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Post by donnalex on Nov 25, 2010 14:04:44 GMT 1
Oh yes next time Im passing (!) I shall call for them thanks
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Post by Carole on Nov 30, 2010 15:18:27 GMT 1
Interesting as just about to embark on this venture myself, what is being used as mould?
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Post by VeronicaF on Nov 30, 2010 15:57:29 GMT 1
you can buy them on e bay paper ones are very successful,they are so much easier to dry, and burn as long
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Post by Carole on Nov 30, 2010 20:52:51 GMT 1
Thanks Veronica, my partner is trying to make/adapt a press hopefully if it works they will make several at time and I will store them in boiler room so will dry all year in theory. If it workds will come back to tell you all.
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Post by VeronicaF on Dec 1, 2010 10:16:39 GMT 1
We are making two sizes, brick size and small balls, we put them in our Rayburn oven to dry,we use hot water to soak the paper as it speads up the process. we have had some people laugh at us for making these, but they can laugh away,as we are having free heating and hot water.
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Post by rj on Dec 1, 2010 12:39:48 GMT 1
Donnalex said 'I have been saving the loo rolls all summer and have run out of them to light the fire with. I crush them and put them inside each ther, they are quite good firelighters. We have also just run out of newspaper. Wish we had all the free papers delivered here sometimes!'
I have never confessed to anyone before, but I keep the loo roll innners, feed as many as 4 or 5 into one and they do burn really well. We don't get free-papers either and are not newspaper readers so are always running out of paper. However I bring home work envelopes to recycle, after having taken the stamps off, and found they and junkmail work well. Also we have pine trees, so collect bags & bags of pine cones to use as kindling over winter... Love the balls and bricks VF!!!
I thought the idea was to burn fresh poo rather than rotted manure, hmm what are the others doing?
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Post by VeronicaF on Dec 1, 2010 12:56:38 GMT 1
We haven't tried this,but it looks like a great way to get rid of household waste The Logmaker quickly and easily turns your household and garden waste into free fuel for your open fire, wood burning stove, chiminea, barbecue or camp fire. The log maker will produce compact newspaper encased logs in minutes and burn them straight away. The paper log will burn for upto 1 hour depending on the contents. You simply wrap a sheet of newspaper, tuck the ends into the bottom and stand down on a firm surface. Take the plunger and push down inside the tube to make the tucked in ends form a seal. Now remove the plunger and start to fill with your burnable waste items, compressing as you go. When you reach one of the fill levels, marked on the plunger, eject the newspaper log by holding the newspaper and using the plunger to force it away from the tube. Now twist the ends together or tuck them in. Your paper log is ready to burn straight away, no wetting or waiting. The New Green Logmaker doesn't just take newspaper. You can burn a lot of your household and garden waste in the Log maker - in fact around 30% of the average household bin can be recycled as burnable waste, here are some examples of waste that can be burnt effectively using the New Green Logmaker: The newspaper logmaker recycles; shredded paper, ripped up junk mail, ripped cardboard such as: cereal packets, eggboxes, toilet roll tubes (rip into small pieces first), teabags, nut shells, wood shavings and sawdust, dried leaves and twigs). So as well as being simple and fun to use, the New Green Paper Log maker also helps you to recycle your waste and produce Free Fuel. The log maker makes it easy and fun for every householder to re-use, re-cycle and recover waste. Remember: Don't bin it, burn it.
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Post by rj on Dec 1, 2010 17:49:14 GMT 1
Now look what you made me do!?! I went onto Amazon to check these beasties out. The neat little tube thing is cleaner & easier, because you use dry material, but the results don't burn very long & make a lot of ash. Some of the reviews said great as firelighters or kindling rather than logs. The brick-maker is a better bet, though it takes longer & is messier because you soak the paper first, and need to have somewhere to dry them, but you do get something much closer to wood at the end. So I've just ordered one of those for us!
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Post by VeronicaF on Dec 1, 2010 18:30:11 GMT 1
if you soak the paper in hot water it only takes an hour to be ready to use,and they don't take long to dry in the house, we use our rayburn oven or radators,but you could use the airing cupboard
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