My Truck runs on "FIREWOOD".

[@UmarO]

car thieves will have trouble with this one

[@wolfemanbog4176]

Umar O that’s really funny

[@punker4Real]

not really just tow it on a dolly

[@AnonMedic]

For sure, they can't drive a manual transmission.

[@dumbo390]

they'll slowly back away from that lol

[@Nevir202]

Ironically, for a low tech system, this would really benefit from a computer to automatically adjust air/fuel ratios as the fuel quality fluctuates.

[@elishaoverley2451]

hey it's your Uber, am outside.

[@35Colorado]

LOL!

[@apocalypsecreek9818]

I've watched this guy for a few years. I have been completely off grid, in the woods, for the past 5 years and I have tried it all! Lot's of failures, I must say. But I have to admit, I admire this fella, he never gives up and always finds a way to perfect these alternative projects. After a couple months of curse words and tempertantrums, like a toddler, I usually move on to another simpler alternative. But this guy, nope, just keeps goin. Great job Sir! You are truly a man among men.

[@chapiit08]

His enthusiasm is so contagious that just listening to him fills me up with joy.

[@PaulojnPereira]

"Alright kids , don´t forget to get up earlier than usual, dad is gonna take you to school in the firewood truck"

[@nokel2]

I just gotta warm up the wood to warm up the car... give it a bit...

[@mrnickie3456]

I'm out! dad

[@KpexSmith]

Hey honey, throw another log on the fire so we can make it up the hill.😂

[@Madmick82]

Now he only needs to reach 88mph and he can go back in time.

[@dittokiddo3340]

He now needs to engineer an alternator capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts.

[@roquemainecoon8046]

somebody has ruined that franchise for me

[@yapyap66]

he just needs to add a banana peel

[@BrendonTristal]

Old Man Peabody! Great Scott

[@lucaskich3908]

The walking dead gas problem solved

[@jr540123]

Between that and actual steam the only major problem would be sourcing clean oil and engine parts as stuff fails over the years.

[@userseveneleven]

The hash slinging slasher. There would be plenty of good car parts though

[@offgriddlifestyle2544]

while is using wood to power this truck . add a bar b que grill on the side you be cooking too while going to point a to point b ...

[@NightHawk42]

the perfect smoker for meats.

[@TrasherBiner]

The Cider Bark makes a nice crusty musky flavour to t-bone steaks that no other car can provide, not even the Teslas with the Microwave oven glove compartment.

[@StarForgers]

@Craig Schultz I can't believe this is actually a thing....

[@jurivlk5433]

You need two people to operate your car: A did driver and a fireman, like on the steam locomotives! No, seriously, its the best idea ever to fight gas prices raising.

[@BrandonDickenson35]

So it also forces the population into carpooling too. Or to redesign the hopper into the floor somehow

[@MrZatyro]

You need a PA system that plays the beverly hillbillies theme while the engine is running. This is amazing lol

[@jartest9205]

my thinking is same idea only on a very big generator. That way it can charge the batteries when the solar panels can't. For example heavy storms and the like. Very cool

[@TheEightfoldPath_]

At that point using a high efficiency stove with a steam generator would be better. Well.. If you plan on going off the grid and not for emergencies then this also provides charcoal so I guess there's pros and cons for both

[@tuckerkennedy5016]

I was thinking Gravity fed on a PMA Generator

[@samrichards8251]

They see me rollin they be hatin

[@chrisw5742]

@@scotthardy6485 hahahahaa yep. Best comment I ever saw on youtube lmao. I gotta get me one of these trucks.

[@cobralife306]

Tryna catch me ridin dirty.....

[@phillhuddleston9445]

Great job, a little tweaking and it should be good to go. A lot of people don't know that wood gasifiers were used extensively in some European countries to power tractors during WW2 because of the fuel shortage created by the war.

[@ollilehtonen6351]

Phill Huddleston Yep. Wood-gas tractors, trucks, cars were a common sight in Finland in the 1940s.

[@Drypowder33]

heh, "were", still used nowadays by non-industrial farmers.

[@ketas]

my grandfather, born 1922, told me about wood gas trucks in estonia during the war... i actually plan to build gasifier that could run electric generator

[@SteveStoltz]

Reminds me of the Mr Fusion on the Delorean lol

[@chrisw5742]

When this baby hits 88 mph you are gonna see some serious shit :-P

[@bcb2585]

I've been watching the gasification movement for a few years now, and I love it!!! I wish it was more commercially available. You can run more than just cars with it, you can also run your entire home off of combustibles like wood and garbage. Amazing. I tried a small scale version of this technology and was able to run a lawn mower engine for several hours off of wood with zero gas. Again, an Amazing technology. In WWII it was used by the common man as a mode of electricity generation and vehicle conveyance in Europe due to fossil fuels being unavailable to regular people. It's a long proven technology both in principle and in practice.

