Use a hydraulic cylinder and a steel mold, load the mold with DRY sawdust and wood shavings, compress using the hydraulic ram under 10 tons or more of pressure and the natural lignin in the wood fibers will bind/ 'glue' everything together when put under the extreme pressure and heat of the hydraulic ram. No drying time needed. Plus those cubes were not dry in the center after only a couple weeks.
That would be ideal if you have access to a hydraulic ram, much better if you don’t have to dry them. Unfortunately I don’t have a ram or anywhere warm and dry to lay out the wet ones either. My best option I think is to stack a few next to the open fire to dry out. I have a garage workshop full of sawdust from years of bandsaw ing up firewood and wood turning which I really ought to make brickettes out of and this method seems the most doable for me 😊
@@SONGSTICKS When wood pellets are made do you think they wet the mix of sawdust first before they form it? F#ck no! The sawdust is forced out of a die with small holes under great pressure, the natural lignin in the wood binds the sawdust together to form the pellet shape. Manufactures do not wet the sawdust because wet pellets burn like shit. This guys whole video is not helping anybody to make a useful product, it only wastes their time.
@@SONGSTICKS I think the first step towards a higher compression would be to dismantle the handle and weld a nut on. Then you have the option to press the block down with a wrench or impact driver.
@@Holzplatz And the length of travel of the ram needs to be increased to allow for more compression. As suggested above, using an impact to tighten a nut on top of the threaded shaft would decrease the amount of time it takes to compress a brick. I love home brewed engineering projects like this. I have thrown away so much sawdust over the year but thanks to this video I can repurpose it
SIDE NOTE: We experts [who have been making sawdust for fifty years] DO NOT push wood through our saws using just our hands. Too, we use splitters, which GREATLY reduce kickbacks. Subsequently, and unlike many who don't use push shoes and similar devices, we have ALL our fingers and thumbs. That aside, thanks for the information.
A couple tablespoons of corn starch will also add stability. It's pretty cheap and non-toxic. Corrigated cardboard uses corn starch as glue to hold the layers together.
All I remember is three weeks later! Yo, I’m trying to burn those things tonight! Lol 😂 good video to get me started, thanks. I might make a steel press and cage, then heat them while in the steel to dry fast.
If you can weld, you can make a much better version using a bottle jack. A shop press, piece of steel tube of the appropriate size, and some small pieces of steel plate will work as well.
@@CarveLife Generally, you don't want to burn pine in a wood heater because of the creosote buildup, if you can avoid it. Some places have to because that is all they have. Pine also burns faster and generates less heat than oak or hickory. That said, there isn't any reason why the same process wouldn't work for pine dust. You may have to modify it for the fine particle size.
@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye Some pallets are made of hardwood. Especially heavy equipment pallets. Not terribly common because of the expense, but I have seen them. But yes, burning any pine will result in creasote build-up if you don't run a super hot fire. Pallet boards are just small and dry enough that they typically burn very hot and fast. I grew up burning wood for heat and saw all of this first hand. The only thing we would use pine for was initially starting the fire sometimes. Other than that, we burned all hardwood. Now, like I said, some places only burn softwoods because that is all they have. However, they will have to clean their chimneies at least annually or risk a chimney fire.
instead of adding News paper Just try to add following binders all are organic 1: Guargum 20-30gm in 1 KG saw dust 2: If in your area GuarGum is not available then you can add corn starch by oiling in water in this way you can make best quality Briquette you can even ship it easily it won't get broken in transit and can be store for long time...
As you burn briquettes in the stove to heat your home, you can put wet briquettes on top of the stove to speed drying. Almost like perpetual motion when it comes to heating your home.
Thanks for sharing this.... when we made our bricks we added wax crumbles to the mix, paper from our shredder, wood shavings and sawdust. I agree with others and would love to learn more about your fireplace. Thanks
I have made my own logs. They burn much faster then a normal log. Be prepared to stoke the fire more often. I didnt use this method. I used a long beam and my body weight. The fulcrum in the right place will give u very cheaply ctazy force.
Call from Norway! I tried to make a round briquette in a tube, and pressed it with a piston in the tube only by hand force. It fell apart when I pressed it out of the tube. Will it hold together with larger press ? Are there a difference between making a brick from pine tree, or leaf trees( birch, oak etc) ?
I like your thinking…. I would look for a used hydraulic press on Marketplace or similar…. You could probably build a new mould and make several at one time
Seems like a lot of thought and effort. I just get free wood by picking up the larger pieces that people leave on the tree lawn... That's just me, though...
Hey what about using this kind of tech to do all sort of vegetal concretes ? Many experiments has been done to have some economical, structural and insulating blocks, logs, boards, pannels for building... Clay slip straw and / or lime / or cement, mixed with sawdust, any plant residue like hemp, linen, miscanthus, dried grassclips.. All a research field!! Check my concrete playlist if needed
Умно,толково,-молодец!! Я пресс изготовил по принципу актуатора (шнека) и мотор-редуктор. Изготовление можно увидеть на моем канале.,так же имеются дробилки разных конструкций, экструдеры, веялка зерновых, чертежи бесплатно..
