Build this simple Wood Briquette Press and save Money!!!

Build this simple wood briquette press and save a lot of money. In this video I show you how I made a simple press from an old vise and some scrap wood, with which you can easily press wood briquettes from sawdust. With the press you can make sawdust which would otherwise end up on the garbage to money.

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[ronyerke]

A couple tablespoons of corn starch will also add stability. It's pretty cheap and non-toxic. Corrigated cardboard uses corn starch as glue to hold the layers together.

[chrisdaniel]

Use a hydraulic cylinder and a steel mold, load the mold with DRY sawdust and wood shavings, compress using the hydraulic ram under 10 tons or more of pressure and the natural lignin in the wood fibers will bind/ 'glue' everything together when put under the extreme pressure and heat of the hydraulic ram. No drying time needed. Plus those cubes were not dry in the center after only a couple weeks.

[alexanderwayne]

All I remember is three weeks later! Yo, I’m trying to burn those things tonight! Lol 😂 good video to get me started, thanks. I might make a steel press and cage, then heat them while in the steel to dry fast.

[ThePeternoom]

Cool press! But I'm really intrigued by the wood stove with curved glass door!

[wtwt]

Did you make your own wood stove? That thing looks incredible! Any chance we can get a closer look into that?

[catgynt]

Thanks for sharing this.... when we made our bricks we added wax crumbles to the mix, paper from our shredder, wood shavings and sawdust. I agree with others and would love to learn more about your fireplace. Thanks

[kellyvcraig]

SIDE NOTE: We experts [who have been making sawdust for fifty years] DO NOT push wood through our saws using just our hands. Too, we use splitters, which GREATLY reduce kickbacks. Subsequently, and unlike many who don't use push shoes and similar devices, we have ALL our fingers and thumbs.

That aside, thanks for the information.

[andrewdrury]

I have made my own logs. They burn much faster then a normal log. Be prepared to stoke the fire more often. I didnt use this method. I used a long beam and my body weight. The fulcrum in the right place will give u very cheaply ctazy force.

[AnthonyAnthony-tkye]

I like your thinking…. I would look for a used hydraulic press on Marketplace or similar…. You could probably build a new mould and make several at one time

[boeubanks]

If you can weld, you can make a much better version using a bottle jack. A shop press, piece of steel tube of the appropriate size, and some small pieces of steel plate will work as well.

[kotwica]

could i use oil of some kind like used cooking oil instead of water?

[vieuxacadian]

Save your dry grass clippings, cardboard and leaf mulch and add that into it too.

[ryelor]

Maybe add a little flour to the mix which will act as a binder glue.

[brinkshows]

Why use water if vegetable oil (reused) can be used too?

[artfx]

The 50$ artisan sawdust briquette. 😅
Thank you for sharing.

[Xes_Lana]

What is the heat output compared to regular firewood?

[ivanviveros]

on your recipe did you used glue ? if so, how much percentage? thx

[meagan]

Brilliant!!!! Thank you! I was wondering if this was possible! Hate wasting the wood so this is a great use!

[electrician]

what is the burn time roughly per block?

[petermw]

Can I offer a suggestion? Replace the clamp with a pull down lever attached to the press. This would improve speed massively. Like the handle on a drill press or mortiser.