I like how you turned the inner can upside down. Can you get the same effect by just putting on that lid that comes with it? This is the simplest method I have found thus far. Also, have you tried to put a lid on the outer barrel and leave just a small opening on top to make it hotter by conserving heat and thus using less scrap wood to burn? I'm trying to be more efficient with the pollution I am going to create by doing this. Thanks in advance.
Great video! Definitely more effective than just picking charcoal out of old campfires. If you don't know, you can look through your old campfire for wood that is 'charred', and look for shiny bits. That shiny charred wood, is charcoal!
Greetings Sir, I wanted to comment on the above video. It was well presented, very informative as well as humorous. Getting a 35 gal. and 55 gal. drum to start my charcoal production. Building a solid fuel forge for bladesmithing. This is what I was looking for! Many thanks!
Before you put wood ashes or bio char in your garden soil you check the soil PH. Bio char and wood ashes are very alkaline. If you have neutral PH (7.0) and add bio char it will raise the alkalinity. If you have acidic soil then it will benefit from wood ash or bio char appending. If you already have alkaline soil then you are damaging the soil. Get a PH meter and check before adding anything to your soil that affects PH. Most garden variety vegetables prefer slightly acidic soil. (6.2 to 6.5 PH) Blue berries love very acidic soil. If your soil is too alkaline the plant cannot take up nutrients from the soil and will suffer. Great video though making bio char, or as I call it, charcoal.
That's awesome! I've seen charcoal made but it was a way harder process. You made that looks super simple for sure. Thanks for showing us this great tip.
That's because people over think it, it's actually a really simple process, that anyone can do. This is a blessing to all pyromaniacs that love fire and burning things in a controlled space, without affecting someone else. 😉👍
The Biochar was found mixed with pottery chards to some depth that accumulated over a long time. I think clay chamber pots were used to store waste and then charcoal was used to control odor after use. It was then dumped adjacent to a village low spot that would expand the area for future housing. This was above ground level to keep dry in the rainforest., plus the trails or roads were also raised. Where did these people go --they died out from old world diseases that they had no immunities to. They had maybe a few survivors from one disease, but if your hit with three or four at once then it is game over. The Spanish were on the gulf side and were short of supplies, so a group went out from the Caribbean area toward the Pacific and said they met a very large population along their travels. Others went to see later and found no habitation, only rain forest. There is now an effort to study these lost peoples, for their roads and towns are throughout the rainforest .
Thank you Brad! I'm gonna make some of that bio char! I've always seen positive results from throwing fire-pit ashes into my garden. Mixing with fertilizer might produce the same results as bio char.
Ash has little carbon in it because it's been burned up. You need to cook it in the absence of oxygen. The carbon soaks up fertilizer and water, and it will last for hundreds of years (the carbon that is).
Pull out all of the big pieces and use it for cooking. Separate the ash from the small pieces and use the ash to make lye. The smaller pieces I just pour in the compost to help make biochar for my soil
Is the wood burned in 55 gal charcoal also or only the wood that was burned in center barrel made into charcoal? Also ratio of tea to charcoal is? Thanks
for example can you just use natural hardwood charcoal like straight from the campfire for plants as well no fancy process? is it still safe for the plant?
Hi Brad, I volunteer when able at a local woodland skills charity and the first task each day in the summer is making two drums of charcoal. This we sell to a nearby Glamping operator who prefers it to the shop bought. We pack all the olds and ends from coppicing etc into 55 gall drum but on top of woodshavings and small stuff. We fill the drum getting smaller towards the top until the lid doesn't fit by about 6 inches.We sit the drum on bricks above newspaper heaped with shaving and light the paper. The fire gets drawn up inside through holes in the drum base and we leave it to burn down. Once the smoke goes from white to blue we clamp the lid on and kick the bricks out. This gets left until next time, usually 1 week. We get about 2/3 of a drum of usable charcoal but I wonder if your method is more efficient because some of the wood we pack in is consumed as fuel. We sieve the charcoal and sell the small bits and powder for biochar. I soak it in a bucket with chicken poo and dig it into our veg garden. Not brilliant this year cos the slugs ate most everything. Looking for Indian Runner ducks for 2017 slug patrol. Good luck. Lloyd and Donna.
Hope you see this. I know it's an old video but I'm wondeing if you had to keep feeding the outer drum and what if you find r you find the charcoal is not completely cooked can you redo? Also is green wood ok for both the inner and outer chambers?
