Homemade sawdust logs

I got a large bag of sawdust from work today and i have a press to make logs/bricks. I was just wondering what other cheap materials i could mix with the sawdust to bind it together. Any advice welcome.

http://www.charcoalbriquettemachine.com/Application/binders-for-charcoal-briquettes.html

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jaylittle – Member

I got a large bag of sawdust from work today and i have a press to make logs/bricks. I was just wondering what other cheap materials i could mix with the sawdust to bind it together. Any advice welcome.

Equal parts gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate.

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Thanks for the links and advice.

aylittle – Member

Thanks for the links and advice.

Serious answer is it’s a lot of mess and faff for limited results unless you’re doing it on a fairly big scale.

PVA glue if you’re sensible, iron oxide and magnesium dust if you aren’t.

Sour cream and bullets

Are you planning on burning these logs or are they going to be part of a Christmas decoration.

incidentally what sort of wood did it come from? Treated timber? I probably wouldn’t burn that if that’s what you were thinking. Or PVA either.

Its a mixture of untreated wood.
Sounds like it might be more hassle than its worth.

A neighbour in our yard has a small steel box with a bolt down ram he had made to turn his waste sawdust into burnable blocks. He just puts it in and presses it, nothing added. It works but is slow progress.

A friend has one of these you can use all sorts to fill the logs. It effectively wraps them with newspaper and allows the contents to be packed in tightly

logmaker

I have a similar press and in the past have used shredded newspaper.

You need high pressure to make sawdust self-bond.

Folks make brick makers with car jacks and shit.

As above, you can make a bolt press but it’s a lot of work.

That’s the sort of thing my neighbour has but he does it dry.

To be fair, flares will be back before I got a weeks worth of logs

flares will be back before I got a weeks worth of logs

Well hurry up then, can’t wait to be rocking that look again.

Just make little filled pouches/envelopes of newspaper, no need to stick it together. I found a sack of Oak flour powered my stove for about 12 hours. Only drawback was small envelopes only lasted 20-30 mins each so it was a lot of stove tending, oh an paper makes ash so I had a lot at the end