Considering all that's going on in the world this is a great tip. It's amazing how many people will spend time with negative comments. Instead of checking out something else and I'm not at all against constructive criticism. Thanks again for the tip.
Back in the 70's we rolled up newspapers into a tight log, you could buy log roller machines to wind tight paper logs. They worked good in fireplaces if you used them to supplement a wood fire.
yes but those things actually worked and we all know what happens to simple inventions that save people money, it's banned and forgotten. HaHa, you can still get those, but you have to look for them.
@@muddyshoesgardenerI've seen some on Ebay they're still being made not sure of the quality but I did look a while back and seen several different styles
You just got a new subscriber. You did a great job narrating and demonstrating. Don't take offense of some of the comments, as some were from older folks who lived in a time that newspapers were thick and abundant. You are younger and not privileged to the old days. Keep up your enthusiasm. The 70 yr old guy.
Davi Hodges I've seen many posts about folk tearing up paper, soaking it, mashing it, drying it out and then burning the end result, some of them are quite inventive but all are very labour intensive and very time consuming! I tried the brickmaker a long time ago using the same techniques...bluddy useless with so much time & effort required......I then experimented with just rolling up newspapers, mags, junk mail, bills, etc, binding them with tape or string, cutting them into sizable length logs on the circular saw bench, and then burning them. It worked well, better than I thought it would. They produces a lot of heat, just as much as the 'wet' method, a little smoke sometimes, but with only a tiny fraction of the effort compared to making paper bricks......and less messy too! The rolls do sometimes open up a little once the string burns through but I've not found that to be a problem at all.....they still burn, it's not as if they explode open and scatter burning paper all over the place, that doesn't happen. If you leave the rolls for a week or so before burning there's less chance of them fully opening up, they stay rolled up, a little looser but still in a roll, still burnable. The logs tend not to produce much flame or smoke [if any], they just smoulder which is good......stops the neighbours complaining about any smoke. After, I spread the ash onto the garden which helps the plants and any crops to grow.....and they do grow bigger & better, but only the ericaceous plants!!. The biggest problem is burning glossy magazines because the pages have a thin coating of china clay which doesn't burn, [but it does give the pages a better surface on which to print fine and solid colours! ] but it just gets mixed with paper ash. Bits of wood mixed in the fire with the paper logs is fine too, so a good mix of newspaper logs with a small percentage of glossy mags is ideal. I should mention that I use a cast iron pot beliied stove which is totally contained and adjustable for air intake etc., I haven't used these logs on an open fire but I would imagine the results would be similar, but perhaps a little caution is needed on a open fire.
I've adapted this process, using torn up cardboard boxes and coffee grounds (the leftovers that I don't compost, anyway), then dumping the slurry into a silicon loaf pan as a rough mold. After drying in my desert sun for a couple days, the bricks don't quite self-light, but a squirt of dollar store lamp fuel gets them going no problem. Slicing a brick into 1 to 1.5 inch slices helps too. Love this idea, thanks for helping it go mainstream!
Suggestion, use paraffin instead of anything really toxic. I used sawdust (non toxic wood), put in cardboard egg cartons, with melted paraffin as firestarters for my wood burning stove. Worked very well and was very cheap. I imagine balls of paper slurry and then dipped in a thin layer of paraffin when dry would work just as well. Use an old pot that you don't use for anything else though.
Excellent video. Simple ideas to soften the paper and cardboard, break it up into small pieces, compress into manageable size 'bricks', allow to dry and burn. That's it, you've turned waste into fuel. The video shows the outline preocess, you can do it your own way if you prefere. Again, great video with good voice support. Thanks.
newspaper log rollers have been around for about 150 years... ETA: Not very good for a fireplace but should work great in a rocket mass heater...definitely worth a look...
I bought a wonderful brick maker from from England. It worked great. Only two problems: 1. Drying bricks smell awful so you can't do it in your house. 2. The ratio of time spent making them to burn time was about 1:1.
Yep. All you needed was hours of effort, an electric power drill, PVC pipe, a caulking gun, several plastic buckets, Goo Gone, Acetone and a butane lighter. I'm sold! On second thought I will just go get the dead branches which endlessly rain out of my oak tree in the back yard and burn those.
I go for a relaxing stroll around the block and pick up sticks in my neighbors yards. I use them for cooking and in my wood stove and my neighbors love me. :) I like the smell of burning sticks much better than paper.
I learned how to make these as A girl Scout decades ago. We added LINT from the dryer, and it helps start fires much faster; I've taught it to my grandchildren, we take and use them every time we go camping!!
Hi Cheryl. Do you have any old candles cluttering up the place? Lint in paper egg cartons with candle wax poured into the sections works too. I use sawdust since I have access to plenty. You can melt the wax in an old soup can. I use so many "fire starters" for my wood stove that I have a tea kettle dedicated to melting old candles. I'm a garbage man and pull old candles out of the trash. Sometimes I pick them up at yard sales. Peace.
@@WillChil466 Not as cheap as big fat candles I cut up with a hatchet. :) In my neck of the woods, sealing wax is about $3 for a block the size of a pound of butter. I melt down at least 10 pounds of candles a year. The down side is that some candles smell like "old lady house" and I have to keep the fire starters in a tin so they don't stink up my basement.
