Making a hydraulic briquette press 

That is super amazing! It is so wonderful to imagine, create, and enjoy the fruits of past labor.

@@CrashOrganism Magnetic sensor.

i learned a little thank you

You've got yourself a new subscriber. While I was watching I kept thinking I could do that! Then reality set in. Great video.

Well my previous comment had some quick effect haha

Absolutely

When a jack of all trades reaches master level.

It's also easy to overlook the fact that he had to set cameras, mics and lighting up to film each step of these various processes, and then edit hours and hours of footage into 40 minutes of his particular style of video on whatever computer software he's using so he can upload to RU-vid!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

most of it's transferrable

Just a guess: He has learned the trade and clearly knows what he is doing. The whole hydraulics setup reminds me of what you normally see in commercial industry grade hydraulics installations. That's why I thought: Brave! A rollable hydraulic unit (by design and function very vibration-intensive and therefore the enemy of all weld seams and seals!) but not a double-walled tank (expensive) or at least a safety collecting tray for minor accidents or leaks? You should probably plan for this, because if it's too late, cleaning and disposing of the oil can be really expensive and unpleasant. You won't see any hydraulics tank in the industry that at least rests on a safety tray. Well, just a thought ... hehehe:) Also: We drill all holes and make any cutouts in an electrical cabinet BEFORE mounting and wiring the electronics components in it. Yeah, that can not always be done with prototypes, so: Use some plastic foil or at least cloth to cover the components from metal swarf. And no, that is just something you do. The minute time it costs is simply not comparable to hours of sadness a single piece of metal shaving can hit you with. Did I say PROTOTYPE? We close every cover and secure every single connection or loose cables before testing. Especially those of the motor terminal block. Guess when most accidents happen? Right! When testing a prototype where nothing is clear and things may change. With open and unprotected mechanical or electrical parts, a simple accident or a hiccup ... which otherwise would just be an annoyance ... may turn into your LAST Project. Which is sad and easy preventable by paying attention and not getting lazy. Have fun making, live long and prosper, guys!:)

glad I'm not the only one that feels this way lol

@@stormywilliams3697 :: loved it with no monologue OR. music !

Same here Ethan. First video I've watched here and +1 subscriber 🤟😎

That's why I like his videos. You don't need to listen stupid music or explanation... just sit watch and relax

I second that! Great engineering

Ни какое "официальное" образование не поможет если нет интереса или желания заниматься этим.

Yup. I hate him too. 🤣😂🤣😂😉

I assume a little of both. Some people have a natural gift of creativity and hands on skill. Dyslexic people and dreamers are like that. I'm not assuming he is though.😌

@@DART2WADER А интересы и желания, которые дремлют, могут пробудиться, если их вдохновит такая возможность.

Also they not only have the disregard for heath ,- they even invented the Heathcliff himself 😁😁

🇩🇪🇯🇵🇺🇸 is all crap compared with 🇬🇧is’nt it ? But this Guy is doping an amazing job 👍

@J Hemphill the first flag is German not Spain. But nevertheless ,this guy from Yorkshire does absolutely incredible things. I admire his craftmanship very much. Best regards from 🇳🇱

@J Hemphill "Yorkshire" in the title wasn't enough of a clue, then?

@@beakittelscherz5419 You won the Internet!

both uploaded at the same time😁 great stuff, book press, briquette press.

Automatic conveyor feeder in the next episode I suspect.

Just chute the press outfeed right into the stove, switchable to a hopper when the stove id not being used.

+ an IR cam w/ computer vision to tell when the stove needs to be reloaded

The robot, for the nex video......😆😆

Very good info and very nice of you to share your knowledge.

Some good ideas in this, thanks for sharing. I was mainly worried about the temperature increase in summer and/or doing a project that kicked a lot of heat out that gathered in the top levels of the workshop.

This is some hot knowledge right here

To everyone concerned about winter vs summer vs combustibility: I wonder if this will be running through summer as well? With that setup, I guess it does look like it will… but needed to ask either way.

could one weld some fins onto the outfeed to help it dissipate excess heat?

This is the internet age, go online, learn, raise your pay grade.

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I have a pellet grill, and I'm also skilled in dust fabrication. I had similar thoughts as you, both the before and after.

