A photo of the day thread

jockaneezer said:
Got a bit more done on the charcoal retort today. As it's a bottom loader, I made a stand that allows the chamber to swivel, with a pin detent to hold it in place when filling and firing rather than having to heave it about to empty it. Quite pleased with it so far, hope it works ok. As a distraction, I was looking at simple gravity feed waste oil burners too on you tube (mostly Russian strangely) and might have a go at adapting this to oil firing as I ended up with 20 litres of waste oil from servicing our son's tractor last weekend.
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It looks very interesting ...but I confess to having not a clue.

What does it do jock?
 
Hi Tam, it's for converting wood into charcoal so I can carry on bbq'ing through the winter. Just a bit of a diversion as I haven't had a project for a while and I get the timber free from my son who's a tree surgeon.
 
jockaneezer said:
Hi Tam, it's for converting wood into charcoal so I can carry on bbq'ing through the winter. Just a bit of a diversion as I haven't had a project for a while and I get the timber free from my son who's a tree surgeon.
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How does it work ?
It looks pretty cool


I used to always bbq just on my campfire after it had burned down a bit....using non treated wood of course

I carry just a bit of grill mesh and a dutch oven and tripod for outdoor cooking.
 
Oops. Took these Monday in St Malo in readiness for the big transatlantic race. Been too busy (and cold) to post since...

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Northernraider said:
How does it work ?
It looks pretty cool
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Basically, you load the cylinder up with dry wood and fasten the bottom in place, making sure it's airtight. You then light a fire in the stubby pipe sticking out the front (it's an L shaped tube that continues out through the top, like a "rocket stove")
After a while, you will start to get steam appearing through the smaller pipe at the top, this is the wood drying out. The steam will clear and you will start to get "wood gas" given off, which is flammable. Once you get to the wood gas stage, you cap off the smaller top pipe and the gas is redirected into the hearth area and the fire will continue to burn without any additional wood fuel. When there is no more wood gas being given off, that indicates that the wood has been "pyrolised" (cooked) into charcoal. Leave it to cool overnight and open it up the next morning.
Check out the Woodsmoke forum if you like bbq and Dutch ovens, we had a get together in September at a campsite near Huddersfield for a "Tailgate" meet, lot's of food, home made gin and good craic.

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jockaneezer said:
Basically, you load the cylinder up with dry wood and fasten the bottom in place, making sure it's airtight. You then light a fire in the stubby pipe sticking out the front (it's an L shaped tube that continues out through the top, like a "rocket stove")
After a while, you will start to get steam appearing through the smaller pipe at the top, this is the wood drying out. The steam will clear and you will start to get "wood gas" given off, which is flammable. Once you get to the wood gas stage, you cap off the smaller top pipe and the gas is redirected into the hearth area and the fire will continue to burn without any additional wood fuel. When there is no more wood gas being given off, that indicates that the wood has been "pyrolised" (cooked) into charcoal. Leave it to cool overnight and open it up the next morning.
Check out the Woodsmoke forum if you like bbq and Dutch ovens, we had a get together in September at a campsite near Huddersfield for a "Tailgate" meet, lot's of food, home made gin and good craic.
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Very clever ...to be honest I never knew that's how it was done I always thought it was just half burnt wood

But I do like real fire bbq none of that gas fired nonsense.


Love my Dutch oven though ...carted it all around spain with me and never got a chance to use it
 
Earlier on today we had a nice 6+ mile walk around Temple Newsham grounds , in the cold crisp Autumn sunshine.
We then we cooked a nice filling brunch on a fallen tree , using Ralph’s little bush crafting stoves.
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No one would have guessed we’d been there....
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Be upstanding for her royal highness princess jade the royal puppy
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Yes I can see the twat emptied his holding tank and let it flow down hill, good job you are hard barstards! I wouldn't put up with it down south.
 
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Loved this poster at Imperial War Museum, I did not realise that so many Indians fought in the 1st World War.
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Over one million Indian troops served overseas, of whom 62,000 died and another 67,000 were wounded. In total at least 74,187 Indian soldiers died during the war. In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire in German East Africa and on the Western Front.
 

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