Coffee Briquettes = Free fuel - The best method (so far)
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- I've been making briquettes for over 10 years now and over that time I've developed the best recipe and technique. This is how to make coffee briquettes Using waste #coffee these homemade #coffeelogs burn for over two hours.
As woodworking gets more popular, we should be more responsible for the waste from our workshops.
And remember it's better to make your own rather than go to Tesco to buy them.
Enjoy
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Do you get a nice coffe smell when burning?
Hi Vak, unfortunately not. The smell of coffee goes after about a month on the bucket.
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I saw this man’s beard and I immediately trusted all of the information that came out of this man’s mouth about this subject. I don’t know why but it just screams “I’m an environmentalist woodworker who loves coffee.”
Ahh my daughter told me it was the beard that people trust. And that's why this video is flying. I do like a bit of coffee, not sure I'd be able to fill those bags though.
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This is a great idea! In my university environmental science classes, they taught us about common foods and their different nutrient compositions, but I only just now realized that coffee's is almost identical to natural peat. The only thing it would be missing is some extra carbon and it's a bit too acidic, both of which are fixed by adding hardwood sawdust. You've essentially created an accelerated process of making peat! Mind if I email this vid to my old prof at UNM? He'd love it!
Jenna. You are welcome to share the video. I've a playlist Briquettes, make & burn 🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥: ruclips.net/p/PLomQ4jxG80doKGlqFJ__qCpKJMK08K8TA I've been saying for Months that this process is like artificially creating Peat. I've never used peat for burning. However I dud have a visitor in my workshop who told me it was almost exactly the same smell as peat. He was gobsmacked at what I was creating in the corner of my workshop. I should add he was from Ireland and knew a thing or two about Briquette Making but not leaving it for a few weeks.
Please share the info and I welcome any chat about it.
I live in Albuquerque NM! Awesome...😂
I just love this so useful, why not!!! They must smell amazing, thinking about camping, would they smell like coffee and peat, sounds kinda scrumptious actually!
Peat is an ingredient in making Scotch. Hmmmm...
This is the 1st video of yours that I've run across, & I'm quite happy about it! Once I find a woodworking shop that will happily donate sawdust to my endeavor, I will be doing this straightaway! My daughter has a coffee shop, & I already use the grounds in my soap, but she definitely has more that is sadly going to waste! I'd share, but I'm in the States!
Do you ever have any issues with mold developing? I've tried to dry out the loose grounds for use in my soaps, & every batch that I've dried to air dry has molded! I've had to go to putting it in the oven, but I'd really prefer not to waste the electricity! I know that burning the briquettes that I'll be making would offset that cost, but I'd rather come out ahead! 😁
Thank you for what you've shared, and hopefully a tip about why my grounds mold!
As mushroom grower i use allot of wood chips/shavings/dust and coffee grounds. It's the cheapest substrate i can acquire, it mix with other more nutrient dense stuff. But i love the fact that i can get 1m3 of a shavings for less then 10£😊
Thanks for sharing. That's good to hear
WEAR A REBREATHER BUD... you'd be shocked at the damage you can do breathing that crap in... especially the mold on the coffee. your lungs cannot expel most fine particulate, so it stays there forever... 3M has some excellent options for $20
I also think your mixing would be far more efficient with a "propeller" shaped mixing bit for your drill... not sure the official name for it, but I have one and it's like magic...
also, I cant remember what it's called, I believe it's "AERATION" but there are videos of men mixing concrete... they drop a wand/mixer into the wet cement, and IN SECONDS, the concrete is mixed perfectly and ALL AIR BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE... amazing to see... it's dont with HIGH VIBRATION...
you said these bricks work best when packed as evenly and tightly as possible, so in my opinion, this method of aerating, vibrating the mix (perhaps after your initial drill bit mix) would be the best possible way to evenly distribute all ingredients, and therefore achieve the tightest pack.
hope this helps!!!! LOVE THE VIDEO -- EPIC BEARD!!!!!!
EDIT: JUST GOOGLED IT FOR YOU....
it's called "IMMERSION " or "INTERNAL" VIBRATING...
if you google "WHY USE A CONCRETE VIBRATOR" and scroll until you find a result from a website called DYCONCRETEPUMPS , you'll find their info page on it..
