Building a No-Weld Woodgas Generator! (A Functional Gasifier Built W/ a Hand Drill and Grinder?!)

The Germans built these on their tanks in WWII when they ran out of fuel. It doesn’t provide as much HP capability but at least they didn’t have to abandon them when the fuel truck was empty. I’m amazed at the knowledge that has been lost due to modern conveniences making us lazy and ignorant. Great video!

A couple of suggestions from an OLD GUY! FIRST, turn the orientation of any bolts so the threaded ends are inside the angle iron frame to help prevent ANKLE BITE! Those threaded ends waving out in the open are just waiting for you to walk by! SECOND, and this is not really necessary, but duct the hot exhaust gases from the generator engine back to the gas generator. Make sure the hot gas can swirl around the gas generator similar to a metal melting furnace, with the gas generator being the crucible! If insulated well enough you will be able to turn down the inlet O², maybe down to nothing, which will increase greatly your combustible gas output, as well as water output. Right now, most, if not all, of your hydrogen is burning inside the gas generator! Look up STOKOEOMETRIC (spelling I know) ratio for hydrogen. Hydrogen will burn in a 6% to 94% mix with Oxygen (might be 4% to 96%, I'm old, have not used this memory for 45-50 years). ANYWAY, 2H²+ O² > 2H²O + 4 Electron Volts of energy! So this is where your water is coming from. And yes, I know, the subscripts on the H's and O's are in the wrong place, I don't know how to put them on the bottom with my phone!

Dude I’m telling you what. EVERYONE needs a friend like you.

I gotta say it's really great to see young people actually building things ! Not only building but explaining as they go in great detail ! You should be really proud , you did a great job with this and I thank you .

Sweet. I have been running generators on woodgas for thousands of hours, over the past 8 years. It is rather addictive stuff to play with, but I ain't complaining, as I haven't had a power bill since 1994 :) .

Dude, that drawing at 6:10 is one of the best amateur illustrations I've ever seen. Hell, better than a lot of professional ones. No apology needed!

I remember in the early 1970’s of a man using the same refining system to run his household and car. He used junk mail as the fuel source. The man I think was a mechanical a Mechanical Engineer. This was a time in America when everyone was looking for an alternative fuel source because of the gas crunch of 1973 to 1974. Then fast forward to the, Iran, Iraq war those two countries flooded the oil market to gain financing for their own War economy and have a definite winner. The war ended between those two countries and a truce was made. Thus after a certain amount of time the price of fuel climbed and now. Today’s prices which has become somewhat unaffordable for a lot of fixed income folks. Well done video you’ve done a great service to your fellow countryman. Please keep it up this country needs more men like yourself. Semper Fi.

You are not only a smart hands-on engineer but you are also a great teacher. I really liked this video. Great job. Keep it up.

Since I dont have a welder (or welding skills) this is greatly appreciated.

You young lad are a genius. I love the way you explain things and how it works. I would love to try this sometime, but it'd be easier for my old ass to use my welder🤔. Your an inspiration. It's hard to find young people do great works like this. I would like to hear your story how you got started into doing these engineering feats. Great job!!

I have watched hundreds of these gasifier videos. Yours is BY FAR the best easiest to understand...Well DONE YOUNG FELLAR!!!!

I couldn't help but smile when you showed all your grinding safety precautions....then no gloves. Outstanding. Awesome project 👌

Excellent job sir. My father was born the day of the stock market crash of the Great Depression. I remember him and my uncles telling me of people running these during WW2 to power their trucks.

In 2008/09 the company I worked for built a full size test plant gasifier. We had 2 or 3 counties bailing their field scrap after harvest, switch grass, basically any and all biomass. We were feeding the thing the large square bails, and it was a hungry beast. but we were trying to do a lot with it. I was the instrumentation tech on the project and we learned some things that just didn't show up in the math or drawings. Ours test plants intention was to take the place of the natural gas feeding the boilers of the regular plants we built, like an add on.

Hint: combustion heat chamber under and separate from generation chamber. Avoids some combustion problems you mention, (ie: safer) easier construction, It also allows addition of a gas burner that could use a small portion of generated gas to maintain heat to generation chamber. (I played with wood gas 45 years ago.

Dude, stop apologizing so much. You are showing/teaching people how to create their own electricity or fuel to generate different forms of energy. The knowledge is much appreciated. Thanks for “How to”.

Very nice compact gasifier. I made one years ago from 40 gallon drums and ran a petrol car engine with three alternators on it. I used 10 mm charcoal for fuel ( I make charcoal anyway) it mostly ran great but required a lot of attention and took quite a while to get going. Someone offered me £200 for it and I took it. Great video, you're a bright guy, thanks.

Brother I cant tell how much I appreciate this project. Totally awesome. Thank you!

GOOD ON YOU MAN Id have literally LOVED to have had a friend like you around growing up. Man keep living a good clean life, building and learning! Alot of wrong paths to go down...Dont waste ANY of this talent bro. You could help alot of folks if you like. Shoutout from htown man! Loving this design. Really getting interested in bioenergy and biomass gens.

Dude I love how unassumingly you present this knowledge. Living where I live, the likelyhood of me ever building such a contraption is close to zero but I thoroughly enjoyed this learning experience while watching you. Keep it up!