WOOD POWERED LAWN MOWER
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- My first journey into wood gas has been quite a ride, but will work.....
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colinfurze hey!! Will you reply??
Collin it's been ages since you uploaded
Did you finish the screw tank
colinfurze cool!
Hello
Dry your grass clippings and then run your lawn mower on the power of LAWN!
"I used the lawn to destroy the lawn"
Robert Loughrey awwww yeah
Self sufficient lawnmower
self perpetuating system! until your lawn catches on fire.... darn mid july drought
it'd get rid of the tar problem though
Yes, infinite mowing 😎
@@joeydr1497 it's kind of self sufficient if you just leave the grass clippings on your lawn and let it grow back into the soil, especially since if you burn the grass it'll cause gasses which are bad for the environment and wouldn't burn nearly as good as wood
Colin's delight at the thing starting suggests just how difficult this is to get working in any way.
I agree. You can also see he's not being fake like some youtubers out there, his delight is genuine! His genuineness and his antics are the whole reason I follow.
Nah, he just gets excited at everything. Like getting force fed cake. Or bursting through the wall of a caravan 😆
It's because he's allowing oxygen into the destructive distillation process. I've done what he's doing, and it's much more successful in a simpler format. If you look up how it was done during WWII to run buses and cars you'll see what I mean. Allowing oxygen into the pyrolysis chamber is creating a flame front and burning some of the Syngas. A sealed fuel chamber with a single output will push expanding hot gas out when sufficiently heated. The gas is then filtered, and THEN you mix in air right before the carburettor. Colin's very well constructed device is mixing oxygen before the gas has been sufficiently cooled, and it's partially combusting.
Donald and Kanye getting close czcams.com/video/0KjnXpiFhT0/video.html
Honestly, I was excited too. I never heard of this tech before, but he's basically built an entire from scratch. Imagine!
Imagine being Colin's neighbour, your at home and hear "ITS WORKING, ITS ACTUALLY WORKING" over the noise of a lawnmower running rough
then he rolls out such a contraption lol
I think colins neighbours are more than used to the maniacal cackling coming from the garage and shed 🤣
Sounds like something my dad would say about a normal lawnmower
@@bbrdbr I say that with about 80% of the shit I throw together in a afternoon drunk off my ass
I think we would be best friends, especially when I built a homemade steel melting furnace. I also used to dig trenches and tunnels in the back yard as a kid.
And the neighbors had no idea you were actually digging a tunnel at that moment. Nice decoy Furze!
Yeah, like the many concrete mixer trucks reversing into his driveway isn't at all suspicious.
“Honey the weird guy next door is mowing his yard with a steam train”
Sure why not, he must have figured out what way colin furze will mown his lawn and given it a new skin thats all that happened there
HELP!!! Everybody at my school cyberbullies me because they say my videos are extremely BAD!!! Please help me, dear charlie
@@AxxLAfriku your videos _are_ bad
AxxL they are a little bit weird...
If we all report Axxl he will disappear
There’s an easy way, a hard way and a Furze way.
And a dumb Toycat way
Isn’t that the wrong way? “Yeah, but faster!”
I hope Colin puts that on some merch.
typical Furze World Problem
What the... My CZcams says there's two replies but there's really 4
Gasification has always fascinated me because it seems like such a simple, easy concept at first, but in practice take quite a bit of knowledge and experience in particular in order to make an actual working, reliable system.
The key seems to be cooling the gas down enough (without using water) via a seemingly comical amount of surface area (via tubes forming a radiator) to air cool the gas.
Can't we just take time to appreciate how much skill this man has, and the work is done in a 3x3 shed. :O
I see Colin is bringing the Industrial Revolution back to England.
One issue with that, they don't have any trees. Nope, not a single one.
Single handedly , with some measure of success...
Undoing Thatcher, one step at a time
It's the time period that GB enters upon leaving the EU.
This is the most steampunk thing I've ever seen. I love it!
He needs to put one on his tank
To the 1 person who is reading this: You are very intelligent and an adorable human being! Stay safe during this pandemic/quarantine💖💙❤ur awesome
100k SUBS WITHOUT VIDS CHALLENGE thank you I’m having a great 2020. It’s been one of the best years of my life so far!