This method improves STRENGTH AND DENSITY, REMOVES AIR, and provides a more uniform mixture, making the finished product that much more durable.. if applied to your bricks, i'd imagine this would only make them DRY FASTER AND BURN LONGER
there seems to be a specific technique to it for ideal results, but this info is detailed on the website.. and there seems to be plenty of DIY ways to achieve this internal immersion vibration without spending big bucks on a concrete vibrator
OK - NOW IM DONE! hope you try it out and it yields greater results
Wow.. Thank you. And the video was done without a mask for speed. I do wear one nowadays as the process is probably more suited to the great outdoors (free ventilation) have you subscribed?
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@@twcmaker yes I subbed earlier!! And no need to thank me!! Consider it an exchange of knowledge, yours for mine!! Isnt that the way its supposed to be?? I recommend watching a video or 2 on this immersion vibration method (with cement) .... what occurs in such a short timeframe is so amazing IT LOOKS FAKE...
Again, it must be done in a specific way for best results (which I believe is simply starting low and steadily lifting your "BIT" up and out... in other words, too much is no good..
I hope you find a cost effective method (consider using air compressor tools for max vibration maybe?) and see an improvement in your bricks.
Ill be watching!
I've thought about this. I think the briquettes would have to be deeper than the 45mm. And it would add more effort.
Initial thoughts. I'll think about how/if it could work.
There's always the design principle (had to Google it)
Keep it simple, stupid (KISS) is a design principle which states that designs and/or systems should be as simple as possible. Wherever possible, complexity should be avoided in a system-as simplicity guarantees the greatest levels of user acceptance and interaction.
Time will tell.
Someone years ago mentioned in a comment to use less water. And it was only after I left it too long in the bucket I stumbled on the composted method.
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Jamie
@@twcmaker well, im not totally sure which parts you're thinking are NOT simplfied, but I will remind you of this one thing... All the evidence we have of ancient civilizations shows us that they had a MASTERFUL understanding of frequency/vibration/energy... Its believed that many of the unexplained structures we marvel at today and cannot replicate were in fact created WiTH EASE thanks to their deep knowledge of this... We also know that allegedly the "Romans" had a cement SO STRONG & LONG LASTING that WE CANNOT MAKE TODAY because we cant figure out how they did it...
I say they used the simpelst methods possible... I think the harnessing of energy with frequency and utilizing the tools of nature (such as water) was SO COMMONLY USED that they thought nothing of it.
Just some food for thought..
That said, I just remembered another DIY vibration method you can try to see if things pan out a little better for you..
Instead of "INTERNAL" vibration, try EXTERNAL..
The simplest way to do this on a tight budget would be a plug-in palm sander (without the sandpaper)... Strap it tight to your mixing bucket and FLIP THE SWITCH... everything in that bucket will have the ride of its life.
The concrete tool is a vibrator. Search concrete vibrator or you'll get the adult one.
To your last point, if you are into gardening and making your own mulch - the ash you get from burning those brickettes are an excellent POTASH additive that will enhance your soil greatly...
Good point! I should.. No, I will put some out on my compost heap.
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Jamie
I love that he started by thanking us for 650 views on the last video, when this one’s sitting at 163,000+ right now. Hah. Glad you hit it big on this one bud
I know. You just never know.
Thank you.
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Ps I'll be making ONE video per month on Briquettes. Updates, mixes, and new ways to press.
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Jamie
Appreciate your creativity. Applaud your repurposing waste. Enjoy your spunky responses to naysayers. New sub.
I get it! It’s like you’ve made peat , but without harvesting soil from his specialized ecosystem. Brilliant!
Exactly!
This may sound crazy, but I'm fascinated by this technique because what you're making here looks like a great mushroom substrate. Coffee grounds alone are nutritious but because of that they mold so fast they usually go to waste. Seeing these as bricks you can save for later or even wet in a bucket not moldy is giving me all sorts of ideas.
Brilliant. Let me know what you get up too. If you share on here others will be open to it too. Sharing is key. Thanks for watching. Jamie
there's a lot of green mold in there.
but you can easily pasteurized the bricks. however they may fall apart when fully hydrated. something to think about though. maybe a modified tech...
@@twcmakersharing is key ❤️
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In Germany, we put used coffee grounds into the compost bin. The council picks it up and makes compost that is resold to the public at a profit. That lowers our Waste Management bills. I think making fuel from them is a good idea, but it's not the only option. Coffee grounds are a valuable resource, don't waste it on a landfill.
