Paper Briquette Bailer
 

Can anyone tell me if you can buy these in this country??I know years ago on the late late a fella was starting up a company to sell them.But I can only find them in the UK and some of them companies wont post to Ireland.You make your
own briquettes out of newspaper.

I haven't seen them for years but I may be able to get my hands on one for you. The person who used to have one is away on holidays and I will ask them on their return. Not promising anything. I will post back here if I have any luck.

that would be great thanks very much for the reply.

Buffy, I'm wondering about making briquettes with a bailer?? I saw somebody years ago making a sort of briquette, using milk cartons packed with wet newspaper, it appears they were great to give out heat (not the plastic milk bottles)
B.
I love looking at this site i'm in my 60ies & certainly rem. many forms of recycling, some I hated especially when parcels came from America & I had to wear the recycled dresses! Oh boy.
I am going to post some of my memories to the 'General topic' section..

baler
 

if you ring the green party head office in swords they will know?
cathy

paper briquettes
 

Hi bunty
I'm very curious about the idea of making briquettes from old newspapers and milk cartons, i have a solid fuel burner and it eats wood!!! i wonder is there a web site that would show you how to make these briquettes.
If anyone has any more information on this process it would be great. Thanks bunty for the idea.
cheers M.

http://www.newdawnengineering.com/we...tove/firecube/

paper briquette
 

thanks buffy...sounds a bit more tricky than i'd hoped..still i might give it a shot it would be great if it worked out...thanks again. This is a great site...jumbletown...saved so much money and met and spoke to some wonderful people..long may it last.
M

Were you thinking about that?
http://www.ecoshop.ie/search.asp?pg=...&stype=ex act

logs
 

that is fantastic that is exactly what i was thinking of, and not too expensive either, thanks for that. that will keep us busy on the cold winter nights!!
M

Terrific website Pearl. Thanks very much for posting it.

my god.....5mins up the road.I was going all over the world on the net trying to get one.Pearl you are a genius.

Give me till Monday and you might get one for free !

ok great thanks very much.

paper
 

I heard they take 6 months to dry out?
Better to just roll em up and throw them in?
cathy

I've been following u'r briquette making, this sounds like the lady who used the milk cartons! I think she probably used the carton as a mould & whatever was in the carton itself, helped the burning process. Best of Luck. B.

another type
 

If you all enjoyed the log maker, here is another type... now you can choose which one you like the most. :)
http://cgi.ebay.ie/LogMaker-recycle-...QQcmdZViewItem

I presume that the actual paper briquettes would burn for a while rather than throwing paper straight into the fire Cathy. I'm not sure, but I'd like to clarify this as I'd like a paper briquette machine myself.

paper
 

unless you use another fule with it ,its not the best.
Theres not enough air to burn paper when in brickette.
Would recommend mixing wax, like old candels with the paper.This would encourage it burn better?
Just an idea.

Hi buffy

I have got that for you. I posted it as a new thread in the The Home - Misc. section with a photo - you have first call on it. PM me your number and we can organise delivery.

See here: http://www.jumbletown.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=2643

jumblelover

Briquette Press History
 

Hi to all that are interested in the briquette press.

Someone mentioned they saw it on the late late show,
WELL I hate to say it now but i was that Soldier.
This was something that i saw on the then BBC's Tomorrows World Programm.
From there i went on to contact the Inventor whom gave me permission to have them manufactured here in Ireland.(OOP'S BIG MISTAKE}. The truth of these items are they do work but so must you (very hard). You also need a 40 Gallon Drum 1/2 full of water, a mountain of waste paper, a warm room to allow them to dry for several days and then they burn for approx 10 minutes. An eventful but COSTLY venture for me but I would rather buy a bale of briquette's.

Best of luck to all who tries.

paper log maker
 

funny thing I spent all day yesterday looking for just that, I was beginning to think I imagined the whole thing. I saw it on the net a couple years ago but lost the addy.It seems a great gadget for disposing of waste paper, I'm in Limerick if anyone local has one to give away,
Thanks in anticipation, ooops just saw your reply Karaoke twas too good to be true I appreciate your honesty it wouldnt be much use for my paltry few newspapers.
G

from Admin
 

Hi gabbie,

Make sure to put a post for a paper-log maker in the Wanted forum at the bottom of the Home Page. You just might get lucky!

