Poo-Bricks

[FairyLights]

Been reading on AL about people burning dried horse manure on their woodburners. Some even try to make brickettes out of it.. Has anyone tried this?

 

[sychnant]

Yep!

The brickette makers you can buy are not really up to the job. They don't squeeze out enough wet and the bricks take ages to dry out.

We now dry "nuggets" and use them like coal. They are pretty good. And tbh I pump enough money into the horses, may as well make use of the end result

 

[DW Team]

We looked into these when we were looking into getting a wood burner. I found this web site some help. My father has tried to make some but this year it has been difficult to dry the bricks out. http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/hooker87.html

 

[FairyLights]

I'm going to start drying piles of poo in the shed. Hope they will dry enough to burn. free fuel. sounds good.

 

[WelshD]

Yep!

The brickette makers you can buy are not really up to the job. They don't squeeze out enough wet and the bricks take ages to dry out.

We now dry "nuggets" and use them like coal. They are pretty good. And tbh I pump enough money into the horses, may as well make use of the end result

That sounds good, how long do you dry the nuggets for?

 

[HappyNeds]

Yep!

The brickette makers you can buy are not really up to the job. They don't squeeze out enough wet and the bricks take ages to dry out.

We now dry "nuggets" and use them like coal. They are pretty good. And tbh I pump enough money into the horses, may as well make use of the end result

Please tell us more details! Where do you dry it? does it need to be spread out thinly somehwere? How long does it need to dry for? We have plenty of horse-poo and a woodburner - so if there was a way to combine the 2 that would be brilliant!

 

[sychnant]

We collected LOADS of mushroom crates - the blue ones that stack. We put enough in each that it's only 1 layer of "nuggets" and stack them up inside the barn. Drying is a bit weather dependant, the drier the better. This year they haven't dried brilliantly

It also helps if your horse does fairly "firm" poos!

 

[Clippy]

A friend of a friend burns her manure and and anything else she throws out of her wood pellet bed. I'll have to find out how she does it because i'd love a smaller muck heap and a warmer house for free

 

[Ellen Durow]

We looked into these when we were looking into getting a wood burner. I found this web site some help. My father has tried to make some but this year it has been difficult to dry the bricks out. http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/hooker87.html

one needs to make sure that the wood burner is the sort that can use any fuel source in smokeless zones. Tell the supplier what you intend to burn.

Many cultures have used animal dung as a fuel source for millenni.

 

[JillA]

We discussed this on another forum a couple of years ago - the concensus was they had to be dried for MONTHS, is that true of the nuggets though? I've got a solid fuel Rayburn and a small multifuel stove, every little helps!

 

[Suelin]

Does it smell? Can you use it on open fires? Don't fancy the house smelling like the muckheap!!

 

[JillA]

I just found the other thread - most of the questions are answered on there. http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=576467
Well done folks - might need to invest in one

 

[Beausmate]

How is it going-anyone burned any yet?

 

[Lynette]

Yep they are brilliant. Each briquette lasts about an hour but use them with wood in the stove as well.

 

[Beausmate]

Yep they are brilliant. Each briquette lasts about an hour but use them with wood in the stove as well.

How big are the briquettes? I want to call them brickitts

How did you dry them?