John Vanegmond, I agree with you 100%! Where's the fun of BUYING everything?! For the wax & lint (cotton is best, not plastic fabrics) mixture, I melt them together, stuff them into cardboard toilet paper rolls, then seal them up by folding them while still warm, or even with tape - works great, holds together well!! We live near the Coast in Central California (Hollister) where there are always hundreds of pinecones, they make WONDERFUL fire starters; the grandchildren & I like to collect them wherever we go, to use for our summer camping trips, along with the toilet paper roll & wax & lint starters! I had a girlfriend years ago who was a manager of a candle party thing, like Tupperware; when they went belly up, she gave me DOZENS OF CASES of the ugliest ones (her husband wanted his garage back lol), still using them! If I had worked with trash, I know for sure I'd have brought home so much, my home would've been bulging; I try to find ways to reuse things, i like practical over pretty every time! I also save leftover wax; my grandson rides a scooter, does tricks, uses wax to make them slide, so I use his leftovers too. And I'll bet there would've been many times when I'd have thought, "Why would somebody throw away this perfectly good...?" I know what you mean about those 'stinky' candles, I don't like them either; they never lose that smell, but I use those also anyway. Hey, try that lint thing, starts fires right quick!!!!
@John Hi John. I love solar panels. Buuuuuuut, they won't heat my house when it's 20 degrees below zero and the wind is gusting up to 45 mph. I will admit, though I wouldn't ever say I don't like nature, I do like warm weather better than 20 below. Peace
In the 70's a paper roller was available at hardware stores. We would gather newspapers for the week and soak them in dish water, the soap acts a free liter fuel. By winding the newspaper into logs we could lay the in the sun for two days. Turn them when ever walking past the logs. They dry is two days if it dry and hot. Stack the logs indoors for winter. Each burns for about two hours. Be sure to clean the fireplace two times a year to reduce buildup from paper and cardboard ash.
@John Aww, now why would you want to poo-poo on his post? lol.. I've watched my ex-husband do something similar many times, and they burned very well, I was impressed.. I'm not saying that inhaling any amount of a carcinogen is acceptable, but you would need an insane amount of exposure to the smoke in order to actually suffer any long lasting effects. Of course I'm not a medical doctor, (sorry dad), but I do know a bit about carcinogenic materials, and the gasses that they emit... You're absolutely right though, breathing toxic chemicals is never a good idea. ☠=👻
If you are using the large brick you could put a plactic tube in the centre to leave a hole as it dries then put smaller bricks in so it bits from the middle like a Swedish stove made from wooden logs
It is a good idea for me, in trying to melt aluminum in my small mini melting oven on compressor air. I want to melt cans with the cheapest sources of energy spent. The caulk-size pills would fit excellent !
I think endless is referring to the fact we always have junk mail, reg mail, newspapers and cardboard our way. I like this idea. I will begin to implement it asap.
The key is to have a setup with an electric jack or actuator to compress the paper mash for you, and also do multiple logs each compression. Once u set it up that way, the time is worth the savings. Also, the more compressed you can get your log, the slower it will burn. You can make kindling by making little sticks of the mash too
To make fire starters, I've been stuffing empty toilet paper rolls full of shredded cardboard and waste paper and dipping them in parafin to give them more of a controlled burn. But I ran into a problem with the molded cardboard packing forms - no way to get those through a shredder. So I've been looking for other ways to process them. I love the simple techniques you found to do this. Problem solved!
Interesting video. We heat with a wood stove, and all our paper waste goes into the stove, so we get heat out of it anyway. But it tends to make a lot of ash, especially if you use a lot. Not a problem in my opinion, but you will just have to scoop ashes a little more often. Old pepperoni pizza boxes make excellent fire starters!
When you cook on a grill with charcoal and starter fuel, you shouldn't put the food on the grill until the smoke clears and the coals become gray or almost white. They are still hot, and will cook the food without any toxic fumes or smoke reaching the food. If you cook stew in a cast iron pot, the food does not become toxic from a fire where you use homemade bricks from newspapers. You can use other forms of paper and not newspaper if it matters to you, but you should wait for the charcoal or the bricks to simmer after all of the smoke is gone and the flames are minimal.
Lots of good ideas, i have a couple of good flowing streams that would churn the goo, save on electric. Guess you could always hook up solar panels but a lot of fuss. Like the hand squeezing, me n Mr Arthur Itis are good friends, would be good exercise. Thanks for the upload, ignore the nay sayers, 😎
When I experimented with the newspaper roller about 50 years ago, I got a burnable product - after a VERY long wait for it to dry thoroughly. The major problem was the massive amount of light and fluffy ash that was produced. It was a real pain to clean out of the firebox, getting ash all over.
I think just getting the paper wet and then spreading it between two plywood panels (don't bother mixing) and parking my car on top to squeeze it would be worth a try. The paper panels can be made in any shape. I might try this for heating my pool next year. I can just spread the ash on my lawn afterwards.
I guess I missed it. Did you say how long any of these would last on their own. I was wondering how long the "logs" from the caulking gun lasted. They looked like they were a couple of inches by about 6" long. Is that about right?
Place only a dab of petroleum jelly to ignite instead of acetone or other liquid. Or dab petroleum jelly onto cotton ball, place under brick and loght. Thank yoi for this video. Just what i need to prepp for.
