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Post by Delta9 on Feb 14, 2018 22:59:52 GMT
I purchased some today from Tesco because they were reduced. Is there some special trick to using them? They are a bastard to light, and burn like a turd.
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Post by dyertribe on Feb 14, 2018 23:16:53 GMT
It’s a bit like “Quality Hotels”, if they have to put their attributes as part of their name there is something wrong somewhere
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Post by thebfg on Feb 14, 2018 23:36:27 GMT
The only time I have used them is a bothy in Scotland as it was easy to carry a few of those than a bag of coal, had there been any trees in the area we would of looked for fire wood but they were ok lasted a few hours and heated upbtge room nicely. Maybe it's a Tesco thing.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 15, 2018 0:03:48 GMT
bought a couple as emergency fuel supply ...... tried one out ..... and have to agree they are a very poor substitute for wood
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Post by patty on Feb 15, 2018 5:34:39 GMT
If u go to that Centre Parks place its all you are allowed to burn on their log burners..they r just not the same but the log burners are so awful you cannot use ordinary logs...obviously if u don't know and then have to buy them there they are 4 times the price
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2018 7:57:27 GMT
Only once tried the tesco ones. Not great but I have had success with the disc shaped briquettes produced these days by a lot of carpentry shops. There was a place in staines upon thames doing 20kg bags of briquettes for £3. A wooden window frame company. The briquettes had a good mix of hardwoods. They burned very nicely indeed. Only problem was they have to be stored bone dry which I can't do. They had a lot of the stuff and unless someone bought it it was landfill so I was offered a sprinter van load for a good price but could not accept as nowhere dry to keep it.
I'd be happy to burn it all day if I did have somewhere dry to keep a large quantity.
Last summer there was someone selling same stuff in Croydon for £1 for 100kgs or something. Because they have to pay to landfill it otherwise.
They burn lovely.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 15, 2018 8:05:47 GMT
snip I have had success with the disc shaped briquettes produced these days by a lot of carpentry shops. snip They burn lovely. Go along with that, I used to get mine from a small firm that have now closed down (owner retired) I had to take my own bags but I could stuff an estate car full for £20 If I could find a source I would use them now (as you say just a whiff of damp and they turn into soggy sawdust) |
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Post by Jim on Feb 15, 2018 8:35:24 GMT
I've no problem with them, but they have to be kept dry. Don't burn them all the time but find them useful to break up into thin slices and use as kindling.
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Post by quaysider on Feb 15, 2018 11:37:47 GMT
we've had a few - they're (if kept perfectly dry) a handy way of getting "fast" heat in to the boat if we've been out overnight and the fire's died.
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Post by patty on Feb 15, 2018 12:11:34 GMT
snip I have had success with the disc shaped briquettes produced these days by a lot of carpentry shops. snip They burn lovely. Go along with that, I used to get mine from a small firm that have now closed down (owner retired) I had to take my own bags but I could stuff an estate car full for £20 If I could find a source I would use them now (as you say just a whiff of damp and they turn into soggy sawdust) I brought several bags that were partially decomposing into slushy sawdust ...left them to dry out and sorta burnt it by the shovel full mixed with other stuff..twas tad smokey and Ive not bothered again....I can never resist what looks to be a real bargain.... |
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Post by phil70 on Feb 15, 2018 18:08:44 GMT
There is a whole industry built up around sawdust. When I had my pet food business I used to supply sawdust and wood shavings for small animal bedding and also 1 cubic metre blocks for the many menages that were around in rural Lincolnshire.
I got it from a company at Boston docks, Snowflake, they rented out extraction kit to woodworkers, mills etc and contracted to collect the waste they then took the waste back to turn into sawdust products. I seem to recall a cubic metre blocks used to cost me £3-00 back in the 90s.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2018 18:14:17 GMT
The high pressure machines they used at the place I went to looked like they could convert more or less anything to fuel briquettes.
Nice big hopper to load it up then the press takes over. Might be quite handy for anyone wanting to dispose of awkward items.
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Post by Jim on Feb 15, 2018 18:35:38 GMT
The high pressure machines they used at the place I went to looked like they could convert more or less anything to fuel briquettes. Nice big hopper to load it up then the press takes over. Might be quite handy for anyone wanting to dispose of awkward items. there is a certain odour burning some waste. I recall, after my Gran's funeral at the crem, I went to the bog round the back, there was a gust of wind and I smelt the odour of burnt pork wafting from the chimney. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2018 18:38:38 GMT
The high pressure machines they used at the place I went to looked like they could convert more or less anything to fuel briquettes. Nice big hopper to load it up then the press takes over. Might be quite handy for anyone wanting to dispose of awkward items. there is a certain odour burning some waste. I recall, after my Gran's funeral at the crem, I went to the bog round the back, there was a gust of wind and I smelt the odour of burnt pork wafting from the chimney. Maybe it was lunch time ? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 15:16:33 GMT
Just bought some ecoal 50. Put it in stove and bloody hell, stove thermometer hit 450!!
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