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Great idea and wish I saw this 3 years ago but now I’m going to make a brick furnace for a retort ..

Excellent video. Love the firebrick kiln, very easy to construct & take down. I definitely will build one to make lump charcoal. Thank you! 👍😊

Thank You so mutch, well done - grate work !!! Best Reg. from Poland ❤❤❤

Thank You so mutch, well done - grate work !!! Best Reg. from Polan ❤❤❤

I made this 3 days ago, but in a rectangular and shallow shape. Works as in the video. One of the most informative videos out here.❤

Your chimney retort rocks!🎸

Nice demo! The prices quoted makes me nostalgic for pre-2020.....

Great demonstration mate you really hit that on the head perfectly.

For hobby-grade playing around the method might be doable... For serious projekts it is BY FAR to inefficient !

O.J., thank you for the great content! I have two questions. 1. How do you clean out the kiln after a burn? 2. You mentioned that you use old varnish cans. Do you clean them before using? If so, how. I would think that they'd be pretty toxic from the varnish. Any feedback would be appreciated!

Not sure if you’re still monitoring comments and answering questions. I don’t have a ready source to get and replace 5gallon tin buckets. Instead I’m planning on having a local maestro fabricate a stainless internal drum for biochar. I can have it made any size I choose. My question is what is the optimal ratio of volume inside/outside the drum?

Thanks.

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its 2023...you ever wonder if your videos will be watched far into the future?

You can scrape the pith off with a hatchet and add to compost heap

Good video! (Nice garden, BTW) Hmmm... aircrete bricks. Maybe lined with fire bricks.

Thanks for education sir..

Why you dont buid it underground? Like TANDIR Turkish traditional ovens. it will be safer and it will not risk environment so much. czcams.com/video/eaguphK9XAs/video.html it is used to bake bred, roast meat, sometimes whole lamb.... so it will be multipurpose, not only for biochar.

That's plastic bag smoke, don't breath this.

I got a backhoe ans though about digging hole down for a 55 gallon metal barrel and doing somthing like this make a trench for with a pipe for air intake and cap the top with a metal cap and Is chimney. Any thoughts?

Hurrah! Thank-you! We are not allowed fires at our allotments in England. One question: why, please, do you put the retort buckets in upside down?

"Shrinkage!!" LMAO. Great vid. Thank you for sharing.

Plastic bag???? If you need a plastic bag to start a fire, maybe you should go back to the boy scout manual....AND. STOP POLLUTING THE AIR.

Thank you sir for this information. Really it is going to help me in future.

Best bio char making overview video out there. Very well done

"I had no idea what biochar was, but it sounded like it would be fun to make because you get to play with fire" I 100% totally understand this feeling. If there isn't fire, it's probably not all that fun.

good!!

Larry David?

Does it help to quench it out with compost tea water rather than clean water?

I really wish we people were not so geocentric. The are billions of people in the world, some who have good ideas. Not all are in the USA. Retorts are the main /only barrel design I see in the US. Very inefficient. All that sin gas you burn off could be used to heat instead of additional feedstock. Here is a design that does this from outside the US. czcams.com/video/JIrgNosdRFE/video.html

remember its just charcoal untill you mix with compost or compost tea, then it is biochar. love the video thank you

OJ thank you i have been studying this subject after making a small amount for myself in some old dryer drums. Thank you for the content, educational and entertainng !!! God Bless

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thank you

Great, this is the one.! Looks it will work well with commercial poultry litter in the bin. But, temps will need to be kept as low as possible. Maybe can be done with a firebox at the bottom and feed it slowly.

Thank you! Love it!!!

Quit acting like a clown pops, your kiln is not very inefficient. You should take advantage of the wood gasses by popping 1 3/4” hole in the bottom center so the wood gasses can escape and help cook the wood even more

For people from America. Use bricks made for high temperature. Fireclay bricks.

Great video. Even better enthusiasm!!!

Thank you friend. I hope all is well with you and yours. May Abba Father continue to bless you! Peace and grace!

brother You have simplified everything and maintained The high quality of the final product you are really amazing keep it up

Looks to produce less product then the other methods I have seen here. Would take along time and alot of fuel to get a decent amount

Really glad to have this video show up. I live in a town, but mine is one of the few properties to still have what they used to use as property dividers. 18 100 year old trees: white oak, maple and a few pines. They drop both large and small branches all the time. I collect them in part of my yard and planned to start using them to make biochar. I could turn my rocket stove into a much larger brick chimney kilm. I also have a metal fire ring. I'm 75 but that seems easy enough even for me. Last year there was a burning ban, crossing my finger this year.

Thanks for sharing! Through the process, a lot of energy is wasted. We have the mission to fix this and many many other things related. If you want to join as an investor or project member, check my channel for more information. An English channel is in the works.

Interesting choice of music. Great tune. Nice project too. Great job.

Thanks very much for your informative video :) A bit off topic, but I have a dog almost identical to your large black and white one. Mine is a rescue, so I don't know her lineage. Is yours a specific breed, or just a mongrel? Cheers

Genesis Biochar organic soil conditioner could be part of the solution. It is mostly carbon and can last for a thousand years.

Hey, another Willowa guy! I grew up down on the Grand Ronde. Great video. Thanks for the content.

OJ what a brilliant video you have made here. I've recently been looking into this and found your video one of the best available. easy to follow and keeping it low cost as well. thanks for taking the time to do this for the benefit of others like me. all the best to you in oregon usa from western australia....

Great economical build, will likely use this exact idea for my first setup! Pardon the nitpick, but maybe spare the plastic bag for something that won’t leave toxic residue in your system. This is supposed to be material you can use to grow consumable goods with. The potash is no exception, and you don’t need to risk that kind of contamination for something as simple as kindling.