I make fire starters out of newspapers. Just tightly roll newspapers and thread through an empty paper towel or toliet tissue holder. Set up your campfire logs as desired, then tuck the fire starters in between the actual logs. It's surprising how long they will burn, and set fire to the true logs very easily
I guess in rural areas branches and logs are easy to get your hands on but for city preppers in shrf scenarios the wood would disappear quickly and I always have loads of paper for recycling especially confidential waste so this is a great option for me. Either sun or if I’m using my oven just use the residual heat to dry bricks quicker
Great video, but unfortunately living here the Republic of Ireland we frequently have difficulty reproducing projects and even recipes from USA and Canada due to the difficult or impossibility of obtaining the necessary components on this side of the Atlantic, paper and water we have but you did say " leave to dry in the Sun ? " We unfortunately don't understand the concept of " DRY" and what is " THE SUN " lol...
Some of these guys need to think these videos through a little, might be able to make one with a better topic lol. I will say he earned every cent he made.
You could make a box out of a 1/2" plywood bottom sides of 2x4 studs. Shaped like a brick, but 3 times taller. Then drill the bottom and sides for drainage. Now you need to build a contraption that pivots on one side, and had a long lever on the other, with a pivoting lid with the shape of the box so that it will fit inside. A drawing would be much simpler to explain. Then if you stand on the end of the lever, day 200 lb, depending on the length, you could be applying a lot of pressure. You could also but the box - lid on the side and find a way to use a bottle Jack to do the compressing.
I suggest tapping some pine tree's for sap or simply collecting some. Its usually abundant and no one uses it. I'm going to make a press and will dose my bricks with pine sap or even left over cooking grease in several comparisons. Not there yet, but soon.
I have used paper fireballs for my outdoor BBQ. Works 100%. But not as main burning fuel. Paper fireballs serve two main purposes - start and keep the fire and prevent the woods from colapsing when they burn. You put the fireball under. Then put very small sticks on top of it, then put bigger sticks and each layer above put bigger sticks. On the very top put large pieces of wood. i have fried potatoes on this BBQ.
Apparently if you add sawdust and a bit of plain flour as a bonding agent to the mix, then compress like a black hole, they burn very well and for longer.
The thicker the paperlog the longer you have to wait. My paper logs are the size of actual Bricks. Im waiting at least 3-4Weeks to ensure that the inside is completely dry. Next winter, Im going to start paper-logging around September to make sure I can last throughout the winter.
jogged the memory bank in Bend Or N 80's thier was a workshop 4 handicap folks where they made paper logs. WE would buy them occasionally 2 support the work. They worked well 4got the name of shop probably long gone now?
I save tubes from toilet tissue and paper towels, etc.. I fold tubes in half lengthwise and insert them into one tube. It creates a cardboard tube filled with other tubes. I then take melted wax from multiple old candle pieces and dip the tubes into the wax and let cool. They make great fire starters and will burn for a pretty long time, depending on how compressed the tubes are.
Add lint from the dryer for added burn time and wax absorption, use old dryer sheets stuffed with lint in the end of the TP tubes to hold the wax in better, then fill from the top with melted wax for a long burning log.
1000° ?? Can’t believe it goes into the range of hard soldering. What would be interesting is this though: How long does let’s say 1kg or 500g of compressed paper burn? Does it vary with the type of paper, the shape of the log etc?
I had a friend who was too broke to buy firewood, and would roll up newspaper into a log, and soak it in water. When it dried, it burned slower than paper normally burns. There was only a fireplace in the 900 square foot house but it seemed to work
@@campfireaddict6417 . You're absolutely right. Endless uses other than cooking. I was just putting it out there in case some people were thinking about cooking with it. . I have hand operated roller and it will roll paper extremely tight and you use bailing wire and tighten it so time will stay together we'll. We put colored powder between the pages to make cool flames in the fire. Only downside is it produces a lot of Ash because the paper Page's are thin.
I have been saving paper and cardboard and recycling some of it, but keeping some in a box for emergency use, in case of a need for heat. What good is it if you don't have a fireplace? You can't have an open fire in the house without a chimney. Portable electric heaters are nice, but what good are they if there is no electric power.
Good job! How bout an apple cider press for the goo squeeze and set out to dry like you would green clay to await firing ...maybe wood shelves on brick
I’m assuming there’s enough of an advantage to making these bricks then just burning the cardboard and Wood as is. But how much more of an advantage? Is it really worth the time? I’d love to know. Good video
Have you tried the tried and true method of just rolling paper into logs? Perhaps tied with string? Newspapers, magazines, even cardboard... after it's been flattened, can be rolled into paper logs and burnt like wood logs. Tying the results with string keeps the log from unrolling long enough that one should not have to worry about the 'log' unrolling in the fireplace. Just a thought, speaking Frank-ly
@@edjohnson2192, good catch. Might suggest for economy's sake, using coat hanger wire? Simple, dead easy to obtain, cheap, and reusable. One could easily cut pieces to bend into shape with 'hook and eye' ends to hold the bundle, that can be sifted from the ash pile after the fire dies and reused. just a thought, the Frank one.
Frank Smedley ... I’ve been rolling small 3\4 inch thick , not tight newspapers together held by masking tape or rubber band . I use 2 logs of this with small twigs , small dry pine cones if available , small wood chips if available to start a fire in my wood stove every night. No problem with the newspaper coming apart. Works great. Dry birch tree branch , small amount work great with the newspaper rolls. Sometimes I use the toilet paper roll to slide the newspaper into to hold it in a roll position. One ‘ strike match’ I buy at the hardware store and I’m good to go. I don’t use old dry leaves . They can smoke and smell bad. I have 21 trees 5 species and the birch leaves are least offensive to use when dry .
