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The Worcestershire Cabinet Maker has a video that claims if you let the mixture sit for two months before packing it, the briquettes will burn longer. I have not tested it yet.
My mom had us kids making waste paper logs 50 years ago.. we were preppers before prepper was popular =)) RIP mamma and daddy.. you taught me a lot of good stuff
I get you! My grandparents survived the depression and kept scouting ways to save money. I'm glad; between that, and my dad's instruction on camping, we survived the pandemic okay. Now, we save on principal. (Garden, Chickens, Canning, etc.) I think they'd be proud. Pretty sure there'd be a "Told you so!" in there.
Nowadays most paper has forever chems, and there are harmful chems in chainsaw sawdust (from the chainsaw bar oil). So never cook food over any of those.
oh wow - I forgot all about paper logs! My parents had us use newspapers if there weren't enough bags, and they also sent us out to "play" by going and picking up thick pine bark that had cracked off of fallen trees. Great memories. Also, had a carpet of green walnuts in our driveway for a month or two while everyone drove over them so they'd be easy to process. Weird, weird, weird how different my own kids are - how far removed from all of that, and have no interest in learning (never did.)
@@evenlyanxious I'm proud to say my daughter and then my grandson even more were interested in learning how to do things I learned growing up on a small farm... many wonderful memories are in my head right now. My beautiful best boy, best friend, died from a terrible terrible cancer 2 weeks after he turned 21.. R. I. P. Nicholas Bel.. Nana loved you so much and will never forget teaching you how to use a little saw and how you would say.. backy forf.. backy forf. Blessings to all who love...
I think our country could learn a lot from your country and how things are run. Lol but welcome and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Videos on briquettes are a labor of love. In about 2 weeks we got another one coming out about giant briquettes.
People saving their coffee grounds to do this will be blown away by the fact that they can get at least 30 lbs of used coffee grounds from their local Starbucks every...single.. day... You can get twice as much if you show up at lunch and before they close. They are begging people to take those from them so they don't have to carry it to the dumpster.
Our local Starbucks and most other coffee shops have stopped doing this. They used to put it in bags and put it out for people or people would call in and ask for it and not come pick it up not show up so they stop doing it. It's pretty sad really because you're correct 30 to 100 lb a day is what most Starbucks stores go through
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Have a talk with their manager. Show them that you can keep a schedule going. Give them a bin they can drop the bag outside for you and will be protected until you pick it up. The people at my store here know that I'll be pulling into the parking lot every single day around 7 pm and they keep in the same place for me. I even bribed them with some avocados from my trees here to sweeten the deal, because they want you to take it. But yes, I understand their reasons for not wanting to do it anymore in your area if nobody is willing to show some commitment. I'm a gardener, so that stuff is even more precious to me than it is for people who will make bricks for burning.
@@PedroKing99because we have asked almost every local place. I would encourage you to ask in your area because it may be different but you have to think how many coffee grounds they go through so if they start bagging it up it's going to make a lot and without somebody to pick it up constantly they're wasting their time they can just throw it the trash can. So they quickly get sick of bagging it up putting it aside and people not showing up it's extra work they are a business. We actually spent an entire day in our town and three other local towns driving from coffee shop to coffee shop to coffee shop and they all said the same thing we used to save them but nobody ever came to pick them up. One of the local Starbucks even still has a basket area up where they used to put them but they said they don't do it anymore
@@WealthandTravelonaDimea local coffee shop, now gone, used to have a good policy. They had a 5 gal bucket at the back door. You took their bucket & left an empty one.
Never been, don’t like their politics, won’t support them with my $. You can get spent grounds from your local coffee shop and have all the material you can blend, with other amazing aromas! Or use it in your compost.
We've also found that you can also use spent grain collected from local micro breweries. Once dried, they burn well. Also if you vermicompost, this helps feed your maggots, or worms, and you can also feed spent beer grain to chickens, and hogs.
My coffee grounds and eggshells go into an old cake pan in the oven, where they are desiccated when I bake something. The crushed shells and coffee grounds are then processed in my old Waring blender and used in my garden.
Yep if you look through the comments he's been in here talking. What he's doing is composting we're looking into videos on that too but he also uses dryer smaller particles of wood turnings and sawdust that higher quality wood will burn longer than what we're using with wood chips. But the compost in effect breaks everything down so it can pack in denser. But to counter that you should look into our giant briquette video if you want to see burn time
I saw the same guy do these after letting it sit for two months (becoming compost). He said letting it sit that long was the secret ingredient for them lasting over two hrs. I’d like to try both but I would have to go to a wood shop or somewhere to get food sawdust. I don’t cut enough to make that much.
I repair coffee machines and go through about 2kg of beans a week when testing the machines. My workshop is near a coffee roastery who roasts at least 300kg daily, and they throw away a lot of husks that are waste from the roasting process. Using the husks and used grinds, I have made some rather half-decent briquettes. Grinds + husks + flour to help bind (like paper maché) The form I made creates holes through the briquettes which I believe helps them burn better.
It does make sense that used grounds burn well. When you're brewing coffee you're extracting oils and other elements from the coffee to flavor your water. But there's still oils left behind. So finely powdered flammable material with traces of natural oils in it laced throughout other flammable things definitely makes for a solid burn.
As a mechanic of three decades I've had plenty of experience with using an impact on a screw jack. You'll find that the screw inside the jack gets worn out pretty quickly. A hand turned crank will make the jack last longer.
We scrap a lot of cars around here so definitely no shortage of screw jacks. But even with speeding up with the drill I've seen guys with videos of hand pressed ones that could outrun this. So that's what we are looking into....that side The video we did on the giant ones was pretty good too and they burn a long time
I enjoyed the video. Always a good idea to be resourceful. They actually commercially make and sell the coffee bricks. I never thought to make them myself. (I learned the newspaper, junk mail paper logs just to try it.) So thank you. -John's wife
The Koreans still use briquets for heating to this day. But they make theirs into cylinders with many small holes molder into them for better combustion. The only ingredient I seen them use was charcoal and (undesirable) rice powder mixed with water as a binder. They made a press out of an old pipe, with rods welding to the bottom to create the vent holes, then they had a round metal plate, with holes, welded to a long rod that they pulled on using body weight to form the briquets, quite Ingenius actually. Those would work wonderfully in a mass rocket heater.
Excellent use of resources that would end up in a dump somewhere. The more items we can recycle the better. And, a perfect way to save money and create your own “fire wood” cheaply. Plus it can easily be stored in a small place with little mess and no bugs. Children can make the bricks, each child makes 24 a day and that would heat the home all winter.
Good for the kids too. They learn to work instead of being on phones and other e-gadgets. I don't let my kids or grandkids be on E-gadgets if they come to visit me. They claim to come to visit me, then DO THAT. I hate lies... And I'm not a pushover grandma.
Interesting. I am age 76 to young to drink coffee I was age 35 learned to drink tea. Wish I saw this 7 years ago I was lucky had truck loads of coffee for fill and soil made better. Never considered this program thanks was interesting. Yours truly Evans w Robinson ret sgt
No it does not. In fact it burns cleaner and more efficient than wood as there's no bark. And the biggest thing that causes soot and creosote is wood that has wet sap or wood that is wet. In a couple of my videos I showed how little smoke they make and that the pipe is completely clean.
