this is a great method. Instead of the flour, which isnt really waste you can use water that you boiled rice or pasta in because the starchy water will be a natural weak glue in place of your fresh water
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Thanks @Bucket247 for taking the time to make this video, it gave me some ideas I can use in many other diy projects. I have made various presses out of various materials over the years but never occured to me to put pvc pipe in center. It also never occurred to me to use a hydraulic jack to create the pressure to squeeze out the water. It also gave me an idea for making and pressing papercrete and adobe bricks. Thanks again. I subbed your channel too.
LOL. Just finished saying that... you beat me by a year... That would be a bear to have as "on hold background music" on the Suicide Hotline. Well, to be candid, being on "HOLD" at all might be worse?
I really love your video sir.. I salute the way you innovate the moulder and make it even more useful.. Dont mind these negative people.. They are just too lazy enough to do this... If there's a will, there's a way! I really support alternative fuels! Let's save mother Earth! P. S. Maybe you can look for alternatives for the flour as a binding agent..
FYI Please do not burn glossy magazines. There is clay coating they use on the paper and it can be detrimental to your lungs. I only know this b c for years i made paper.
Nice system to compress the paper. I will not use paper brick in open flame because the chemicals on it, but with sawdust those bricks should be very good.
Nice video, thanks for posting. My lord people are such j*@koffs!! I was reading the comments for the answer to the rain question and couldn't believe the crap people complain about!! I didn't even notice the guitar loop!!! People should comment online the same way they would in real life, because in real life these a holes know they'd get the snot smacked out of them!!
Dude!!! I totally agree! most shit comments come from people that just found youtube yesterday and feel the need to criticize every video they watch. Glad to see folk out there like you Paul that get it! Thanks Buddy!!
@@Bucket247 Your viewers gave you honest feedback on what they disliked, and instead of hearing them, you decided to be a twat. Lose the ratty guitar lick; it'll make your video much more watchable.
if you could find a palce where they make wood trusse , some have a mountains of saw dust then you mix the saw dust with the card board that will produce a fiber that will bind the saw dust for making blocks and they tools that will compress them to bricks
Lots of good ideas here. Use shredded paper, add sawdust for better burning and flour for binding. Use a hydraulic press for better water removal. Add pipes for air holes in the centre, and then remove them while wet. To make them a bit easier to burn, maybe add that last layer but don't press it down as much, so it's less dense and catches fire more easily. All great tips - thanks!
You could use a rain barrel for your water needs and even a short 1/8in rain is enough to fill a 40gal barrel. For drying out your bricks you can make a hot box. Like #2 45 degree triangles with a back bored painted black and with a used window pane of some kind. Then you could put a air vent to let the moisture out. It’s basically a cheap solar cooker which can get up a few hundred degrees.
I had the same exact idea. This commercial brick maker that is on various other videos has a poor lever pressure system. This is how you can easily improve it. I did not know there was a 4 brick configuration of this machine.
Thank you for that video......The idea of flour as a binding agent is incredible,,because if you know your science,,flour has a flash point. I got to see that first hand when the bakery in our neighborhood literally EXPLODED a few years ago. The fire dept said it was because of the flour dust and the bakerys LACK of proper storage is what caused the HUGE BOOM!! So with that in mind,,it makes a great aid in your logs ability to light and burn good. Please do a burn video,,as I would like to see if yours have any difference in length of burn time compared to mine. Thanks again for a MOST INFORMATIVE video.
Frank Castronuovo Thanks Frank! I didn’t know about the flour and flashpoint, i got the idea from a few other brick makers. I’ll have my burn video up soon just have to do a voiceover and upload it but I’m rearranging my computer area so I’m out of commission for about a week.
To then use 'grey water' instead of good drinking water is a double advantage, which is what I did when living in an isolated area with very limited water resources.
Using the items in your description above are items that would end up in the bin which would have been sent to the waste collector and then put in the dump to lay until it decomposed, its a better use to use in you "Bio Briquettes" to provide heat.
Great job, I too have this setup, I work for a “ School “ system, and of course I get huge bags of shredded paper free, and large bins of sawdust from the carpentry shops at multiple schools, experimenting now with the cooking Labs waste veggie oil. However cant right now as its -24c where I am .
Thanks Uzuriuk! I think it's worth it as well, I made so many of these bricks that I forgot which ones have the funky Flames mixed in! I will definitely make more and go heavy on the funky flames and we'll see what happens!!
I seriously doubt that. Have made these in the past. Requires very little electrical energy expenditure for quite a reasonable return in heat energy. If you're talking about energy in effort, you haven't done much firewood collecting! Lol. Either way, it's better using it as heat than throwing the paper in the bin, which may go into landfill(if Australia's recycling system is anything to go by!). It's also better than cutting more trees down. As for use of power tools, who's to know if he/they aren't "off grid" and powering everything from solar PV panels, batteries and inverter?
The idea is good.... good large briquettes. I wish you had made the frame for the press sturdier.... Please test burn the guitar loop with the briquettes xD
I have since rebuilt the frame and it's much sturdier but when your experimenting with something your not sure will even work in the first place you just try it out with what you have available. Then when it proves to work you can build it better.