We used to have a newspaper roller just for this reason. We used the rolled papers inside the woodstove, and you're right, roll them tight. We delivered daily, as well as Sunday newspapers, and always had so many extras.... yes, it got tedious. The mashed would work great at my friends garage, he has tons of cardboard boxes from parts, and a small pot belly stove, but I'm sure that would become very tedious as well.
Cory Kaupa • very interesting concept, then according to Hermes Trismegistus 4000 bc writings, adding to that mix 42% of diseccated cannabis leaves will get you not only warm but such a sensorial enhancement that you won't care whether the bio logs work or not. As a bonus you can collect the ashes , combine that with 50% corn starch in a regular blender . After 2 hours all the particles in the mix will be electrostatically charged. Add to the paste 18% pure GORILLA GLUE, mix the thoroughly then spray the paste on to mosquito screen an you have a filter for your air purifier that can rival the efficiency of the best NASA approved HEPA FILTER. If you really want to go green all the way instead of gorilla glue you need to use archival rice glue. Why? Very simple: when the air filter is due for replacement you can wash it and make the most nutritious vegetarian tacos with it. Have fun.
I've been camping and backpacking most of mife and the only thing I use is compressed paper and cedar chips , then if theres a chance it could be a wet year , I dip them in wax
Great video thanks! But how about simply burning paper without mashing and bricking? I know that loose paper may burn quicker than a compressed paper log so need refueling often, but would one get the same total heat out of it? Would particulate emissions be higher?
I shred paperwork, bills etc when its time for them to go. I make pellets with a old pipe. Sometimes I add bark, grass, leaves and old linen, then make your goo, put thtough the food processor and dry out. Bag the pellets up in 500gm zippy bags. It will be fine for first night on the trail before checking out whats around. If you have a large yard and an old metal garbage/refuse bin you make it a charcoal burner. Use on bonfire night to disgiuse it.
You need to add an agent to slow and cool the flame just like a fake log you buy at the store. A good additive is soy wax. It has a low combustion number, however burns well. It SLOWS the burn, probably up to 4 times...
I am sure this not an original idea, but oh well. Instead of burning the stuff, mold it into bricks or insulation. Cover it with a tarp to keep it dry and you would have a warm shelter. You could coat the inside of the shelter with clay and be very careful with fire.
Considering all that's going on in the world this is a great tip. It's amazing how many people will spend time with negative comments. Instead of checking out something else and I'm not at all against constructive criticism. Thanks again for the tip.
Back in the 70's we rolled up newspapers into a tight log, you could buy log roller machines to wind tight paper logs. They worked good in fireplaces if you used them to supplement a wood fire.
yes but those things actually worked and we all know what happens to simple inventions that save people money, it's banned and forgotten. HaHa, you can still get those, but you have to look for them.
@@3ormorecharacterstimes2 any idea who might sell them?
@@muddyshoesgardenerI've seen some on Ebay they're still being made not sure of the quality but I did look a while back and seen several different styles
You just got a new subscriber. You did a great job narrating and demonstrating. Don't take offense of some of the comments, as some were from older folks who lived in a time that newspapers were thick and abundant. You are younger and not privileged to the old days. Keep up your enthusiasm. The 70 yr old guy.
Davi Hodges
I've seen many posts about folk tearing up paper, soaking it, mashing it, drying it out and then burning the end result, some of them are quite inventive but all are very labour intensive and very time consuming! I tried the brickmaker a long time ago using the same techniques...bluddy useless with so much time & effort required......I then experimented with just rolling up newspapers, mags, junk mail, bills, etc, binding them with tape or string, cutting them into sizable length logs on the circular saw bench, and then burning them.
It worked well, better than I thought it would. They produces a lot of heat, just as much as the 'wet' method, a little smoke sometimes, but with only a tiny fraction of the effort compared to making paper bricks......and less messy too! The rolls do sometimes open up a little once the string burns through but I've not found that to be a problem at all.....they still burn, it's not as if they explode open and scatter burning paper all over the place, that doesn't happen.
If you leave the rolls for a week or so before burning there's less chance of them fully opening up, they stay rolled up, a little looser but still in a roll, still burnable. The logs tend not to produce much flame or smoke [if any], they just smoulder which is good......stops the neighbours complaining about any smoke. After, I spread the ash onto the garden which helps the plants and any crops to grow.....and they do grow bigger & better, but only the ericaceous plants!!.
The biggest problem is burning glossy magazines because the pages have a thin coating of china clay which doesn't burn, [but it does give the pages a better surface on which to print fine and solid colours! ] but it just gets mixed with paper ash. Bits of wood mixed in the fire with the paper logs is fine too, so a good mix of newspaper logs with a small percentage of glossy mags is ideal. I should mention that I use a cast iron pot beliied stove which is totally contained and adjustable for air intake etc., I haven't used these logs on an open fire but I would imagine the results would be similar, but perhaps a little caution is needed on a open fire.
