Chris(Glen)
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Anyone have any input on how to make a simple home made one? I am trying to find a way to use up all of my sawdust from my firewood processor vs just letting it rot away.
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Find someone to buy it for horse or cattle bedding
1 stihl nut
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Mix some used motor oil in with the sawdust and .... voila! !!
Least that's what I'd do.
I use to mix used oil with loose sawdust and throw it in the stove in light to moderate amounts. It seemed to do a decent job of controlling the burn of the oil. Seems like it would work even better if the sawdust was compacted.
Least that's what I'd do.
I use to mix used oil with loose sawdust and throw it in the stove in light to moderate amounts. It seemed to do a decent job of controlling the burn of the oil. Seems like it would work even better if the sawdust was compacted.
This one looks an awful lot like an electric log splitter*. Dual duty?
Gotta like the car jack presses, and the guy in Kenya with the big wooden press*:
*Screen shots only of videos in post above.
Philbert
Gotta like the car jack presses, and the guy in Kenya with the big wooden press*:
*Screen shots only of videos in post above.
Philbert
looks like a lot of work for minimal reward. Unless you have truckloads of it
There might be a bunch of threads along these lines in the archives if ya care to do a search. I know I have posted a bunch of info in the past.
gtrr4
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I do not produce large amounts my any means, but what I do produce I throw into the garden and let it compost.
jrider
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I gathered up a wheelbarrow full of chips just from a few hours of cutting a couple weeks ago and that was just with a flat shovel, not even using a rake. Would like to find a good use for it as well.
'DuraFlame' has made out OK with that product . . . .
Philbert
Philbert
I just throw it in the compost, looks like to much work.
nathon918
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are they making them 1 at a time manually, or on an automated machine with a worker loading a hopper with a loader to make thousands of bricks a day??? my guess is not the first... and my second guess is that the OP wont be making them the way duraflame makes theirs...
I started putting used horse shavings in my garden mainly to lighten up the soil. This worked so great that I wanted to try something else. 2 years ago I had 4500 feet of lumber sawed out here . I took all the sawdust about 4 cu/yds and put that in the worst soil in the place about 16" thick. Tilled it in 2-3 times I now have the softest fluffiest soil I have ever used. Works great, best easiest way to make use of the saw dust.
A lot of things people post about on this site might not make sense to someone else - they do because they want to.
All the videos, etc., posted suggests to me that there are others doing it as well.
Philbert
nathon918
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its crazy, the amount of time to make a brick manually is just nuts you could process a few rounds in that time and have a much higher quality and quantity of fuel.
compost makers always take in sawdust to mix in with their compost, id rather give it to them for free if I didn't have somewhere to dump it... on our processor theres a shroud behind the bar that catches the chips and a blower that sucks them out of the shroud and into a sawdust bin (3 sided shed) and if no one comes for it, it gets scooped out with the loader and dumped on the burn pile, we do keep some in there all the time when we have cows but that's about it...
zogger
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Thought I had read here Massachusetts has some biomass plants that buy stuff like that by the ton? Chips/sawdust whatever?
We have biomass plants that burn chipped trees to generate steam. Not sure that they are interested in small amounts of chainsaw chips. I do know some woodworking companies (cabinetry, store fixtures, furniture, etc.) that grind and burn all of their scrap, including plywood, particle board, veneer, and sawdust. Helps heat the shop, and reduces disposal costs. But I don't think that they form bricks out of it. The bricks look like they would work best in smaller stoves. People buy pellet stoves too. With the 'wood splitter' press (one of the videos above), I think you could produce some bricks if you wanted to.
Philbert
Philbert
OK, I have seen these in the store also, do you anybody that has actually bought them? If they last for a good overnight burn with some coals left in the morning I may buy a few, well probably not. Heh, I just think if you have that many chips/sawdust you probably have enough wood to burn. I am guessing they are bought by the few who don't like all that dirty bark and creepy crawlers in there fireplace.
I guess the exceptions would be if you did a lot of milling, and they were all concentrated in one area. I haven't dabbled in this area so know nothing about it. Like someone said earlier, would make good bedding.
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