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My wood store is a little low and pondering options for my stove. Does anyone have any experience of heatlogs, the recycled sawdust compressed to form log like shapes?
We buy in a pallet worth each October; find 2 or 3 of the things see us through an evening with a hardwood log or two. I like the reliable heat and the minimal ash. Seasoned hardwood logs are expensive in my neck of the woods and I think the heatlogs ('blazers') are working out a little cheaper.
Your username indicates plentiful wood supplies!
Your username indicates plentiful wood supplies!
In a previous life sadly!
I've bought some and made my own. Both work fine. Not as nice to look at or deal with as nice dry logs but hey, there you go.
We have just ordered loads off a local chippy. Look for anywhere local as they may bag up their own, which will be considerably cheaper than most other places.
How do you make your own, jimjam? Couple of trowels full in a drainpipe and press down hard? What do you use as a binder?
just found an instructible. never mind!
I tried the lard/block/bake method and it was just way too labour intensive to be worthwhile on a small scale. Also experimented with packing old pringles tubes with a used vegetable oil/sawdust mix. Worked very well till we got rid of the chippy machine. Eat a lot less pringles now too 😳
I bought a sack a couple of years ago, they burnt quickly, crumbled into dust easily and were messy. At the end of the bag I was left with a buckets worth of dust.
I used most of the bag for just putting on after the kindling and before the logs
The proper ones are pressed under huge pressures and it's the wotsits in the wood that bind it. Lower pressure methods tend to use an added binder so may crumble more readily.....I think.
The Verdo ones are excellent. You can get them from Home Bargains at a good price and by the pallet load from Home Bargains online.
Cheers all. Gonna pop down Home Bargains and give a wee pack a try.
and it's the wotsits in the wood that bind it
So you're saying cheese flavoured corn snacks are a better binding agent than pringles?