I've adapted this process, using torn up cardboard boxes and coffee grounds (the leftovers that I don't compost, anyway), then dumping the slurry into a silicon loaf pan as a rough mold. After drying in my desert sun for a couple days, the bricks don't quite self-light, but a squirt of dollar store lamp fuel gets them going no problem. Slicing a brick into 1 to 1.5 inch slices helps too. Love this idea, thanks for helping it go mainstream!
Nice and simple, I love it!
Now I don't have to buy a paper shredder
Suggestion, use paraffin instead of anything really toxic. I used sawdust (non toxic wood), put in cardboard egg cartons, with melted paraffin as firestarters for my wood burning stove. Worked very well and was very cheap. I imagine balls of paper slurry and then dipped in a thin layer of paraffin when dry would work just as well. Use an old pot that you don't use for anything else though.
Excellent video. Simple ideas to soften the paper and cardboard, break it up into small pieces, compress into manageable size 'bricks', allow to dry and burn. That's it, you've turned waste into fuel. The video shows the outline preocess, you can do it your own way if you prefere. Again, great video with good voice support. Thanks.
newspaper log rollers have been around for about 150 years...
ETA: Not very good for a fireplace but should work great in a rocket mass heater...definitely worth a look...
I bought a wonderful brick maker from from England. It worked great. Only two problems: 1. Drying bricks smell awful so you can't do it in your house. 2. The ratio of time spent making them to burn time was about 1:1.
This might have been mentioned before, but I would use the paper from a paper shredder to avoid having to shred it with a power drill.
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The caulk gun pipe combo seams like a great way making logs
Yep. All you needed was hours of effort, an electric power drill, PVC pipe, a caulking gun, several plastic buckets, Goo Gone, Acetone and a butane lighter. I'm sold! On second thought I will just go get the dead branches which endlessly rain out of my oak tree in the back yard and burn those.
You forget to mention that dehydrator as well which uses lots of energy .
Yip
@Habi8805 rocket stove indoors?
@Habi8805 I see. Ok that solves that idea.
@Habi8805I hear you.
I go for a relaxing stroll around the block and pick up sticks in my neighbors yards. I use them for cooking and in my wood stove and my neighbors love me. :) I like the smell of burning sticks much better than paper.
John Vanegmond... if you love the smell of sticks your going to love the smell of my logs l leave in the toilet, come by anytime there free
@@eldorado1244 And once you get rid of your logs, you will love him till he fucking comes in your clean ass- fucking idiot-have some respect
@@eldorado1244 lol lmao why
Thanks for all the great ideas!
compressing leaves also works really well, and smells like the tree the leaves came from.
Hey the caulk gun was a great idea, thank you!
I learned how to make these as A girl Scout decades ago. We added LINT from the dryer, and it helps start fires much faster; I've taught it to my grandchildren, we take and use them every time we go camping!!
Hi Cheryl. Do you have any old candles cluttering up the place? Lint in paper egg cartons with candle wax poured into the sections works too. I use sawdust since I have access to plenty. You can melt the wax in an old soup can. I use so many "fire starters" for my wood stove that I have a tea kettle dedicated to melting old candles. I'm a garbage man and pull old candles out of the trash. Sometimes I pick them up at yard sales. Peace.
@@johnvanegmond1812 u can buy sealing wax at grocery really cheap.
@@WillChil466 Not as cheap as big fat candles I cut up with a hatchet. :) In my neck of the woods, sealing wax is about $3 for a block the size of a pound of butter. I melt down at least 10 pounds of candles a year. The down side is that some candles smell like "old lady house" and I have to keep the fire starters in a tin so they don't stink up my basement.
John Vanegmond, I agree with you 100%! Where's the fun of BUYING everything?! For the wax & lint (cotton is best, not plastic fabrics) mixture, I melt them together, stuff them into cardboard toilet paper rolls, then seal them up by folding them while still warm, or even with tape - works great, holds together well!! We live near the Coast in Central California (Hollister) where there are always hundreds of pinecones, they make WONDERFUL fire starters; the grandchildren & I like to collect them wherever we go, to use for our summer camping trips, along with the toilet paper roll & wax & lint starters! I had a girlfriend years ago who was a manager of a candle party thing, like Tupperware; when they went belly up, she gave me DOZENS OF CASES of the ugliest ones (her husband wanted his garage back lol), still using them!
If I had worked with trash, I know for sure I'd have brought home so much, my home would've been bulging; I try to find ways to reuse things, i like practical over pretty every time! I also save leftover wax; my grandson rides a scooter, does tricks, uses wax to make them slide, so I use his leftovers too. And I'll bet there would've been many times when I'd have thought, "Why would somebody throw away this perfectly good...?"
I know what you mean about those 'stinky' candles, I don't like them either; they never lose that smell, but I use those also anyway. Hey, try that lint thing, starts fires right quick!!!!
@John Hi John. I love solar panels. Buuuuuuut, they won't heat my house when it's 20 degrees below zero and the wind is gusting up to 45 mph. I will admit, though I wouldn't ever say I don't like nature, I do like warm weather better than 20 below. Peace
In the 70's a paper roller was available at hardware stores. We would gather newspapers for the week and soak them in dish water, the soap acts a free liter fuel. By winding the newspaper into logs we could lay the in the sun for two days. Turn them when ever walking past the logs. They dry is two days if it dry and hot. Stack the logs indoors for winter. Each burns for about two hours. Be sure to clean the fireplace two times a year to reduce buildup from paper and cardboard ash.
