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Woodchips?
Posted: 16 May 2008 05:10 PM   [ Ignore ]
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I am lokoing at different wood gasification boilers.  The Biomax claims it will burn 50 percent chips, pellets - is anyone using pellets/chips along with solid wood?

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Posted: 16 May 2008 06:01 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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My brother burned 600 pounds of chips in his gasifier last year. It’s a homemade EKO clone, sort of. He had good luck, but his chips were very dry. That may be the issue - dry chips are hard to find.

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