To the 1 person who is reading this: You are very intelligent and an adorable human being! Stay safe during this pandemic/quarantine💖💙
Colin: Maniacal laughing over the sound of a lawnmower
His neighbours: Oh god. Right, what's he done now?
Real question is: "how many times have the neighbors called the police for noise complaints or safety reasons" that is assuming they dont know what he is actually doing or how he's doing it.
They're probably used to maniacal laughing and engines revving, he's at it every day of the week. If they haven't moved out by now he's probably stuck with them.
Many, many, many, congratulations Colin! I don't think we've have never seen you more elated and satisfied with a project! What about a secondary burner to get rid of the tar? It was such an amazing and interesting project...we all wish we had a best friend like you.
Up next: a multi-vaccuum system to take in all the grass clippings, remove the air and deposit the clippings to be turned back into more fuel.
If normal wood is too wet I don't see fresh grass working.
@@Electric999999 use dead grass or sawdust to start, and pick up the dead grass after it is cut. Having your grass dead within five minutes might be a Florida only thing, but either way works
We got a badass everyone
Imagine making a wood powered chainsaw, which feeds the sawdust immediately back in the engine to power itsef.
That's why Sawmills still ran on Steam Engines when they were outdated almost anywhere else. They can power themselves on their own Waste.
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@@Genius_at_Work yeap and modernizing is easy by replacing the steam engine with turbine and generator and still the same principle goes on even in new installations.
@@Karjis Are there any gas turbine engines ready to use sawdust as fuel?
You are smart
@@motoprogger Nope. They would be clogged by Soot within Minutes. Turbines need clean burning Fuels.
"Honey, can you go out and mow the lawn please."
"Yeah, in a few weeks, just gotta make the mower run off wood first."
This guy's "first" gasifier build is on the level most could ever dream of being able to achieve with years of experience.
Friend: hey could i borrow your lawn mower?
**pulls out this Bad boy**
Friend: i think i just let it grow. Save the bees or whatever
If I were that "friend", I think I'd rather use my nail clippers
I would so return it improved, more compact and powerful.
I just started a channel where I go into the mountains with trucks and bag on em. I just wanna make some people laugh.
Hey Colin! My shop teacher is actually going to let me build a drift trike for my semester project!
great man
power it with a turbo-jet! say it's easier to do than any other motorisation ;)
@Michael Keller no, that’s way too dangerous
@@simplenot866 ...he could wear a safety-tie..? (see your point of course - yet, the drift-trike itself isn't exactly a save vehicle...)
Nice my teacher said that it had to fit in the locker, so I ended up making a mechanical hand. I'm still very happy about my project.
Never realized how much of a skilled fabricator Collin is till I got in welding class
If Colin had been the professor on Gilligan’s Island, they would have been home in a week on a coconut powered jet boat! Amazing!
Except they'd get stuck in a tar pit.
work of art!
It sure is
One that could actually kill you. One of the main components of wood gas is carbon monoxide.
I sure as shit wouldn't use it.
@@MrSaywutnow Burning petrol also puts off CO
@@MrSaywutnow CO is a main component only if the system has water injection. The way Colin is doing it, the gas is mainly light hydrocarbons, but even proper wood syngas isn't that hazardous to work with in well ventilated space.
@this old tony, i’ve been watching your channel a lalalala long a lalalala long long li long long time. excited for your next video!
The Missus: "Colin, would you mind mowing the lawn today?"
Colin: "I'll get right on that, dear."
_Three weeks later_
The Missus: "Colin, when are you going to do the lawn?"
Colin: "Still working on it, luv!"
sounds like me waiting a month for a carb to arrive from ebay :D
I love his reaction when his mad scientist contraptions actually work!
He's soon happy!
Good on him...
and rightly so to. Its a wonderful feeling when one side of your brain is saying "this is stupid, what are you doing?" but the other side is right and your mad Idea actually works. take THAT self-doubt!
It all adds together, I can see the underground door winch and can see the carpet is ready to be rolled up
You need to bubble the wood gas through water. This will absorb a lot of the particulates, water, and tar from the gas as well as cool it off. Similar to a bong in concept.
Reminds me of the time i made hydrogen baloons from my cousin's bong, it looked like i was making drugs lol (i don't do drugs pe smoke ironically)
Main component of the gas is methanol and that dissolves in the water...