Back in the day we just rolled up wet newspapers into logs then put cinder blocks on them and let them dry, They burned like soft wood logs,
@John
Aww, now why would you want to poo-poo on his post? lol.. I've watched my ex-husband do something similar many times, and they burned very well, I was impressed.. I'm not saying that inhaling any amount of a carcinogen is acceptable, but you would need an insane amount of exposure to the smoke in order to actually suffer any long lasting effects.
Of course I'm not a medical doctor, (sorry dad), but I do know a bit about carcinogenic materials, and the gasses that they emit... You're absolutely right though, breathing toxic chemicals is never a good idea. ☠=👻
lol
newspaper yes....glossy magazine really sucked with that method. Smoke signals was their claim to fame.
@John Only if you live in California.
@Bob A Do you drive a car??? OOPS
If you are using the large brick you could put a plactic tube in the centre to leave a hole as it dries then put smaller bricks in so it bits from the middle like a Swedish stove made from wooden logs
After loading my trailer with excess carboard yesterday i thimk i'll now unload it now. Thanks for a handy tip.
I love the caulking gun idea!
It is a good idea for me, in trying to melt aluminum in my small mini melting oven on compressor air. I want to melt cans with the cheapest sources of energy spent. The caulk-size pills would fit excellent !
@@frecmenta5114 omg do paper logs like this get hot enough??
Neat idea I can make fuel for my Bush stove. Thanks
Thanks for this informative video!
I think endless is referring to the fact we always have junk mail, reg mail, newspapers and cardboard our way. I like this idea. I will begin to implement it asap.
Amazing job!
Thank you!
The key is to have a setup with an electric jack or actuator to compress the paper mash for you, and also do multiple logs each compression.
Once u set it up that way, the time is worth the savings.
Also, the more compressed you can get your log, the slower it will burn.
You can make kindling by making little sticks of the mash too
To make fire starters, I've been stuffing empty toilet paper rolls full of shredded cardboard and waste paper and dipping them in parafin to give them more of a controlled burn. But I ran into a problem with the molded cardboard packing forms - no way to get those through a shredder. So I've been looking for other ways to process them. I love the simple techniques you found to do this. Problem solved!
Interesting video. We heat with a wood stove, and all our paper waste goes into the stove, so we get heat out of it anyway. But it tends to make a lot of ash, especially if you use a lot. Not a problem in my opinion, but you will just have to scoop ashes a little more often. Old pepperoni pizza boxes make excellent fire starters!
When you cook on a grill with charcoal and starter fuel, you shouldn't put the food on the grill until the smoke clears and the coals become gray or almost white. They are still hot, and will cook the food without any toxic fumes or smoke reaching the food. If you cook stew in a cast iron pot, the food does not become toxic from a fire where you use homemade bricks from newspapers. You can use other forms of paper and not newspaper if it matters to you, but you should wait for the charcoal or the bricks to simmer after all of the smoke is gone and the flames are minimal.
Awesome love the ideas . Keep it up
Lots of good ideas, i have a couple of good flowing streams that would churn the goo, save on electric. Guess you could always hook up solar panels but a lot of fuss. Like the hand squeezing, me n Mr Arthur Itis are good friends, would be good exercise. Thanks for the upload, ignore the nay sayers, 😎
Interested if you use the streams for any kind of energy?
Arthur Ritis camps out at our place occasionally, too. But he ain't much help with handiwork 😆
This trick works beautifully. Done it
Very informative, thanks.
You sir are a genius.
We had a wet paper brick press back in the 60s, they were a waste of time too.
When I experimented with the newspaper roller about 50 years ago, I got a burnable product - after a VERY long wait for it to dry thoroughly. The major problem was the massive amount of light and fluffy ash that was produced. It was a real pain to clean out of the firebox, getting ash all over.
love the caulk gun idea
I wonder if long logs like the ones you made in the pvc pipe logs would be good for a rocket mass heater stove
Can't wait to make these.
I don't think it could be a substitute to replace firewood, but a great starter.
You can also dry these thoroughly by placing them on cookie sheets and leaving them inside a parked car, front or back windshield.
I think just getting the paper wet and then spreading it between two plywood panels (don't bother mixing) and parking my car on top to squeeze it would be worth a try. The paper panels can be made in any shape. I might try this for heating my pool next year. I can just spread the ash on my lawn afterwards.
Make these things in summer so they can dry out well before winter.
I put all my waste paper/junk mail & cardboard through a shredder. Perfect for lighting my log burner with very little effort.
I guess I missed it. Did you say how long any of these would last on their own. I was wondering how long the "logs" from the caulking gun lasted. They looked like they were a couple of inches by about 6" long. Is that about right?
Place only a dab of petroleum jelly to ignite instead of acetone or other liquid. Or dab petroleum jelly onto cotton ball, place under brick and loght. Thank yoi for this video. Just what i need to prepp for.
I make fire starters out of newspapers. Just tightly roll newspapers and thread through an empty paper towel or toliet tissue holder. Set up your campfire logs as desired, then tuck the fire starters in between the actual logs. It's surprising how long they will burn, and set fire to the true logs very easily
The caulking gun idea is genius 🙂
what if you added some flour into the mix, would it harden better or burn longer? soild flour is close to free
Good! THANKS!!!