[@zaiohellgren9266]

This is amazing to watch, that its possible. lotta work and amazing to see you sticking with it. Caught myself saying "This is why you learn mechanics, chemestry and fysics in school, i aint going to the moon but this is why!" in the middle of the video. Thanks again, stay awesome!

[@DF11G]

Seems like all the money you saved on gas will go directly to new batteries LOL. Fun to watch this video.

[@DrFruikenstein]

How hot does the tail pipe get? I ask because my thought is to have a second flameless reactor with an exhaust heated pipe system in the bottom to cook up more fuel. That would add efficiency to longer trips, if the exhaust was hot enough to cook the solid matter.

[@MrS22222]

The gasses will be around 350° and the pipe around 250°. It is around 500° just passed the catalytic converter.

[@Bruh-pp5yz]

Uninportant that hot gas, important thing is energy that gas have.

[@neighborsjordan95]

I'd hands down pay a grand or two to get one of these installed on something of mine... Especially my 84 c20 with the old 350. It chugs gas but if I could drive it for the price of a fuel system upgrade and man power to get firewood, I'd daily it. It would pay for itself in a month XD

[@jakearsenal4400]

I was thinking the same thing about my 84 c20!

[@HoloScope]

@Craig Schultz researchers have found that wood gas is three to ten times greener that natural gas

[@original6hockey402]

You’d need free supply of wood.

[@GradyHouger]

Awesome! I always wanted to see one of these going. The mother earth news article about gassifier trucks really inspired me when I was a little kid, inventors can do great things!

[@khosrosadi5196]

If every morning when we starting our car have this much of fun and excitement. Life would be fun.

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

people like you now make me want to build something new. This would be great when I want to do some canning ect and not have to buy propane, This I have got to try.

[@oby-1607]

Hey boss, I"m gonna be late for work. Couldn't get my car going. Had to go cut some firewood first.

[@perstyr]

Starts better than my Clio, to be fair.

[@HDXFH]

Looks like ya fuel lights on lol

[@d.j.9961]

Simply amazing! Makes me want to build one for the vehicle & one for the house!

[@frankhiebler1127]

Not the daily driver. Its gonna be a fight to see who goes starts the car in the cold morning

[@wildbill31]

I say you can heat your house and leave it running and just take off and you can probably cook with it to so very cool also i dated a girl from Alaska they have to start a fire under the car to heat it to start im sure your supposed to use a plug in heater but some may not have it i guess

[@zxKrookedxz]

yea and so does a steam engine but theres a reason why no one bought steam engine cars when they were being made

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

Cause people are racist against steam? SteamLivesMatter

[@_decky4ever_]

The russians in the war used wood instead of gas, and they have -20 or maybe -40 celsius at winter,,,

[@u.b.fishin1773]

It starts better than an old Ford, though 😉

[@abalakapa]

"The exhaust smells different!" LOL!

[@jasonrahui6788]

Your awesome mate..! That's so cool ... I wanna make one ...!!

[@d.j.9961]

Once again I mention, How long has government known of such application's & possibilities? It also brings up many question's of what else do we as a society, NOT KNOW? ALOT I AM SURE! When it comes to electromagnetic forces, I believe that is where the public needs to be experimenting & developing alternative power & also considering & pushing THORIUM power plants until humans perfect electromagnetic power sources well beyond the mainstream electric motor/generator's that are currently on the market! This guy is awesome!!!

[@silentknight9509]

Technology like this hes been known for decades like Tesla this would have a conspiracy theory not that long ago and this guy would have been offed go hang around some party's in cambridge Massachusetts you want to know what you don't know about imagin 10 to 15 guy's like this guy just batting ideas around now think there are people who this guy's to be quite or worse

[@nelsonariza4075]

People know this, it's not a secret. Gasoline is more efficient.

[@cliffordsikora9841]

@@nelsonariza4075 , I would venture most people don't.

[@lowgrs1]

Awesome!! My friend has his doctorate in biomass gasification and this impressed him!!!!

[@Beaglone]

I get wood hearing about atruck running on the power of wood:)

[@safetyone6399]

Very interesting, very cool! Living off grid is looking better all the time. This, combined with some of these generators I've looked at, give you everything you need. A steady stream of water, couple good rifles on a few acres of woodland and you'd be set!

[@josephmclennan1229]

Will it pass California smog inspection.

[@vb6code]

watch out, your car is on fire *🔥🔥🔥* Added to my Favorites list

[@tibbs3531]

"Lets see how she goes down... the... road..." What road? Great vid!