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Thank you. That's great they do something with it.
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You don't need to compost it even. Coffee grounds can go right into the garden. Animals don't eat it, and the nutrients are available immediately
I get that. Some don't so it's good that you've said it.
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brilliant, free heat, waste managed!
Simple and to the point. 🙏 Thank you. I'll bet you hit subscribe too 👍
I appreciate it.
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One of my first jobs was in the paper industry in the United States Northwest. We were researching “wood liquor” and the optimal amount of desiccation to produce the best burning fuel. The liquid you swuuze out of the briquettes looked like (as nearly as I could tell) wood liquor. So don’t squeeze out any more than necessary to get a compacted briquette. When the water evaporates the residue will burn.
There is BTUs in that liquid.
You are a star. I knew that. As I said in the video I squeeze out to compact, but them let the excess go back into the briquette.
I usually squeeze out into a bowl, as the bucket goes down. I have in the past (in a batch. They are all numbered) poured the liquid over the flat side of the briquettes.. Because it felt the right thing to do.
I'll trial ta couple from that batch and see just how they burn.
Thank you for sharing
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I've searched 🔎
Is burning peat better than wood?
The dry peat briquettes or logs can then be used as quick-to-light fuel, which heats up the room in no time and has lower atmospheric emissions when compared to coal or wood. One of the biggest benefits of peat is that it is one of the most affordable options out there, and is clean to burn with almost no smoke.7 Dec 2022
My first thought when I saw the liquid squeezing out actually was, ‘I wonder if there’s a way to re-compact that liquid into much smaller briquettes, like charcoal grilling briquettes, and use those for burning as well?’
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In the pulp and paper industry wood liquor is a bi-product of extracting the cellulose from trees. The company I worked for was trying to determine the optimum level of water to produce the most heat from burning the concentrated liquor, which was turned to speak and then ran electrical turbines in the paper mill. More water in the liquor meant less energy used in the concentration process (evaporation as I recall), but also less energy from the burning as the water cooled off the fire. Less water meant a hotter fire, but more energy used in the evaporation. There was more to it than that of course. The residue or the burned liquor had very valuable chemicals that could be destroyed if the fire was too hot.
It was fascinating work figuring out all the trade-offs.
Saving the liquor and letting the water naturally evaporate is very smart. Most people would have squeezed the daylights out if the briguettes to get rid of as much water as possible.
Your conscientious note taking is what is guiding you in the path to truth.
I would say burning peat might be preferred as it is sort of a waste product from other agricultural activities. What you are doing is much the same. Making your shop’s waste product into a usable product. Very smart. You might also consider waste paper products, newspaper, etc, as the sizing and such will form a bit of a binder for the batch. Shredding the paper might be problematic. Excellent work!
Cheers, my friend!
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Personally I love this idea. I have seen paper briquettes wood pulp briquettes, mulch briquettes, but coffee is a first for me! Well done!
Thank you. Well, I'd heard Coffee was good for the soil. And once I'd tried it, it was instant success. Especially that it burns hotter than Wood. Coffee shop guys drop it at my door now. So it's pretty effortless.
Where in the World are you?
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I've been saving the ''plugs'' [spent grounds] from my espresso maker for years. I refill the paper bags bulk coffee is sold in, age them, and throw them on the fire. Coffee oil seems to be flammable. I don't have access to wood shavings or sawdust, but that mix looks even better.
Your way is great 👍 love it.
A simple too. 👍
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I just collect the woodscraps, sawdust and bark in paper bags, cornflakes packages and similiar, or just in an open ibc container, that sits in our shed.
When the winter comes i just scoop up a few kg sawdust/bark/woodchips during each startup of the boiler, and mix with regular wood.
I burn about 300kg of this type of free fuel each year. I dont have any more. I dont know if i have a good boiler (28kW/with fan), but it burns well and require very little effort, as long as i dont add too much.
So depending on your boiler, it may not even require making a briquette.
Good to recycle the coffe grounds as well as sawdust. Every kWh counts.
That's a huge boiler 28kw mine is in my home and only a 5kw (4.5kw with 3ft exposed flue) Your system works. We all have to do our bit to save giving more ££s to the corporations.
