[TheForge] Wood Gassification heating?

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

A further caution; That gas is also potentially very explosive. 
Colliers ( is that the right term) were killed or injured not 
infrequently ,working the trade.

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> I don't know who posted that, nor have I done this myself.  The idea,
> however, is a "retort".  A sealed box filled with wood.  Heat it till
> the wood begins to carbonize and give off gases.  Now, recycle those
> gases to heat the wood.  This would work batch-wise.  You'd have to
> unload the charcoal and reload with wood between batches.  Use two
> retorts (boxes of wood) and you could maybe go semi-continuous.
> 
> Now poison warning:  The gases coming off the wood are highly toxic,
> including CO, methanol, and "smoke".  You must keep them out of your
> shop.  A good flue might be all that that would take - keeping a
> negative pressure on the retort.
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Barnhart
> <blakkpawss at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I recently saw somebody say something about using a
>>  wood gassification style heat setup for their shop.
>>  If I remember right they said they could heat their
>>  shop off the wood gas and use the charcoal made to
>>  fire their forge.  I was just wondering if the guy/gal
>>  that posted this could tell me more about how it's
>>  setup and possibly point me in the direction of more
>>  info, possibly some plans to build such a setup?
>>
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