@@frutt5k Methanol, really? I thought it was Carbon monOxide..
@@dougaltolan3017 carbon monoxide isn't combustible. It would be a poor fuel
@@The_Jovian I beg to differ.
" CO
is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and combustible gas with a lower explosive limit (LEL) of
12.5% or 125,000 parts per million (propane has an LEL of 2.2% or 22,000 ppm)."
Source: afcintl.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/applications/Carbon%20Monoxide%20Investigations.pdf
Ya know, I watch a lot of CZcams and sometimes I'll get bored/tired of a channel. I've watched you for about a year and a half and not once have I gotten bored of what you do. Fire, explosions, electricity, machines etc.. idk how you do it, but keep up the good work👍👍
cheers that means a lot
I've been watching for 7 years and you can definitely expect to not be bored!! keep an eye out for the 10million subscriber vid
colinfurze I’m gonna go eat some pizza
colinfurze Donald and Kanye getting close czcams.com/video/0KjnXpiFhT0/video.html
the most impressive and learning video related to wood gasification. God bless you man
I made a gasifier out of stove pipe years ago, happiest moment ever when the 5hp motor started. The next day I learned about valves welded shut with wood tar! I never built in a gas option to clean the motor out after my run. Your build was incredible, as usual :)
Make one powered by grass then you don’t even have to obtain wood.
This 👆
@@pucash TOO 𝓜 𝓞 𝓘 𝓢 𝓣
yup - bag the grass clippings, dry them out, and then use them as fuel to cut more grass
@@Toastmaster_5000 Dry it with the stovethingy
Chicken and egg comes to mind!
"Why am I doing this inside?"
"...Cause it's the shed. ...Everything happens in the shed, donnit?"
Lol the video was playing exactly on that part
@@papulover420 y u reading comments while watching
@@poiiihy Double Entretainment lol
Imagine him having a son and daughter hahaha
Including asphyxiation!
One of my totally favourite channels here on CZcams, keep as you are🥳🥳
I just have to say, your fit and finish editing for youtube is inspiring to people novice or advanced.. Well played sir!
'Oh dear, Colin's mowing the lawn again. Honey, bring the kids inside."
Why to copy a comment
MF175mp I don’t see ur comment also this deserves more likes
@@smallenginekid6252 he copied the comment so I asked why. Exact same comment was posted 22 hours earlier than this.
Lol
I feel like this guy could actually revaluationize technology
direct the gas through water tank, thats how they filter the gas on an old wood gas vehicles.
Also cools the gas. Like a bong lol
Very cool video, but that tie in the shop has to go before you become part of your machinery.
@@abelvillarreal6488 - It's a safety tie.
Looking at my bong sitting over on my dresser, I was thinking the same thing
@@abelvillarreal6488 pffff collin is fully aware about that and he probably won't change it just because you don't like it 😅
Proof of Concept! Great job Colin! I really liked this video. These guys I heard on the radio the other day said you can run a car on a gasifier. You just showed me how! Thanks for all the cool videos
Man alive!!! Colin has flown over the coo coos nest.
“What IS IT Colin? And how does it work?” I love this man
Lol i readed this comment exactly when he said it
I think he was aiming for a meth kit and missed
ah, Colin creating a solution to a non existent problem.
This was actually how Germany fuled a lot of vehicles in the 40s and the war.
Well, gas goes bad after about 6 months, so in case of apocalypse, you would want to find a different way to power your engine.
In relations to what Colin wants to use it for, I wouldn’t say it’s a non-existing problem. For powering an apocalypse bunker wood as fuel, sound like the best long-term solution.
He’s already ready for the apocalypse and he will make even more things in it
@@jamesomen1602 *_Don't mention the war! I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it._*
The artist doesn't copy, the artist makes his own. He who draws the perfect circle for the king sends the most powerful message.
Man i love how you experiment with things, I can definitely say that I'm very lucky to have you making such awesome content and I want to thank you for that!
Mrs Collin: "Colin, you promised to mow the lawn this week." Three months later, Colin: "Now, I just need a better filter system..."
Man, that wife must be annoyed. One reason: NOISE. Second reason: CRAZINESS. Third reason: he don't do his chores, or severely delays them.
"What does it look like I'm doing!?"