I make charcoal in a similar way. an old grease barrel fits well inside the 55gal drum.if you cut a piece of chimney pipe and attach it to the 55gal lid it drafts really well and no smoke. will burn hotter as well.
This was great. But I wish you would of flipped that barrel over so we could see the amount of ash. Did you have alot? Would you think placing a lid partially on top with reduce some of the air?
Simple,practico,bajo costo para obtener carbon de leña,brillante,gracias por su gran video. En lugar de almacenar leña se puede tener carbon de buena calidad para la parrilla y a un precio razonable.
awesome nice share, the tree we took down this year got turned into fertilizer for the garden also. nice historical factoids :) thanks alot for sharing hope you and your family have a great week ahead
Im looking into making briquettes and pressed charcoal logs? Do you think i can you fill the inner chamber with leaves, pine cones, pine needles and sawdust for the same charcoal dust to be used in making briquettes? what about green grass scraps and green leaves will that work too. I did see carboard being burned like this barrel in barrel that was used in briquettes.
There is a small amount of pressure that builds up, and then it kind of burps out Colma that is what actually is burning only the gas. That’s why the carbon is left. Call there is never been enough to make it jump or rattle or shoot out or anything like that
Making batteries with this step of charcoal is also a good option. Get a plastic 55 gallon drumand make a giant battery. If you use gasification to run a generator you can also charge your battery on the same wood you make into charcoal.
Which bucket had the holes in it? Is there a fire underneath? Are there any other preparations than: fill one bucket, Center, build fire around, burn? A written instruction page with details would be helpful.
Brad, again my thanks, but could you inform me as to exactly HOW you use it. Pea sized I've got, what concentration of worm casing to water to charcoal? Thanks for your kind assistance. If you can't, I understand. Again, thanks.
I was hoping to see how you would get the inner drum out without mixing the burned wood and charcoal. Do you just tip over the big one completely and hope the inner one doesn't catch all the burned wood pieces from the bigger drum?
So if you use it as bio-char how much do you spread over your garden? Is it kinda like using a rotary spreader and just throwing it out there...or does it work better as a solid layer?
I did this yesterday and it turned out perfect, I now have a good supply of lump charcoal that literally cost me the price of a match. Thanks for the idea.
Hello thank u for makin dis vid Im tryin to make sugar cane charcoal for a project So I was wondering if I could use the same technique as shown in the video with sugarcane?
Love it but how do you know for sure the burn is done? A few hours is not telling me precisely when to stop the burn or what happens to indicate termination.
There's a much more efficient way to make charcoal without wasting so much wood for the fire. Dig trench, lay a pipe in for air, fill the whole with wood, start a fire on top, once it takes off cover the hole with sheet metal, cover metal with dirt, let burn for a few hours, then remove or cover the pipe and let it cool overnight, uncover, and remover charcoal. You can also make the hole as wide, long, or deep as you want so your not confined to a small barrel.
Thanks for the info, Brad. I am not sure if it is worth making charcoal for blacksmithing, but I was thinking I would give it a try. Normally, I just burn wood chunks in the coal fordge, but Charcoal may be better... Worth a try... Thanks for the video...OH, I subbed and Liked it...
You can buy bags of lump charcoal at the store. Not sure how much it would cost. I have been a Blacksmith now on 25 years and have used everything from dry cow dung to charcoal. If you're going to use charcoal, then hard wood charcoal is the best. Take care and wish you luck
So I’m doing research on the benefits and drawbacks of charcoal. I heard about anthracite coal that you can buy at the local farm supply store. Typically used in shop stoves but some people have high efficient stoves that burn anthracite to heat their homes. But I found it’s $10 for a 20 lb bag I think it was? I am trying to determine if charcoal has similar properties to actual coal. Anthracite is the premium type of mined coal because it has almost no spot, ash or tar. It’s almost pure carbon. I don’t expect charcoal made in this way to have the same purity as anthracite. I have read that charcoal burns hotter and longer than wood. It is impervious to termites and rot. It can get wet and as long as it’s properly dried out. It’ll burn just fine. It won’t dry out like firewood if left too long. No seasoning needed. I’m not trying to make too many crazy claims but it seems charcoal is an overall superior product. I’m wanting to take the pallets from work and break them down and turn them into charcoal. Actual firewood cost money and I don’t have many on my land. The ones I do have are either fruit trees or help with privacy from the highway. So they’re there to stay. I am curious if charcoal can be burned directly in a standard wood stove or if I need special stove for charcoal/coal.
