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Scratch

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gasifiers
« on: January 17, 2009, 07:26:35 AM »
What's the deal with these...?  Do they just burn the wood, and as it burns, the smoke/gas goes back down to burn the wood some more and in the process... there's less smoke?

I'm familiar with the idea of it, from making charcoal, just wasn't aware they made them into OWB's for heating your home.

Are they all their cracked up to be or what?
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Re: gasifiers
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2009, 09:00:41 AM »
Quote from: Scratch on January 17, 2009, 07:26:35 AM
What's the deal with these...?  Do they just burn the wood, and as it burns, the smoke/gas goes back down to burn the wood some more and in the process... there's less smoke?

I'm familiar with the idea of it, from making charcoal, just wasn't aware they made them into OWB's for heating your home.

Are they all their cracked up to be or what?

I know a guy that has a indoor gasifier and he hates it.
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Re: gasifiers
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2009, 10:45:31 AM »
I have a wood doctor converter and love it. It is an outdoor gassifer boiler so I do not have the smoke mess etc inside. This pulls the smoke gasses through the coals so reburning any unburnt fuel. Seems to burn less wood than a friend of mines regular owb but that is all relative(insulation,type of wood,sq footages). Bare with my post I am using my iPhone, Little Woman is playing solitare on my laptop
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