wood burner drawings

[panelbeater1234]

Looking for drawings or if you know of some one that has one working on there vehicle would like to get in touch  .im sure there is a few in the usa being used .Regards John

[spencer yarrow]

These may be of use to you if not let me know as I have more.

[Spinneyhill]

Are you wanting a wood burner to heat yourself, or a wood burner to produce wood gas to power an engine?

 

Here is an interesting article on the latter:

http://www.consuleng.com.au/Producer Gas & the Aussie Motorist 1939-45.pdf

 

Edited June 25, 2018 by Spinneyhill (see edit history)

[Ivan Saxton]

There is apparent ambiguity in the question.  If there is intent to run a car on "gas producer gas" there are significant cautions.  Carbon monoxide gives much les power that petrol or gasoline.   Carbon monoxide forms a very stable complex with haemoglobin;   and  probably deficiency of oxygen,  as well as presence of CO will damage the brain and also heart muscle.   One of my friends had a bad dose of CO from exhaust leakage of his truck which he ran with a White with a petrol engine while he was transporting bulldozers in the early 1950s.       Alan Hawker Chamberlain in the early 1940s had opportunity to buy one of the Stutz cars which raced at LeMans in 1929 with a Mecklenberg vane type supercharger.  A couple of years later one of his friends was looking for a supercharger to run a Bedford truck for his work on "producer gas".  The fellow in England sold him the supercharger for the same price that was asked for the Stutz with the blower fitted.   Problem was that kiln charcoal still has all the silica which has been deposited in the wood by the transpiration water,  and silica is a very fine and hard abrasive.  Honourable Bedford engine wore out very quickly, as also did the Stutz  supercharger.

[panelbeater1234]

12 hours ago, spencer yarrow said:

These may be of use to you if not let me know as I have more.     very interesting  would like to see more  drawings and photo pleaseKind regards John