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sprinkle the shavings in your compost bucket too - helps to digest the food waste
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Just be careful about breathing the mould spores in the coffee grounds (like the first bag). 😮
Thank you. I don't usually do it like that. As the bags come into the workshop, I tip them straight into the waiting bucket. Then cover with shavings and water.
I've worn a respiratory mask some days. I'll wear it more often now the video is done. Thank you for the reminder. Jamie
That is so cool! I was thinking that you should get one of those tiny cement mixers. you could just dump everything, turn the mixer on and bingo! I love seeing stuff like this! Now I gotta go pester your play list...😁
There's plenty in the Playlist. Thanks for watching
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Make sure that the wood shavings are not from treated wood as it gives off toxic fumes when burning..
I don't have treated wood. But you're right. Timber treated for outdoors can be nasty stuff.
Will go great will the moldy coffee grounds he was sniffing 😂
Definitely avoid treated/engineered wood products.
@@tonysimons7218 Yeah, coffee grounds are very alive and mold up in my compost bucket very quickly.
Once it's in he compost bin with the veg. scraps, it does really well.
Awesome! I drink two cups of coffee per day, so I'll be able to heat one corner of my bathroom for at least 2 micro-seconds. Thx for the tip!
😂 😂 😂 Excellent 👍
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Ingenious, and I bet they smell good burning. I live in Florida so I don’t worry about fuel for heat. But bein a native from Minnesota, always good to know this kind of stuff.
Hi Sandra. Florida what a place. (that was a long time ago)
I think you're fine for heat over there. This is great for the garden then. Share with your gardening friends 👍 That helps me out, and could help them out too.
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Ps. The smell goes during the 2 months in the bucket unfortunately.
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Another solid video pal. A self sufficient heat source combined with practical waste management and more importantly, that has got to be cost effective for you. With the ever increasing costs of all our fuel sources whether it’s domestic heating or fuel for transport, it ain’t going to get much cheaper. I like how you have recorded the entire process too making production simple and easy to follow. Great job.
Thank you. I feel like it's getting somewhere now.
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I used to roast coffee and sell it online. Pretty much all of my coffee waste went into my garden
I've used loads on mine too. But the way it works so well with my wood shavings, to make fuel serves me better these days. Who knows what I'll be doing with it in a year or two 😉
Same here with my coffee grounds. Every morning. I take our French press from the day before which has four scoops of coffee pressed in the bottom of it. Put some water in it, swirl it and toss it on my lawn.
That's cool 👍
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What a great use for coffee grounds, I love your reuse.
Thanks so much! 😊
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I use all my grounds for home in the compost pile. I have know people who are wood workers, and a friend who just opened a coffee shop (and frenz who work at the starbucks down the way). I love the Permaculture aspect to this (every output is the next input thing).
Gotta watch the rest of your vidjays and get yet anoher side-project going. Thanks for posting.
You said that better than I did. One more thing I can add. The Ash from the burning of the briquettes (is sometimes) can be used as a natural pottery glaze. I've not been asked for any in a while. Especially since using the Coffee grounds. But apparently the wood only briquettes make wonderful Ash.
@@twcmaker, I save my hardwood ash to make lye soap. Making pottery glazes is a whole other world of fire, chemistry, alchemy, and witchcraft. I want to make some tiles later this summer/fall. The wood ash makes sense as there are various minerals and sals in ash depending on species, environment, etc. Yet another rabbit hole to explore.
Huge rabbit hole 🕳 but so worthy.
I've never seen any of your videos until right now but I believe a man who knows how to deal with the grain of his own beard, like you clearly do, must be a great wood worker as well. Great video on reducing waste for sustainable causes. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
That's a really nice thing to say. Thank you. Taming of the beard is a daily struggle. It's like a badly trained puppy 🙈
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You're doing great with the beard friend, and that struggle is what adds a character and a uniqueness that only you alone can claim. I am a new subscriber, also dealing with an unruly beard grain myself which I'm growing to appreciate and manage. However, I'm not as good at wood working but very interested, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content!
Thank you. Its people like yourself that make doing this a lot easier
No stress, just kindness, and appreciation.
Thank you
Jamie
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I can burn a 44 gallon drum of sawdust with no smoke created after the 1st 10 minutes. 1. 44 gallon drum with let's say a 50mm hole in the bottom of the drum in the centre. 2. You have a pole or tube that reaches from the hole in the bottom whilst covering the hole to the very top of the drum. 3. Add your sawdust then cover the top with sand, preventing the sawdust on the top from burning.
