How to make Cardboard Briquettes Homemade Press Vs Amazon fire logs bricks
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I show you how to recycle cardboard for making briquettes and compare my Home made cardboard and sawdust Briquette maker to a Amazon one - Навчання та стиль
I think your press is still better, nice build.
I agree. I like the results of the DIY press better than the rectangular block press.
Concur!!
Could you tell us how you built that lovely press in another video??
@@bbikermama Plans and lengths would help too. His build compacts better, and might be better for mushrooms... 😉
Any chance you can do a burn test followup?
I was just here to say the same
@@njc110381 same, he said 1k subscribers.... and now he has 1.2k
@Brian Mouton as opposed to wood logs that you can just light up with a match, right?
@Brian Mouton their purpose is to create heat. Not flames. And they do that job quite well. My point still stands about the requirement of previously existing flame.
Probably not anytime soon. The square one is still drying.
I like that you showed both options with no bias. Not everyone has the patience or skill to rig something up, and some people have plenty of scrap wood and pipe to rig something up quick and easy. Both valid solutions.
Can you please publish a follow-up video on how either of the bricks burn?
Make a video of the briquettes burning.
As you requested ua-cam.com/video/g5oH96-GGu0/v-deo.html
Okay for all those people who keep banging on about the bad side of this i would like to share some of the good this idea does. 1 i live in ireland where you have to pay quite a lot of money for the companies to take away recycling materials, so they make money taking your paper, cardboard, etc. 2 they also use a lot of chemicals in there process.
3 they sell you back recycled products at twice or three times the price of the normal product even though you have paid them to take the materials they need for said products. You are being scammed on a huge scale. 4 in this country they are prohibiting the burning of turf putting hundreds of workers out of work and the price of gas and electricity is going up by 40 percent for the third time this year. Winter here is freezing and people can't afford heating so they do what they can to survive. I know I'll get a lot of haters for this but the truth is the truth. We are being manipulated illegalise solid fuel so gas and electric companies profit even more, plus gas and electricity bills are half to the government in taxes for carbon tax and a plethora of other taxes on a country that is already the highest taxed in europe.
Well said 👏
Perfect! Well said and backed up with logic and truth.
Funny how everything is ready to use when it's the consistency of porridge! Plaster, cement, wattle and daub... porridge 😉👍
Depends on how you take your porridge!
Soggy and wet
so true
Id like to see a video of these burning
By the look of that end result i would say the home made one is better. Is the burn time different between the two types of logs?
Your press not only works better, but it looks like a ton more fun to use as well, making the job more enjoyable.
Add starch in the mix, it's cheap, and it'll increase firmness too when it's dry. It's what they use for coconut charcoal briquettes
I absolutely love your homemade version. Great proof of concept to inspire others for their builds. I bet i could build your version for under $50, even with jack. Great engineering you have shared. Thanks.
I would really like to see how each one burns compared to the other. Great video.
Yea, I was hoping he burned both types of logs and see the difference. I bet his with the hole, burn better.
I would like to see another video of these things being burned or used. I like to see how efficient the recycling of materials has become.
All the shiny cardboard from things like cereal boxes and soda cases has a thin layer of polyurethane on it. If you are burning these for cooking, or heating where fumes can enter the living area, you may want to remove those sprayed cardboard types and keep them for separate, outdoor only applications.
Is there a separate binding agent or is it just pulp and water.
I made a similar machine to press round logs and I used HDPE sheets (cut to size and shape) to use as spacers in between each scoop of pulp. This enables me to create not just logs but also discs which can be used for a shorter burn if need be...
Centre of piston is threaded, so you can double the length/height of lift, simply wind it out, so no need to add block, and help make process a little quicker and easier! But nice simple press!
Also, if mold forms on blocks during drying, add some salt to mix, stops mold growth, cheap and easy! Cheers.
That would not make it faster. The travel distance is the same, so you have to adjust the thread every time. Quicker with a block of wood. 🙂
@@MikkelTK you wind the piston out prior to starting, which means no need to remove and reinsert jack, of course that would save no time at all!
If you capture the runoff water, the binders are dissolved in it, re use the water and your bricks will hold together even better
I’ve seen other channels add oil to the mix as well. Catching the runoff and reusing would help reduce this waste.