No matter what the radical ecologists are saying its a very good idea paper recycling plants have to much wasted overstock paper thousands of tons not knowing what to do with them anymore since the price of recycle paper went down drastically some do end up in the landfill polluting much more than the fact of burning the water based inks on them ,the only paper that we shouldn't use are the glossy papers covered with a plastic formula !
yes there is an over supply of waste paper, pity that there isnt a law to make all notebooks, toilet tissue and paper hand towels out of recycled paper to increase demand
i am useing an angle grinder or rotary tool to put notches where it meets the rods and thread the rods use nutz and big washe, r so it so slip and bend
I cannot see why not. If paper is pure cellulose (which it should be, though chemicals are added), then it should make a very pure (and also very dense) charcoal. If you're using it for cooking, well, I'd probably be afraid of the added chemicals/inks burning into your food, but if you are using it for blacksmithing, it might work, you just wouldn't want it as large as seen in the video.
All the work it takes processing firewood vs this is no comparison!! Not to mention the infinite supply of junk mail that comes to a house on a daily basis, the fuel carries itself to your house!! Spin a drill for a few mins, press it and lay it out for a few weeks, man that's hard work!!
I'd say that if you want to do that you'd probably have to mix it with boric acid or borates I think it's called. This should in theory make it flame retardant but I'm not a 100% sure. I know boric acid is used in paper insulation but if you try researching it a bit I'm sure you'll find out. Good luck with it 🙂
you get huge points for cutting to the chase. i love the double press and air holes. if you open the release on you jack enough to remove it, then close it, you can just open it again and squeeze you r jack into place much faster. well done! how long does it take to dry on average?
Thanks Abe! I live in San Diego so if i pump out some bricks in the summer it takes about two to three weeks to dry, i flip them over every week until dry. Winter could take a month to dry completely if not more.
Great way to recycle paper if you have nothing else to do...but I have 2 concerns. One is you’re using flour, I.e. food in the production and second is shredded xerox paper has a lot of chemicals.
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Somebody should do a cost analysis of this... The material cost, time cost, of course how long the bricks burn for and how many BTUs it gives off vs normal gas heating
Mark making it on this scale is hardly worth the money when you could head out to the woods. However if you do it on an industrial scale with industrial equipment, you can take landscaping waste and turn it into pallets and pallets of bricks and sell for a little bit of money. Most of the money would be from the landscapers dumping their waste at your site.
Free waste paper, minimal elbow grease, and a $50 press vs around $400 a cord of firewood times at least 2 a season, $20 or so for starter/bio logs times at least 50 a season and cutting down your own trees, transporting then to your processing site, chainsawing, splitting, chopping,stacking for a whole season....! C'mon this is sooo much easier and cheaper than the alternatives!! I mean I round up trees and large branches that fall on my property and that's a big undertaking to process for firewood. If I didn't HAVE to get rid those logs I would never take on that project just to save a few bucks!! I use the wood in my outdoor firepits just because I have to get rid of the mess on the farm and be a shame to pay someone to remove it and then go buy firewood when I want to hang out buy the fire.
Magazines, junk mail and colored gift-wrapping paper may seem like harmless items to burn. Only use plain newspaper or uncoated paper in your fireplace, and use it sparingly. While you should generally not burn paper, it is acceptable to use a small amount of tightly rolled, plain black-and-white newspaper as kindling. Make sure to place it between small bits of wood and avoid any paper with colors or gloss. But the ink printed on the paper releases toxic fumes when burned.
No, it's only worth it if you have more paper available to you than wood. I must admit it was hella fun making different concoctions and playing around with this for fun but if the wood is readily available then stick with that.
very cool video, I tried to do something like this a couple of weeks ago (before finding your video) but can't seem to get my 'bricks' to dry out. How long did it take for your bricks to dry out?
In the summer time they take about two weeks to dry out. Flip em after one week. Before I started to hydraulically press out the water they were taking roughly a month to dry out.
Heres the burn test vid. The thicker ones didn't burn much differently but definitely longer. I took a bunch of them camping and even i was impressed. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KKoK3D8zwdY.html
Not sure on actual weights of each...that's a great question, I'll weigh em when I get a chance. I get shreds from work... about a good sized box per week.
how long is it taking your logs to dry ? I am in New Jersey , i place my logs in a shed , the shed is always 100 hot , but my logs are still not drying ?? Thanks Mike
Is this a way to improve the world we live in or just cheaper than buying the same BTUs in firewood? The time to mix in small 5 gallon batches, and hand pressing with a small jack doesn't seem worth the time and effort. If this could be scaled up with large shredders, mixers, and powered presses it might seem reasonable way of reprocessing the large amounts of shredded paper produced everyday by society. I assume these bricks burn at least as long a standard dried and split wood or they would not really be practical.
great video[s].......had the idea along time ago packing all that junk mail but you made it work!!!....wonder about a lil paper mache mix for a binding agent?...kutgw!!!
ok this 1 got me!!!...but i think im going to build a jig & mold to do big log type, maybe cut a few into 3 or 4 inch thick pancakes but burn 1 big section...great video, im a guitarists so the music is fine for me...haha..
@@Bucket247 if I made a large batch of about 50 gallons and poured in into larger molds and just used a tamper to compact them do you think that would make a strong brick?
I’m sure some wanker will tell you colored paper is toxic but i use it and with the exception of growing a tail... I’m just fine! 😉 You could definitely create your own form, lots of people use PVC pipe and make round logs. 👍🏻👍🏻
LOL, I used a plastic bucket inside with the drill & a paint mixing metal rod. Result (when the rod went through the side of the bucket) was a bloody mess. I didn't do that again. LOLOL.