4. Have the drum on top of some bricks or install legs on the drum so as it's raised off the ground 200mm or so, allowing it to breathe from underneath. 5. Roll up some newspaper, remove the pole or pipe former very carefully to not make the sawdust collapse down the hole left from the pole. 6. Insert the paper to the bottom of the hole in the sawdust carefully and ignite. This will smoke badly for about 10 minutes then it'll burn pretty much with no smoke for about 10 hours. 🇦🇺
That's brilliant. And you use this in your home?
@@twcmaker outside in my yard. I'm not sure how you might go with insurance if one has a non approved wood heater installed in one's workshop. Btw, you don't touch the sawdust burner once it's let. If you do it'll probably collapse in on itself. It's like a candle, it just feeds on its self till it goes out. Try it on a smaller scale, like say a large coffee tin or 20L metal paint bucket.
I wrote my undergrad honors thesis on the COST avoidance offered by keeping waste out of landfills-brilliant use of coffee byproducts: universalize behaviour and imagine the savings offered to UK communities by Bricketts! Bravo!
Thank you.
650 veiws to 73k.. well done n well deserved!!
Thank you. I still in shock 🤯
Really appreciate the kind words
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Ok. Now i am instantly addicted to this new channel❣️ What a wonderful lesson I (we) just learned from you. With much deepest appreciation, going to share this with my neighbor. He heats his trailer with wood. Talk about game changer, esp if it heats up 30% hotter. God bless and see you on your next video sir
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I'm still working out how to follow this video. It's gone so well. Oh well, trust in what I've done, and just put out another vid.
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I study Environmental Management and I learn cooler and more useful things on random youtube videos that gets on my feed than in college, damn. (At least for me both of them are free, so can't be too mad.).
I hope this helps with your studies then.
Have you subscribed? Because I do have another video to try on everyone in a week or two.
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Coffee grounds burn well, but the extra effort to make briquettes is probably unnecessary as they share many similarities with sawdust. Just place a dry quantity of the stuff in a few newspapers roll em and chuck them in the wood burner on already burning wood. Anything from cardboard to printer paper can easily do the job.
No wetting, no forming, no drying.
Remember, I'm trying to find a use for my waste sawdust too. So this method suits me and my waste.
You are right, if people only have Coffee waste then the method you mention would be great for them.
Thank you.
Jamie
I just put my waste in the garden. I have chickens and they love going through it searching for anything interesting to them. Plus they scratch it into the ground and mix in their droppings making for a healthier soil.
That is awesome!
If you need some "glue" to keep them from breaking you can soak cardboard pieces or ripped newspaper in a good amount of water and then shredd it finely by mixing the water with your mix drill, drain the pulp and add it to your mix.
Excellent solution. Also as the mix is drained, that pulp makes another briquette 👍👍
Thank you for that.
Jamie
Thinking about it, you probably could just mix the whole stuff together, if the paper/cardboard broke down enough. The fiber from that helps. When we were young we often made papier-mâché in art class to sculpt something. Most cardboard fire bricks on the internet are made from either wrong materials or not well soaked/broken down paper so they dont get good bricks, also I imagine they dont burn that long. But as a binding agent to fill the gaps between the wood and coffe the paper fiber could work.
The menaces we were, on walpurgis night (local tradition) we used recycling toiletpaper to mix the stickiest papier-mâché from hell and thew balls of it against roadsigns and streetlamps ... stuck there for years.
Never heard of this. How interesting & useful. Thank you so much!
Glad you found it useful.
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You'll find mixing is a lot easier with a garden auger. They're sold for bulb planting but work great for mixing soil etc. Find one that's 3 inches in diameter. You'll love it.
Thanks for the tip. I'll see what I can find. If you see one, could you send a link please. Thanks again. Jamie
Your organization and commitment to detail are impressive and I appreciate the video. Good on you!
Thank you. I'll tell more on another video.
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I just saw one of the videos where you burned the briquettes. I think they seem to burn a little "hotter" in part because as they burn, they break apart, which creates more surface area.
Have you considered using different "moistening"/"binding" agents (such as olive oil, lard/beef tallow, or paraffin wax)? Such might give you a slightly lower but more consistent fuel that burns longer.
Love your experimental mindset and how you document your tests!