Hey pretty cool video, you have a real nice friendly approachable attitude. I had a question when using fertilizer Can you use manure or compost and manure?
+Homestead Dad No the tight fitting lid would make the heated gases inside explode. You have to allow the gases to vent. I have seen holes poked in empty paint cans and other methods, but I like this one as I can make a lot at a time.
Nice technique for making charcoal. It's my understanding that activated charcoal, that is, charcoal that has been exposed to steam has a tremendous amount of hollow surface areas to capture nutrients. 1 gram of activated charcoal has the same amount of surface area as a football field.
Charcoal forms when you heat up wood but restrict access to oxygen in the air. It forces all of the big compounds like cellulose to reduce basically into water vapor, CO/CO2, and solid carbon (this is why a charcoal fire is hotter and cleaner than plain wood). Having holes in the inner barrel would let air in and the wood would just burn normally.
@@Kizarat Its not combusting, just heating up enough to break down big complex molecules into regular carbon and some various gases. Also, the place where the inner barrel rests on the outer barrel isn't airtight, so gas can escape there.
Thanks a ton for this one!! Am in great position of cutting-down parts of an Oak's canopy (to allow more light to my bonsai garden, & to test some more advanced tree-limb-rigging techniques for work/hone my skills!) and had been building a sizeable pile of waste that, in FL, was going to be a PITB to process in a good&simple way - til I found the aluminum-foundry videos and became set on making a slingshot and a real prototype of an arborist tool I'd been envisioning, now I NEED good charcoal to maximize my lil 'foundry/forge', and've got the patience & Oak-wood-surplus to make all the charcoal I'll need!! Is there any other term besides Homesteading that's used analogously? Odd Q I know but just curious! I keep finding it's crossed-over way too much between "home McGuyvering" (more advanced) and basic "I grew a tomato" self-sufficiencies, very vague but I want to find a term, if it exists, for the more-advanced "homesteading" (seems the next step is "survivalist"/"doomsdayer" w/o any in-between area, if that makes sense!)
Dude! You are hilarious .... inoculation! LOVED your vid:)! Highly entertaining and informative sir... Scientist and archaeology interchangeable for shore! It takes on to know one right:) (I am from the east coast in Canada so that for shore statement works here haha)... quick question, any chance you can use an indoor fireplace leftovers (or some other way to create the barrel effect) to use achieve a charcoal grade that could be used as precusor to create activated charcoal ... I am interested the ulcer curing and other medicinal cleansing properties. I know that char from the fire is the main ingredient, would love to be able to achieve in a stove that many of us here in Nova Scotia are lucky enough to have (or to have a friend with one:)! txs Cora
The reason the little drum was open on the bottom was so that the wood gasses escaping increase the heat tremendously as they come out of the target charcoal and begin to burn in the outer ring of fuel wood in the big drum.
saw out a 6 or 8 inch square at bottom of larger barrel leaving one side to open and close so too add your ignition after wood or trash is added to burn.this is much more effective than many small holes as it burn faster hotter with more draft,better used on a rainy day.
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I like how you turned the inner can upside down. Can you get the same effect by just putting on that lid that comes with it? This is the simplest method I have found thus far. Also, have you tried to put a lid on the outer barrel and leave just a small opening on top to make it hotter by conserving heat and thus using less scrap wood to burn? I'm trying to be more efficient with the pollution I am going to create by doing this. Thanks in advance.
Great video! Definitely more effective than just picking charcoal out of old campfires.
If you don't know, you can look through your old campfire for wood that is 'charred', and look for shiny bits. That shiny charred wood, is charcoal!
Greetings Sir,
I wanted to comment on the above video. It was well presented, very informative as well as humorous. Getting a 35 gal. and 55 gal. drum to start my charcoal production. Building a solid fuel forge for bladesmithing. This is what I was looking for!
Many thanks!
Isn't RUclips the most amazing resource! Played this video twice, built my retort and about to put flame to the process. Peace n luv from the UK.
Yadda yadda yippy Skippy, might use that line as well.
Please don't.
This was the best charcoal tutorial I found! Thank you!