I laughed when I read your comment because that is exactly how it is for my girl with me... As a matter of fact, at this very moment I am on day 4 on the Rock Cutter 9000 GTX Extreme... Harbor Freight has a tile saw for around $50. that would have had her cutting rocks 4 days ago but as ALWAYS, I can make her a better one for less .... Less is, well less is actually more most of the time and a lot more if you count the hours I end up putting in to make things better and or save money lol...
I didn't know Colinfurze could exist without a shirt and gray tie.
czcams.com/video/1WyypHkyxvo/video.html OMG I MET COLIN JUST NOW
@@alphawolfie1122 stfu
Who is Colin furze? All I see is a shirt and a tie? 🤔
When the tie comes off, things are getting dangerous...
I feel like he owns more than one shirt and grey tie
Unbelivible, giant congarulations for a 1850 styled wood gas powerd lawn mower!
I love it
11:05 Try and bubble the gas through a liquid like a water. This should catch most of the tar to avoid damaging the engine. The steam produced by burning the wood gas is actually not relevant to whether the wood is dry or not, but instead water vapour is produced when wood decomposes, which is what the gasifier gadget does, and it doesnt matter how dry the wood is because the water vapour will still be there. Again, bubbling the gas through water may fix this (haven't tried it myself so I have no idea) and hopefully clean the gas up substantially. I would like to see this project get revisited and tried again because I do have hope for this concept.
Well, good to know you still have just as much trouble with filtration when you build a gasifier the right way. Makes me feel pretty happy with my getting an engine to turn over with a bee smoker chamber and gallon paint can filter.
Instantly thought of your experiments when I read the title. You guys could share your ideas/discoveries.
I was gonna recommend your videos for the awesome wood gas storage you have to Colin. Looks like you are already here tho!
Hello good sir!
they key is insulating the chamber, allowing temps to get high enough to crack the tars. victorygasworks youtube has some good info
Proportion, sir, proportion.
(Big fire + little filter vs. Little fire + big filter)
Some how I have only just found this mans CZcams. Going binge watch now. Awesome stuff mate!
10:35 the happyness in ya voice is as awesome as the project itself! very good job!
"Slag Catchment Area" There's a few of those kind of places in my town.
Can’t stand them
hey,...just so i can avoid those places,..obvs. Where exactly?....just postcodes will do.?
Jonathan Barker Chav containment units are easy to spot, they are all handily labelled with the words "J D Wetherspoon". For the avoidance of any doubt, they also ensure at least two toothless and tattooed benefit claimants are posted right next to the entrance at all times, emitting continuous smoke signals and raucous, nonsensical sounds.
Spencer Wilton Hey! Don’t insult Wetherspoons! It’s a brilliant place for an evening!
@@ataphelicopter5734 No, No it isn't. Just, do some research into the owner. You'll never go there again.
This video got 18k views in 12 minutes. I guess that reflects on his pure talent
or a lot of people with long grass loads of wood and no petrol.....
@@colinfurze You might have a point there
here b4 this reach more likes
@@colinfurze or a lot of people who are free/got a lot of time
@@colinfurze how much are your Petro taxes?
Glad this guy still around
Great vid ! I think the first design could have been good enough.
The tar issue is because you filled the reactor with 100% wood. To make it work normally, either you have to fill the reactor with charcoal, from the grate until the air intake. And the rest you can add wood
Or if you fill with 100% wood, you have to wait until the wood below the air intake is converted into charcoal, in other words you have to pyrolyse the wood below the air intake, which produces a lot of water and tar during this period.
Once the wood is converted into charcoal, the gas will be good and clean, and you can turn on the engine !
When Colin's inventions don't work, he keeps building a new, bigger, more complicated versions of them until they work. Every. Time.
I don't think any inventions work first try.
He is like Thomas Edison never give up
@@danilasolovjovs8019 nah. Colin d9esnt pinch.
and thats how the steampunk era was born
A key quality to inventiveness is being stubborn
Great to hear you’re attacking the bunker with the wood powered generator great job mate
So glad I had better luck with my first gassifier build. My truck runs sweet on woodgas and gets me to work every day
Random person: How would you survive a zombie apocalypse
Colin: Yes
czcams.com/video/FllMDzRgJbM/video.html OMG THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN 2 DAYS LATER
czcams.com/video/1WyypHkyxvoH/video.htmlII COLIN I MET YOU JUST NOW
The hacksmith: Uno X4 card
im bored: czcams.com/video/ub82Xb1C8os/video.html
Let’s be honest, we all never imagine in our wildest dreams what this man can create !
