I was only really trying to burn off the paint and residual oil in the barrel but when I extinguished the wood the #biochar it created was looking really nice.
Looking much better than the conservation burn method so far...
Made a #biochar kiln over the weekend from watching a video on Jack's biochar resource page.
https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/biochar
Easy peasy it only required the barrel, angle grinder and a bottle of VB and a Vegemite sandwich. You won't necessarily need every item too 😉 he used a plasma cutter 😆
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jvFbQYybg
Now you have no excuse not to make one 🙂
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#regenerative soil
#soilfoodweb
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I kept it even simpler, just an open ended barrel on a sixty degree angle did the job.
Nearly did something similar like that too had some barrels (probably for juice concerntrate) but they were not crimped on the end like the oil barrels are. Luckily the local farm I gave some biochar too had this one lurking around.
I just used an old oil drum I "liberated" at some point. It's ugly but it works 🤣
https://nostr.build/av/5ee36cb40a2f7cdf275fd2360930d8b73dd3445dba7824d36878dd2e5ebc974f.mp4
Nice one,👍 might try to start up some kind of Biochar BBQ round here, have a kiln running while we cook on another. People can bring there waste wood for BBQ and hopefully the biochar can pay for the food :D
Might be next year the way this summer is going though!
That's so badass! Good work, and keep it up!