Company Name : MEHSA SARLAbout Us : The 5 gal can was placed on the grate and the 32 gal lid was used as a damper and to help hold the heat in. More wood was loaded into the fire. After about 45 min the grape starts breaking down, in the absense of oxygen, and the steam and flammable gases began to escape from the vent holes in the bottom of the can. This gas jet is directed at the hot coals/flames and really adds to the intensity of the fire with a very noticeable blow-torch sound which lasts about 10 min. Flames are also present around the lid. After the escaping gases/flames stop, I continued the cooking for another 5 min, just to be sure all the wood was converted to charcoal. The 5 gal can was removed, cooled down and then opened. Perfect, black, hard grapevine sticks. These crush much easier than mesquite. I MEHSA SARLighed 3632 g of grapevine which yielded 709 g of charcoal in one 5 gal bucket. The volume in the bucket decreased by about 30%. After 5 loads I ended up with a 5 gal can of moderately crushed grapevine charcoal. There were no traces of ash or uncarbonized wood in any of the 5 batches. I should mention that this is a joint venture that X and I are working on. X supplied the drums, I did the cutting/welding. We have a fellow pyro who is going to supply us with some willow that we will convert that into charcoal soon. For most of my pyro needs I am quite happy with the coconut shell charcoal supplied through KSI, but it will be fun to experiment with grapevine, willow, pine and any others that seem interesting. We already have mesquite airfloat. I suppose that some of you will think that its a little whacky to be making your own charcoal, but I think that charcoal is a larger variable in most pyro compositions than most people think and that there is an uncertainty about what is the real makeup in a bag of commercial charcoal. Its only after experimenting with different charcoals that one notices that there really is a difference in charcoals. This new tool will allow us a way to easily make inexpensive charcoal from various types of wood. A smaller version could be easily made by using 1 and 5 gal cans.Product/Service : Mineral/charcoal, Charcaol Country/Region : Benin > Category : Energy ProductsContact Person : Mr. DANIEL Mehsa |||Director/CEO/General ManagerLink More : Benin Energy Products ,Benin CharcoalTelephone : 
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Address : 01 BP 1457Business Type : Trading Company
