[Bioconversion] Rock'n roll for Grass balls

[Jeff Davis]

This belongs at the TOP!

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Geoff wrote:
>what
> better to separate this
> particular wheat from this particular chaff than a rapidly spinning
> cylinder covered with spikes,
> that throws the heavy stuff a lot further than the light shredded leaf?


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> A good question, but actually something immediately springs to mind, - I
> recently got some of the
> chopped up vegetation that the local council produces in huge quantities
> around here, - and gives
> to locals rather than carting it away at cost, and tried to use this
> mixture of wood and leaves
> in my little gasifier I bought from Tom Reed, - no good, the leafy matter
> clogged up in sort of
> non-burn clumps, causing a lot of smoke and very difficult to light
> properly as well, and yet I
> imagine this resource is available in many places, it certainly is widely
> available in Oz, but to
> use it in a gasifier the chopped up trees, - wood chips, may need to be
> separated from the fine
> leaf matter, - they certainly do for the "Wood Gas Camp Stove" and what
> better to separate this
> particular wheat from this particular chaff than a rapidly spinning
> cylinder covered with spikes,
> that throws the heavy stuff a lot further than the light shredded leaf?
> (which could be put in a
> digester etc)
> Perhaps in years to come the local council will only be able to afford the
> fuel to grind up trees
> under powerlines etc by using the wood to produce producer gas to power
> their grinders, - and
> garbage trucks etc.
> Just a thought.
> Geoff.
>
>> Hi Geoff,
>>
>> "A spinning cylinder covered with big spikes." I wonder what we could
>> use that
>> for!!!
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:51 am, Geoff Thomas wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff, I assume your post is to further the discussion on ball
>>> formation,
>>> but just an aside, if you will indulge me, my father used to grow
>>> mushrooms, (4 tons per week) and mushroom growers use enormous amounts
>>> of
>>> compost, which they mix with special machinery, - your cement truck
>>> fellows
>>> should have asked a mushroom grower. The compost mixer takes lots of
>>> small
>>> chunks out of the heap and throws them on a spinning cylinder covered
>>> with
>>> big spikes, which throws the by then tiny bits over a large area, -
>>> different principle altogether.
>>> Geoff.
>>>
>>> > Dear Roger and List,
>>> >
>>> > This summer I was reading about a compost reactor project and they
>>> did
>>> > not like mixing the compost with a highlift so they tried renting a
>>> > cement mixing truck to mix their compost. Sounds like a good idea!
>>> But
>>> > when they tried it, the out come was all the compost agglomerated
>>> into 6
>>> > inch balls.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Jeff
>>> >
>>> > Roger wrote:
>>> >> I was re-reading Thoreaus' Walden on the weekend. You always learn
>>> >> something
>>> >> with each re-read. I was amazed to see there are actually photos of
>>> >> grass balls naturally formed in the shallows of sand beaches of
>>> Walden
>>> >> Pond in the
>>> >> book. He didn't speculate how they were formed but mentioned it was
>>> a
>>> >> seasonal phenomena.  Some were perfectly round and up to 4" in
>>> diameter.
>>> >> Seems your idea is a time proven one.
>>> >>
>>> >> Roger Samson
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Jeff Davis
>>> >
>>> > Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
>>> >
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>> Jeff Davis
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Jeff Davis

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