@thefrugalhomestead7873 thank you for answering. That was a safety concern I had, as I have had pipes glowing back when I was learning to use a wood stove (years ago)
I buy 40 lb bags of deer corn for less than 10 bucks and fill small bags and paper boxes to throw in a hot wood stove- and the smell is like being at a movie theatre outside! Also hard wood pellets for pet bedding works, and cedar chips is our go to to lite the stove.
The major upside is if you live in the South/Southeast , you get superior mosquito 🦟 control and protection from burning 🔥 coffee ☕️ grounds. It’s a heckuva mosquito repellent 👍🌎👀
There’s something that really makes it burn, not sure if is the oil or what, but ive noticed the coffee paper filters would burn so easy like if had some combustible added. Discovered it for using the coffee powders for gardning and was about to burn some branches then i used some dry ones, and it burns easy
Great demonstration. Thanks. .. I'm in dry eastern Washington, not far from Canada. Every year we have a number of forest fires. The fires often leave standing dead and standing trees still alive but fire damaged. In the following years many of the survivors die. Here, a lot of the trees are Ponderosa Pine. The wood is lightweight. As it dies and in the next few years, still standing but dead ...the wood becomes easier to break and crumble under pressure. At that point it offers nurture for bugs and birds and bears foraging. ...and fertilizes the earth. .. .. Watching your videos about making compressed blocks, I get the idea that compressing crumbled pine would make a heat stove fuel much like the blocks you are making. .. .. Lots more forest fires, these days. Western North American has lots of dead and dying trees going down into the ground.
A very interesting idea what a great thought. You might want to look into how they do it in India because they take what's essentially charred wood and make a bio char briquette. It sounds like you already have the biochar made for you so maybe you could just compress it in the blocks and burn it
Every time I watch RUclips videos, used coffee grounds become more of a valuable resource around my place. If you put them in standing water, it kills mosquito eggs. Earthworms love them (that's 110,000 uses, right there). They absorb stink from animal waste. Excellent compost. We need to drink more coffee 😂
Great information!! I heat my shop/ garage with a pellet stove. I’m going to try your method making pellet fuel. My stove can burn corn/ cherry bits. Or wood pellets. Any free BTUs is great!! Here in Michigan winters.
Just a suggestion that when I was composting human manure I learned not to use sawdust from a lumber yard as so much of it is saturated with chemicals. Not what I would use in a garden. I would think the same applies here.
Generally I agree you need to verify there isn't a bunch of chemicals in the wood/sawdust you're working with. Most sawmills use water or chainsaw chips obviously there's bar oil. Lot of people say that's not good but consider the wood itself has oils in it. Or some pine has pitch in it. All are chemicals. Coffee also has oils in it prior to roasting than most of them are burnt off. I think you really have to be careful like you stated on some lumber yards use pesticides that are very nasty. You're definitely correct know your source
Mind blown. I have never. I throw all this stuff away everyday. We have a business where we shred paper labels that have sensitive info on them. My only question is, the labels that we shred have a lot of glue in them. Do you think that the glue would not burn as clean and might gum up our chimney or might burn too hot?
Avocado peels & seeds are magic. Ensured fire starter and surprising long duration burn. Growing up we had a basic wood stove. Burnt a lot of wood. Hotter than hell while tending fire. Ice in the toilet in the morning. These last 20 years with Vermont Castings Encore, is amazing duration, efficiency, comfort. Also, never liked guacamole and still don’t. Plain avocado is quick good energy food. If they are hard when you buy them, leave them on counter until first touch of softening then refrigerate. If they rot, you get to burn them.
I used one growing up at my house. We loved the resourcefulness of it but decided the effort involved... we just went back to using the paper to start the fire after about 1 season, so I cant speak for it durability.
I am going to ask a stupid question... Can you put these in an offset smoker? I would assume you couldn't use the paper products to make these But to put into a Smoker... could you use the Coffee Grounds and Wood Shavings??? Surely there is a way to make these Bricks that we can Smoke Meat???
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Exactly... I was thinking not the paper waist as much as the Oak Sawdust... and Coffee Grounds... Dried Vegetable Scraps??? Dehydrating Vegetable Scraps with the Coffee Grounds? THINKING of what would Smell and Taste Good... without making White Smoke.. or a Burnt Taste. I was a Chemical Engineer in the Oldfield. *Retired I will explore this and get back to you. THANK YOU so much for sharing this EXCELLENT VIDEO.... Holy Moly this Helped me so much. GOD BLESS YOU!!!
Another REASON this video means so much to me is.... This. I am 70 years old... have been taking care of my ill mother for the last 7 years. She has passed away (very sad) and I find myself on my own again.... and needing to have to go back to work, because I do not make enough money to live on my Social Security. Since I will not have a home here shortly.. I have decided to buy a Tiny RV with a Stove like yours (smaller) which is great... Your Briquettes are perfect for that. BUT... I am also going to go back into the BBQ We used to have a BBQ Cafe... do not want the hassle of a cafe again... but would love to SELL BEEF JERKY... EVERYONE LOVES BEEF JERKY. This is why I'm interested in making these Briquettes. YOU are a Genius for making these... I"m sure TEA Leaves would be great too. YOU are also a God-Send to me... For the first time since my Mama died, I feel like I can get back on my feet. Don't feel so lost now. Thank you again God Bless
Saw a video last week of a farmer making briquettes from coffee grounds from a local coffee shop mixed with livestock manure from his farm. said the smell of the coffee completely covered any bad smell from the manure and that it burned *real* good, but yours look like they burn just fine as well
I have a question and a suggestion: First the question, How do you keep your blades from cutting holes in your plastic bucket? Now the suggestion, go to an RV store get a Maserator and it should speed things up with a lot less hassle!!! 🤠👍
It actually doesn't cut I'm not exactly sure why I would guess it's probably because of the paddle on the bottom keeping it away from the sides. And it's funny you mention that because I just switched out the macerator on my sister's RV and set up a system where you use a garbage disposal in its place at the external hose. So maybe I'll look into run it through one of those. The big problem with this is putting too much material in at a time might clog the blades especially the paper being a macerator or a garbage disposal
coffee beat wood for amount of heat generated but good luck getting 3 cords i personaly use coffee to help start a fire or pack grounds in a tp roll when i go camping
This is true I just find it helps Make the briquettes more dense by adding some to wood chips and a very small amount of paper. That said we are working on making briquettes from compost with coffee in it
Try drilling holes in a 5 gallon bucket make the bottom like a strainer and then use another bucket to squeeze the water out and make big pucks like half the size of the bucket . Then you can mix your mixture in a bucket tower of sorts and the. Just squeeze out the excess water .
Curious if you have tried using coffee chaff and coffee grounds instead of sawdust. Roasters certainly have loads of chaff to give away. Thanks for your video.
