Wood Burning Truck Beats Gas Prices
All it takes is a lot of duct tape, some ducting, PVC pipe, 50 gallon drum, a pile of wood and an old furnace to beat today’s high gas prices.
A man identified only as Bob contributed this story to Coast to Coast, saying the owner told him the wood burning oven catches combustible fuels from wood coals which condenses any moisture. The dried fumes are fed to the engine, and it runs!
Location of the truck is unknown, and the image came from the article.
Haha… Surely not environmentally conscious, but creative nonetheless.
Fill the son of a bitch with coal and watch heads turn! This is 1930s technology from Europe. The shame is that an American can’t do better even in the 21 century. Sort of reminds me of the recently developed 620hp. 9mpg 230mph corvette GM just spent millions developing, rear wheel drive and all, right out of the dirty 30s! No wonder the assholes are going broke! They brought us the Hummer right in time for the high priced gas, and insist the best a small car can do is about 18mpg. Even VW knows better with its eco turbo biodiesel hybrid electric cars! Sometimes a corporation rots from the top down. I guess its hard for executives to see past their pot bellies down to where the hungry people are! Come on Obama, kick their asses with incorporation law changes.If thats what change means, I like it!
Uncle B, you crack me up. Americans do best when faced with adversity, just like everyone in the world. This is new to many Americans because we have not had to worry about it before. Not like we are living in Scandinavia where they had to figure this out. We had abundant DOMESTIC sources of oil, and gasoline production, but the environmental wackos blew it. Obamma is just going to create a welfare state and push the rest of the viable manufacturing businesses out of the country, because the won’t be able to make a profit.
Uncle B, I’m the truck guy .. It’s the cat’s meow. First one I built was in 1977 and an updraft that ran on tumbleweeds that would pile up on the fences at my place in SE Arizona. Sure it’s old tech stuff but I sure don’t see many folks taking advantage of what’s laying around them. It’s a shame. Coal would be good in a cross draft dripping water in to make water gas .. At any rate my Uncle B just died last year so I figured I’d pipe in. Next time you light off a pile of brush, think about it but maybe you live somewhere that you can’t even light off a pile of brush ?? Stay well and get something positive done. Thanks, Mike
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