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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.
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A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
All the soil info you'll ever need:
Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
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
Chris Kott wrote:Did you see the drum and basket version of the cone kiln? Essentially, everything smaller than the grating falls into the oxygen-deprived space in the barrel below the fire. No water, no smouldering, and a half-barrel or more of capacity.
The cone kiln is similar in function. It's an oxygen deprivation quench, no water required. The water shown in the video illustrates how clean the resultant charcoal is.
As to your prototype, shouldn't it be possible to have some kind of closure on the vents themselves? Seal the vents and you don't even need to take the retort off the heat first. Sounds like a one-person solution to me.
-CK
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Mark Tudor wrote:If you or a friend has any welding gear, the cone should be pretty cheap to craft. I had pondered a setup in the past, where a J-tube is setup on a slope, with a platform so you can walk to the top of the riser and slide a 55 gallon retort into position (or fill it up on its side and then stand it up and attach the lid) and there is a pipe coming out of that retort barrel which you connect to a pipe that feeds back into the bottom of the J-tube riser so you can use the retort gasses to fuel the burn after the initial load gets the process started. Having a second barrel attached to the top of the riser which is a little larger than the retort, with a small gap all around for the exhaust to travel up the sides, and insulation on the outside I think would help heat it up faster, perhaps even using the rocket oven designs of recent kickstarter fame? Open the lid on the side, fill the barrel with wood, close the door and "cook", then open the lid afterwards and pull all the charcoal out?
A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
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Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
Chris Kott wrote:
As to your prototype, shouldn't it be possible to have some kind of closure on the vents themselves? Seal the vents and you don't even need to take the retort off the heat first. Sounds like a one-person solution to me.
-CK
A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
All the soil info you'll ever need:
Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
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Graham Chiu wrote:There's a biochar forum here https://permies.com/f/190/biochar which I have posted to before.
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