Making Charcoal with the Exeter Retort
By woodlandstv
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Alan and Jo Waters are expert charcoal makers with many years experience of this traditional skill from the land they coppice. Here they speak about the benefits of charcoal production using the Exeter Retort. They join with Geoff Self and Robin Rawle, designers and manufacturers of this Retort, to explain their experiences of the benefits of this method compared to traditional ring kilns - that the Retort produces more charcoal, that it has a shorter burn time, is cleaner, more efficient, easily accessible and transportable, and that it ultimately produces better quality charcoal - ideal for small woodland owners. [email protected] http://www.carboncompost.co.uk/ An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv
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What a fabulous job.
I am an ex coal miner and have no problem for these people been called wood colliers.
what a great job would love to do that
We had cars made in Australia to run on wood gas too during WWII.
I can't figure out why any of the carbon monoxide is being wasted? is it just a matter of preventing over heating?
I have made a few wood gasifiers, there are lots of DIY wood gas videos on YouTube with everybody learning from each other, it is actually very simple to run a petrol engine on most things that will burn not just wood, someone said of this technology that even a dead cat collected from the roadside will get you several more miles down the road if your running on empty!
But do you have a problem with being called a dinosaur s*** collier? 🙂
Years ago a couple of our techs ran out of fuel in the middle of nowhere.
So one got a large bottle of LPG gas from the back and ran a tube to the carburetor.
With the bottle at his feet in the passenger seat, he adjusted the gas valve and they drove back to town.
what on earth are you talking about ??
Yes! Use what you have!! Why get from somewhere else what you can do or make yourself?
Barbara Rickman
February 12, 2017