Log Making From Start To Finish

[AngeTheHippy]

As promised, a step-by-step guide to help you make YOUR FREE LOGS for the burner. Enjoy!!


Empty Mould on Frame


Ensure well stuffed


Ready to go


Press with Bottle Jack



Re-use the water!


Release from Mould


Finished Log


Log Store ready for Winter!


Blazing Away


We found the frame pattern online last year. I cannot tell you where, I didn't take a note of it, but it wasn't a schematic pattern, just an image that we copied.

Good Luck!!

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[The Woodman]

Nice sequence of images Ange. I've given up getting a daily paper delivered and now read on line.
How long does each log take to make?

[AngeTheHippy]

Originally Posted by The Woodman

Nice sequence of images Ange. I've given up getting a daily paper delivered and now read on line.
How long does each log take to make?

Thanks Woodman, from **stuffing** stage to pressing out: 45 seconds... Drying takes a lot longer!!

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[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by The Woodman

Nice sequence of images Ange. I've given up getting a daily paper delivered and now read on line.
How long does each log take to make?

Presumably after logging on?

[nightshade]

Nice press,you could make cider to drink in front of the log burner

[AngeTheHippy]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Nice press,you could make cider to drink in front of the log burner

Crikey nightshade!!! What a thought... Better though, to MAKE the Cider whilst sitting in front of the made LOGS burning drinking a CIDER. Hazzardous though - prob not much logs being made after the first 4 either...

[dan-fisher]

Excellent home made effort, although do the papers create tons of more waste to clean ?? or shower the local area with light ash ??

I gonna get me a newspaper brickmaker which is cool as i'm to open up a chimney in the house to get some quick localised heat without resorting to eating up the oil supply.

ebay item number 320311009474 shows the one i'm after.

[AngeTheHippy]

Originally Posted by dan-fisher

Excellent home made effort, although do the papers create tons of more waste to clean ?? or shower the local area with light ash ??

I gonna get me a newspaper brickmaker which is cool as i'm to open up a chimney in the house to get some quick localised heat without resorting to eating up the oil supply.

ebay item number 320311009474 shows the one i'm after.

Hi Dan, This was the model we was gonna get if Pete's model didn't work. You won't have anywhere near the same force as with Pete's model, the Hydraulics really squeeeeze that water out.

I certainly haven't noticed ash settling in the surrounding area.

I don't have any idea just how well they'd burn in an open fire, Dan. Would it not be possible for you to have a multi-burner installed? Yep, they're expensive initially but they are way, way more efficient than an open fire.

The brickette maker isn't that expensive, so what have you to lose? You could always use them in BBQs or Chimineas too.

Ange
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[dan-fisher]

Thanks Angie, i'm buying 2.. it's xmas soon and my bro inlaw also has opened a fireplace up.. yeah yours i can see will be far, far superior as regards force, which is what makes the brick !!

He never uses the xmas pressies i buy him any way so being cheap it won't matter !!

[AngeTheHippy]

Originally Posted by dan-fisher

Thanks Angie, i'm buying 2.. it's xmas soon and my bro inlaw also has opened a fireplace up.. yeah yours i can see will be far, far superior as regards force, which is what makes the brick !!

He never uses the xmas pressies i buy him any way so being cheap it won't matter !!

Morning Dan,
Well! This is the best bit of forward thinking I've heard in a long time... ya never know, as BroInLaw does n't use his prezzies... you MIGHT GET IT BACK NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck,

Ange