Get a grip woman!

trix-a-belle

SL I picked up a paper briquette maker from facebook as wanted to do them for my wood burner but found you need such a good period of warm weather to dry them out properly you'd be very limited in the UK and got rid of it fairly quickly again.
There were some good videos for tips on YT if you do have a go, the tips I recall were use a bucket with holes in to hold the paper in and place that in another without holes which will hold the water so more water could be removed once the paper was soaked and meant the water could reused for multiple batches rather than thrown away, or use a mesh laundry bag to hold the paper for similar ability to squeeze out lots of water, the other was put 2 pieces of plastic pipe in the brick across the width that slide out once its semi dry to give more surface area on the brick (like some building bricks have)

beanielou

Excellent news to be in the 30k

Suffolk_lass

Thanks Trix - I think I have seen that video. It sort of put me off. I think I will use the sensitive paperwork to light fires in our wood-burning stove - either that or a 100 mile round trip so I can put it in a confidential waste bin at my old office.

Thanks beanie, your support is always appreciated x

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

I think I will use the sensitive paperwork to light fires in our wood-burning stove

I've got a whole tote bag by the back door of plain paper thats going to go in my little incinerator - I don't want to put much stuff in there with sellotape etc or coloured inks, because I want to put the ashes on the garden.


Great news on that last bit of mortgage fiddling :j

Suffolk_lass

Doh moment! I have waited in this morning for a RM delivery between 09.39 and 11.39, only to look again and find it is tomorrow! What am I like? - no need to answer that rhetorical comment! Time to go out!

trix-a-belle

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

I think I will use the sensitive paperwork to light fires in our wood-burning stove - either that or a 100 mile round trip so I can put it in a confidential waste bin at my old office.

Shred it and compost it?

Karma, are there any plants in particular that its worth putting ashes on please.

Suffolk_lass

trix-a-belle wrote: »

Shred it and compost it?

That was my first thought but there is so much it will burn out our little shredder. I have been into the library but theirs is the same size as ours.

And being thatched we are not allowed to have a bonfire or an incinerator. I may have to go for a commercial one-off mobile shred service :eek:

Karmacat

trix-a-belle wrote: »

Karma, are there any plants in particular that its worth putting ashes on please.

That's a very good question, trix, and I currently have no idea of the answer :o:o


Oh my! I googled a bit, and its an even better question than I realised:
RHS: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=621
https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/using-wood-ash-in-the-
https://practicalselfreliance.com/wood-ash-uses/
vegetable-garden/ (seems to use good reference material).
Tiny little smallholding in Vermont - specifically mentions tomatoes.
Erm, sorry for the hijack, SL

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

And being thatched we are not allowed to have a bonfire or an incinerator. I may have to go for a commercial one-off mobile shred service :eek:

Oh my! That would be horrendous :eek:

Debsnewbudget

There is a shredding company near Manchester that allows the community to shred stuff for free as long as they take it to the plant themselves
Might be worth investigaring locally

trix-a-belle

Karmacat wrote: »

That's a very good question, trix, and I currently have no idea of the answer :o:o

It sounded like you were an authority no worries i have no clue but chuck them at the base of my roses in a vague attempt to keep things going.

SL
just do a little a day, like PAD but SAD? (needs a better acronym, maybe SABAD shred a bit a day)
i'm a glutton for punishment so when i have a paperwork sort out i sit there and feed it through a few sheets at a time till its done