Thank you. Which video did you watch? The latest video on burning shows them not breaking apart. The stickyness of the mix after 8 weeks decomposing does seem to hold them together very well.
Oh, and too much compression. If I squeeze too hard they don't hold as much of the liquid (obviously) but it's the drying off and shrinking that really makes them very solid.
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@@twcmaker It was Coffee Logs and How they Burn (uploaded 3 months ago). and yes, I have subscribed. :)
I'll have a look and see what batch it was. The later ones I know are much better. More solid. I've burnt a few but not yet filmed the burning. I'll do one soon. Thank you for following.
Jamie
I'm glad I found this channel! I'm timbering 10 acres of my farm to grow Timothy Hay, and the sawdust from the saw mill is insane! This is a great idea! Thanks so much!
That is awesome! Thank you. These comments, the likes, the subscribers are brilliant.
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Thank you for sharing this process. There is tremendous value in this type of waste recycling.
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Coffee grounds are excellent fertilizer.
They are, and with wood as well, it's a perfect combination of Carbon & Nitrogen. Thanks for watching.
Jamie
Pardon me if I'm wrong but i'm pretty sure coffee grounds already have the perfect carbon to nitrogen ratio, so adding wood would make it carbon heavy.
This doesn't remove the fact that this is another way to reduce waste which is great!
I'm going by a comment on here (scroll through and see. She mentioned sharing it with her professor at University of New Mexico) and the fact that it makes compost in a really short time frame. So somethings right.
I need to get one of those pH soil tester things. Have a gander, see what's going on.
I'd imagine you could get free coffee grinds and wood shavings from lots of places. Neat idea.
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Reuse the waste into a new helpful product is always a winner! Great thinking 😊❤
It really is. Thank you.
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Brilliant idea to recycle coffee grounds and wood chips and dust, if you have a wood burning stove - thanks for sharing.
As we don't have a wood burning stove, we use the coffee grounds as a fertiliser for our garden, works very well too.
That's perfect too!!
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Nice. My only worry would be the mold on that first batch of spent coffee pucks you put into the batch. The other coffee set didn’t look to have mold.
I have a beautiful garden from composted coffee, no wood trimmings.
Thank-you!
The mold is a great way to start the decomposing process.
So you've used composted Coffee grounds before? Did they go moldy?
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I Never understood why so many companies throw away so much waste, that they even pay for whilest you could easily find someone that would take it for free because it always have use
It's crazy that these big companies haven't solved their own waste problems
Great idea and great process! Thank you!
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Fascinating! Excellent for dealing with coffee and wood waste. Thank you!
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Transfer your dry ingredients back and forth between two buckets... your ingredients will be pre-mixed, then add your water and stir with your wand till the water has penetrated the mash. LOT LESS labor.
The gardener in me wants to try your mix as a soil additive!
Great video!
Great tip! Thank you. I need another bucket 🙈 And it's great on the garden 👌
@@twcmaker If you had a small cement mixer that would work even better than the two buckets.
It would. Do you think I should get one to use for about 5 minutes, once or twice a month?
@@twcmaker LOL! Nope. We have one but just because we do remodeling work and need to mix cement on a regular basis.
A little extra work never killed anybody & it builds character... according to my grandpa anyway.
I get your Grandpa. Sometimes these things are just what you have to do.
You can use this mix or the bricks to grow many mushrooms to harvest
Funny you should mention that. I'll have some results in a couple of weeks.
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I could listen to you speak about just about anything! You have a beautiful voice and a captivating way of explaining things. I don’t even plan to make this but I watched all the way through!
Thank you Christina, that's very kind of you to say.
I'm a little surprised. Some say the Midlands accent is the worst in the UK. So, it doesn't quite feel so bad now.
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Love your wood WORK & sharing this is amazing 🤩 thank YOU
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Brilliant idea for waste from our wood shop- 🎉
Love the idea of mushrooms
Yes, mushrooms are on my list.
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What a great idea, thanks for sharing
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Thanks so much for the video. What a great help.
Thank you for watching Jason. Helps me out too. Have you subscribed? Helps me grow my channel and then I can cover more of what I do in the workshop.
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Great method and idea! I absolutely love homestead recycling like this. Many of us waste so much
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Interesting...it works good for fuel and I would imagine it would make great fertilizer too! Obviously, if the wood was natural and free of chemical treatments.