[@dustinbarkes4936]

We had a little truck just like that on the farm my dad let me and my brother use it to change water before school when I was 11 years old very cool video man great work

[@DARANGULAFILM]

About 30 years ago, there was a guy drove a Ford Thames with a trailer around Australia on directly produced gas generated in a wood burner. The gas producer was in the trailer. The later Australian Ford Thames vans were fitted with an Australian built six cylinder engine versus the original and dreadful V4. He would start it on petrol ( gasolene ) until the fire was drawing well then change over to the produced gas. If he found a shredded bandag off a truck tyre on the road, he would stop and ram that in for about a 25 mile free bonus. During WW2 when petrol rationing was full on, many automotive charcoal fueled gas producers were made and sold. I was told that the small four-cylinder engines were not much good with it but the big american sixes and straight eights ran well on it.

[@pandarama67]

That is so awesome and congratulations but what I want to know is how far can you go on a gallon of wood

[@piedpiper7051]

He said up top, it gets 1.5 miles to 1 lb. of wood, which is the accurate way to measure.

[@ipure2]

I know I'm a bit late to the party but something that may help you out with that idle is an EGR valve plumbed into a fuel bypass system and maybe a belt driven vacuum pump with the actuator attached to the throttle linkage to mimic low rpm so that when you are at closed throttle, you are allowing a higher amount of vacuum to affect the EGR valve. That EGR valve will open to dump the excess fuel gas through an air filter or just into the exhaust stream. It would be very easy to tune with an airflow regulator for the amount of vacuum applied at closed throttle. You could also put a glow plug in the exhaust stream to burn off the excess fuel gas. Just make sure it's upstream far enough to prevent throwing fire out of the tail pipe. It sounds fun on paper, but the last thing you want is to be too close to something flammable and start a fire.

[@tonyolson1962]

It seems like the ultimate application for this set up would be a boat, wherein you could take advantage of the infinite cooling effect of the water. You need to build a newer version of the “African Queen!”

[@Heikki_Finland]

There is more room in a boat for the system, spare wood and cargo, but there is no extra wood available off shore, so in that sense this fits better for a car. I like sailboats better anyway than motorized.

[@vasilipanin8978]

I think the steam engine in the African Queen would be mutch more efficient. Probably more torque definitely easier to start just wait for her to boil.

[@jryanburnette]

The boat will grind up fish and run on the oil

[@P7777-u7r]

At that point why not build a steamboat?

[@martinkungys3172]

This is the most amazing thing ever. This man is a genius

[@charlesjenkinson5020]

I can't think of a better vehicle to pull into my work office carpark with.

[@lilspikes81]

"You can see I'm smoking a little bit"😉

[@Cameron_Mind]

wait WTF only 9800 views how in HELL does this not have millions

[@alfwaibel4773]

Better than a tesla. Lowtech at it´s finest. Clean and sustainable!!! Even Greta couldn´t say anything against this car. :)

[@-Oclock]

Now turbo it. Jokes aside, this is amazing. thank you for sharing

[@SlomoVeggie]

that starter motor is a superman, strong like bull

[@4freedomnow887]

go start the truck has a different meaning at your house lol so very cool and even cooler its a luv

[@VerdaderoMisterio]

What a time to be alive!

[@vuthisa]

WELL DONE MAN!

[@Scharpy1]

Loved it !!! Thanks for posting.

[@firebirdfilms4566]

This guy is a genius

[@SwordsmanCaim]

Simply fantastic. You never cease to amaze. Great work!

[@fluxpistol3608]

Getting back to the future vibes

[@hamop3]

Great Job, Mr Teslonian

[@pkbrown58]

Dig your Chevy Luv! I think your wood-burnin' rig has more power than mine did on Shell gas back in 1978.

[@atcmadness4351]

I wish I had 1/100th of your ambition, you are amazing!!...

[@dustyroads5753]

I can see this rigged up on a duel generator. One running on wood gas, the other using the resulting charcoal to power the boiler for a steam engine 🤔🤔.

[@ryanadam1153]

Just learned about this process really impressed brother keep up the good work. Ryan from Detroit

[@thadhorner5129]

Well the backfire burns under the hood are a nice touch, lol.

[@WizardClipAudio]

Now that’s what I call a woody wagon!!!

[@samsh0-q3a]

Man I wanna make one of these now, this would be pretty cool to have to drive around my property, but really I just needed something to build haha

[@joewrosenthal00]

Wood gas vehicles, using technology like yours, were used during World War II as a consequence of the rationing of fossil fuels. In Germany around 500,000 wood gas vehicles-type were in use at the end of the war.

[@b1g1lz]

Cool. I've read about gasifiers used back in WW2 by people. I'd say it would be hard on the valves though.

[@komitadjie]

Drinking game! Every time he says "biochar", take a shot! xD

[@morpher44]

good job. You could put some TEG's on the hot surfaces, and make some electricity while cooling it.

