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Maybe a wood chunker would fill your needs better than a wood chipper.
They’re fairly easy to make and you already have the tools and knowledge to build one.
More examples here.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wood+chunk...%3DZKmy3ScFVNE
Just a suggestion...
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10-22-2020, 02:31 PM
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For a conventional drive-line they are quite terrible, but maybe as a range extender it doesn't matter that you have to plan ahead to start and stop the engine.
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10-22-2020, 03:27 PM
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It looks like the wood chunk is turning perfectly sized fire wood in to wood chunks.
Any 2 inches and up is fire wood. Anything down to 1 inch can be fire wood depending on how much twigs are on there.
I'm trying to turn twigs and even leaves that would normally go into a brush pile then be open air burned and turn it into much more compact, easier to move, easier to store, dry out s lot faster and can quickly be loaded into the coal furnace, compared to raw green twigs.
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10-23-2020, 01:31 AM
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For a conventional drive-line they are quite terrible, but maybe as a range extender it doesn't matter that you have to plan ahead to start and stop the engine.
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07-10-2021, 03:16 AM
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I'm going big on wood chips.
I have lots of nuance trees to get rid of, have a lot of dead trees to get rid of too, have to thin out the trees before they kill each other. Better to have 1 strong tree rather than 3 or 4 dead ones.
I'm putting in a pond to water my fuel trees. I have a road that makes a nice water shead that makes the edge of the road swampy when it rains, I want to drain that water away from the road which causes the road to crumble.
I have only put a dent in the tree problem and I already have a nice hill of wood chips.
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09-02-2021, 11:23 PM
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I'm going to buy a crucible that can fit in my coal furnace so I can cast and make brass. Nice yellow brass is 70% copper and 30% zinc and zinc is almost worthless.
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11-14-2021, 12:00 AM
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I'm going to experiment with putting my used motor oil on the wood chips and seeing how horrible that is.
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2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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11-14-2021, 01:55 AM
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How about the crucible? I knew a VW mechanic who dismantled engines and threw the various metals into drums to sell to the recyclers. He saved out the bronze valve guides and melted them down.
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11-14-2021, 02:26 AM
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I have only burned trash so far in the coal furnace this winter.
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11-14-2021, 01:43 PM
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I'm going to experiment with putting my used motor oil on the wood chips and seeing how horrible that is.
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Well, it's been said that used motor oil should not come into contact with the skin because it has carcinogenic elements in it.
I doubt one's lungs could handle the oil any better.
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