Great fertiliser 👍
I don't use MDF, chipboard, osb, tantalised or any other made made sheet material.
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This is cool! What a great way to reusue a waste product! Burning coffee grounds also keeps mosquitoes away!
Yes it does! I've been making these for a long while, so I'm getting better at them.
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How neat ! Thanks for the film
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Brilliant. Thank you for sharing!
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That would probably make a fine seed starter mix now that I think about it.
Hi Matt, I'm going to get a soil tester kit and see where it is on the scale.
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It's been fantastic to see the refinement of your technique over time, it's really gotten advanced now.
After 2 months' composting, I wonder how it compares to peat?
I've been told it smells and looks just like it.
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you!
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I'll bet the garden would love this stuff too!
The garden does love it.
This was a super pleasant and informative watch, even though im not sure if ill ever use the skills lol. I like the laid back video style. Subscribed now and excited to watch thinga grow!
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Fantastic video. Just received a coffee machine for my bday and now I can make fire bricks from the waste. If it goes along well enough, I'll hound the coffee shops as well 😂. Thank you, great video.
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Very good idea -- it never occurred to me to make briquets and burn for winter warmth. Thank you
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Thank you for this information and showing it in such a basic, easy way that even I could make them👍
I'm a pretty basic person. Glad you enjoyed it.
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@joannedoyle-bu3mu brilliant thank you.
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It is an interesting idea. Part of me is surprised that there isn’t a company buying used coffee grounds from coffee shops for a few cents a kilo, molding them, and turning them into a commercial product. Now that I think about it, the idea might run afoul of environmental laws. Burning them can’t be carbon neutral.
There's a company here in the UK making them commercially. Using a heated press that compresses them. Only problem is the decompress in the fire. I tested them out in my playlist here
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Nice discovery, very industrious
Thank you. Still a way to go. I burned a couple of batch 17 last night. They didn't last to the 2 hour mark. I need to check the recipe and timescale in the bucket.
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This is really cool, thank you for sharing the knowledge you've acquired over all your extensive experimentation! I had no clue that coffee grounds could be used for fuel. I knew they could be composted, i figured that's where they all went, so i had no idea that mnay coffee shops send their coffee grounds to a landfill. A new coffee shop opened near me, and my dad is a carpenter/craftsman so i might be able to get both ingredients for free.
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You’re awesome doing that.
I appreciate that thank you.
That mix would be a great compost. Add dry powdered banana peels & dry powdered egg shells or bones.
That would be brilliant for the garden 👌👌👌
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Thoae briquettes are very cool, but let me tell you something, good sir... what a GLORIOUS beard!
Thank you kindly. Just need to keep it a little tidier.
So glorious. That natural twist is like a beard donut.
I literally came to the comments to say what an Epic Beard that is! Lol. Beard Goals.
@AmericanMaking Thank you. It's getting there now. It came off last August, back to 1" long. I don't know how long it is now, but the longest hairs on my chin reach over my brows.
That natural twist is driving me nuts 😂
Your woodwork is breathtaking, too, btw.
Cheers. I'll have more freedom to make what I want to make in 18 months time.
Amazing, absolutely brilliant 👍🔥
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If you wanted to make this on a larger scale, you could mix it in a cement mixer instead of a bucket with paint mixer.
I've been making this for about 2 years now, albeit mine is in a shape of a cup, I do 50/50 coffe/wood shavings, I make about 2-3 cups/week, I use it when we go camping or at the beach as an add-on to charcoal when cooking barbeque... I do like the smell of it
Best comment today 👍👍 How well does it work on the barbecue?
You're getting these down to a really fine art mate! It pays to be meticulous.
Shame my camera work isn't as organised 🙈🙈😂 Some people.
This is really unique, at least to me. This so freaking cool and easy.❤❤❤
And Deborah, you can do this from home easy enough. Have a wonderful day. Jamie
It's interesting that this just popped up in my suggestions. My wife and I have been thinking about trying something similar, but using a length of pvc as a mold and burning them as mosquito repellent. Thanks for the information, sir! Just subscribed.
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@@twcmaker NW Wisconsin, USA.
That's brilliant. I like the idea of the mosquito repellent btw.
Great to see this video flying mate - well deserved 👍
Thank you. Can you imagine doing a follow up though 🙈
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@@twcmaker can you burn tea? 😂
@radboogie I put Tea in there too. The Coffee has so much Nitrogen. I think the kitchen waste needs to be looked at. I don't really want to take kitchen waste to the workshop. But someone could look at it with Coffee shop waste and cardboard; it could be fabulous.
