[Stoves] [Fwd: Ed's Chunkettes]

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Paul and All:

I  recently visited a dedicated and knowledegable forester/lumberman, Ed 
Burton and Company, in Willetts, California and saw his amazing 
collection of wood fuel gathering machines.  In particular they have 
developed a "Chunketter" that cuts branches shoots and branches up to 
1-1/2" in diameter into *chunkettes* 2" long for feeding furnaces, 
stoves and gasifiers.  He is making us 1/2 ton for testing in our dryers 
and gasifiers.  (He has also developed dryers and machines for 
harvesting larger trees and his son owns the lumber mill in Willetts.)

There is an amazing amount of small diameter biomass in the forests that 
needs to be cleaned out for fire safety protection. Brush and 
puckerbrush cutting is very labor intensive and so little practiced in 
the US.  He sees the insurance companies as one of the major driving 
forces for some of this cleanup. 

I see using the *chunkettes* as another driving force.  They make a 
wonderful fuel for small gasifiers.  They are often dense, like mesquite 
and manzanilla and full of hydrocarbons.  They feed well.  They stack 
well.  They dry easily. 

Be sure to visit Ed's website, http://www.edburtoncompany.com/

Onward to making our stumbling blocks into stepping stones

TOM REED

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Ed's Chunkettes
Date: 	Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:42:06 -0500
From: 	Paul S. Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu>
To: 	Thomas Reed <tombreed at comcast.net>
References: 	<HIEKLHDKNEBIOIPDGAFGEEMHCIAA.Paul.Garton at comcast.net> 
<46BB1401.3010302 at comcast.net>



Tom,

You were going to put me in touch with Ed Burton.  My interest is in 
the cutting
technology and would it be viable in SOME developing countries?  What is the
machinery?

Please assist.

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
Internet site:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders
For my gasifier stoves info, go to:
http://bioenergylists.org/contributors#Paul_Anderson


Quoting Thomas Reed <tombreed at comcast.net>:
> Ed Burton is developing a complete set of tools for making "Chunkettes"
> from 3/4" to 1 1/2" weed tree sticks.  We are experimenting with them
> for gasifier application.
>
> Comments?
>
> Onward   Tom Reed          BEF/BEC
>




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