Before you put wood ashes or bio char in your garden soil you check the soil PH. Bio char and wood ashes are very alkaline. If you have neutral PH (7.0) and add bio char it will raise the alkalinity. If you have acidic soil then it will benefit from wood ash or bio char appending. If you already have alkaline soil then you are damaging the soil. Get a PH meter and check before adding anything to your soil that affects PH. Most garden variety vegetables prefer slightly acidic soil. (6.2 to 6.5 PH) Blue berries love very acidic soil.
If your soil is too alkaline the plant cannot take up nutrients from the soil and will suffer.
Great video though making bio char, or as I call it, charcoal.
That's cool man, I been wanting to make my own charcoal for a while now,
So easy...
That's awesome! I've seen charcoal made but it was a way harder process. You made that looks super simple for sure. Thanks for showing us this great tip.
That's because people over think it, it's actually a really simple process, that anyone can do. This is a blessing to all pyromaniacs that love fire and burning things in a controlled space, without affecting someone else. 😉👍
Does the small barrel need exhaust vent holes or can it be completely sealed?
I'm curious about that as well.
The best video on charcoal, period.
I have never heard of this, I tried it and man did it work
I know this is an old comment, but when you flipped over the smaller container the inside was filled with ready to use charcoal?
@@carlg7190It was filled with hardwood to make charcoal
How does the wood inside the inner burn chamber turn to charcoal without the fire touching it??
Much GRADITUDE, Will be combinding my wabbit waste 'tea' to use as organic fertilizer! YOU have the most simplistic method on RUclips!!!! YOU ROCK!!!
The Biochar was found mixed with pottery chards to some depth that accumulated over a long time. I think clay chamber pots were used to store waste and then charcoal was used to control odor after use. It was then dumped adjacent to a village low spot that would expand the area for future housing. This was above ground level to keep dry in the rainforest., plus the trails or roads were also raised.
Where did these people go --they died out from old world diseases that they had no immunities to. They had maybe a few survivors from one disease, but if your hit with three or four at once then it is game over. The Spanish were on the gulf side and were short of supplies, so a group went out from the Caribbean area toward the Pacific and said they met a very large population along their travels. Others went to see later and found no habitation, only rain forest.
There is now an effort to study these lost peoples, for their roads and towns are throughout the rainforest .
Thank you! Best diy charcoal video I’ve found.
Thank you Brad! I'm gonna make some of that bio char! I've always seen positive results from throwing fire-pit ashes into my garden. Mixing with fertilizer might produce the same results as bio char.
Ash has little carbon in it because it's been burned up. You need to cook it in the absence of oxygen. The carbon soaks up fertilizer and water, and it will last for hundreds of years (the carbon that is).
Pull out all of the big pieces and use it for cooking. Separate the ash from the small pieces and use the ash to make lye. The smaller pieces I just pour in the compost to help make biochar for my soil
Wow I appreciate your video. Pleasant personality and simple straightforward instructions. You’ve got a follower sir!
This is new to me. Never seen it done this way. That's great. Thanks for sharing
Is the wood burned in 55 gal charcoal also or only the wood that was burned in center barrel made into charcoal? Also ratio of tea to charcoal is? Thanks
for example can you just use natural hardwood charcoal like straight from the campfire for plants as well no fancy process? is it still safe for the plant?
Awesome idea - now I don't have to buy charcoal for my forge or my pit or my garden!!! Thanks from Texas........
Doesn't the smaller barrel need a hole for the gases to vent?
Hi Brad,
I volunteer when able at a local woodland skills charity and the first task each day in the summer is making two drums of charcoal. This we sell to a nearby Glamping operator who prefers it to the shop bought. We pack all the olds and ends from coppicing etc into 55 gall drum but on top of woodshavings and small stuff. We fill the drum getting smaller towards the top until the lid doesn't fit by about 6 inches.We sit the drum on bricks above newspaper heaped with shaving and light the paper. The fire gets drawn up inside through holes in the drum base and we leave it to burn down. Once the smoke goes from white to blue we clamp the lid on and kick the bricks out. This gets left until next time, usually 1 week. We get about 2/3 of a drum of usable charcoal but I wonder if your method is more efficient because some of the wood we pack in is consumed as fuel. We sieve the charcoal and sell the small bits and powder for biochar. I soak it in a bucket with chicken poo and dig it into our veg garden. Not brilliant this year cos the slugs ate most everything. Looking for Indian Runner ducks for 2017 slug patrol. Good luck.