You don't have to add anything these things take off easy. And if you really want to see something awesome if you've only got like two or three little coals in your fire set one of these on top of it and it will take off
That water you squeeze out is going to be rich in nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus from the coffee. Thats liquid vegetable fertilizer you're wasting.
Not wasting it just wasn't worth capturing on the video it's hard enough moving the camera and everything else. We are building a platform over top of our compost been made of pallets to start pressing these and then I will put multiple holes in the pile letting it fill up the holes and slowly seep out. On top of that we are working on a new video We actually are pressing compost into briquettes they are actually much denser so that should improve the burn time if nothing else it's a fun experiment
@thefrugalhomestead7873 can you cut them up into smaller squares when dry or do they crumble? I wonder if you could make them ice cube sized to use like charcoal briquettes?
I have not had any build up in my chimney in fact these burns so completely they're actually cleaner than firewood in my opinion. Obviously just like any other combustion thing they burn more complete the hotter you burn them. The ash lays down and compacts better which means cleaning out the stove less often. Since you really have no bark or dirt the combustion is very complete
Fascinating. As I watched the video, I know it was something for a handy person could do for themselves, but I was just wondering if it made a difference about the brickets, if the sawdust used was from treated lumber, that burning might create a toxic element, if used for a fireplace or outdoor firepit? If it wasn't an issue, I was wondering if counties, that have problems with paper/cardboard waste, since recycling of paper isn't so valuable, that perhaps the waste management of cities, consider using all the bulk of waste paper/cardboard, which could be used as fuel for power plants, might consider part of the recycling used the massive loads of paper to make briquettes for fire place/fire pits and sell it out to the public? If they are safe for those charcoal grillings, wouldn't that be an recycled usage of paper/cardboard waste and for wood working shops of endless sawdust? During my career in government, one of the methods of important document disposal was shredding machines, incarceration, and mulching in huge vats of water (like a giant washing machine). The shredding/mulching will still be producing either fine chips/dust or mulched paper going into dumpsters, why not just mulch, stain with coffee grounds and compressed to brickettes?
You may want to turn it into charcoal briquettes. I saw a few videos where a person was taking banana peels and turning them into briquettes. You can do the same with this mix. ruclips.net/video/Ld3qt74oJ3s/видео.htmlsi=ddlhw9BKq3muWhkM
For those who don't have a press, can you use a butter mold press that can be done by hand. Or a wooden brick mold. Also do you know if you can use that chicory coffee grounds?
Yes you can use any kind of product in it chickery coffee would be fine. As far as a mold if you watch our giant briquette video all I did was used to buckets I drilled holes in the bottom bucket then put a board across and sat on the top bucket putting the materials inside the first bucket then putting the second bucket into it worked pretty well actually but you could make it out of anything wood it doesn't matter. There's also so many easy plans or ideas on RUclips about bricket presses
Would a garbage disposal work to grind all that up? Ive removed so many from kitchen because they cause pipes to clog up and have one hooked up above my compost bin. All the kitchen scraps and garden water goes thru the garbage disposal before it falls into the bin of compost, it chews everything up into a nice even mush
Been there, done that. Does it work? Yes, it certainly does. I took a whole summer and made the equivalent of 1 cord of wood. I cannot remember how man blocks it was, but it was a lot. Time + labor = money. Yes, the paper and coffee is free, but the amount of time and labor to produce 4 bricks is silly. It includes soaking paper for a while too. I added bleach to break the fibers, which made bricks more compact and dense. Then there is the drying time. Some bricks were totally dry in a month, but weather is a challenge. It is never sunny and dry where I am for a month. I had to babysit the bricks outside. If it rained, they had to get covered. If you put them in your basement to dry, they will mold. You need hot, dry sunny weather. If you have no life and no job, these bricks might be practical for you. Oh ya, and then there is the ash. It is atrocious. I cleaned my stove once a week with wood. These bricks require every 2-3 days. No thanks. Thats more time.
A lot of factors working against you. You also don't live in a third world country where firewood cost more than your yearly pay. Or where it just does not exist. That's why they use biomass charcoal to make briquettes in India to cook and heat with. We sometimes forget we don't live in a third world country. I think this would be good for a retiree to make a few every couple days over coffee in the morning have a drying shelf in there patio or garage. I definitely think there's better options especially if you have a giant house. I will say there is some other use cases that I've been hearing about. One is using cherry sawdust to make smoking briquettes for smoking meat. But if you were trying to invest in this for scale and longevity it'd probably be a better honestly to get a pellet stove and a pellet machine and just use the sawdust to make pellets. We have been experimenting with ways to do this ourselves.
The poor cost benefit ratio was also obvious to me from the beginning. Time spent creating a furnace that conveniently burns the input materials would be greatly more efficient.
@@johnhess351That's a reasonable thought except you're not allowed to make your own wood burner and have it covered by insurance in your home in the United States. You have to have an EPA approved stove. Could you do different yeah if your house burns down for any reason at all the insurance company will point at that furnace and say you're not covered.... And time is very relative. So many people put time against money you get paid hourly. What if you're retired. But if you're early retirement like us. What if you just like doing this with your grandkids on a warm sunny summer afternoon. You got to remember just because the dollars and cents don't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't to somebody else
It depends on the press we're currently using. We reuse the water catching most of it under some presses when I'm filming I don't try to catch the water and reclaim it because I'm already fighting with the camera work etc. we are working on a new jig that sits on top of our pallet compost bins. This way I can make new air holes in the compost bin and then let the gray water roll right down into the compost. Taking all the benefits of soaking in the wood and coffee with it
I first saw this from an English fellow making coffee bricks. But he fermented the slurry, for three months, before pressing them. Know anything about the difference?
He is definitely on to something... We recently did briquettes with compost out of our compost pile and the results were surprising to say the least. A video coming out on that soon
I just let the grounds dry in the sun and shovel it into the fire, seems to work with little effort compared to make bricks from the coffee grounds, we do the same with sawdust.
Put the coffee in the middle of the mix. I used to have the single press and I found that the briquettes burned better if they were not too dense. IE leave some card not broken down.
We go back and forth on this cuz our giant briquette video that thing burned forever and it wasn't pressed super hard but it was really dense We're going to be coming out with a new video soon where I literally went to the compost pile dug out some compost that was finished and mixed it with cardboard paper and a little bit of coffee and even at 100% dry it probably weighs almost double what the same of this mix did. We have not burned any of it yet but I think it'll be interesting
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Cool. I have not made them since 1984 LOL but I recall that, although I needed more of them. the less compressed ones left behind a lighter ash - most of which disappeared when disturbed. A big consideration for us at we had a fireplace with a build-in back boiler.
Ive got the single model for my amazon boxes. Those boxes are pretty much only good for heat, you dont want to cook with them because the starch they use is pretty toxic. Ive got a home made press as well, and i found that the saw dust and coffee grounds burn super hot, but not as long. I got my blocks up to almost 2300°f with my forge. But it takes alot of those blocks to keep it going that hot.
First time viewer. Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing this video. One question. What's the drying time for the bricks during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn?
