I like Hammocks.

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Biggest cooking some more water...

I put a string of cotton wool down the inside of the wood gas stove then packed it as I would the hobo.

I was worried about how high I could pack it without interfering with the gas flow in and out of the holes.

I sort of understand how its supposed to work.....

But not in practice.

 

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Here goes....

Firesteel....

Fire!

Suddenly started worrying about it setting light to the table...

Funny how you worry about things when its far too late.

 

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Was watching it as it started to burn.

Couldnt believe it when it started jetting when it wasnt even that much alight!

The top layer of wood is not burning, but the gas is igniting and burning with the air jetting across the pot from the holes at its top.

I really wasnt expacting it to work. This is amazing! There is still some cardboard on the top thats not even singed and there are jets of flame above it with no wick.

I was sort of expecting it to need to burn down to charcoal type ashes before it started to work...

Nope. No Idea how it works.

 

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The jets are very clear.

The flames all sort of go across the pot instead of out

The wood directly under it still hasnt got singed yet.

This sequence of shots are in the order they were taken.

 

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There was very little wind, but I put the heat shield I use with my big hobo round it just in case.

There is a crosspiece that goes on the top of the stove to hold the pot high enough to stop it blocking the gas flow out of the pot.

Er......

Kids learned some more swearwords.

I think next time I will put the crosspiece into the fire before it gets hot enough to blister my fingers.

 

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Cup of water on top....

You can see the bits of tongue and groove I beat into pieces with whats left of my axe..

 

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I like it!

Pretty!

 

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Little one decided to bank up his hobo.

Er....

Not sure its a Good Idea to fill it to the top of the heat shield.

How are you supposed to get the cup on it?

 

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When the woodgas is jetting flame out of its top line of holes, there is NO smoke.

I wasnt expecting that.

When the flames died, it started smoking.

Discovered that pushing another piece of cotton wool in and lighting it in the top of the stove with the firesteel made it act as a wick and stopped the stove smoking again.

Had to do this twice.

 

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Little Idea has his own solution to his hobo smoking...

Swimming goggles.

 

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His died down quickly.

Discovered he filled it from my bag of birch bark and added no wood.

Aaaargh!

Pigging kid.

There goes half my pine store too.

Muttering.....

 

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Mine is taking a while to boil.

Maybe it was the quality of the timber I was using, and not laying it correctly.

Need some more practice.

Its still flaming, even though the wood in it has burned down some. I poked in some more sticks.

It sort of looks like the pot crumpled.

It didnt. Its some sort of optical illusion.

 

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Its nearly boiled.

Done it.

That was a 330 ml cup of water.

Not sure why it took so long.

Too smaller pot?

 

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Er....

Not sure thats a Good Idea.

Hes stood the can of soup on top of the burning wood.

Thats all thats holding the can up.

He sparked it alight before I sorted out what he was doing.

 

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Still....

Some Ideas are worth copying.

Especially as Bilmos stove has a pot support!

 

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Im somewhat surprised the soup didnt burn as I didnt really stir it much and that fire was still pushing out some heat.

 

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I though he had smoke in his eyes...

...until he farted.

Just decided we needed more wind.

Er.....

Weather type wind, not kid wind.

 

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Then it started raining.

Little Ideas soup pot crushed his fire, so he decided it was done.

So we took our soup and hot chocolate indoors and enjoyed it watching some more mindless violence on the tv.

I think it was police stop action.

 

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Having used Bilmos Woodgas Stove, Im really impressed.

I still have No Idea how it works, but I know it does by the lack of smoke.

Its also extremely light, maybe half the weight of our baby hobos.

The build on it is very nice.

Again, I have No Idea how he made the holes in it, but if I make a 1/2 inch hole in thin plate it rips and distorts.

His holes are sort of punched and have no sharp edges.

He is clever.

I need to learn how he does things!

That was a really nice evening.

Thank you Bilmo Ian.

Oh dear.

Time for me to curl up again...

G nite.

 

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Got irritated.

Tipped £20 diesel in the car.

Lost most of it as the bleed pipes across the top of the injectors were split.

Eventually, it was being such a pig to start that I bit the bullet and pulled it to bits and changed them.

I know its a really easy job... 2 bolts, 3 hex head bolts, one jubilee clip, pull the intercooler out of the way, then rip the old pipes off with pliers, swear and dance for a bit as one flicks diesel in your eye, cut the new ones to length, shove it all back together and turn the key...

Then curse as the battery winds down as you didnt remember to prime it.

Stand there dripping diesel and trying not to swear as the school HAS to phone and must talk right there and then....

Pump the primer, then turn the key, warm it, then start it.

Sitting there purring happily....

Another phonecall, while I wonder how you are supposed to scrub diesel and engine oil out of a sony erricson phone, then scrub it all off your hands with washing up liquid.

Thats the bit I hate.

Im going to be black handed for a week now while the stuff comes back out of my skin.

Still....

Hopefully, no more of it for a while.

Fingers crossed.