I've got another video to do about making briquettes in the home. It's going to be a cracker 👌👌
Oh my gosh I LOVE THIS!! I have my own supply of coffee grounds I usually just dump on the garden or wherever to compost.
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Obviously, you don't have a garden for vegetables, etc. - coffee is excellent as a fertilizer.
When burning, however, it is extremely effective against mosquitoes...at least as long as it burns.
Ah. I do have a garden. Just not got the time for much gardening yet. But I do put the coffee grounds in with my compost.
I love that it's effective against mosquitoes. I'll try them out in my Pizza oven and see if it helps keep the flies away too. Great comments, keep them coming. Cheers, Jamie
lnteresting, l live in Canada and recall seeing 20 odd years ago a commecial product being sold as 'fireplace logs' made from coffee grounds. l believe you lit the wrapping it came in to ignite it, but l could be wrong.
It may have been called a Java log. I have bought them in the USA.
Brilliant. Well done indeed.
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Looks like a bunch of great stuff here 🙏
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Nice! A suggestion for another up-cycle experiment: I heard that it's possible to grow edible mushrooms on used coffee grounds and wood, maybe you could try this out in case you're interested to look into the mushroom growing business.
I think I'll do it at some point. Sounds amazing
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This is brilliant. A buddy of mine is both a woodworker and absolutely mad for coffee, I'll have to clue him in on this!
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@@twcmakerthat’s awesome. Just randomly popped in my feed now too. Oh the amount off coffee grounds I have thrown away! I’m a 12 cups a day man 🤣
What..12. My girls know when I've had 3 cups of coffee.
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@@twcmakeryou know what Jamie, I’ll give a fellow Englishman step up hey! It’s not like wood working isn’t interesting is it?! Good luck with YT and 3 cups of coffee before lunch is absolutely required haha.
@FFTuk Before lunch 🤯 😂 All day. I've had one this morning and can seriously feel the buzz.
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Nice to see the Big Red stirrer! If only Mark watched these!
Ahhh the big RED stirrer. Ty
You can use coffee in the garden too. Thanks for this video! ❤ & I agree your beard is Glorious! God bless!
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Yes this mix is very good for the garden. I'm thinking of buying a soil test kit to see just what the pH level is. Just not sure all of the viewers would come back to my channel to see?
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Those look like espresso pucks, probably somewhere between 15 and 25 grams of coffee grounds in them
Very good use of them, my dad wanted to try and use some for soil enrichment but I don't know if there's stuff in the coffee that might make that bad for plants
Any use for waste materials is good, very cool idea
I'm no expert. But we are mixing (the Coffee grounds and sawdust mix in this video) in a small area of a garden. We are keeping it separate from plants at the moment. As we see snails, worms etc we will then know it's safe fir the plants.. I think
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In case people don’t know, used coffee can go into garden compost
This mix makes an awesome compost too. 👍 Thank you Peter
My understanding is that burned coffee makes for really good gasification where you burn wood or in this case coffee and then put the fumes through a box to let it cool and settle out and then the fumes become flamable. Look up wood gasification. From what i have heard coffee makes the process even better because it has a higher carbon content or something like that. It would be need to get a small lawnmower working by running it from coffee fumes in this manner. Very cool, good job on perfecting the recipie!
Ahh is this like some of those brick built 'almost double compartment' fireplaces where the flue returns back down and then up and out?
Brilliantly done mate great details.
My experiments from last year are ongoing, I’ve made a few and I realise I need way more coffee and more fine dust.
I would use vacuum cleaner dust and kitchen waste too if I were you. It would all add to the mulchyness
@@twcmaker there a coffee shop fairly close I’ll see if they’ll bag up the groundings like what you get
Tell them what you're up to and I'm sure they'll sort that for you.
What a great way to recycle rather than throwing it away 🤑🤑🤑
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Very nice 👍. Great idea.
Thank you! Cheers!
Very interesting. I've never thought of making coffee brickettes. I am thinking about asking coffee shops for their leftovers to make compost. I also don't have a workshop yet so not much saw dust or shavings. But definitely one to keep in the vault for the future.
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Dang, I never thought of this 👍
That's okay. A number of people hadn't.
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