It varies based upon what they're made of what the moisture outside is if you're indirect sunlight... In the direct sun of the summer if you're flipping them maybe a day or two. If you've got them inside a damp garage in the middle of autumn probably a week
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Thanks for the information. I might get one of those nifty nifty 4-slot presses and start diverting my paper recycling material.
@@sukru6797 Most paper has forever chems in it, and there are harmful chems in chainsaw sawdust from the chainsaw bar oil. So if you are pressing either of those, using the water from it would not be good.
Looking at the huge pile of split firewood behind you, I have to ask myself, is this really worth the effort? I’m waiting for the burn test. Where do you live?
If you watch a lot of these people watching this video from other countries and other countries wood is not as available as it is here in the USA for example in Brazil people will go pick up cow patties and burn them in stoves after they dry them out. Or consider if you were trying to run a chainsaw with a bad back at 60 some years old so this is an easy way somebody could do it on their back patio when in retirement too there's multiple reasons
We are in Ohio and we live in a tourist area so basically our firewood mostly goes out in bundles to maximize the value . In 2 weeks we're releasing another briquette video these ones are giant briquettes and it only focuses on burn time. Think you might be pleasantly surprised with the results of that one.
You could try the ratio back and forth to find what works best I would guess if you're trying just to do paper and coffee 3/4 paper 1/4 coffee would probably be a mix that would hold together and dry faster. The big thing if you're trying to do paper with coffee shred the paper as much as possible and let it soak overnight
It actually does not make any build up they burn extremely clean. Part of that is cuz there's no bark. Bark is the actual dirty part. But also because there is no sap and sugars like there is in normal firewood because this is already been completely dried out. The oils in the ones that have coffee in them burn out completely so it actually helps keep it clean. But my pipe is extremely clean I think I showed up it and I showed how clean these burn in one of the videos so you might want to check out some of our other ones. I was thoroughly impressed though
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 at least you would then know how long your house made of those bricks would burn! About 1hr 45 min! Sorry! Terrible joke heheheh!
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 did a quick bit of research, it has potential as a cement mix on its own (might need to play around with ratios of sawdust/paper and coffee grounds in the initial mix, but the coffee ash has everything else necessary to make ashes into cement). mixing it with bacon grease could also make for a decent soap too, though you'd want to run the grease through a filter or two first.
Mine have not but I could see if you lived in a very cold wet area that could happen. I think if you're drawing them in a warm or dry area you probably won't have a problem and once they're dried you have no problems
That's a very interesting idea especially because of the pressure and heat should melt the oils to help hold it together. I'll look into that more thanks for the idea
In some of our videos we actually showed how little smoke it makes and how clean the pipe is. we see no increase in creosote buildup. That said like firewood you need to let them completely dry 100% before burning or I could see that making some smoke and creosote
Absolutely none. It's kind of like it does a more complete burn but.... I want to preface that I have a reburner stove in other words it has pipes in the top that reburns the gases in the smoke. I have burnt them in my standard wood burning furnace which is just a firebox and no creosote compared to wood
You need to wet mix your coffee and wait for about 1-2 months before you add the wood and everything else. You want the coffee to break down into a sort of peat moss before you burn it for maximum heat
Actually from what I've seen from other creators they want to compost the entire mixture. We've been testing some where we actually went to the compost pile to make briquettes. Video coming soon
@ ideally yes, but the difference in heat capacity of wood is more dependent on on how dry it is. So just the coffee is for space saving, especially if your picking up grounds from Starbucks
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The Worcestershire Cabinet Maker has a video that claims if you let the mixture sit for two months before packing it, the briquettes will burn longer. I have not tested it yet.
My mom had us kids making waste paper logs 50 years ago.. we were preppers before prepper was popular =)) RIP mamma and daddy.. you taught me a lot of good stuff
Glad it triggered some good memories for you
I get you! My grandparents survived the depression and kept scouting ways to save money. I'm glad; between that, and my dad's instruction on camping, we survived the pandemic okay. Now, we save on principal. (Garden, Chickens, Canning, etc.) I think they'd be proud. Pretty sure there'd be a "Told you so!" in there.
Nowadays most paper has forever chems, and there are harmful chems in chainsaw sawdust (from the chainsaw bar oil). So never cook food over any of those.
oh wow - I forgot all about paper logs! My parents had us use newspapers if there weren't enough bags, and they also sent us out to "play" by going and picking up thick pine bark that had cracked off of fallen trees. Great memories. Also, had a carpet of green walnuts in our driveway for a month or two while everyone drove over them so they'd be easy to process. Weird, weird, weird how different my own kids are - how far removed from all of that, and have no interest in learning (never did.)
@@evenlyanxious I'm proud to say my daughter and then my grandson even more were interested in learning how to do things I learned growing up on a small farm... many wonderful memories are in my head right now.
My beautiful best boy, best friend, died from a terrible terrible cancer 2 weeks after he turned 21.. R. I. P. Nicholas Bel.. Nana loved you so much and will never forget teaching you how to use a little saw and how you would say.. backy forf.. backy forf.
Blessings to all who love...
watching this from Switzerland. Don't even own a stove, but really love the idea and your effort.
I think our country could learn a lot from your country and how things are run. Lol but welcome and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Videos on briquettes are a labor of love. In about 2 weeks we got another one coming out about giant briquettes.
People saving their coffee grounds to do this will be blown away by the fact that they can get at least 30 lbs of used coffee grounds from their local Starbucks every...single.. day... You can get twice as much if you show up at lunch and before they close. They are begging people to take those from them so they don't have to carry it to the dumpster.
Our local Starbucks and most other coffee shops have stopped doing this. They used to put it in bags and put it out for people or people would call in and ask for it and not come pick it up not show up so they stop doing it. It's pretty sad really because you're correct 30 to 100 lb a day is what most Starbucks stores go through
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Have a talk with their manager. Show them that you can keep a schedule going. Give them a bin they can drop the bag outside for you and will be protected until you pick it up. The people at my store here know that I'll be pulling into the parking lot every single day around 7 pm and they keep in the same place for me. I even bribed them with some avocados from my trees here to sweeten the deal, because they want you to take it. But yes, I understand their reasons for not wanting to do it anymore in your area if nobody is willing to show some commitment. I'm a gardener, so that stuff is even more precious to me than it is for people who will make bricks for burning.
@@PedroKing99because we have asked almost every local place. I would encourage you to ask in your area because it may be different but you have to think how many coffee grounds they go through so if they start bagging it up it's going to make a lot and without somebody to pick it up constantly they're wasting their time they can just throw it the trash can. So they quickly get sick of bagging it up putting it aside and people not showing up it's extra work they are a business. We actually spent an entire day in our town and three other local towns driving from coffee shop to coffee shop to coffee shop and they all said the same thing we used to save them but nobody ever came to pick them up. One of the local Starbucks even still has a basket area up where they used to put them but they said they don't do it anymore
@@WealthandTravelonaDimea local coffee shop, now gone, used to have a good policy. They had a 5 gal bucket at the back door. You took their bucket & left an empty one.
@wendyeames5758 that would be awesome
Don't think coffee burns? Then you've never been to Starbucks.
