Posted by somebody on July 28, 2007, 10:56 am
I'm working to clear the margins of a pasture, and starting to do some
scrub thinning within my forested areas, and ending up with some
good-sized brush piles. The common solution around here seems to be
to wait for a wet day or the fall, and burn the piles. I don't have a
problem doing that if I have to, but I look at all that potential fuel
and wonder if there is any simple and practical method of getting some
useful work out of them.
Chipping it to make a useable fuel or mulch would seem to require more
energy for the chipper, and labor. For the sporadic use, I guess a
wood fired kiln might be an option, but I'm looking for other ideas.
Any suggestions?
Posted by BobG on July 28, 2007, 1:32 pm
On Jul 28, 10:56?am, someb...@somewhere.com wrote:
>wonder if there is any simple and practical method of getting some useful work
out of them.
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Lots of folks think converting cellulose to ethanol will be the way we
run our cars soon. Farmers have been putting cow poop and other
organic stuff in methane digesters... sealed tanks that let the
anerobic bacteria eat the cellulose and poop out methane. When the
pressure builds up to a useful level, it can be use to heat the barn
like propane. You need two digesters... one to use while the other one
is fermenting or whatever its called. Its a batch process.
Posted by GeWart on July 28, 2007, 11:12 pm
Leave the brush pile there for the rabbits and other small creatures. It
will be useful for years.
Then you can burn it.
Posted by Ulysses on July 29, 2007, 2:01 pm
> I'm working to clear the margins of a pasture, and starting to do some
> scrub thinning within my forested areas, and ending up with some
> good-sized brush piles. The common solution around here seems to be
> to wait for a wet day or the fall, and burn the piles. I don't have a
> problem doing that if I have to, but I look at all that potential fuel
> and wonder if there is any simple and practical method of getting some
> useful work out of them.
> Chipping it to make a useable fuel or mulch would seem to require more
> energy for the chipper, and labor. For the sporadic use, I guess a
> wood fired kiln might be an option, but I'm looking for other ideas.
> Any suggestions?
You could build a wood gasifier and use it to run a generator that could run
a chipper that would make fuel for the generator. Mother Earh News had a
truck a while back that they had running from stuff the found growing along
the road.
Try searching for "woodgas", "wood gasifier", "producer gas", and "biomass."
Posted by Arnold Walker on July 30, 2007, 2:04 pm
>> I'm working to clear the margins of a pasture, and starting to do some
>> scrub thinning within my forested areas, and ending up with some
>> good-sized brush piles. The common solution around here seems to be
>> to wait for a wet day or the fall, and burn the piles. I don't have a
>> problem doing that if I have to, but I look at all that potential fuel
>> and wonder if there is any simple and practical method of getting some
>> useful work out of them.
>>
>> Chipping it to make a useable fuel or mulch would seem to require more
>> energy for the chipper, and labor. For the sporadic use, I guess a
>> wood fired kiln might be an option, but I'm looking for other ideas.
>> Any suggestions?
> You could build a wood gasifier and use it to run a generator that could
> run
> a chipper that would make fuel for the generator. Mother Earh News had a
> truck a while back that they had running from stuff the found growing
> along
> the road.
> Try searching for "woodgas", "wood gasifier", "producer gas", and
> "biomass."
Many of the steamplants including my own private unit uses a gasifier ...
cleaner burn and improved burn.
Methane digester will work also but vegetable matter always takes longer to
digest,especially wood or cellose.
Than animal mature....
>
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