[TheForge] eco coke

[Wesley Marquart]

Guess I kinda' jumped the gun on calling it a PC/Greenie scam then... it
sounds like it might be something useful after all...

Mike had mentioned the idea of Bio-char the other day (Thanks Mike! I'd seen
the video before but lost the link) - what the guy is doing in that is
<similar> to how I've been making my own charcoal for demos...  But I do use
a retort method myself...  55 gal drum sideways with a pipe coming out of
the bung hole, going down under the barrel, and using the wood gas coming
off the wood to 'cook' my charcoal... 

The last batch I did (last week) gave me enough charcoal to fill an old
burlap bag (roughly 35 gal.) to overflowing with lots of 'fines' left... I
use a piece of 1/4" hardware cloth to 'clean' the char - anything that falls
thru that gets saved to put into the garden and the big stuff gets bagged up
in the sack... 

Kinda the best of both worlds...  Trying to make the most of what I've
got... Heck I even save the wood ash from my wood burner in the winter... a
5 gal. bucket of ash is always kept out in my shop for slow cooling any
metal I'm 'normalizing'

-Wes


-----Original Message-----
From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Smith
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:59 AM
To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: [TheForge] eco coke

Actually, it is some form of compressed wood that is subject to high
temperatures and extreme pressure during the forming process. All of the
places
that have been decimated by the weather has a bazillion pounds of wood that
can
be turned into this stuff. I saw something on the international news about
this
stuff, it looked interesting. BTW it is black.

Jerry

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From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, May 24, 2011 11:05:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] eco coke

Wesley Marquart wrote:

> I smell a PC/Greenie scam on this one...  Not accusing you Jerry - just
the
> guys who are promoting 'Eco Coke' - they are probably just jumping on the
> Green Bandwagon...

    Yup.  I am in full support of black technologies.

    Pardon my french, but **** "green".  Just another great steaming pile
courtesy of... well, you know. :)




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