In the time it takes to make 1 lb of "briquettes", you could have picked up 100 lbs of "windfall" after a rainstorm. If you are going to make one, and actually save energy, you need a good source of sawdust. (Maybe you have a sawmill or a cabinet shop) and you need to build a system that will batch manufacture. Or even an extruder system. Run it with $1.00 worth of electricity and put out 200 lbs of extruded briquettes..
I imagine it's less about economy and more about recycling something that is already there in abundance. Most people just throw it away or dump it in the woods.
Can I offer a suggestion? Replace the clamp with a pull down lever attached to the press. This would improve speed massively. Like the handle on a drill press or mortiser.
Use a hydraulic cylinder and a steel mold, load the mold with DRY sawdust and wood shavings, compress using the hydraulic ram under 10 tons or more of pressure and the natural lignin in the wood fibers will bind/ 'glue' everything together when put under the extreme pressure and heat of the hydraulic ram. No drying time needed. Plus those cubes were not dry in the center after only a couple weeks.
Good to know 👍
That would be ideal if you have access to a hydraulic ram, much better if you don’t have to dry them. Unfortunately I don’t have a ram or anywhere warm and dry to lay out the wet ones either. My best option I think is to stack a few next to the open fire to dry out. I have a garage workshop full of sawdust from years of bandsaw ing up firewood and wood turning which I really ought to make brickettes out of and this method seems the most doable for me 😊
@@SONGSTICKS When wood pellets are made do you think they wet the mix of sawdust first before they form it? F#ck no! The sawdust is forced out of a die with small holes under great pressure, the natural lignin in the wood binds the sawdust together to form the pellet shape. Manufactures do not wet the sawdust because wet pellets burn like shit. This guys whole video is not helping anybody to make a useful product, it only wastes their time.
@@SONGSTICKS
I think the first step towards a higher compression would be to dismantle the handle and weld a nut on. Then you have the option to press the block down with a wrench or impact driver.
@@Holzplatz And the length of travel of the ram needs to be increased to allow for more compression. As suggested above, using an impact to tighten a nut on top of the threaded shaft would decrease the amount of time it takes to compress a brick.
I love home brewed engineering projects like this. I have thrown away so much sawdust over the year but thanks to this video I can repurpose it
SIDE NOTE: We experts [who have been making sawdust for fifty years] DO NOT push wood through our saws using just our hands. Too, we use splitters, which GREATLY reduce kickbacks. Subsequently, and unlike many who don't use push shoes and similar devices, we have ALL our fingers and thumbs.
That aside, thanks for the information.
Did you make your own wood stove? That thing looks incredible! Any chance we can get a closer look into that?
A couple tablespoons of corn starch will also add stability. It's pretty cheap and non-toxic. Corrigated cardboard uses corn starch as glue to hold the layers together.
All I remember is three weeks later! Yo, I’m trying to burn those things tonight! Lol 😂 good video to get me started, thanks. I might make a steel press and cage, then heat them while in the steel to dry fast.
Cool press! But I'm really intrigued by the wood stove with curved glass door!
Look up Morso or Nectre wood stoves, they're commonly carried in wood stoves stores
I thought the same.
Brilliant!!!! Thank you! I was wondering if this was possible! Hate wasting the wood so this is a great use!
Why use water if vegetable oil (reused) can be used too?
Vegetable oil will go rancid after awhile
Save your dry grass clippings , cardboard and leaf mulch and add that into it too.
Briquettes wil have more stability and burn longer if the sawdust is mixed with vegetable starch.
If you can weld, you can make a much better version using a bottle jack. A shop press, piece of steel tube of the appropriate size, and some small pieces of steel plate will work as well.
Do you think mostly pine saw dust is ok? My shop has lots of KD pine dust. Thanks
@@CarveLife Generally, you don't want to burn pine in a wood heater because of the creosote buildup, if you can avoid it. Some places have to because that is all they have. Pine also burns faster and generates less heat than oak or hickory.
That said, there isn't any reason why the same process wouldn't work for pine dust. You may have to modify it for the fine particle size.
@boeubanks7507 That’s not true with pallets, which I would think this is the same thing
@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye Some pallets are made of hardwood. Especially heavy equipment pallets. Not terribly common because of the expense, but I have seen them.
But yes, burning any pine will result in creasote build-up if you don't run a super hot fire. Pallet boards are just small and dry enough that they typically burn very hot and fast.
I grew up burning wood for heat and saw all of this first hand. The only thing we would use pine for was initially starting the fire sometimes. Other than that, we burned all hardwood.
Now, like I said, some places only burn softwoods because that is all they have. However, they will have to clean their chimneies at least annually or risk a chimney fire.
on your recipe did you used glue ? if so, how much percentage? thx
I didn't use any glue, for a better hold you can mix in newspaper
What is the ratio you used?
A 6” pipe and a 5 3/4 “ ram.
Done 😮
Yes coupled to one of those cheap electric log splitters.
