Ho ho ho

[Mettlemickey]

So my Fiskars x27 is wrapped and waiting under the Christmas tree, and I have a pile of Beech logs ready to chop in the garden. Its beginning to look a lot like Chtistmas!

I heard yesterday about a machine you can buy to compress old news paper etc into burnable 'logs' has anyone tried this or something similar?

 

[Applesister]

There was a thread on here a while ago about it.

 

[Paulywalnut]

My dad had the machine and burned rolled newspapers for years. Not much heat but always seasoned. Too much ash for a woodstove I would think

 

[English BoB]

I looked into it a long time ago. You brought a mold which had a press, then you soaked the newspaper, filled the mold, pressed the water out and ended up with a paper brick that you stacked and dried.
It seemed to me that a lot of newspaper was needed to make a go of this, plus the wetting and pressing would be messy , then the storing of wet bricks and knowing when they would be truley dry for burning and all the ash that would result didnt make it seem worth the effort.

 

[wahoowad]

I want a tool to compress leaves from my yard into a log

 

[X27]

Wrapping your hands around an X27 is the best gift of all!