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Never been, don’t like their politics, won’t support them with my $. You can get spent grounds from your local coffee shop and have all the material you can blend, with other amazing aromas! Or use it in your compost.
I was 2x a decade ago, both times inside it smelled like burned coffee
I thought I was the only one thought it even tastes burnt
Free heat? Not even close. Think of how much coffee you have to go through in order to actually make those little bricks of coffee.
We've also found that you can also use spent grain collected from local micro breweries. Once dried, they burn well. Also if you vermicompost, this helps feed your maggots, or worms, and you can also feed spent beer grain to chickens, and hogs.
Another good option
I bet the fermented grain is really good for animals, if not people
Over my 79 years, I've met a lot of people that can burn coffee, and I've met a few that couldn't boil water without burning it!!
Well you could say I burn coffee lol
Don't talk bad about my mother.
Hilarious!
You met my mrs ? The only person I know can explode eggs when boiling them .
Interesting video. Taking scrap , sawdust, cardboard and coffee grounds and making firebricks. That's awesome.! Great idea.
Thank you we thought it was a fun experiment
I compost all of mine, in a.mix. Earth friendly reuse is good.
Many different uses we are actually working on a video where we take actual finished compost and make briquettes
My coffee grounds and eggshells go into an old cake pan in the oven, where they are desiccated when I bake something. The crushed shells and coffee grounds are then processed in my old Waring blender and used in my garden.
We actually have started making briquettes from compost video come in soon
Great for the garden too!!
In another coffee brick making video, the guy left his mix to ferment for about a minth to 2 months. He said it increased the burn time x 2.
Yep if you look through the comments he's been in here talking. What he's doing is composting we're looking into videos on that too but he also uses dryer smaller particles of wood turnings and sawdust that higher quality wood will burn longer than what we're using with wood chips. But the compost in effect breaks everything down so it can pack in denser. But to counter that you should look into our giant briquette video if you want to see burn time
I saw the same guy do these after letting it sit for two months (becoming compost). He said letting it sit that long was the secret ingredient for them lasting over two hrs. I’d like to try both but I would have to go to a wood shop or somewhere to get food sawdust. I don’t cut enough to make that much.
I repair coffee machines and go through about 2kg of beans a week when testing the machines. My workshop is near a coffee roastery who roasts at least 300kg daily, and they throw away a lot of husks that are waste from the roasting process. Using the husks and used grinds, I have made some rather half-decent briquettes.
Grinds + husks + flour to help bind (like paper maché)
The form I made creates holes through the briquettes which I believe helps them burn better.
Sounds like a great setup
It does make sense that used grounds burn well. When you're brewing coffee you're extracting oils and other elements from the coffee to flavor your water. But there's still oils left behind. So finely powdered flammable material with traces of natural oils in it laced throughout other flammable things definitely makes for a solid burn.
Exactly
This is really cool. Love the thought of recycling something that is just pure garbage usually like coffee grounds, that's excellent, nice work
Thank you
As a mechanic of three decades I've had plenty of experience with using an impact on a screw jack. You'll find that the screw inside the jack gets worn out pretty quickly. A hand turned crank will make the jack last longer.
We scrap a lot of cars around here so definitely no shortage of screw jacks. But even with speeding up with the drill I've seen guys with videos of hand pressed ones that could outrun this. So that's what we are looking into....that side The video we did on the giant ones was pretty good too and they burn a long time
This is cool. Im a 'poor' working class, in a trailer. I can think of multiple ideas for cofee like this, and for the press. Thank you!
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I enjoyed the video. Always a good idea to be resourceful. They actually commercially make and sell the coffee bricks. I never thought to make them myself. (I learned the newspaper, junk mail paper logs just to try it.) So thank you. -John's wife
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The Koreans still use briquets for heating to this day. But they make theirs into cylinders with many small holes molder into them for better combustion. The only ingredient I seen them use was charcoal and (undesirable) rice powder mixed with water as a binder. They made a press out of an old pipe, with rods welding to the bottom to create the vent holes, then they had a round metal plate, with holes, welded to a long rod that they pulled on using body weight to form the briquets, quite Ingenius actually.
Those would work wonderfully in a mass rocket heater.
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Coffee has oil in it, so they should burn pretty well and pretty hot
That is true and the roasting process burns off a lot of the bad oils off the outside.
Can't wait to try this!
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As someone who enjoys both coffee and camping, I really appreciate this video. Thanks
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Impressive! Never thought about doing something like this!
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I've been planning on doing paper briquettes. I also started saving coffee grounds for other reasons but now i have ANOTHER reason. Thanks!
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Excellent use of resources that would end up in a dump somewhere. The more items we can recycle the better. And, a perfect way to save money and create your own “fire wood” cheaply. Plus it can easily be stored in a small place with little mess and no bugs. Children can make the bricks, each child makes 24 a day and that would heat the home all winter.
Exactly. We did another video called Giant briquettes and you could have it be a family deal but those burn a lot longer
Good for the kids too. They learn to work instead of being on phones and other e-gadgets. I don't let my kids or grandkids be on E-gadgets if they come to visit me. They claim to come to visit me, then DO THAT. I hate lies... And I'm not a pushover grandma.
Coffee grounds are also good for compost, high in nitrogen.
LOL you are trying to bring back child labor. People used to have children in order to get free labor. Is that still the case for you?😅
This is okay. A good place to start. My Coffee briquettes burn over 2 hours 15 minutes.
Yep I've seen your videos. They are an excellent resource
Interesting. I am age 76 to young to drink coffee I was age 35 learned to drink tea. Wish I saw this 7 years ago I was lucky had truck loads of coffee for fill and soil made better. Never considered this program thanks was interesting. Yours truly Evans w Robinson ret sgt
We are working on new videos where we made them from a compost pile very interesting.. thank you for watching
great idea
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My only question is, does it fill the chimney pipe with any soot, worse or average for wood?
No it does not. In fact it burns cleaner and more efficient than wood as there's no bark. And the biggest thing that causes soot and creosote is wood that has wet sap or wood that is wet. In a couple of my videos I showed how little smoke they make and that the pipe is completely clean.
@thefrugalhomestead7873 thank you for answering. That was a safety concern I had, as I have had pipes glowing back when I was learning to use a wood stove (years ago)
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Thank you! New subscriber here. This is the first video of yours I'm watching. It's great to see another use for my used coffee grounds!
Glad to have you along.
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This is ALOT like making paper. Just bigger batches. Very interesting!
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I buy 40 lb bags of deer corn for less than 10 bucks and fill small bags and paper boxes to throw in a hot wood stove- and the smell is like being at a movie theatre outside! Also hard wood pellets for pet bedding works, and cedar chips is our go to to lite the stove.
All excellent ideas
Dude - 1 bushel /60# corn sells for under $4 from a farmer.
This is one Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your know how!!
Glad to help
The major upside is if you live in the South/Southeast , you get superior mosquito 🦟 control and protection from burning 🔥 coffee ☕️ grounds. It’s a heckuva mosquito repellent 👍🌎👀
Interesting good to know
The downside?…..I live where there’s a lot black bear….coffee smell attracts the bear and the coyote….😂😂😂….don’t want that…
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By the time you need to light a fire, the mosquitos are long dead.
