My Charcoal Gasifier Page

Here are two of the seven charcoal gasifiers that we made during the spring of 2015:

During the first part of 2015, my friend George Adams formed a group of 6 people from within about a 30 radius of Menominee Wisconsin. The intent was to build a bunch of charcoal-fueled gasifiers to be used to fuel gasoline engines on the general design of the Gary Gilmore "Simple-fire".
George did some modifications to that design and then secured the use of a local school's technology shop in exchange for extensive service work that he had done on the shop's CNC plasma cutter.
We met one night a week for about 7 weeks to build our seven machines (I built two of them).

Here's a shot during one of the construction sessions:


And another:


Here is the castable refractory hearth that George designed:


Here it is seated at the bottom of the 16 gallon drum reactor:

Yes, I know that I got the grate slightly off center!