A quick update for anyone who comes across this video. I called the number listed and sadly one of the blokes involved in making these passed away so they are no longer being made.,
I've had my Briquette maker press about 8 years now. I must have made 10k briquettes using sawdust. A friend has just bought one and the quality has dropped. It's been simplified for production, but it's not a patch on yours 8 years ago. I've made a couple of videos. You should be proud of what you achieved.
Looks like a solid instrument, and the video was quite entertaining. I wish to order one unit, but I can’t access the website, would you mind drop your e-mail please?
Think this has come at the right time considering the price of gas and electric ⚡️. I know people who have got a multi burner stove installed in there homes .
I have one of these presses and have done some experimenting. I've had limited success with adding sawdust to the paper pulp but if you add too much, the brick becomes weaker. I don't think grass cuttings would work very well but you could add some and try. You really need well-pulped paper to hold everything together. I take a 5 gallon bucket and add my paper to it and then add water. I let that sit for a week and then make the bricks on the weekend. That really softens-up the paper. If you use newspaper, that pulps really quickly and could be pulped right away like this guy demonstrates in his other video. But other paper like junkmail documents take a little longer for the fibers to break down. If you run the paper through a shredder first, it also helps.