Regards
Chris P
Admin

Do you know, these gadgets will still be in use in 20 years time, i'd say. However, i remember my mothers own version when we were growing up. She used to collect all the dust and small bits of coal before filling the bunker and wet them, then she three quarter filled the empty milk cartons or similar containers and when she set the fire she used to put this to the back of the fire. My god they used to set solid and burned for hours, and the hot water was a plenty. The things we do...

Ingenious!

milk cartons
 

if you use slack instead of coal and your old washing up water it holds the slack together to make a briquette in the milk carton It really works lasts for hours and if you put it on the fire at night it will burn all night
i know i used it before the smokeless coal came in now i cant use the slack anymore

re:paper briquettes
 

my husband made them years ago but he got an old rectangle baking tin.
any old newspapers he would put and leave in water for a day or two and then pack them in to tin and then he would put a brick on top to weigh it down in the tin so when they dry he take them out and let them dry like turf!
kind regards

Isn't it gas, the things we get up to. These days i just put the newspapers into the compost. I suppose it's the lazy way out, but i get some great compost. In our old house we needed to get as much heat as possible from the fire as there was practically no insulation. I'm glad to say the new house (council) has come a long way. We spent 20 years in a freezing house and now if we try to burn coal, as we did the week after we moved in, we had to open windows and doors and take off our jumpers. Good insulation makes it easy to heat as all we burn now is timber and turf. Awww the smell of the turf. Kilk might save me a bit from the bog.

Hi Oxendales have one im not sure of the price but it comes with a free can crusher check www.oxendales.ie

The link below is the page it's on.

http://www.oxendales.ie/productcache...sz_asc.html.gz

Price €47.49
Seems a bit pricey, I'd say they're around cheaper than that.

Coal cinders
 

When I was a child, the large cinders from the heap of coal ash at the end of the garden would be gathered up, put in a basket, washed thoroughly, drained and put on the fire. We had a big open grate, with hobs on either side. When the cinders lit, they just glowed for hours and the heat was fantastic!

Hi!
 

Have a look on Ebay, I love ebay.

Even when they say they don't post to ireland I always ask nicelly and they have always ended up saying yes.

And if the item comes from the US but is less then €50 you don't pay tax.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Paper-Log-Maker-...3286.m63.l1177

The Paper Log Maker is readily available on Ebay.ie for sale now and auction.

http://search.ebay.ie/search/search....ypage=searc h

(when making a search for maximum results select the worldwide option at the left hand side).

The webpage listed by Buffy is very interesting,
http://www.newdawnengineering.com/we...tove/firecube/

Drying of the briquettes looks challenging in cloudy/wet conditions. The website mentions solar heating under a simple cover. How about inside an upturned ventilated black plastic water tank ?

DH

You get a free can crusher lol

Just amazing,as i just might buy one great idea!

Already have two can crushers, a left one and a right one :)

Ebay
 

Yes, I know they sell everything. But I am thinking of buying one of these on ebay as well as a can crusher so I can get even more stuff into my green bin without making trips to the recycling center with my cans. Sort of defeats the purpose wasting petrol!

i seen somthing similar to what your looking for i think it was in the betterware cataloge

paper briquettes.
 

Re rolling them up and throwing them in...I did something quite like this for years: fold newspapers in half, then half again (lengthways) to make a strip about 10" wide; roll em up to make a tube 10" long by 3or 4" thick ( about 4 newspapers in each one.) Tie up the rolls with a piece of string about 2" from each end - tie 'em tight!

Soak em in soapy water - your used bathwater (or washing up water, if it's not too dirty) is fine. They will float at first cos of trapped air. You can push 'em down or just wait for them to sink. When they are soaked,squeeze the heavy wet out of them, use an old towel, or just step on them somewhere where the water can run away. (this is what the "briquette maker" does!) Stack them somewhere to dry. If you have a glasshouse or conservatory, that's ideal. Otherwise, a shed window or your spare room windowsill (put something underneath to soak up the wet!) - anywhere dry and out of the way.

It used to take a couple of weeks at most to dry out and they were BRILLIANT fuel - burned for hours, put out loads of heat. The only reason I don't do them any more is cos I'm on the commuting treadmill - I spend all my time in the car these days and you can't make them there (can't burn them there either!)

They sound complicated, but aren't. They take hardly any time. Kids love to help making them too. By the way, a friend of mine bought the briquette-maker thingy around the same time. Only used it a couple of times, cos it was such a palaver. But he agreed my logs were better, easier, burnt better than his briquettes and cost ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Hope this is of interest.

a few years ago atlantic home care had them ,perhaps if they had a request they might be able to get you one