I wonder if the chemicals from cardboard and magazines would kill plants if you used it to water them? Or if the fibres would act as fertiliser.
@@Walkingthroughtreacle Good question. I certainly wouldn't use it on food plants, but maybe on strictly ornamentals???
I've been raking up leaves today & thinking they could be made into briquettes. Your home made press is inspiring. Thank you.
Nice video. I'm interested in what your drying time is and a follow-up video on burning them with burn times included.
Could you show a dried out one burning on the fire? Also how long do they take to dry and how long do they burn for?
Just for you ua-cam.com/video/g5oH96-GGu0/v-deo.html
Great video. This is what UA-cam videos SHOULD be like! No muss, no fuss, and does exactly what it says on the tin. From a fellow Scot 🤓👍🏴
I'd be interested to see burn test between the two.
Your version is way better.
Am curious how much better your bricks burned compared to the square ones?
How much better does 100% cardboards logs from your press burn compared to 60/40 paper/sawdust?
This video should be titled: " How I MADE a better product than amazon could deliver to me in the same time"
*Can't help thinking you did enough precision woodwork to build a windmill there :-)*
Haha true!
Got any videos on how they burn? What effect does burning cardboard briquettes have on your flue?
You just saved me from spending $25 each week on starter logs for starting my fireplace! Thanks!
you should spend it all using my amazon affiliate link 😊
I did this 14 yrs ago. Used sawdust, paper/cardboard. Got my saw dust at a local mill dirt cheap. Peanut hulls, cocoa hulls also worked well. The down side. Little to no coals for retained & regenerative heat. But, that's a minor issue. As for chemicals. Treat your wet slurry with a lye rinse/bath. Press down on the mass and scoop off the top liquid, then rinse again with fresh water and put in mold to press.
The press you made with the center hole is better. Show them burning.
Your machine is much better than the Amazon-baught one, but if you add a wide bowel underneath you could catch the flowing water and this way you'd hit 3 birds with 1 stone: you'll keep the soil clean, make a lesser mess, and reuse the water over and over again. Great video! Thanks 🙂
Great idea.
Interested to know how long you dry them and how they burn.
Thanks.
Definitely prefer the center core out in your design. In my mind, I would imagine it burns hotter, and pulls air over the burning surface creating more complete combustion. Would be interested to see a comparison using equal rights of starting materials and what your ash weight is after burning.
Your press is far superior. Awesome job!
Would like a follow-up video. How long did each take to dry, how long did the burn. Was the Amazon one worth the money?
Back in the bad old days, Dad used to get all the free local papers he could lay his hands on and make briquettes for the living room fire. He made a wooden segmented frame out of scaffolding planks, with house brick sized compartments, and a base + lid from an old solid oak door he'd cut in half. The lid had blocks attached that fitted into the frames compartments to squeeze the briquettes. To compress it all he used about 20 bleeding great coach bolts with washers and nuts.
It looked "Heath Robinson" as hell, but it worked impressively well. He could form 15 briquettes at a time using that thing, and he'd do 10 to 15 batches most Sundays during the summer, That house also had a back boiler in the living room fireplace that fed radiators in all the other rooms, so making the briquettes meant it cost almost nothing to heat the place right through the winter.
I've got a vague memory that he also used paraffin to soak the paper for some batches so he could use them as big fire lighters. :D
I like the round ones better, they look like they would burn more even and dry out quicker. Nice job on the build, it looks like it will last years longer then the amazon one.
Much like the rest of the commentators on here, a burn comparison would rock!
I checked the channel and did not see one.
Sorry for the delay ua-cam.com/video/g5oH96-GGu0/v-deo.html
@@TotallyChilled Thanks.
I think your DIY press is better than the Amazon one.
Mongo like. A friend of a friend lived in Alaska and got on every junk mail list he could. The Post Office would have to deliver so they used a big truck to dump it all, which he processed, and turned into fuel to get him through the long winters.