Lloyd and Donna.
What ever gets the job done, right?
I think your method is more efficient but it's hard enough finding the outer let alone the inner.
This is the best application on this subject on RUclips, well done 👍
Do you have any holes in your smaller drum with the hard wood in it? I have to find a 20-30 gallon barrel somewhere
I think it would still work- if they are small...
Hope you see this. I know it's an old video but I'm wondeing if you had to keep feeding the outer drum and what if you find r you find the charcoal is not completely cooked can you redo? Also is green wood ok for both the inner and outer chambers?
I make charcoal in a similar way. an old grease barrel fits well inside the 55gal drum.if you cut a piece of chimney pipe and attach it to the 55gal lid it drafts really well and no smoke. will burn hotter as well.
Great extra tip! Also do you need a hole in the small barrel?
Do you need to put holes in the smaller inner barrel , to let gases escape?
@@waffle_chair9269I see people put the smaller Barrell inside the barrel upside down and does not appear to be any holes in them
This was great. But I wish you would of flipped that barrel over so we could see the amount of ash. Did you have alot? Would you think placing a lid partially on top with reduce some of the air?
Excellent ... going to use the COVID shutdown time to make our own charcoal this year. Also like the biochar idea. Thanks!
Doesn’t the inner barrel need any holes too, to let the gases escape?
Makes the most common sense!
THANKS! 👍
how does gas and pressure escape the inner barrel?.. is there a venting hole?
Put "Bio-Char" in title....
most videos don't show how to make the charcoal.
Dude this sounds good keep half for my smoker and half for my veggies.
Simple,practico,bajo costo para obtener carbon de leña,brillante,gracias por su gran video. En lugar de almacenar leña se puede tener carbon de buena calidad para la parrilla y a un precio razonable.
Did you drill any holes in the inner barrel? Wondering how the inner wood has escapes the inner barrel.
awesome nice share, the tree we took down this year got turned into fertilizer for the garden also. nice historical factoids :) thanks alot for sharing hope you and your family have a great week ahead
Im looking into making briquettes and pressed charcoal logs? Do you think i can you fill the inner chamber with leaves, pine cones, pine needles and sawdust for the same charcoal dust to be used in making briquettes? what about green grass scraps and green leaves will that work too. I did see carboard being burned like this barrel in barrel that was used in briquettes.
Hi Brad, will there be pressure in the small barrel due to the heat that may cause it to expand or shoot out of the large drum?
There is a small amount of pressure that builds up, and then it kind of burps out Colma that is what actually is burning only the gas. That’s why the carbon is left. Call there is never been enough to make it jump or rattle or shoot out or anything like that
I assume the wood gas escapes from the small gaps between the rim of the inner barrel and the ground?
Should these be food grade barrels?
You soak and then you dry it out? And then use as needed?
Yes, or you can use it as wet as well.
Can u tell what types of wood to use to make charcoal .. can u use this to make woodgas
Thanks for sharing the amazing video of yours. Stay safe & God bless you and family.
Great video! Thanks for sharing
Making batteries with this step of charcoal is also a good option. Get a plastic 55 gallon drumand make a giant battery. If you use gasification to run a generator you can also charge your battery on the same wood you make into charcoal.
How do you do this? Sounds very useful, creating less waste from the wood used as fuel! Love it !!
Which bucket had the holes in it? Is there a fire underneath? Are there any other preparations than: fill one bucket, Center, build fire around, burn?
A written instruction page with details would be helpful.
Brad, again my thanks, but could you inform me as to exactly HOW you use it. Pea sized I've got, what concentration of worm casing to water to charcoal? Thanks for your kind assistance. If you can't, I understand.
Again, thanks.
I assume you have to keep adding wood for the 3-4 hour burn?
So does the wood inside the inner burn bin also turn to charcoal??
Finally a good video.
learn something every day, thanks Brad for passing on the knowledge
I was hoping to see how you would get the inner drum out without mixing the burned wood and charcoal. Do you just tip over the big one completely and hope the inner one doesn't catch all the burned wood pieces from the bigger drum?
that's my kind of fire. lol very informational video. thank you. didn't know this. much appreciated
So if you use it as bio-char how much do you spread over your garden? Is it kinda like using a rotary spreader and just throwing it out there...or does it work better as a solid layer?