[@jakegingrich7214]

You bring new meaning to Rollin coal.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

In the eightie Gm/ Oldsmobile produced a few Delta 98s with a system like this . Its unknown why they abandoned it . But they have a habit of developing the technology only so they can own it .

[@ellenorbovay5226]

That's awesome! I need one of those, North Korea makes them but they don't sell them, as far as I know. You could probably sell those if you cleaned up the design a little.

[@sm0ky40]

That's really interesting. Great work.

[@Contantq]

That is just absolutely awesome! Hell of a babe mobile

[@bcwoodsman876]

Very cool. Nice job!

[@gregbrooks5870]

I think you did a fine job thanks

[@gavinhosler5503]

Wow! thats awesome nice work, I looked into how this works, stil ltrying to wrap my head around it

[@zeusons]

Very cool. Great job!

[@simondowson-wallace2121]

I think Germany made a few tiger tanks that ran using this method. Awesome. :)

[@DeeDiesel]

Awesome, you’re a genius mate, keep it up 👍

[@RuralTowner]

Where you at? Desert ofc...just can't tell which from the background. in SW AZ here The water tanks....not sure I'm clear on that part. (EDIT: Just noticed all the other step videos. Going to check them out). SUBSCRIBED! Somewhere I have a print out of the actual plans for a gasifier that were issued for use by the public in the UK during WW2. A shown example was basic compact enough to fit on a small tractor. I need to find them. Is for a simplistic build that is easy to remember but seeing the plans again would make it easier to streamline or improve on it. Unless I end up selling it...gto an old Toyota w/ one of first 22Rs that MIGHT potentially end up being a test vehicle for something like this...be more practical if had the long-bed though. From what I recall the setup had a hopper-like burner. Air came in the top and outlet near the bottom. The air//gas mix was then sent through an actual radiator...functions exactly like an intercooler since the gas is going to be quite hot. From there it would go through an air filter then directly down the throat of the engine...no carburetor. Throttle is controlled with a simple throttle plate. Could probably take a carb and remove everything above the throttle plate.

[@splittinnstuff6571]

Bangin setup! Shame your not closer, I could supply the firewood haha!

[@antoniovillanueva308]

I am greatly impressed!

[@Ezio-Auditore94]

If Dr. Emmett Brown had this idea he probably wouldn't need the dangerous train approach.

[@chillenkillen7277]

When the apocalypse happens im goin lookin for you.

[@43Magicman]

Great job! Brother...

[@whatthephuk3275]

Best video I have ever seen.

[@jthetunes1]

You are the man 🤘

[@topcat2367]

R.I.P. starter motor

[@steveward5262]

all jokes aside your a freakin legend mate , great work!! im inspired!

[@creditdebitcardscostyoumon4588]

Dashboard needs a lil' bit of upholstery repair work....my brother used to have one of these Chevy Luv trucks, a 1978, thing lasted forever. . . . enjoyed the video

[@Hoonmaro]

That’s pretty sweet man perfect for the apocalypse

[@robbie2759]

That little luv truck is on 🔥

[@TrasherBiner]

all I can think of is the Futurama episode where Bender downgrades himself into wood.

[@GermanMic]

One love brother, thx for sharing

[@rsi1986]

Super cool!!! Sweet mod.

[@roger3858]

Looks like you reinvented the locomotive

[@colinkraus7139]

Cool truck!

[@stevenwithanS]

Where's the love button. That is awesome.

[@MadScientist512]

Gasification's great, after WW2 governments produced pamphlets on how to make these systems and many cars were converted like this. I really hope someone makes a simple DIY electronically regulated system for gasifiers, but Pyrolysis can make the fuel beforehand so that cars and generators can run on it as normal, and with all the cumbersome equipment kept stationery elsewhere it can be made large enough to supply ample fuel and power homes, and the resulting biochar can be buried to sequester carbon from the atmosphere while at the same time improving soil. Biocrude's made with plants and contains alcohols, and plastics and petrochemical products turn back into hydrocarbon fuels; one study found that pyrolysis of municipal waste alone would supply America with enough fuel to supply its demands. Solar energy storage is already installed Everywhere for free by nature in the form of plants, which forest fires demonstrate spectacularly, yet that goes unseen and is simply burned and buried; guess we can't see the fuel for the trees, nevermind the forest, so it's great to see attempts like this to raise awareness of that.

[@indianasquatchunters]

MadScientist512 Not trying to call you out here, it’s actually the opposite. Do you happen to have the source on the municipal waste providing fuel for America? I’m really interested in reading it if you do. Thanks!

[@winstonpaul3398]

Should have been in the movie mad max where they fight for gas !

[@indianasquatchunters]

Winston Paul It would be difficult to find sustainable biomass in a wasteland that mad max took place in 😂