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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

Look up Morso or Nectre wood stoves, they're commonly carried in wood stoves stores

It's a hearthstone fireplace roughly $7000

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.

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I didn't use any glue, for a better hold you can mix in newspaper

Vegetable oil will go rancid after awhile

My thoughts exactly

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"

if it is wet, absolutely.

Yes coupled to one of those cheap electric log splitters.

Please clarify the quantities

@@mohamedokda2715 what quantities?

15 minutes

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.

Equal quantities please:

How much paper + how much glue + water + sawdust

I thought I was the only one. It was like a dragging cassette tape

Wimp

One that actually uses a table saw knows that you Do Not Wear Gloves while using a table saw.

Won't it create more dust?

Do so and it'll explode in your face as it will burn far too rapidly.

That would just smother the fire because sawdust packs together so tightly it allows for no air flow. These act like actual logs