If someday i see a Dolorean flying at 80mph im gonna know that its this man inside it with a safety tie on.
Looking forward to when you have the bunker powered by wood gas!! Ultimate prepper dream right there
Aw, Colin! I want to see more of this!!!!
The entire time watching this I was screaming 'just put a damn water scrubber on it!' should solve all the filtration issues and some of the gas temp problems.
But (if I understand you right) you'd need running water for it, wouldn't you?
@Milo S Of course you can do that but if you have a connected water pipe you could simply connect a cable and use an electric lawn mower.
The whole purpose of a gasoline lawn mower (or the new ones with batteries) is to use them freely without any cable or something like that laying around.
Let's see now, he has a:
Shead
Gasifier
Lawnmower
Safety Tie
I guess the next stage is the wearing of a flat cap and telling us of the glorys of the Victorian age of steam while working as a steeple jack.
Lmfao-
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It´s alive! IT'S ALIVE!!! But also really awesome!
Great stuff Colin and what a wonderful shop you've got there 😍
Use grass as fuel
“I used the grass to mow the grass”
great idea
I think goats and sheep work on that sort of technology ;) .
@@CNCmachiningisfun Colin doesn't do Biotech
yet.
I don’t think grass clippings create a flammable gas
john well what will he do with all of his grass clippings?
Filtering the gas trough a saturated saline solution would dry the gas, cool it and remove any water soluble impurity, then a activated charcoal filter will remove tar. Steel wool in a copper pipe should work great as a distiller for heavy stuff coming directly from the burner, but would require frequent maintenance. Impressive how much energy there is in wood.
This is awesome. You could try running your tubing through a reservoir of cold or liquid to cool the gas and cause the tar to accumulate faster before it makes it into the engine while having a vertical run before entering the engine manifold. If it works, it could help keep the tar build up out of the engine but it will just be building up in the coil windings that run through the water. Maybe make that part quickly interchangeable so you can place a new piece while setting the other in solvent to remove tar build up.
I wonder if it would be possible to skip the coil windings through water all together and figure out how to possibly use the cooling liquid itself as a filter. Possibly a plexiiglass reservoir filled with cold water which has the inlet of wood gas at the bottom of the reservoir and the outlet with the cleaner air to the engine, at the top of the container. I would figure that the colder the water, the better the coagulation and build up of tar there would be, therefore better filtration. It would be a good experiment to see if adding soap to the filter water would affect filtration.
Nice.
Next, plz install a stirling engine on the mower, that runs with wood.
This is the most steampunk thing that doesn't run on steam I've ever seen
Technology Boy lol
@Technology Boy smokepunk
Technology Boy woosh
If MacGyver had a British fling, Colin would be the outcome.
I was thinking the same thing lol.
More like a British Doc Brown
we had heath Robinson long before mqcgyver was a thing
Its more like if Michael reeves and the hack Smith created a clone of the themselves mixed but raised in London
@@carpetsomething you beat me to it!
Cant wait to see the next version of this . Hilarious stuff , but it could be a life saver is the power is out.
just ran into your channel. really cool video! i thought this would be a steam power lawn mower (i enjoy watching steam power retrofitted machines) when i first saw the thumbnail, but this turned out to be a really cool concept. Great work!
5:42 that's a genius practical solution to marking a cut like that!
I’m not sure if they’re called the same thing for metal fabricating, but for woodworking like trim work the same concept is used in, “contour gauges”
Not even a year has passed since TeamTrees
Colin:
*"time to burn them to mow my lawn!"*
I have a neighbour who is called Colin
Tor Mentor aight
Tor Mentor ok
Tor Mentor excellent
What if it's the tree he shoved through his house last christmas
Finally. A sustainable efficient fast way to mow lawns
This is a bit good engineering and crazy at the same time. I love it. I can see myself mowing my lawn with such a contraption..
Fire brigade turns up : what’s all the smoke
Colin: just mowing me lawn
03:00 You know he's a fabricator when he refers to wood ash as slag xD
The word you are looking for is _engineer!_
I thought he was talking about my ex Mrs 🤣🤣
@@olmostgudinaf8100 Well true, but he's a fabricator too :D
ash is ash even when its a liquid, when ash melts and forms glass like structure is called slag
3 long years I've been waiting for the bunker sequel to this project...
