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I would like to introduce you to compressed sawdust instead of firewood!!

Heavier than they look

To be honest, I was sold on this product before I even burned any of it.

One of the benefits are that the compressed sawdust bricks come delivered neatly on a pallet and are wrapped in easy to carry 6-packs of those same bricks.

Another benefit is that the bricks burn hotter and longer than firewood!

As seen in the images, the alternative to firewood is easily stacked.

These are heavier than they look, in fact the pallet was slightly more than a ton.

They are comprised entirely of dried oak shavings and then compressed and contain no creosote, No Bugs, Dirt or Bark and put out very low smoke and ash and are easy to ignite.

But the biggest clincher for me was the fact that shipping is included in the cost!

Compressed Sawdust

Firewood Replacement Video

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Alternate Firewood
What prompted me to find an alternative is the fact that on Craigslist right now there are Cords of Firewood being sold for $750.00 !~ I go through a cord per month during the coldest months so this new alternative is a godsend.

Firewood Option
Another advantage is that there is no noise. That's right these bricks don't crackle and spew like firewood does. You will empty your ash pan MUCH less than you ever did with firewood.

Optional Firewood
My first purchase was a pallet for $499.00 delivered.

Renewable Firewood Optionwww.EcoHeatFirelogs.com

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Firewood Photo

First Winter

During the first winter out here, I almost cracked.

The cold was unbearable despite the spanking-new wood-burning stove having arrived fresh from the monopoly store.

AS A PUBLIC WARNING

The warnings on a new stove or new stove-pipe are smaller than that which is contained on a pack of cigarettes.

User planning is requisite for the removal of the TOXIC paint.

The smell is enough to force a person into the freezing cold of winter for fresh air until the toxic paint is burned off.

If the first burn of a new stove or stove-pipe is within the home, plan on a motel for safe breathing until the air within the home clears of the poisons.

The over-priced first stove didn't have much of a cooking area on top, delivered scant amounts of heat, was incredibly difficult to keep lit, impossible to remove the ash (without a major day-breaker of effort), and there's more (all bad).

Then, just in the nick of time, came a couple of Springfield's youth with an old fireplace insert on the back of their pickup truck.

In retrospect, I'm thoroughly thankful for the young adults that were helping their grandfather clean out his barn (and made $75.00 as a just-reward).

Old wood-burning insert

Life instantly became loads easier thanks to the new (old) stove.

Within time, the New (old) wood-burner become indispensible for cooking, heating, distilling, drying laundry, and even smelting.

Having a large open space without walls, such as a garage, requires less work to deliver the heat to all areas.

Whereas most modern homes are so partitioned-off into separate cubicles (rooms) which typically require a large fan to push the hot air throughout the home.

Distilled water

Thermal Mass

The magic of this form of non-conventional repurposing of a fireplace insert to a stand-alone wood-burner has been the discovery that thermal-mass heating is amazing!

Placed directly on the floor, the firewood insert transfers its heat to the concrete slab (and earth below it), thereby creating a long-lasting, slow to dissipate, thermal-assisted heat source.

Thermal Mass

The Temperature is 30 degrees outside but the concrete floor is warm to the touch.

When only a few embers are remaining in the fire-box, the concrete is releasing the heat and maintaining a comfortable temperature that allows for me to have a normal sleep (without having to nurse the fire-box every hour-on-the-hour).

Separate Ash Pan keeps down the dust


The advantages of an ash pan, that can be easily removed and dumped without requiring the firebox door to be opened, are many.

The wood stove seen below shows the ash-tray located beneath the firebox which can simply be pulled from the unit and carried outside to dump (later finding its way to the garden).

off-grid solar

A larger stove is better in the night-time

Unless cooking, or during times of needing a quick temperature increase, larger pieces of wood will save money during the winter.

Larger pieces, like whole unsplit logs, will burn all night, without your having to get up every 3 or 4 hours (to feed more splinter-sized wood into the stove).

Smaller pieces burn hotter and quicker and require more effort to fill a stove (more trips to the wood-pile).

Reducing Raspberries

With smaller split wood, the burn is quick to fire up, hot, but short-lived.


Tree Branches Photo

Typically, a firewood vendor over-splits the wood for a number of reasons, least of which is the fact that over-split wood gives the appearance of more wood since more area is required to stack, hence more profit to the vendor.

It would be impossible to stick all the mates of a split log together during stacking, which results in more air voids between wood giving the illusion of a proper exchange even when it is not.

The over-split load of firewood requires a larger volume of space to store if the vendor is actually measuring the logs to represent true cords and then processing.

However, if starting the fire from scratch, kindling and smaller split-wood is necessary.

Firewood preparation for Winter

So I began a free community service that accepts trees, branches and more! Springfield Ohio Free Community Dump Site 2803 Troy Road Springfield Ohio
Located Hwy 41

Firewood Stocking Procedure Video

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