A Model A that Runs on Wood?!?! Gasification modification to a 1929 Ford Tudor
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2022
- Model A's are tough vehicles that could run on most anything including charcoal. This video shows a vintage setup that allowed an otherwise stock Model A engine to run on a flammable gas produced by burning charcoal. Sometimes called gasification or gasogen this process has been used worldwide almost as long as the automobile has been around.
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These were videly used in Finland during the WW2 era, aprox. 25 000 units in in total. The system was called häkäpönttö "carbom monoxide can", and they were usually Imbert systems which were built in Finland by lisence...
Replication imberts are still popular designs with woodgassers. I myself chose to build a Wayne Keith, and it sure is fun to drive on wood!
I know that cars can run on steam, hydrogen, propane, moonshine, drip gas from gas wells, and kerosene but never have I known that a car was made with tge option to burn wood. That's so insanely cool.
I live 10 mins from the collection in this you can see a lot more crazy cars too there
Hell it's a popular option for me today 😂 daily drive a woodgas truck and building another one right now. Beats the hell out of "Putin's price hike"
I've made a few gasifiers. My little 1986 Mazda B2000 ran decent on lump charcoal fuel.
I had seen an old truck set up for this in the mid '50s (but running on gasoline) and again in the late '60s in storage with several other vehicles owned but not restored by a "collector". How-to info was published in The Mother Earth News in the early-mid '70s.
And the technology has come a long ways even since then thanks to Wayne Keith and a few others. I bought his book to build my first gasifier truck, best 50$ book I have ever bought it has saved me thousands of dollars with these fuel prices
@@BigBeavrSlayer Hold up now Marcus, You use it right now? In a late model vehicle? Like Obd2, fuel injected, ecm, pcm etc type vehicle?
@@jasonchristopher2977 the first truck I built that I daily drive right now is carbureted the one I am building right now is a 1996 OBD2
@@BigBeavrSlayer My hats off to you sir. Idk how you did it, after watching the guy on the chevy luv with all tge huge tanks and that, I know it's not that crazy now prolly but still. WOW. It'd be alot easier and nicer to have a start on gas and drive then switch over etc. He had to use fan, then plug, adjust air, etc then finally got her going. I'm really interested by this. Just such a easy solution to a hard problem. Not easy in easy to make, get to work but easy to say What would be cheap to use for fuel? A fella used plastic for fuel before. If this app would STOP deleting my saved videos from a decade now, I could tell u his name or channel etc.
@@jasonchristopher2977 more then likely I have seen the videos you mean, I have spent several years researching alternative fuels and plastic pyrolosis I delved into a long time ago. Yes it works to make a low grade kerosene/diesel like substitute but you are left with a molten pile of waste that isn't the easiest thing to get rid of. The yield is small in a batch and time VS outcome of energy production didn't pan out so I kept looking. I arrived at woodgas due to minimal energy input from me for maximum shaft to wheel spinning power, while gaining my own fuel independence. It is actually very simple to do, the system I settled on is the Wayne Keith design gasifier and yes there are several large components to the system but it is designed around using the highest moisture content of wood which living in the pacific northwest is a year round problem. Mr teslonian.....yes his is a functioning system, but it is a gimmick, a click bait look at me add revenue maker. There is a reason he doesn't allow comments or discussion on his videos he was called out for his misdeads and putting a poor face to woodgas for actual wood to power.
In my Toyota I fire up on gasoline and switch over to woodgas it is very simple I have several videos showing exactly how I do it. The gasifier can be built much smaller and simpler, but this is what I choose to is because it matches the wet fuel wood I use the best. A char gas generator can be made 1/3rd the size of my system and do the same thing, but my ability to use raw wood for fuel is more useful to me then making charcoal for fuel. The upside is the biochar remnants that I clean out of my truck weekly is perfect fuel for a charcoal gasifier, but I instead recycle it back through the gasifier which makes even better quality of gas the just straight wood chunks
I remember seeing a wood gas generator on an antique car at the Forney museum of transportation in Denver. I don't remember if it was a Model A.