Well you could increase thread pitch for higher speed and reduce the final pellet/rod diameter so yo wouldn't have to deal with big expensive motors and pistons

My personal motto is that if something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing. I love this project way more than I should. I thought I was good at over-engineering projects, but this is almost Rube Goldberg-ish without quite getting to that level of absurdity. I absolutely approve. If I did enough in my wood shop to warrant this kind of dust collector reclamation I would probably try to build one of these, but thankfully I don't. My wife does want to redo the kitchen and put in new cabinets, though...

@@spencerbrotherson9061 I think in some way this fellow is related to Nick Blackhurst!

Where is it overbuild, that is pretty much the way to do it.

@@jonasstahl9826 I agree totally, it wasn't overbuilt in the least as far as I'm concered, it was built right. He did what was necessary to make it work corectly without cutting corners. A very well put together piece of machinery. Kudos to you Sir.

@@bobd9193 Sure the m16 hardened threated rods look extremly beefy and he uses 4 of them. Each can hold about 16t thats alot, but when you think about that the press is able to up too 20t if the controls fail, it is just a safety factor 3.

Sure no problem, just $5000 with installation lol

These are a product, it's just not cheap

I don't do much wood working but I make fire starter briquettes by melting paraffin in the oven with the sawdust, mix it up and just press it by hand into a pipe, the wax binds it together without needing a hydraulic press but doing this automatically would be nice.

@@Sugarsail1 I do the same, but use shredded cardboard not paraffin as binder as paraffin aren't cheap here!

The Cheaper way, you buy a pellet extruder. Like Pasta extrusion. Because his way is more expensive to produce.

and the most expensive........................?? by FAR

@@raymondo162 I was also thinking something, but after some, though; he is also generating a winter fuel supply for the shop plus the coolant water recirculating thru a radiator with a fan behind is also a source of heat for the shop. So, there is a payback for the materials cost and labor time.

And then you still have to build Kinda forklift for taking those briketts to downstairs... (I should have thought that in a first place, damn it!)

@@davidschwartz5127 No need for a radiatior. Heat doesn't disappear. The machine is inside the shop, therefore heating it.

as far as "just to avoid emptying" this also provides a way to provide for your home heating and neighbors too, assuming they have heat exchange like the one shown in the video. Secondly, for getting them "downstairs" they look pretty solid, a staggered, padded (with rubber or whatever) staircase they can fall down would work, or just run that PVC pipe down, at a slight angle, or an open top spiral (to unjam it if necessary) But then you need an overfill sensor and stuff. Best to not automate everything, i guess.

I'm not being glib or holier than thou, but technically he is releasing the carbon when he burns the briquettes. If you want the most environmentally friendly solution, that is to compress the sawdust to reuse it as a building material. Of course this is still more environmentally friendly than burning lumber or fossil fuels.

@@Auriflamme It's the carbon cycle; Fire releases carbon, carbon absorbed by trees, trees become wood, wood becomes sawdust, sawdust becomes briquette, briquette becomes fire, and repeat... :)

The question is the energy used to make the bricks equivalent to the energy produced burning the the bricks?

@@ericfraser7543 I did consider that a heat pump/reverse cycle air conditioner is probably way more efficient and less polluting but the waste wood is being generated anyway. It's one of those cost/benefit things. If the waste wood has to be transported to land fill there might be a trade off if it's just processed on site?

@@Preso58 agreed, if he is heating his shop with wood that he has to source elsewhere it is also a win for him. he could also power his pellet press using solar if he wants to make the process greener.

at least the wood dust wouldnt have been an issue for decomposing like all the plastic -.-'

I expect he'll create something that feeds them one at a time into the firebox. Some robotic forceps that grab one, opens the door, pops it in, and closes the door again.

I was thinking of extending the chute into a metal drum lined with a heavy duty plastic bag... Need to be able to stockpile the briquettes over the summer and keep them dry for the winter.

I was thinking maybe some sort of spiral made from heated PVC pipe, not sure how it is for forming but maybe... spiral it around a cylinder and you might be able to get it to work.

I thought just a simple shoot, then I read your comment and realised how in error I was in my simplicity. A simple shoot is far too easy for this mans skillset, and just wouldn't fit with the briquette press.

@@devandestudios128 Well the briquettes are round cylinders so why not put that to good use and have them roll down to the storage box and fireplace feeder.