I did this yesterday and it turned out perfect, I now have a good supply of lump charcoal that literally cost me the price of a match. Thanks for the idea.
Glad you said worm tea. I've been raising red wigglers for close to ten years. Best fertilizer you can get.
What's the purpose of the 30 gallon bucket upside down??
Great video!!! Do you have any holes at the floor of the 55 gallon drum and where can I find that 30 gallon steel drum from
I noticed you used wood that seemed to come from a pallet to burn does it matter what kind of wood you use
Great video, thanks for sharing this knowledge. I have a bbq/adventure channel and i for sure can use this skill. Thanks.
Brad , great video. People can use this knowledge. Once again Thank You Brad.
Clicked on this video to learn how to make bio char out of curiosity and learned how to make charcoal. Thank you!
Hello thank u for makin dis vid
Im tryin to make sugar cane charcoal for a project
So I was wondering if I could use the same technique as shown in the video with sugarcane?
Which of the drums did you put holes? The smaller inner drum or the bigger drum? Good video though....
Bigger
Love it but how do you know for sure the burn is done? A few hours is not telling me precisely when to stop the burn or what happens to indicate termination.
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Start of vid: Biochar is great I’ve noticed a 40% yield boost!! End of vid: Okay everyone Soak the Charcoal in FERTILIZER.. lol
i found that using sawdust makes charcoal powder, its really cool :D
Oooh
When do you put the charcoal on the garden?
early spring- we till it in weeks before the first plants go in the ground
That will be my next fire. Thanks
Great vid, great vibe! Just a quick question - do you need to make small holes in the smaller can? or does the gas escape from the bottom? Thanks!
Wondering the same?
Small holes let the steam then wood gas out (it adds to the fire). You need to keep oxygen out of the small can (technically a retort).
also shoot vent holes in barrel
There's a much more efficient way to make charcoal without wasting so much wood for the fire. Dig trench, lay a pipe in for air, fill the whole with wood, start a fire on top, once it takes off cover the hole with sheet metal, cover metal with dirt, let burn for a few hours, then remove or cover the pipe and let it cool overnight, uncover, and remover charcoal. You can also make the hole as wide, long, or deep as you want so your not confined to a small barrel.
Then make a video
Thanks for the info, Brad. I am not sure if it is worth making charcoal for blacksmithing, but I was thinking I would give it a try. Normally, I just burn wood chunks in the coal fordge, but Charcoal may be better... Worth a try... Thanks for the video...OH, I subbed and Liked it...
You can buy bags of lump charcoal at the store. Not sure how much it would cost. I have been a Blacksmith now on 25 years and have used everything from dry cow dung to charcoal. If you're going to use charcoal, then hard wood charcoal is the best. Take care and wish you luck
So I’m doing research on the benefits and drawbacks of charcoal. I heard about anthracite coal that you can buy at the local farm supply store. Typically used in shop stoves but some people have high efficient stoves that burn anthracite to heat their homes. But I found it’s $10 for a 20 lb bag I think it was? I am trying to determine if charcoal has similar properties to actual coal. Anthracite is the premium type of mined coal because it has almost no spot, ash or tar. It’s almost pure carbon. I don’t expect charcoal made in this way to have the same purity as anthracite. I have read that charcoal burns hotter and longer than wood. It is impervious to termites and rot. It can get wet and as long as it’s properly dried out. It’ll burn just fine. It won’t dry out like firewood if left too long. No seasoning needed. I’m not trying to make too many crazy claims but it seems charcoal is an overall superior product. I’m wanting to take the pallets from work and break them down and turn them into charcoal. Actual firewood cost money and I don’t have many on my land. The ones I do have are either fruit trees or help with privacy from the highway. So they’re there to stay. I am curious if charcoal can be burned directly in a standard wood stove or if I need special stove for charcoal/coal.
thank you
This can be used in tandom with magnetically seed growth to get fast grown food that is extra nutritious AND high yield.
Magnetic, you say. Hmmm, well, don't be so sure about that.
Wold this work on a smaller scale say if u put a food can in?
Hey pretty cool video, you have a real nice friendly approachable attitude. I had a question when using fertilizer Can you use manure or compost and manure?
Can the wood gas be siphoned off to be used for cooking/heating? Or does it have to be burned up in order to make the charcoal?
Yes. you would want to design the burn chamber differently... I don;t personally know how to harvest it, but I have seen engines running off of it...
