Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:42 pm
gadily Moderator
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:19 am
nice finish off nice loverly job as well tritowns thanks for posting this build up been really interesting watching its progress of its build
now ive got to ask how much wood does it use per hr and what sort of wood are you using
tritowns
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:04 pm
good question... more testing will show usage... we run soft wood chips
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:48 am
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:17 am
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:23 am
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:05 am
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:31 am
Just a bit of info... so far to date the tractor has just over 5 hrs of run time and is using about 13LBS iof wood chips per hour. most of this has been idling and a little bit of dragging our yard with a piece of I beam on a chain,,, filled in some pot holes.
The best was my friend G testing the tractors govenor.
Oh it does seem to work under load pretty good. Yesterday my buddy G managed to lug the engine down to the point he stalled it out in the sand (too high of gear) he did get is started on his own, and brought it back up to the shop... he couldn't understand why it was acting like a dog and not pulling as hard as he thought it should... he hadn't realized he had engaged the parking brake and drove it that way.. so it will pull... lol... didn't break the tractor so it's all good.
tritowns
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:14 am
Customer is coming to get his tractor tomorrow so today is the last day I get to play with this one.
Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:53 am
Is the engine in this a gas or diesel?
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:04 am
this has been interesting im so gonna enjoy watching all the vids as someone needs to catch up on stuff
thanks for posting it up tritowns could you ask the customer to give you feedback on how it works over a period of time as i would like to know its benefits as well how it performs on its usage over time
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:07 am
I'm sure we'll be keeping in touch... and I will let everyone know how it goes for him
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:09 am
it's a gas tractor. Diesel is somewhat harder to convert.
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Subject: Re: Wood gas tractor project Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:25 am
Customer picked up his tractor... while it's sad to see it go.. more so for my son as he has grown kinda attached to it.. it's nice that it's out of the shop...