Sure. The mineral oil component would also turn the briquettes into a whole other material class, with different safety regulations and more rigorous storage requirements. You did thought about that, yes?:) Also: Nope, wood has its own natural lubrication with lignin and contained resin. Moisture evaporates in storage without anybody even moving a finger. No need for CONTAMINATION with "additives". Man, the final product is used to BURN IT! Not as some design student art project ... (At least I think so?!:) ) Edit: Or if it is not burned(was an assumption) ... maybe recycled into filler material, or the biological way in the methane/bio-diesel path. Anyways ... think about it. You will turn that wood with the addition of paraffin into "dangerous goods" (the material class) that must be disposed of in a landfill or in a special burning facility. Oh ... and you are willing to use precious hydrocarbons for ... GARBAGE, to throw it out of the window? Are you really sure?:))) The problems we see in the video are design problems and not that of lubrication. Professional presses do not have flat punches and the compression tube is at least partially conical. Throughput must become easier for the material in the direction of ejection and not the other way around. Teflon coatings after the compressor restriction can also help. But that costs a lot. People think really to much and in the wrong ways and get too fancy(Its entertaining, educating and nothing is wrong trying some new approaches). You can clearly see here what the motivation was about: Nice BRIQUETTES! (And primarily getting rid of that annoying dust and having to change the even more annoying bag). The only goal here is to compress the dust, because for better storage of the garbage. That is easily achieved with one electric motor and two rotating rollers running against each other. This is just a press of a different design. No need for electronics or clogging of complicated mechanisms. You can even (gravitation!) feed directly into the compression element which produces sheets of compressed wood instead of briquettes. That also can easily be turned into a "dough snake" with appropriate nozzles or roller profiles, which looks the same at the end.

and automate the stove feed as well.

And the stove automatically brewed a cup of tea.

@@Mr2at Let's not get carried away. Coffee before Tea.

@@paulrosebush9137 Not in my shed it ain't 🤣

@@georgeberrill4834 :)

I would be careful criticizing people that cant "Competently read a tape measure", because they can easily turn around and criticize your lack of grammar, spelling, and sentence structure of your comment. Not trying to be a jerk, just saying everyone has their strengths and weaknesses.

@@glOckcOma Dude, glass houses and all that! (cant? can't?)

@@idontthinkso666 Really an apostrophe. LMAO!!!

Put up an ad for composters in your area. Maybe it can be used for garden compost, and it definitely can be used for a composting toilet.

@@dethmaul great tips, will look into it!

I know an industrial arts instructor. He keeps his saw dust in 4x4x4 boxes. Buries his green turned bowls in it to slowly dry. Seems to work quite well.

i found that i could burn saw dust by wrapping it in paper like an oversized candy or Christmas cracker, the paper turns almost charcoal-like and protects the dust from flame licks and reduces the airflow so the dust bakes and compacts before it finally burning. i do suspect mileage may vary but its minimal effort for free firewood.

Sawdust makes good absortant for oil spills in the and might burn in a stove, compost makes a lot of sense since most of the most fertile soils in the world were under trees or tall grass

Ah yes, the incredible insanity that leads to shredding perfectly good logs into sawdust that you then press into the shape of a log...

In practice, it's scraps, ends, splintered boards, the top of a tree that is too thin for making boards, the sawdust from milling activity, misc wood like that, meaning the waste from creating finished lumber and other wood products is not.. well... wasted.@@malkeus6487

@@malkeus6487 You realize that's not generally what happens yes? It's re-use of waste from milling operations.

Off topic comment for Lucas Schnock. I like your name. I have been collecting different spellings of my last name. Yours makes 30 on my list. Some on my list are more than a little different.

@@leonardschrock4987 Schnock means mosquito in Alsatian and fool in French. Look up D'r Hans im Schnokeloch for more info.

@@My_Op That is interesting. Thanks

Had the same thought.

@@josephmiller997 Yep, chip fat or engine oil (both free) work well.

ye I was thinking about that yesterday, ill run some tracks of that copper tape I used to earth the pipes on my cyclone attachment

And the constant noise it makes 😣 - would you put up with it? I certainly wouldn’t ☹️. I wonder what would happen if it runs out of sawdust? And how does the heat-exchange work?

Yes, I worked as a welder for 45 years, I find it hard to believe that the bore of the ram cylinder was not distorted by the welding, in fact the ram stuck at the weld level whilst he was inserting it.

I've always been a bit leery of working with high pressure hydraulics. If a pin hole or small crack appeared, how far away could it seriously injury you (not including orifices ;))? I'm guessing 3 feet?

I think that’s what you call an apprentice !

Hear me out here. Stove on the other end of the shop, auto loading pneumatic cannon to shoot these pellets across the shop into the stove.