How I got here.... I do not know .... do I have any reason to make these.... no..... did I watch whole video very intently ....damn right lol
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When Im burning large amounts of cardboard, I just roll it into a log. All you have to do is lay it out flat and start rolling. Add more pieces to roll into it as you get the end to make it bigger, then tie it together with a natural fiber twine. Just put a real log on top when burning so that it doesn't pop apart when the string goes. I can make a log in about 30 seconds, have no equipment, or dry time. Not to mention it actually burns versus how this briquettes tend to smolder
I believe the goal here is not just to burn cardboard for disposal, but to manufacture a dense fiber brick that burns a long time for heating purposes. Rolled cardboard as you describe would be far less dense and would burn faster, which is ideal for disposal purposes, but not for off-grid heating.
In one of his books, John Seymor recommended doing pretty much the same thing with newspapers, soaked in old cooking fat/ motor oil. A recommendation you´d probably think twice about making today... Anyway, a trick of his I liked was to use old bailing wire to tie those briquets together. They don´t burn, and if you like you can just pick them out of the ash to reuse.
I too have a lot of sawdust from woodworking and cardboard from boxes. I made one of the presses to your design. Works brilliant. Thanks heaps for sharing. Recycling at it's best.
excellent design the only suggestion id have is to raise the bottom a little an add something to funner the waste water into another container allowing the fiber impregnated water to just pe perpetually re added to the mix which eliminates those people who think its negative for the runoff to re enter the environment and saves any waste, iv also used things like garden waste for the fibrous add in instead of sawdust as i dont off tern have access to sawdust myself
Nice!! I love learning new ways to recycle things and reuse. We also have an abundance of cardboard so I will have to try this. My wife is going to hate it! I already have a 20 ton press so making smaller briquettes should be pretty easy for me. Fantastic video!
You should check out the hydraulic press channel, he has made a video about trying to make briquettes.
what is the burn time difference between the round and the brick ??
2 factors. 1 the hole means that there is more surface area compared to volume. Brickets burn from the outside in so more mass exsposed to the air mean faster burning. 2 the hole acts like a chimney sucking air in from the bottom.
@@jaycie5021 thank you
This has saved me a lot of working out I will make this using my log splitter to compress the mix thank you very helpful
It seems like the hydraulic press works much better. You can put a lot more pressure on them so they stay together better once finished as well as burn slower since they are more dense. The hand press just doesn't do the same kind of job.
Your own design is superior in overall performance, in my opinion. I honestly believe you get extra credibility; because of your honest Scottish accent. My mom and her parents are from Glasgow. I am in Irvine California. Nice video thank you for making it happen.
thanks for the video bud. my parents own a store and they have tons of cardboard just going to the dump so i decided for a little extra cash that id make these to sale as ricks of firewood.
Even though your homemade press takes longer, it looks like it does are far better job than the one you bought on Amazon. I hope you will do a burn test so we can see which one burns the longest. My guess is: your homemade one is far better when it comes to burn time. Thanks for your video Totally Chilled.
It looks like his are more dense which would make them burn longer, but they also have more surface area to burn which would make them burn faster. So It's a toss up which way it would go.
I tried making this a few years ago and failed miserably, you've given me some motivation to try again. Brilliant video thanks a lot.
You can do it!
I watch and upvote videos like this, not because I will ever make DIY cardboard Briquettes, but because in the future I will want to make some weird random thing and I want there to be a video out there telling me how to make it.
Can definitely relate. I have plenty of dead trees around to cut down and process that makes this genius idea completely redundant and unnecessary to me, but I'll be damned if this isn't super cool and something I want to make anyway
I'd be willing to do this if I could make the fill process on the cylindrical form faster and create a setup with 20 or more tubes. That would cut down on the labor time significantly. The round brick with a hole through it is definitely a better design.
I wonder how practical it would be to reclaim that "wastewater" and re-use it for the next batch of briquette slurry. It seems unlikely to be contaminated with anything that wouldn't end up in the briquettes in the first place.
Thank you for the critique ,, a child's paddling pool seems a likely solution
The hole in the center of your homemade briquettes should also serve as a means of airflow for the fire, where the rectangular ones wouldn't have that advantage.
Great job!
I believe you could make your press faster and simpler if you replaced the bottle jack with a long, stout lever.
Awesome job. Never stopped to think about making my own. THANKS!