Use wax candles. Break and crumble them up disperse throughout branches or other kindling. Great starter even for damp wood.
I guess in rural areas branches and logs are easy to get your hands on but for city preppers in shrf scenarios the wood would disappear quickly and I always have loads of paper for recycling especially confidential waste so this is a great option for me. Either sun or if I’m using my oven just use the residual heat to dry bricks quicker
Great video, but unfortunately living here the Republic of Ireland we frequently have difficulty reproducing projects and even recipes from USA and Canada due to the difficult or impossibility of obtaining the necessary components on this side of the Atlantic, paper and water we have but you did say " leave to dry in the Sun ? " We unfortunately don't understand the concept of " DRY" and what is " THE SUN " lol...
Some of these guys need to think these videos through a little, might be able to make one with a better topic lol. I will say he earned every cent he made.
Pretty cool 👍
THAT IS AMAZING, CHEAP, NON TOXIC, EASY TO MAKE FOR ANYONE! What a Great wa to prep for what may come. THANK YOU !
You could make a box out of a 1/2" plywood bottom sides of 2x4 studs. Shaped like a brick, but 3 times taller. Then drill the bottom and sides for drainage. Now you need to build a contraption that pivots on one side, and had a long lever on the other, with a pivoting lid with the shape of the box so that it will fit inside. A drawing would be much simpler to explain. Then if you stand on the end of the lever, day 200 lb, depending on the length, you could be applying a lot of pressure.
You could also but the box - lid on the side and find a way to use a bottle Jack to do the compressing.
I suggest tapping some pine tree's for sap or simply collecting some. Its usually abundant and no one uses it. I'm going to make a press and will dose my bricks with pine sap or even left over cooking grease in several comparisons. Not there yet, but soon.
I use waxed string in the middle
I use them mostly as fire starters
My mother was a bit of a pyro, and you remind me of her. "Let's put some acetone on it!" LOL
Well done
I have used paper fireballs for my outdoor BBQ. Works 100%. But not as main burning fuel. Paper fireballs serve two main purposes - start and keep the fire and prevent the woods from colapsing when they burn. You put the fireball under. Then put very small sticks on top of it, then put bigger sticks and each layer above put bigger sticks. On the very top put large pieces of wood. i have fried potatoes on this BBQ.
I am looking forward to trying used motor oil or bacon grease on my homemade paper fuel!
Apparently if you add sawdust and a bit of plain flour as a bonding agent to the mix, then compress like a black hole, they burn very well and for longer.
Stephen Woods . Like a "black hole"? must b a typo?
Yeah! Great to hear!,,, Flour. lol,, now i wont throw away that old flour!!
The thicker the paperlog the longer you have to wait. My paper logs are the size of actual Bricks.
Im waiting at least 3-4Weeks to ensure that the inside is completely dry. Next winter, Im going to start paper-logging around September to make sure I can last throughout the winter.
I wonder if you can use the ashes to take the place of potash from wood or hardwood ash in fertilizer?
jogged the memory bank in Bend Or N 80's thier was a workshop 4 handicap folks where they made paper logs. WE would buy them occasionally 2 support the work. They worked well 4got the name of shop probably long gone now?
I save tubes from toilet tissue and paper towels, etc.. I fold tubes in half lengthwise and insert them into one tube. It creates a cardboard tube filled with other tubes. I then take melted wax from multiple old candle pieces and dip the tubes into the wax and let cool. They make great fire starters and will burn for a pretty long time, depending on how compressed the tubes are.
Add lint from the dryer for added burn time and wax absorption, use old dryer sheets stuffed with lint in the end of the TP tubes to hold the wax in better, then fill from the top with melted wax for a long burning log.
1000° ??
Can’t believe it goes into the range of hard soldering.
What would be interesting is this though:
How long does let’s say 1kg or 500g of compressed paper burn?
Does it vary with the type of paper, the shape of the log etc?
Yes it is. I spent many years in a paper mill using recycle cardboard.
I had a friend who was too broke to buy firewood, and would roll up newspaper into a log, and soak it in water. When it dried, it burned slower than paper normally burns. There was only a fireplace in the 900 square foot house but it seemed to work
Ever heard of charcoal lighter fluid? Any form of colored paper will contaminate your food if you try to cook with it. .
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Donald coxe There are options other than cooking.
@@campfireaddict6417 . You're absolutely right. Endless uses other than cooking. I was just putting it out there in case some people were thinking about cooking with it. . I have hand operated roller and it will roll paper extremely tight and you use bailing wire and tighten it so time will stay together we'll. We put colored powder between the pages to make cool flames in the fire. Only downside is it produces a lot of Ash because the paper Page's are thin.
I imagine it's not good to breathe either.
Some colors are made from soy and other vegetables. It won't contaminate your food unless it touches your food.
I have been saving paper and cardboard and recycling some of it, but keeping some in a box for emergency use, in case of a need for heat. What good is it if you don't have a fireplace? You can't have an open fire in the house without a chimney. Portable electric heaters are nice, but what good are they if there is no electric power.
Good job! How bout an apple cider press for the goo squeeze and set out to dry like you would green clay to await firing ...maybe wood shelves on brick
I’m assuming there’s enough of an advantage to making these bricks then just burning the cardboard and Wood as is. But how much more of an advantage? Is it really worth the time? I’d love to know. Good video
Have you tried the tried and true method of just rolling paper into logs? Perhaps tied with string? Newspapers, magazines, even cardboard... after it's been flattened, can be rolled into paper logs and burnt like wood logs. Tying the results with string keeps the log from unrolling long enough that one should not have to worry about the 'log' unrolling in the fireplace.
