[TheForge] Cap and trade

[Wesley Marquart]

Very slick, Keziah/Peter...  I like it a lot and good luck with the new
business!

I really like the part where you get a much cleaner burn vs the way I've
been producing my charcoal...  Of course I've been doing it with a
horizontal single barrel with the wood gas being fed back under with a 2"
pipe with little holes bored into it.  

Your process is about 500% more efficient than mine... and you really save
on wood as well - my way was using probably 80# fire-stock wood to cook off
100# in the barrel to get 30# of char...

As I said "my way was" ... I'm going to have to switch methods!

Wes

-----Original Message-----
From: Keziah's Forge [mailto:blacksmith at keziahsforge.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:15 PM
To: Bob Ehrenberger; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA; Wesley Marquart;
'Roger Degner'
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cap and trade

As IT happens, I have been doing very little smithing for the last year, but

a whole lot of colliery.  Went looking for some fuel one day, met a guy who 
was making charcoal for agricultural purposes, one thing leads to another, 
and I am now DBA New England Biochar.  Check it out at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMUmby8PpU

and get back to me.  I have a bunch of designs for retorts, including a very

practical unit that cranks out 700-800 lbs at a time.  BTW:  handled 
correctly, it doesn't have to spark .  If you are old school enough to use 
coal, charcoal could be  the thing for you.  I used nothing but charcaol at 
Keziah's Forge for the past year, and with my properly darwing side draft 
chimney, sparking was never a problem.   A presence, but not a problem

After all, Longfellow's  Village Blacksmith didn't get "the sparks that fly 
/  Like chaff from the threshing floor" from Pocahontas-p.

Keziah