There’s something that really makes it burn, not sure if is the oil or what, but ive noticed the coffee paper filters would burn so easy like if had some combustible added. Discovered it for using the coffee powders for gardning and was about to burn some branches then i used some dry ones, and it burns easy
Oils in coffee
Great demonstration. Thanks. .. I'm in dry eastern Washington, not far from Canada. Every year we have a number of forest fires. The fires often leave standing dead and standing trees still alive but fire damaged. In the following years many of the survivors die. Here, a lot of the trees are Ponderosa Pine. The wood is lightweight. As it dies and in the next few years, still standing but dead ...the wood becomes easier to break and crumble under pressure. At that point it offers nurture for bugs and birds and bears foraging. ...and fertilizes the earth. .. .. Watching your videos about making compressed blocks, I get the idea that compressing crumbled pine would make a heat stove fuel much like the blocks you are making. .. .. Lots more forest fires, these days. Western North American has lots of dead and dying trees going down into the ground.
A very interesting idea what a great thought. You might want to look into how they do it in India because they take what's essentially charred wood and make a bio char briquette. It sounds like you already have the biochar made for you so maybe you could just compress it in the blocks and burn it
Every time I watch RUclips videos, used coffee grounds become more of a valuable resource around my place. If you put them in standing water, it kills mosquito eggs. Earthworms love them (that's 110,000 uses, right there). They absorb stink from animal waste. Excellent compost. We need to drink more coffee 😂
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Great information!!
I heat my shop/ garage with a pellet stove. I’m going to try your method making pellet fuel.
My stove can burn corn/ cherry bits. Or wood pellets.
Any free BTUs is great!! Here in Michigan winters.
That should work out good
Just a suggestion that when I was composting human manure I learned not to use sawdust from a lumber yard as so much of it is saturated with chemicals. Not what I would use in a garden. I would think the same applies here.
Generally I agree you need to verify there isn't a bunch of chemicals in the wood/sawdust you're working with. Most sawmills use water or chainsaw chips obviously there's bar oil. Lot of people say that's not good but consider the wood itself has oils in it. Or some pine has pitch in it. All are chemicals. Coffee also has oils in it prior to roasting than most of them are burnt off.
I think you really have to be careful like you stated on some lumber yards use pesticides that are very nasty. You're definitely correct know your source
Mind blown. I have never. I throw all this stuff away everyday. We have a business where we shred paper labels that have sensitive info on them. My only question is, the labels that we shred have a lot of glue in them. Do you think that the glue would not burn as clean and might gum up our chimney or might burn too hot?
I would doubt there'd be any issue in fact the glue is probably water soluble so it probably would actually help them hold together.
These would be great fire starters!
They actually really are because if you put them on one small coal it'll take right off
One of the coolest things I've ever seen. 😊
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Avocado peels & seeds are magic. Ensured fire starter and surprising long duration burn. Growing up we had a basic wood stove. Burnt a lot of wood. Hotter than hell while tending fire. Ice in the toilet in the morning. These last 20 years with Vermont Castings Encore, is amazing duration, efficiency, comfort. Also, never liked guacamole and still don’t. Plain avocado is quick good energy food. If they are hard when you buy them, leave them on counter until first touch of softening then refrigerate. If they rot, you get to burn them.
Makes sense
Didnt they used to sell a hand cranked machine that would take magazines and newspapers and turn them into fire logs?
That would be interesting
I used one growing up at my house. We loved the resourcefulness of it but decided the effort involved... we just went back to using the paper to start the fire after about 1 season, so I cant speak for it durability.
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How about using a small batch concrete mixer?
That would be awesome That's how you do big batches fast
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I am going to ask a stupid question...
Can you put these in an offset smoker?
I would assume you couldn't use the paper products to make these
But to put into a Smoker... could you use the Coffee Grounds and Wood Shavings???
Surely there is a way to make these Bricks that we can Smoke Meat???
I would guess so. It would definitely make an interesting experiment
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Exactly...
I was thinking not the paper waist as much as the Oak Sawdust... and Coffee Grounds... Dried Vegetable Scraps???
Dehydrating Vegetable Scraps with the Coffee Grounds?
THINKING of what would Smell and Taste Good... without making White Smoke.. or a Burnt Taste.
I was a Chemical Engineer in the Oldfield. *Retired
I will explore this and get back to you.
THANK YOU so much for sharing this EXCELLENT VIDEO....
Holy Moly this Helped me so much.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!
Another REASON this video means so much to me is.... This.
I am 70 years old... have been taking care of my ill mother for the last 7 years.
She has passed away (very sad) and I find myself on my own again.... and needing to have to go back to work, because I do not make enough money to live on my Social Security.
Since I will not have a home here shortly..
I have decided to buy a Tiny RV with a Stove like yours (smaller) which is great...
Your Briquettes are perfect for that.
BUT... I am also going to go back into the BBQ
We used to have a BBQ Cafe... do not want the hassle of a cafe again...
but would love to SELL BEEF JERKY...
EVERYONE LOVES BEEF JERKY.
This is why I'm interested in making these Briquettes.
YOU are a Genius for making these...
I"m sure TEA Leaves would be great too.
YOU are also a God-Send to me...
For the first time since my Mama died, I feel like I can get back on my feet. Don't feel so lost now.
Thank you again
God Bless
Saw a video last week of a farmer making briquettes from coffee grounds from a local coffee shop mixed with livestock manure from his farm.
said the smell of the coffee completely covered any bad smell from the manure and that it burned *real* good, but yours look like they burn just fine as well
There's going to be a video much like this. Using compost that has manure in it
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I have a question and a suggestion: First the question, How do you keep your blades from cutting holes in your plastic bucket? Now the suggestion, go to an RV store get a Maserator and it should speed things up with a lot less hassle!!! 🤠👍
It actually doesn't cut I'm not exactly sure why I would guess it's probably because of the paddle on the bottom keeping it away from the sides.
And it's funny you mention that because I just switched out the macerator on my sister's RV and set up a system where you use a garbage disposal in its place at the external hose. So maybe I'll look into run it through one of those. The big problem with this is putting too much material in at a time might clog the blades especially the paper being a macerator or a garbage disposal
coffee beat wood for amount of heat generated but good luck getting 3 cords i personaly use coffee to help start a fire or pack grounds in a tp roll when i go camping
This is true I just find it helps Make the briquettes more dense by adding some to wood chips and a very small amount of paper. That said we are working on making briquettes from compost with coffee in it
Do these produce more or less creosote in the chimney, do you have to sweep it more often ?
Less as they burn more completely.
I’m trying to decrease my coffee consumption and have my wife do the same. Question: would this work equally well with used tea?
Yes
Try drilling holes in a 5 gallon bucket make the bottom like a strainer and then use another bucket to squeeze the water out and make big pucks like half the size of the bucket . Then you can mix your mixture in a bucket tower of sorts and the. Just squeeze out the excess water .