Just a thought,
speaking Frank-ly
Once strings burn off, the papers will unroll with explosive force. Use metal wire instead.
@@edjohnson2192, good catch. Might suggest for economy's sake, using coat hanger wire? Simple, dead easy to obtain, cheap, and reusable. One could easily cut pieces to bend into shape with 'hook and eye' ends to hold the bundle, that can be sifted from the ash pile after the fire dies and reused.
just a thought,
the Frank one.
ed celban I never had that problem but I suppose it has to do with how tight you roll the paper in the first place. My problem is the ash.
Frank Smedley ... I’ve been rolling small 3\4 inch thick , not tight newspapers together held by masking tape or rubber band . I use 2 logs of this with small twigs , small dry pine cones if available , small wood chips if available to start a fire in my wood stove every night. No problem with the newspaper coming apart. Works great. Dry birch tree branch , small amount work great with the newspaper rolls. Sometimes I use the toilet paper roll to slide the newspaper into to hold it in a roll position. One ‘ strike match’ I buy at the hardware store and I’m good to go. I don’t use old dry leaves . They can smoke and smell bad. I have 21 trees 5 species and the birch leaves are least offensive to use when dry .
We used to have a newspaper roller just for this reason. We used the rolled papers inside the woodstove, and you're right, roll them tight.
We delivered daily, as well as Sunday newspapers, and always had so many extras.... yes, it got tedious.
The mashed would work great at my friends garage, he has tons of cardboard boxes from parts, and a small pot belly stove, but I'm sure that would become very tedious as well.
BRAVO!...
fuoco gratuito, con carta e materiale cartaceo, da gettare.
Great video! The caulk gun approach is awesome! By the way, you sound a lot like Steve Buscemi.
Nice testing. What is that thing (fire pit) you're burning them on?
Great to bar-que with. Great idea. People would dumpster dive could make a fortune making the bricks & selling them. Think I will give it a try.
Good energy
how about adding some used vegetable oil from a restaurant to a dried log and seeing if that increases the heat output
I believe I've seen that used as a stump removal technique.
Cory Kaupa • very interesting concept, then according to Hermes Trismegistus 4000 bc writings, adding to that mix 42% of diseccated cannabis leaves will get you not only warm but such a sensorial enhancement that you won't care whether the bio logs work or not. As a bonus you can collect the ashes , combine that with 50% corn starch in a regular blender . After 2 hours all the particles in the mix will be electrostatically charged. Add to the paste 18% pure GORILLA GLUE, mix the thoroughly then spray the paste on to mosquito screen an you have a filter for your air purifier that can rival the efficiency of the best NASA approved HEPA FILTER. If you really want to go green all the way instead of gorilla glue you need to use archival rice glue. Why? Very simple: when the air filter is due for replacement you can wash it and make the most nutritious vegetarian tacos with it. Have fun.
I've been camping and backpacking most of mife and the only thing I use is compressed paper and cedar chips , then if theres a chance it could be a wet year , I dip them in wax
Great video thanks! But how about simply burning paper without mashing and bricking? I know that loose paper may burn quicker than a compressed paper log so need refueling often, but would one get the same total heat out of it? Would particulate emissions be higher?
I shred paperwork, bills etc when its time for them to go. I make pellets with a old pipe. Sometimes I add bark, grass, leaves and old linen, then make your goo, put thtough the food processor and dry out. Bag the pellets up in 500gm zippy bags. It will be fine for first night on the trail before checking out whats around. If you have a large yard and an old metal garbage/refuse bin you make it a charcoal burner. Use on bonfire night to disgiuse it.
Wow! He just proved that paper burns! Amazing!!
That's a great idea for those un employed people to keep them busy. Your genius man
When attacking someone's intelligence, you should get the "you're" thing right, Senor Dumbass.
Use 2 buckets, the bottom one being the one with holes and mash. Put a normal bucket in/on it, and sit on it to press out the water.
Wouldn't this create a lot of creosote in a chimney if would use it to heat a area?
Yes.
So much energy spent in making small fire blocks!
Very interesting. Are you pleased with the amount of time the logs burn? What about the amount of ash left behind for clean up.
yes I make them larger and it works well. they are , then molded and placed out in the Sun to dry. Two days later they are ready to burn.
Is ir possible to make charcoal from those papperlogs and later on do bricks?
so a flammable liquid on dried out paper works?
For fire starters, I use toilet paper rolls stuffed with drier lint and soak with used motor oil harvested from an oil change.
You need to add an agent to slow and cool the flame just like a fake log you buy at the store. A good additive is soy wax. It has a low combustion number, however burns well. It SLOWS the burn, probably up to 4 times...
Hi, what's the soundtrack?
Some instinct tells me that acetone is somewhat out of place in that situation. I think it's my chemists intuition?
Great for fire starter cubes and good use for newspaper fliers and junk msil
I am sure this not an original idea, but oh well. Instead of burning the stuff, mold it into bricks or insulation. Cover it with a tarp to keep it dry and you would have a warm shelter. You could coat the inside of the shelter with clay and be very careful with fire.