I've heard of these! Thank you for the discription of how they worked!
Thanks! We had heard of them as well but had never seen one. The display at the museum was very helpful in understanding the process.
I had a hard time learning to drive on wood with all sorts of gauges and indicators, and these guys back in the day did it on the fly with no instruments. Very impressive
Great videos thank you!
Glad you like them!
Awesome!
Outstanding!
Glad you like it!
As interesting as the car is, I was taken by the paint color. That's beautiful! I could never bring myself to repaint my Dad's 1931 Model A Town Sedan from its Black with red pin stripe. But if I did, that green would be my choice.
My dad use to talk about this process... Some cars carried this equipment on a trailer pulled behind the car...
Some guys still build on a trailer so they can pass local Inspection, I just built mine in the bed of my truck and no one seems to notice
The model A Club of Norway has in its posession a Model AA truck that has this kind of fuel system.During WW2 only vehilcles used to transport goods,ambulances and some buses were allowed and the supply of gas was scarce so many of these trucks and buses ran on this kind of fuel.The wood used for this here was alder and the people of Norway gave the fuel the name "Knott"
Thanks for the comment! When doing research for this video we found a lot of images from Norway that featured this modification, including a couple AA's.
Still a lot of woodgas history around Norway and Sweden, I know several guys still operating gasifieres up to today, daily driver cars and trucks. Some of them my mentors into building my own gasifier truck last year
Those license plates come from the Balearic Islands (P.M.: Palma de Mallorca).
This "gasógeno" was built in Barcelona, an urban area where wood was not abundant, thus they used as fuel everything that could burn, from old furniture to a worn pair of espadrilles.
Thank you for sharing!
I was aware of 'holzbrenner' VWs from reading magazines, but have never seen a video of ANY vehicle so equipped. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Do a quick CZcams search, woodgassers are popping up like crazy with fuel prices. Glad I got into it last year, saving thousands of dollars driving on wood
@@BigBeavrSlayer Ok I've read all your comments and you got me hook line and sinker. What kind and year automobile do you have this system in?
@@jasonchristopher2977 currently I have a 1982 Toyota pickup with a small block Chevy V8 manual transmission that was my first truck that I built I have about 180 videos about wood gas on my channel I am currently building my second truck a 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 V10 4 wheel drive that is nearing completion by the day
Interesting video, thank you for posting it!
However, it begs one question. When running the car on charcoal, does the museum use Kingsford?
Not exactly that type of charcoal, but I get the pun and I laughed 😂
With the high price of gasoline these days, people will be experimenting with such technologies again.
I got into it when gas hit 2.50/gallon, best decision I ever made I have saved thousands in the last few months alone
@@BigBeavrSlayer Good for you. I just wonder if one could get away with it these days because of the pollution requirements on vehicles. There is a video on this platform where a guy runs his generator on water by way of electrolysis. Stanely Meyer had a set up to run his car on water, but he mysteriously died. Perhaps electrolysis of water would be a more practical modern-day solution. The product of H2 +O+ oxygen from the air is water vapor, totally nonpolluting.
@@georgestreicher252 woodgas will pass California clean air emissions, it's super environment friendly. But the oil mongers don't want you to know that 😉 neither do the guys pushing electric cars on everyone
Is Paris Burning. The cars ran on cooking gas.
That was another system also used in Australia during the 1930's a canvas bag filled with town gas tied to the roof with a pipe down into the engine bay.
@@raygale4198 cooking gas has to be compressed like LNG to fit in tanks.
@@stanleybest8833 Different times, different systems. Cooking, coal gas or natural gas CAN be compressed for storage in high pressure tanks with much greater storage efficiency, it can also be stored and used in low pressure canvas bags and 'drafted' or sucked into the engine by the engines own induction vaccum. Very inefficient as far as storage volume, but no gas compressor, high pressure tank and pipework, regulators are needed. This was during the 1930's and 40's during WW2 and the depression era.