Check out our giant briquette video where we did that
Great idea.
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I wonder what the r - value is for these blocks? For stucco later.
Probably one
Curious if you have tried using coffee chaff and coffee grounds instead of sawdust. Roasters certainly have loads of chaff to give away. Thanks for your video.
No roasters in our town but I will look into in more thanks
Can these bee used as fire starters by adding ingredients like wax, crisco, etc?
You don't have to add anything these things take off easy. And if you really want to see something awesome if you've only got like two or three little coals in your fire set one of these on top of it and it will take off
What would happen if you used the dry bricks to make char? I’m wondering if the resulting product could be used to smoke pork or other meats?
In India they make these but add charcoal and press them under a lot more pressure. They use them for cooking smoking ect.
That water you squeeze out is going to be rich in nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus from the coffee. Thats liquid vegetable fertilizer you're wasting.
Not wasting it just wasn't worth capturing on the video it's hard enough moving the camera and everything else. We are building a platform over top of our compost been made of pallets to start pressing these and then I will put multiple holes in the pile letting it fill up the holes and slowly seep out. On top of that we are working on a new video
We actually are pressing compost into briquettes they are actually much denser so that should improve the burn time if nothing else it's a fun experiment
@thefrugalhomestead7873 can you cut them up into smaller squares when dry or do they crumble? I wonder if you could make them ice cube sized to use like charcoal briquettes?
How safe is this long term in a wood stove? Does it leave any residues like certain woods you shouldn't burn, like pine ans creosote?
I have not had any build up in my chimney in fact these burns so completely they're actually cleaner than firewood in my opinion. Obviously just like any other combustion thing they burn more complete the hotter you burn them. The ash lays down and compacts better which means cleaning out the stove less often. Since you really have no bark or dirt the combustion is very complete
can that mold be press you have be used to make adobe or papercrete bricks?
I would think so
Wow, 1.5 hours ! 👍 good deal
Might want to go check out our gigantic briquette video that one burned much longer
Fascinating. As I watched the video, I know it was something for a handy person could do for themselves, but I was just wondering if it made a difference about the brickets, if the sawdust used was from treated lumber, that burning might create a toxic element, if used for a fireplace or outdoor firepit? If it wasn't an issue, I was wondering if counties, that have problems with paper/cardboard waste, since recycling of paper isn't so valuable, that perhaps the waste management of cities, consider using all the bulk of waste paper/cardboard, which could be used as fuel for power plants, might consider part of the recycling used the massive loads of paper to make briquettes for fire place/fire pits and sell it out to the public? If they are safe for those charcoal grillings, wouldn't that be an recycled usage of paper/cardboard waste and for wood working shops of endless sawdust? During my career in government, one of the methods of important document disposal was shredding machines, incarceration, and mulching in huge vats of water (like a giant washing machine). The shredding/mulching will still be producing either fine chips/dust or mulched paper going into dumpsters, why not just mulch, stain with coffee grounds and compressed to brickettes?
Treated is salt based now so I still would not use but I agree there is so much waste we could compress and use for fuel
Getting hardwood sawdust is very difficult in ND and the rest of the Great Plains. I figure leaves will work, though.
Any kind of organic matter would work. We are testing compost right now and that can be made out of anything
WOW Hi can i use these in my smoker.I can use different wood sawdust.
You can but I would use less paper
You may want to turn it into charcoal briquettes. I saw a few videos where a person was taking banana peels and turning them into briquettes.
You can do the same with this mix.
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For those who don't have a press, can you use a butter mold press that can be done by hand. Or a wooden brick mold.
Also do you know if you can use that chicory coffee grounds?
Yes you can use any kind of product in it chickery coffee would be fine. As far as a mold if you watch our giant briquette video all I did was used to buckets I drilled holes in the bottom bucket then put a board across and sat on the top bucket putting the materials inside the first bucket then putting the second bucket into it worked pretty well actually but you could make it out of anything wood it doesn't matter. There's also so many easy plans or ideas on RUclips about bricket presses
Would a garbage disposal work to grind all that up? Ive removed so many from kitchen because they cause pipes to clog up and have one hooked up above my compost bin. All the kitchen scraps and garden water goes thru the garbage disposal before it falls into the bin of compost, it chews everything up into a nice even mush
*garden waste* not water...
Honestly that might be a really good idea
Very interesting. Not something I will do. However I would like to copy the press you made for other purposes!
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Been there, done that. Does it work? Yes, it certainly does. I took a whole summer and made the equivalent of 1 cord of wood. I cannot remember how man blocks it was, but it was a lot. Time + labor = money. Yes, the paper and coffee is free, but the amount of time and labor to produce 4 bricks is silly. It includes soaking paper for a while too. I added bleach to break the fibers, which made bricks more compact and dense. Then there is the drying time. Some bricks were totally dry in a month, but weather is a challenge. It is never sunny and dry where I am for a month. I had to babysit the bricks outside. If it rained, they had to get covered. If you put them in your basement to dry, they will mold. You need hot, dry sunny weather. If you have no life and no job, these bricks might be practical for you. Oh ya, and then there is the ash. It is atrocious. I cleaned my stove once a week with wood. These bricks require every 2-3 days. No thanks. Thats more time.
A lot of factors working against you. You also don't live in a third world country where firewood cost more than your yearly pay. Or where it just does not exist. That's why they use biomass charcoal to make briquettes in India to cook and heat with. We sometimes forget we don't live in a third world country. I think this would be good for a retiree to make a few every couple days over coffee in the morning have a drying shelf in there patio or garage. I definitely think there's better options especially if you have a giant house. I will say there is some other use cases that I've been hearing about. One is using cherry sawdust to make smoking briquettes for smoking meat. But if you were trying to invest in this for scale and longevity it'd probably be a better honestly to get a pellet stove and a pellet machine and just use the sawdust to make pellets. We have been experimenting with ways to do this ourselves.
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Yep. I tried it and it just was not worth my time.
Not to mention the chemicals in the newspaper and the cardboard. 😊
The poor cost benefit ratio was also obvious to me from the beginning. Time spent creating a furnace that conveniently burns the input materials would be greatly more efficient.
@@johnhess351That's a reasonable thought except you're not allowed to make your own wood burner and have it covered by insurance in your home in the United States. You have to have an EPA approved stove. Could you do different yeah if your house burns down for any reason at all the insurance company will point at that furnace and say you're not covered.... And time is very relative. So many people put time against money you get paid hourly. What if you're retired. But if you're early retirement like us. What if you just like doing this with your grandkids on a warm sunny summer afternoon. You got to remember just because the dollars and cents don't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't to somebody else
are you collecting the gray water for use?
It depends on the press we're currently using. We reuse the water catching most of it under some presses when I'm filming I don't try to catch the water and reclaim it because I'm already fighting with the camera work etc. we are working on a new jig that sits on top of our pallet compost bins. This way I can make new air holes in the compost bin and then let the gray water roll right down into the compost. Taking all the benefits of soaking in the wood and coffee with it
I first saw this from an English fellow making coffee bricks.
