Hi Tom, I look forward to the video, in that the local NRCS Office is only blocks from the MDNR Forestry Office in tiny Lewiston, Mn., both expecting this biochar quack to expire soon. This being my p

Hi Norm, I have four 3 pt. tractors at the moment and went out with the tape measure--it isn't practical, if not dangerous. Spread, the 2 lower arms are 28" apart---13" from each rear tractor tire; ho

Great suggestions Mike and what do you use for raised beds? I've offered to donate black locust to the City, for raised beds in their parks. With 2 opposing sides sawed flat, how well does anyone thin

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Wow Geoff, your ideas are HUGE, but they gave me a thought, though I don't have the money to make it happen, without a grant. This is the gentle slope on the 35 acre field I mentioned. http://www.wino

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David, wonder what species of tree and how the Malawi tipped them and charred from within? The Colorado. Biochar Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIUFWkc-tnI showed spruce falling over 3 yrs. after

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Yrs. ago Ron liked the idea of making biochar in a trench, but that was with light brush, before I was restricted to burning only between 8 and 4 and there'd have been mud from quenching etc.. Now, be

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Had Winona's Sustainability Coordinator out last wk., the City, County and WSU all have one, but they don't touch waste wood or food waste. He asked, "Where did all those wood chips come from?". Tree

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Hi Paul, Vultures fell off my fingers, because a few days ago we watched 11 vultures perched together and 2 bald eagles sitting contentedly 2 trees from them by the creek. They were obviously full, be

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Greetings Nando I didn't charge to dump wood chips and the word got around fast. I didn't know there'd be that many and was going to ask for suggestions on how to use the heat from burning brush to ch

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Nando, Hugh and Company What are your thoughts on burning a pile of brush, where I've done a smaller pile 5 times before, then when burned down to a glowing mass, suffocate it by dozing damp compost o

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Thanks for all of your suggestions. Since even Sue agrees that biochar will be produced in a 10' dia X 30' X 7/8" rr tank rim with a 6' wide by 30' piece removed for feeding "waste wood". Her concern,

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You've probably seen Dolph Cooke's Moxham biochar tank rim which works, because the steel rim is heavy enough. One of too many mistakes I've made was cutting a couple 10 1/2' dia X 15' X 1/4" fuel tan

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Hi Bill, I appreciate all the effort you have gone to, in perfecting your TLUD's and the beautiful biochar they produce; however, few have heard of biochar, let alone have a passion to produce it, whi

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Lowstuter, Derek <derek.lowstuter@...> Nov 14, 2019, 12:51 PM Reply to me Hi Dick, We used the surplus oil tank because it was large enough to handle whole trees and was cheap (free in our case).

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Hi Paul, I hope that both of our plans work, that you sell many of your patented kilns and my flying turtle does well enough to make a dent in Winona's and other communities "waste wood". Following yo

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Paul, it could've been 12 yrs. ago since I tried the vertical rr tank with 2 very small batches of brush. When I burned some brush in the 10' dia X 30' vertical tank, there was a 1/2 crack at the bott

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Hi Paul, Sue doesn't like turtles, (she shouldn't have confused you into 18 tons) but I do (did I tell you about hatching 6K soft shelled turtle eggs, I dug on Ms. R. sandbars summer of '72) ? She's c

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Thanks Ray plus adding how the cows preferred the pasture grass that would've been lusher because of the quench waters ash and fine biochar. On chopping the inches of char off the large logs exposed t

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Hi Ron--thanks for your interest. I had a crazy idea over 15 yrs. ago to heat a green house with waste wood, so had a 10' dia X 30' X 7/8" rr tank delivered from Arkansas for $6,000. Had a 40'X 60' st

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Frank's kiln insulation suggestion. The huge pile of green, damp wood chips, would surely be more than dried, if not catching fire, by being stacked over the horizontal , 30' long charring turtle/tank

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