The world is a better place because people like Colin exist in it. Thank you
When Colin needs to mow his lawn and needs to upload a video
you know thats my thinking lol
colinfurze hi
@@colinfurze You should look up @projectfarm, he's got some ideas that'll have you thinking.
I love to see Colin's Plumbing background shine through in his fantastic metal working skills.
It's so fun looking at this video and seeing the crane above the hatch to the underground tunnel. You also see the wooden beam the carpet is screwed to. Nobody had any idea what was going on lol
Keep up the great work Colin lovin it mate
trial and error makes for great content!
youtube watches videos on youtube?
thats crazy
lol youtube watching colin lmao
Fix your site
it's a bogus account lmao
I’m Amazed how Colin hasn’t aged in Years
It's all clever CGI
@@BeardedFrog no it's not he took care of his skin, not like you, your skin looks like my duster full of dust.
ikr
he secretly filmed all these years ago and just releasing them slowly, in reality he's an old man just biding his time
I was thinking the opposite. He’s definitely looking a bit seasoned.
Haven't watched the video, never heard of the channel before, I just read "wood powers lawn mower". No question asker I'm now subscribe and looking forward for more.
Love your taste in Welding Helmets and Jackets!
*STEP 2:* Make it grass powered insted of wood powered.
Collect clippings. Dehydrate. Pelletize.
Next project: wood powered chainsaw
yes that would be nice
you already know he's serious building the craft when he took off his polo and tie 😁
Legend man. Well done Colin
"What do you want to be when you grow up, young Colin?" "A lunatic"
I literally got an ad about a book about wood gas when watching this video haha
@potxman007 This is what cookies do to you lol
Me too
It's sponsored!
Same, kek
Imagine being this guys neighbor and seeing him roll that thing out onto his lawn.
I think this guy's neighbour has seen weirder stuff than a mower with some plumbing on top. He build a giant fan-powered 360 degree swing in that same garden (along with, you know, hoverbikes and a swimming pool in a car and a flamethrower moped and several pulsejets and all that other stuff)
PKMartin his other neighbor
I'd love it....my current neighbor is old bat who's little dog shits in my lawn and she never picks it up.
Your neighbours must think you are a madman. Good work!
First I've seen your channel, LOVE IT!
Ah man, you missed it! It should run off grass, not wood!
It would be a self-sustaining, self-feeding system! 😂
Would take more energy to take out the water of the grass than you get from the grass I imagine.
It wouldn't be as useful as dry wood
The higher the moisture content
The less it produces gas and the more it produces unwanted tar and vice versa
And if it can also replicate, you have a sheep
@@wasserdrucker6227 beat me to it but was thinking goat.
@@Tua_B MindBlown!
Nobody:
Furze: "Check out this pinball machine, powered by my new underground tokamak fusion reactor, but more on that next video."
somehow i knew one of the top comments would be a "nobody:" comment
@@archiebrew8184 Soz fam
This guy never runs out of refreshing crazy ideas ^^
Colin, you can collect the woodgas into a plastic trashbag then run a hose from it to small powertools like string trimmers, chainsaws etc.
I've seen old pictures from ww2 of a bus with a huge bag of woodgas on the roof. Cool.
It would be cool if you could run a car off anhydrous ammonia too.
Looks like a solid system. I don’t know how much pressure that gas afire puts out but I suggest a water gas cleaner to remove the tar.
what is a water gas cleaner? i mean if you pump gas through water it gets cooled but not cleaned 🤔
@@dritter7051 Yeah, plus you'll add unwanted water vapor to the gas AND you'll dissolve some of the volatile hydrocarbons that you want to burn into the water. Neither of which you want to do. The wood gas needs to stay far, far away from additional moisture, so you're looking at an intercooler/radiator design. Can't be aluminium either, the wood gas will corrode that.
David Ritter the idea is that as the gas bubbles through the water it transfers certain contaminants into the water. (In this case hopefully tar)
On smelters, tar is cleaned from the gas by passing through wet venturi throats and cyclones
@@maclayyc True, but that gas isn't subsequently burned in a reciprocating piston engine for power.