But he fermented the slurry, for three months, before pressing them.
Know anything about the difference?
He is definitely on to something... We recently did briquettes with compost out of our compost pile and the results were surprising to say the least. A video coming out on that soon
I just let the grounds dry in the sun and shovel it into the fire, seems to work with little effort compared to make bricks from the coffee grounds, we do the same with sawdust.
Nothing wrong with that
Put the coffee in the middle of the mix. I used to have the single press and I found that the briquettes burned better if they were not too dense. IE leave some card not broken down.
We go back and forth on this cuz our giant briquette video that thing burned forever and it wasn't pressed super hard but it was really dense
We're going to be coming out with a new video soon where I literally went to the compost pile dug out some compost that was finished and mixed it with cardboard paper and a little bit of coffee and even at 100% dry it probably weighs almost double what the same of this mix did. We have not burned any of it yet but I think it'll be interesting
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Cool. I have not made them since 1984 LOL but I recall that, although I needed more of them. the less compressed ones left behind a lighter ash - most of which disappeared when disturbed. A big consideration for us at we had a fireplace with a build-in back boiler.
Ive got the single model for my amazon boxes. Those boxes are pretty much only good for heat, you dont want to cook with them because the starch they use is pretty toxic. Ive got a home made press as well, and i found that the saw dust and coffee grounds burn super hot, but not as long. I got my blocks up to almost 2300°f with my forge. But it takes alot of those blocks to keep it going that hot.
Those would be probably pretty good for a forge
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 absolutely, anything that burns 1800°F is good. Cheaper than coal, and burns alot cleaner too. Plus it smells amazing lol.
Does it smell good when it burns?
It's a sealed stove so I can't really smell it except for when I open the door and then it smelled pretty good when it was open
First time viewer. Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing this video.
One question. What's the drying time for the bricks during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn?
It varies based upon what they're made of what the moisture outside is if you're indirect sunlight... In the direct sun of the summer if you're flipping them maybe a day or two. If you've got them inside a damp garage in the middle of autumn probably a week
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 Thanks for the information. I might get one of those nifty nifty 4-slot presses and start diverting my paper recycling material.
Good fertilizer also
Very true
I had the same thought, but in regards to the water being pushed out. Put a tote under it to catch the water or press directly over your garden spot.
@@sukru6797 Most paper has forever chems in it, and there are harmful chems in chainsaw sawdust from the chainsaw bar oil. So if you are pressing either of those, using the water from it would not be good.
Can dry leaf mulch be added to these? Would that work?
Yes the only issue would leaves is you get a little more smoke but not enough to matter
Looking at the huge pile of split firewood behind you, I have to ask myself, is this really worth the effort? I’m waiting for the burn test. Where do you live?
In my area, Starbucks gives away big bags (used) of coffee for free.
I’m guessing the best benefit to this process is to get the smell of coffee?
If you watch a lot of these people watching this video from other countries and other countries wood is not as available as it is here in the USA for example in Brazil people will go pick up cow patties and burn them in stoves after they dry them out. Or consider if you were trying to run a chainsaw with a bad back at 60 some years old so this is an easy way somebody could do it on their back patio when in retirement too there's multiple reasons
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 that makes sense. I remember when newspaper was abundant and someone came up with a roller that made newspaper logs.
We are in Ohio and we live in a tourist area so basically our firewood mostly goes out in bundles to maximize the value . In 2 weeks we're releasing another briquette video these ones are giant briquettes and it only focuses on burn time. Think you might be pleasantly surprised with the results of that one.
Im not a wood worker would a 50 50 paper coffee mix work?
You could try the ratio back and forth to find what works best I would guess if you're trying just to do paper and coffee 3/4 paper 1/4 coffee would probably be a mix that would hold together and dry faster. The big thing if you're trying to do paper with coffee shred the paper as much as possible and let it soak overnight
So they didn't burn for more than 2 hours.
What burns longest?
Our giant briquette burnt longest
what about the oils and soot buildup in your chimney? how do you address that with these brickettes?? just asking..
It actually does not make any build up they burn extremely clean. Part of that is cuz there's no bark. Bark is the actual dirty part. But also because there is no sap and sugars like there is in normal firewood because this is already been completely dried out. The oils in the ones that have coffee in them burn out completely so it actually helps keep it clean. But my pipe is extremely clean I think I showed up it and I showed how clean these burn in one of the videos so you might want to check out some of our other ones. I was thoroughly impressed though
Those are straight up bricks! Very nice. U could build a house with those!
Lol pretty light weight for that but such a cool project with real world applications
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 at least you would then know how long your house made of those bricks would burn! About 1hr 45 min!
Sorry! Terrible joke heheheh!
Not if they are flammable. But, you could make bricks of cement or something.
Now I'm wondering how the ash from that would serve as a base for cement/concrete bricks. Keep it useful even when it can't burn anymore.
Probably great additive might have a high lime content so possibly be good for soap
@@thefrugalhomestead7873 did a quick bit of research, it has potential as a cement mix on its own (might need to play around with ratios of sawdust/paper and coffee grounds in the initial mix, but the coffee ash has everything else necessary to make ashes into cement). mixing it with bacon grease could also make for a decent soap too, though you'd want to run the grease through a filter or two first.
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Does the coffee waste get moldy between making them and the briquettes?
Mine have not but I could see if you lived in a very cold wet area that could happen. I think if you're drawing them in a warm or dry area you probably won't have a problem and once they're dried you have no problems
I suggest adding one kilo of potato flour to such a bucket. While burning in the fireplace, you clean the chimney and fireplace glass.
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what about coffee pellets for a pellet stove?
That's a very interesting idea especially because of the pressure and heat should melt the oils to help hold it together. I'll look into that more thanks for the idea
I like that drill press
Yeah it works pretty good
Have you ever tried them in a barbecue grill?
No we have not but I think it's a good idea
How long to dry the brickettes before burning?
Depends on the temperature and the humidity probably a week or more in the summer days
i love it. Waste not want not.
Agree
How does that affect build up in the chimney?
In some of our videos we actually showed how little smoke it makes and how clean the pipe is. we see no increase in creosote buildup. That said like firewood you need to let them completely dry 100% before burning or I could see that making some smoke and creosote
any trouble with creosote?
Absolutely none. It's kind of like it does a more complete burn but.... I want to preface that I have a reburner stove in other words it has pipes in the top that reburns the gases in the smoke. I have burnt them in my standard wood burning furnace which is just a firebox and no creosote compared to wood
You need to wet mix your coffee and wait for about 1-2 months before you add the wood and everything else. You want the coffee to break down into a sort of peat moss before you burn it for maximum heat
Actually from what I've seen from other creators they want to compost the entire mixture. We've been testing some where we actually went to the compost pile to make briquettes. Video coming soon
@ ideally yes, but the difference in heat capacity of wood is more dependent on on how dry it is. So just the coffee is for space saving, especially if your picking up grounds from Starbucks
How long to cure them?
Outside in the Sun maybe 2 days in the summer inside it just depends on the temperature. Obviously the bigger you make them the longer it takes
Great
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