I think your home made one is much better! Seriously tempted
Ok could'nt let this one go..."Only a Scotsman could make Porridge out of cardboard"
DIY press all day long. So much better. That extra compression will also mean a slower burn absolutely perfect 👌
How long does it take to dry so you can burn them. This looks like a great idea !!
I have a few different ideas for modifications to your DIY press. They may sound a little complicated, but if you can visualize it, you'll see what I'm talkin about:
1: Mount the bottle jack upside down at the top of the press. You'll probably have to shorten it to bring the fully extended piston to the 2nd line.
2: Mount a removable tray to accommodate the Amazon press. Mount the shelf/tray at the first marker line.
(For better versatility, try to fab up a bracket that can be installed & removed so you can make both bricks & cylinders)
3: The press: I can't really tell how wide each section of the Amazon press is, but it looks like maybe a 4x4 is just about wide enough to fit in the black tray. Fab up 4 of those onto a plate, and that plate mounts to the cylinder on the bottle jack. That way you can press 4 bricks at once - you may need to upgrade your bottle jack though.
Best way to visualize it: Picture an upside down F
The long line, is the floor plate.
The short middle line is the removable tray for the amazon press
Mount the amazon press in the middle line (ie: the tray on the finished version)
Line up the plate with the 4x4's on it with the piston on the bottle jack
If you want to make the hollow cylinders instead? Just remove the tray & amazon press, put it off to the side, and use your original dies.
This video got picked by the UA-cam algorithm and got recommended to a lot of people
Your press is far superior to the Amazon press. Your round bricks will not only dry quicker because you have pressed more water out but will most likely burn longer because they are much more dense. Thanks for sharing bud.
I am seriously impressed! Didn't even think this was possible. Very useful to know, these days - thank you.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but after creating the 4 briquettes with the amazon press, before removing them take another 4 briquettes and place them on top (having 8 briquettes in the press at the same time) and press them again that way your able to press more water out of all of them and this way the bricks in the end will be twice as larger and with less water.
Your press seem to be much better. Definitely need a follow up on the burn time between the 2.
I've wondered about those presses, yours looks way better than store bought.
Yeah I agree yours may take a little bit more time but I think they will burn longer because they are more dense
thats really cool your press is a far better idea than the amazon one well done .
Loved the idea of the homemade press. I was looking at videos to learn about machines that turn wood and sticks into saw dust when I came across your video. I now have an additional use for saw dust. Thanks again for sharing your ideas.
Questions! How much pressure does it take from the hand-jack? Could you for instance make it to fit 4 pipes to speed up the process? And what is the burntime for a round briquette vs, for instance, a common use wood log?
Your own press seems far superior.
Thank you. I am definitely adding this to the project list. The price of firewood is rising with all of the forest fires in my area (Oregon USA), and I have plenty of waste paper and am sure I can find sawdust easy enough too. There are plenty of cabinet shops in the area, not to mention lumber mills a bit further out from me.
Like the original Pres-to-logs that came about in the 30s, it's the sawdust you add that makes the final product more self-binding than other videos I have watched, which try to use just paper. The manufactured logs generally use wood by-product only. And you use more whole product paper waste and a mix of types, which is made with larger pulp fibers, where some video makers use only shredded office paper, which is pureed to make.
And I definitely agree with using gloves. The dyes used in product box printing are chemicals, and at the very least some don't play well with skin.
It's cool creating a method using such inexpensive materials - such as a bottle jack. A basic scissor jack probably would not have the same compression force as they tend to top out at 1.5 ton and basic bottle jacks in pickup trucks are often upwards of 5 ton, but even stronger ones are not terribly expensive.
Using an electric bottle jack or log splitter would make things much easier.
If the base of the compression cylinder is elevated some device could be inserted after the pressure was relaxed to facilitate using the jack to extrude the completed brick.
You can also convert this design into a general use home compactor for other waste such as plastic and lightweight metals (food cans, softdrink cans). You could create compression molds and merely switch each one out when you have different materials to compact and deliver at a later time to local recycling centers.
Some feedback.... Looks like you've built a much better mousetrap and a better end product than the rectangular brick contraption produces... Wouldn't take much to transfer your design into an air powered all steel press that'd make em even more compressed as well as build them faster... A side business perhaps; manufacturing and selling low costs briquets..
