I have seen a few of those videos also. Check out “tips from a shipright” for other wood boat building videos.
If you create a lot of sawdust with a thin kerf saw you know you have been busy!
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Now if only that dodge hauling the sawdust was powered by sawdust 
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Is that a wood powered tractor in the background?
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Have any of you made a pressure to make briquettes from sawdust?
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Good morning Bruce .
Yes a wood burning tractor .
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Good morning Marcus .
The truck with the saw dust did drink a little gasoline but only for less than ten minutes.
Two others had to eat wood for a while 
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I sold a Votecs press a few weeks ago and build a horizontal cyclone on it. Functions nice right away. Votecs is top. Only if someone is willing to pay that price and takes better care of the press then his family, I might sell one. If the clients goes for cheap, he gets the number of some Italian factory and dont call me when you run into trouble. Comafer is ok, the other brand sucks.
In your video some pieces are missing, the clamp to hold the briquette, filling cylinder is to small, lots of blocade and so on. If you have to much spare time and money, it is a nice project. For the rest it is the same as making pellets.
Briquettes are a better choice then pellets because you don’t have to produce them in a constant flow. If you press for an hour and stop, no problem. With pellets it is continuous.
Dutch John tried pellets in his Tiny gasifier, they tend to fall apart from the condensation. Briquettes will give the same problems in a gasifier. I burned them in my Atmos and they did very nice.
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That’s a nice configuration. Sweet! Everybody wants my sawdust. Not much interest in lumber. I guess people are used to store bought stuff. I need to convert my lumber into a finished product.
Thanks for the interesting photo . . .
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No one wants your lumber because they can’t build with it. Unless Penn is not tied into the UBC that most states are using all lumber used in residential construction must be grade stamped and that mean SPF. Any timber frame must have an engineers stamp on the drawings. You can make furniture out of your lumber though.
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I have no idea what any of that means down here there are no codes on such things that I know of. Probably in cities and certain counties their are some. What does SPF stand for and what is the UBC?
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SPF spruce,pine,fir
UBC uniform building code.
My house is 100 years old this year according to the names and dates written on the boards found near the roof peak during an addition a few years back. Framing is mostly cottonwood and you have to predrill to drive a nail or screw either one. Use what you have back then and still lasting today.
SPF,UBC means we ain’t gonna come up with specs on all the different local woods or as SteveU once said one size fits all fits most poorly. Just saying.
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How about a picture of your mill Jan. Doesn’t look like any I’m familiar with from your sawdust picture.
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That’s a nice piece of engineering Jan. I’m thinking with a right angle gearbox below the motor a set of wheels and band saw blade could be added. I’m always happy to take something that already works well and screw it up.
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Sawing these 18 and 20 inch boards sure makes this old man sleep well at night 
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Looks like a small fortune by today’s lumber prices you have there Wayne! Anything above 14" around here is custom cut and commands top dollar premiums!
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Here in Michigan the sawdust would rot and vehicles would not have traction on sawdust. Farmers like it for animal beds.
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