Brainstorming about a production run charring 500 railroad ties. Thoughts (not in order)
1. Have a trench lined with stones, urbanite, vermiculite
2. Load with chunks of hardwood
3.build a box with RR ties, have
rebar to span roof and cover with RR ties
4. Light hot fire, can use leaf blowers or snail fans to stoke fire
5 go for hot burn to quickly char and gas off toxins. Workers shoould use respirators
6 use propane weed burner head to char outer ties
7 use ice pick for quality control of char depth all 6 sides
8 when inner box charred break down box, roll and use tongs to build 2nd box in trench next to 1st trench. Char other sides
9 rebuild new box, after reloading wood
10 have hoses to prevent out of control fire
11 rinse repeat, I
Could see 3 or 4 workers having a good production line Speed will improve with learning curve...thoughts?