The 50$ artisan sawdust briquette. 😅
Thank you for sharing.
😮
Maybe add a little flour to the mix which will act as a binder glue.
That's awesome but does your briquette produce creosote when burned?
if it is wet, absolutely.
instead of adding News paper Just try to add following binders all are organic
1: Guargum 20-30gm in 1 KG saw dust
2: If in your area GuarGum is not available then you can add corn starch by oiling in water in this way you can make best quality Briquette you can even ship it easily it won't get broken in transit and can be store for long time...
Equal quantities please:
How much paper + how much glue + water + sawdust
As you burn briquettes in the stove to heat your home, you can put wet briquettes on top of the stove to speed drying. Almost like perpetual motion when it comes to heating your home.
make it easier on yourself and remove the handle from your vice and stick a drill on it but otherwise, correct and great source of free heat
That music gave me motion sickness.
I thought I was the only one. It was like a dragging cassette tape
Who makes that stove? Thanks
Good job!
Thanks for sharing this.... when we made our bricks we added wax crumbles to the mix, paper from our shredder, wood shavings and sawdust. I agree with others and would love to learn more about your fireplace. Thanks
It's a hearthstone fireplace roughly $7000
Idea: Use a 6Ton Jack and you would make them more compress = more eficient
I have made my own logs. They burn much faster then a normal log. Be prepared to stoke the fire more often. I didnt use this method. I used a long beam and my body weight. The fulcrum in the right place will give u very cheaply ctazy force.
Call from Norway! I tried to make a round briquette in a tube, and pressed it with a piston in the tube only by hand force.
It fell apart when I pressed it out of the tube. Will it hold together with larger press ? Are there a difference between making a brick from pine tree, or leaf trees( birch, oak etc) ?
I like your thinking…. I would look for a used hydraulic press on Marketplace or similar…. You could probably build a new mould and make several at one time
How long do they burn for?
15 minutes
What is the heat output compared to regular firewood?
Seems like a lot of thought and effort. I just get free wood by picking up the larger pieces that people leave on the tree lawn...
That's just me, though...
Please clarify the quantities
@@mohamedokda2715 what quantities?
TF you gonna do with that
Hey what about using this kind of tech to do all sort of vegetal concretes ? Many experiments has been done to have some economical, structural and insulating blocks, logs, boards, pannels for building... Clay slip straw and / or lime / or cement, mixed with sawdust, any plant residue like hemp, linen, miscanthus, dried grassclips.. All a research field!! Check my concrete playlist if needed
The music sucks.
Anyone close to central Texas that wasn’t about 4 50 galas bags of saw dust for their pressed logs ?
Thought; would putting a nut on the red handle so that you could use either a socket wrench or a drill to compress the saw dust
My thoughts exactly
Put flats on your clamp handle to operate the press with the leverage of a wrench involved. … k.I.s.s. Method.
The briquettes could be improved further by adding charcoal dust in the mix.
Умно,толково,-молодец!!
Я пресс изготовил по принципу актуатора (шнека) и мотор-редуктор.
Изготовление можно увидеть на моем канале.,так же имеются дробилки разных конструкций, экструдеры, веялка зерновых, чертежи бесплатно..
could i use oil of some kind like used cooking oil instead of water?
Great vid , hate the music. Sorry
Came here to day the same. Can't watch it.
The kind of project that gives you heat three times of which two with sweaty armpits.
what is the burn time roughly per block?
How long does it lasts
Foreva
In the time it takes to make 1 lb of "briquettes", you could have picked up 100 lbs of "windfall" after a rainstorm. If you are going to make one, and actually save energy, you need a good source of sawdust. (Maybe you have a sawmill or a cabinet shop) and you need to build a system that will batch manufacture. Or even an extruder system. Run it with $1.00 worth of electricity and put out 200 lbs of extruded briquettes..
I imagine it's less about economy and more about recycling something that is already there in abundance. Most people just throw it away or dump it in the woods.
Primitivno.
Can I offer a suggestion? Replace the clamp with a pull down lever attached to the press. This would improve speed massively. Like the handle on a drill press or mortiser.
My thought exactly. And you can also achieve a far greater compression... need to be careful not to break the mould!
Watching that video, I was reminded of an old saying "a day in the bog is equivalent to a week in the forest"
do you have a ?
Viel Glück dabei :) !
'Promosm'
Anyone that feeds wood through a table saw with the bare hands is not worth taking any advice from.
One that actually uses a table saw knows that you Do Not Wear Gloves while using a table saw.
That's a nice video. I can't understand your choice of music....
Bravo.......plywood.......is where the money is......cheers
Seems like an awful long time to make one brick. Maybe a pug mill that potters use to knead and extrude clay would do the job quickly?
Don't think this guy's answering comments. Looks like he only answered one so far.
I loathe none verbal videos
You can, literally, just scoop sawdust from the bucket and toss it on your fire. This is a silly waste of time.
Won't it create more dust?
That would just smother the fire because sawdust packs together so tightly it allows for no air flow. These act like actual logs