Brad, would it work if the smaller barrel had a tight fitting top and you put it in upright?
+Homestead Dad No the tight fitting lid would make the heated gases inside explode. You have to allow the gases to vent. I have seen holes poked in empty paint cans and other methods, but I like this one as I can make a lot at a time.
Got it, thanks
Help, what do if do not have barrels
Wow thanks for the info kind sir.
is the charcoal good enough for a coke forge?
Nice technique for making charcoal. It's my understanding that activated charcoal, that is, charcoal that has been exposed to steam has a tremendous amount of hollow surface areas to capture nutrients. 1 gram of activated charcoal has the same amount of surface area as a football field.
What happens if I spread activated charcoal over a football field?
Were there holes on the inner barrel?
The 45th That's what I'm wondering too. How is the wood being combusted and where are the volatile gases escaping?
Charcoal forms when you heat up wood but restrict access to oxygen in the air. It forces all of the big compounds like cellulose to reduce basically into water vapor, CO/CO2, and solid carbon (this is why a charcoal fire is hotter and cleaner than plain wood). Having holes in the inner barrel would let air in and the wood would just burn normally.
@@Kizarat Its not combusting, just heating up enough to break down big complex molecules into regular carbon and some various gases. Also, the place where the inner barrel rests on the outer barrel isn't airtight, so gas can escape there.
Can you use charcoal powder. If I grind it up
Guillermo Sanchez yes. Power works better. More surface area
I have to try that all I do is grill and lump is 6.50 for a small bag
Thanks a ton for this one!! Am in great position of cutting-down parts of an Oak's canopy (to allow more light to my bonsai garden, & to test some more advanced tree-limb-rigging techniques for work/hone my skills!) and had been building a sizeable pile of waste that, in FL, was going to be a PITB to process in a good&simple way - til I found the aluminum-foundry videos and became set on making a slingshot and a real prototype of an arborist tool I'd been envisioning, now I NEED good charcoal to maximize my lil 'foundry/forge', and've got the patience & Oak-wood-surplus to make all the charcoal I'll need!!
Is there any other term besides Homesteading that's used analogously? Odd Q I know but just curious! I keep finding it's crossed-over way too much between "home McGuyvering" (more advanced) and basic "I grew a tomato" self-sufficiencies, very vague but I want to find a term, if it exists, for the more-advanced "homesteading" (seems the next step is "survivalist"/"doomsdayer" w/o any in-between area, if that makes sense!)
Hey Man , thanks for great video .Can yuo tell me please, can be used fresh or dry wood , Thanks Mike from Polans
I think either would work, but dry would work much better...
@@Bigfamilyhomestead thanks so m uch ,
I want to see a video on making the charcoal and tea mixture............do you have one??
Here one on the tea... you just soak the charcoal in tea and water for a few days... done ;)
ruclips.net/video/9fLENZBUBMw/видео.html
Dude! You are hilarious .... inoculation! LOVED your vid:)! Highly entertaining and informative sir... Scientist and archaeology interchangeable for shore! It takes on to know one right:) (I am from the east coast in Canada so that for shore statement works here haha)... quick question, any chance you can use an indoor fireplace leftovers (or some other way to create the barrel effect) to use achieve a charcoal grade that could be used as precusor to create activated charcoal ... I am interested the ulcer curing and other medicinal cleansing properties. I know that char from the fire is the main ingredient, would love to be able to achieve in a stove that many of us here in Nova Scotia are lucky enough to have (or to have a friend with one:)! txs Cora
Since plenty of cow poop is laying around... wondering how cow chip tea + ground charcoal would work 🤔
Cool 🍀🍀❣️❣️biochar
Hey i have that same baseball cap!! 😆
*2:12** where are these holes drilled??*
On the bottom of the big outside barrel
if you put the holes towards the bottom of the barrel the gases will help fuel the fire
Where were these holes? I thought they were at the bottom of the barrel
The reason the little drum was open on the bottom was so that the wood gasses escaping increase the heat tremendously as they come out of the target charcoal and begin to burn in the outer ring of fuel wood in the big drum.
saw out a 6 or 8 inch square at bottom of larger barrel leaving one side to open and close so too add your ignition after wood or trash is added to burn.this is much more effective than many small holes as it burn faster hotter with more draft,better used on a rainy day.
I wished we would have seen the worm tea applied.... And then see the finished product....
Still nice vid 👍