When burning you need air flow to burn. The more compressed the compound is will make liting and keeping it lit a chore.
@@jaxxic thermite and gasoline XD no but it could be used for grilling perhaps, altho god knows whats in that cardboard so you would have to wait for coals. you could add stuff like tree sap or some other natral shit that burns well to the mix
his design is very fiddly to fill
I would love to have seen the burn time of each. Great video
Outstanding. The hole in the middle is genius. Thanks for sharing this!
Brilliant idea. Yours is better than the cheap Amazon knock off.
Why not put a cone on the top of the inner pipe with a large funnel around it - loading would be easier and quicker. Thank you for the best idea yet and great video.
Your press is better. Ditch the piston for a long handled lever with a pivot behind and it'd be much faster.
I like your video. straight to the point. I hate videos that waste my time with stuff that I don't care to know.
Your build is fantastic! Great work sir.
Kudos for the build and the recycling!
You should sell your design on Amazon, it would be a big hit, manufacture a "pro" version, i would buy your version
I prefer Your home made machine , it’s looking more sturdy and squeezes more water out. Great job 👍
Excellent video. A great idea. Will be very handy especially with the price of gas and electric going through the roof. Many thanks for sharing
great idea to use a jack. I live in Zambia and am working with artisan briquette makers using sustainable charcoal. I will certainly show them your video.
Instead of the jack, could you set up a big screw and crank?
Great video thank you. However i dont have the spare time in my life for this much work.
man you really really need to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Would love to see a burn test.
The fact that the square bricks are not compressed as much and wetter I can see having to results. 1 it end up less dense with gaps inside.
2 as it dries it shrinks which just ends up being worse overall.
I had one of those amazon ones but it was a single one. This is before amazon was thought of. Did a big batch but time was exhausting and I gave it up. I tried them on the fire and they were brilliant. Great way to manage waste and make a few bucks.
I tried the homemade logs as a fellow woodworker.
Very slow process , takes weeks to dry , goes mouldy without bleach & doesn't last very long , even when you finally get the moisture content about right.
I now put the cardboard in the recycling bin & buy 5 large bulk bags of seasoned logs from a local tree surgeon for just 200 quid .
Never again
What size bags? $200 would be getting the best way to a cord of seasoned split wood.
Be interested to know if two years on if you have or would change anything in the design.?
I'm having a go at your method. Definitely looks better than the bought one which looks like a strong breeze would break it.
I come from a mining village whre everyone had solid fuel fires till around the 80s. I can tell you a way to keep warm that doesnt need a press all you need is newspaper water your hands and somewhere to dry them.
Take your papers place them in the sink and then fill with water. leave it for 20 min. Rip off strips about as wide as your hand and from the paper and each strip should contain all the pages from 1 full newspaper. Schrunch it into a ball squeezing as much water out as you can. Once dried these little suckers burn just like coal lovely and hot.
The same thing should work with cardboard it will just need more soak time. Top tip they dry out faster near the fire
I like the idea of anything free, especially heating - if you get hold of a paper shredding machine, I feel that may be useful addition - not to shred cardboard, but any newspapers, letters, junk mail etc - then add thta to your mix.
Saves on the rubbish bins too !!
I use a briquette maker, but I learned straight away to remove the two feeble metal arms, and I stand on it instead. I think my 85 kgs is more than the metal arms could do.
Can you make a video where you fire up the briquette? How does it compare with the charcoal briquettes?
this is them burning ua-cam.com/video/g5oH96-GGu0/v-deo.html are charcoal briquettes not for a bbq if it ever stops raining in Scotland i will try them
I remember making something similar with my parents back in the 90's when Yugoslavia was falling apart. My uncle made us a press similar to the red one, but it only held one brick and we made them mostly out of news papers.
pretty much all news papers are any use for nowadays
Yours looks to make a better product.
You could cap the center pipe so you don’t have to be sooo careful when filling. Might speed up the loading process
I use used vegetable oil instead of water and used cardboard boxes instead of pressing it. Saw dust burns great this way. And no mess nor time and effort consuming process.