, considering I have had little luck running a TLUD without wood pellets , self sufficiency is not really doable anyway.
Some places need to be wild
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William Bronson wrote:Trace, you seem to be saying that your 30 gallon retort burns can be left alone at a certain point, but the tlud needs tending.
How long does your 55 gallon TLUD burn?
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Jen Fulkerson wrote:biochar is new to me, but I want to give it a try. I will admit I didn't read every post, but it looked like everyone has something they bought or made to make the biochar in. I watched this guy on You tube make it in a cone shaped pit he dug in the ground. It seemed like a 0$ cost way to make biochar. Anyone tried this? Or know why I shouldn't?
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Chris Kott wrote:
One of my favourite setups is the kon-tiki.
-CK
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
Marco Banks wrote:
Chris Kott wrote:
One of my favourite setups is the kon-tiki.
-CK
Where would a person get a kiln like that? I do something similar with my fire-pit, but having a big steel kiln would be amazingly efficient.
Does someone make these commercially?
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