Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption          Downsizer Forum Index -> Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects nasher1 Making and Burning Manure Brick’s I found this article a few years ago, http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/hooker87.html I have made the brick’s using horse manure and a normal hand operated briquette press with a little rain water ( less expensive than tap water) I have also tried mixing saw dust and shredded news paper and placed in the greenhouse to dry out for 2/4 weeks. Burn/smoulder rate is ok. The ash is fantastic it dug into the veg plot or round the flower beds. mousjoos I imagine that gloves are a must, & that it could get a little stinky nasher1 The smell is not that bad when making them, and the smoke smell from the chimney reminds me of fireworks on bonfire night, gloves are a must and I would suggest your tetanus jabs are up-to-date just in case jettejette making and burning manure bricks Thanks so much for the link. A really interesting article. Is the press you are using, one of those designed for newspaper? Do you use fresh dung straight from the horse or the dryer stuff? And do you turn it out of the press straight away to dry? Sorry for all the questions but with a heavy horse grazing away outside, I have a good fuel source if I can get this right!!! oldish chris My worries about the nitrogen cycle suggest that animal manure is far too valuable a resource to simply burn and that the nitrogen embodied in the manure will be released into the atmousphere as oxides of nitrogen to go and pollute somewhere else. (Norway usually). nasher1 Hello, Yes the press is the paper briquette press as for the age of the ‘dong’ fresh or a few months old is fine just add a little water to make it workable, the dryer it is the more water you need. I turn them out and stack them on a mesh shelf in the greenhouse. This might be worth a little look http://www.stovesonline.co.uk/horse-manure-fuel.html jettejette Thank you! Will definitely experiment with this. I take the point about the nitrogen but I am sure whatever fuel I use will have some consequences, somewhere. All in all, it does seem to make sense to use something I don't have to use energy to transport or cut down. Boarstall Girl Can you do this with pig poo? Shall I start scraping my overalls? Ty Gwyn Can you do this with pig poo? Shall I start scraping my overalls? You mean you don`t already? Wild Boar Nuggets,use as Stovesse,lol Reckon the people next door as using Dane Nuggets,the smell is Great sometimes when the wind is this way.
Boarstall Girl	I can see a side line idea forming..... Pick your own? I could make up a wire rack in the yard, and place prime poo to dry a bit, especially when the wind is blowing towards my mad neighbour... Now for a marketing name....boar burners, Sus Scrofa stovesse, bioboar?
Mistress Rose	I think overalls have been soaked and the water used for plant feed in the garden. If you get enough on them to scrape and use for briquettes, your pigs must be plastering you well Boarstall.
12Bore	I can see a side line idea forming..... Pick your own? I could make up a wire rack in the yard, and place prime poo to dry a bit, especially when the wind is blowing towards my mad neighbour... Now for a marketing name....boar burners, Sus Scrofa stovesse, bioboar?

Sh*ttin' Bricks Biofuel... dpack

in areas with stock and few trees dung burning is usual for heating and cooking stoves.rather unhealthy in a open stove but ok in a burner

notable sources of fuel are horse ,camel and yak
i suspect that neat pig may be rather hard to light but deep litter from a stye might well be useful as fuel if the nitrate content is high enough.the combo of dung air bugs and the high amount of potassium salts in pig urine in a warm damp litter that is not rain leached will develop up to 10 % kno3 wt/wt. with the nitrate dried in the brick (rather than extracted as by the saltpetermen of history)it might be quite a good fuel. Mistress Rose

With all that nitrate it sounds better for gunpowder; and I know that is what the saltpetre men of old used to do. 'Light manure briquette and retire immediately.'

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