How to make fuel from sawdust and old oil.

[@rcruzriovista]

Love it! Burning oil doesn’t automatically mean polluting. A hot, efficient, smokeless burn is a clean burn. Any type of smoke is polluting.

[@andersonnettleship845]

Not long after moving we had an ice storm that knocked out power for 10 days and we didn't have any firewood so I mixed sawdust with diesel fuel in an old metal dog bowl, put in in the wood stove and set my dampers. It burned for 4 days and we were nice and warm. The smoke from the wood stove was hardly noticeable and it didn't smell at all. I was shocked at how long that sawdust and diesel burned but was glad it did.

[@rogersmith8480]

Can you please explain how you mixed the saw dust with diesel and how much diesel you used to sawdust, please? Thank you

[@Joewalshe38]

Thanks for sharing. I have been running my old Toyota Hilux pick up on waste veggie oil for years and the waste from the waste is mixed with saw dust from a furniture joinery. I simply shovel it into bags and use in the stove to start the fire.

[@davidstorton910]

They call it pep in America

[@MohamedHassan-ni6un]

prep

[@jimg1952]

I used to work for a trucking company that took the oil that they drained out of the engine and filtered it and mixed it with the diesel and burned it out through the engine. It is a good way to get rid of it and it bumped up the HP a little.

[@holdenboy1960]

i sometimes use old wood mulch from around the property from dry twigs and small branches leaves ect with old motor oil in my wood heater stove , only i just tip in small quantities of oil as needed

[@struck2soon]

It is being burnt in the mighty Stratford Tf90 (28Kw) boiler stove. I like a really hot bed of embers to get a clean burn on the old oil 'bombs'. I have a clip showing how boiler stove is connected to rest of heating system when you get a chance between shed/chooks.

[@struck2soon]

Apologies Norman, is it the volume or the speed of my speech that you are struggling with? Just wondering if I should add a few notes to the description as an aid as this clip has been surprisingly popular. Wish my model railroad clips got even a fraction of the views!

[@crpth1]

Nice one. I tried a couple of years ago with sawdust and old engine oil. I was quite amazed by the general performance. Considering it's a normal wood burning stove. Engine oil alone didn't work well in the wood stove... But burned perfectly on my DIY rocket oil burner set in the garage. Made with a car disk brake and exhaust pipe. Note: For containers I used toilet paper tubes, marvelous, work really well. Only issue the "briquettes" are small. LOL :-)

[@struck2soon]

crpth1 yes, I guess they would be small. What did you call them, "oil turds"?

[@crpth1]

ahahah. :-) I just burn them before I could name them. Now I remember that must ask my wife to not trow them away... Gonna make another stash of "oil...turds" the Winter is coming. Jokes apart they burn quite well and for quite a long time. Depending on the oil amount/type. Best results where from diesel and gas engine oils. Cooking oil (sunflower oil) and manual transmission oil I didn't like. Somehow didn't seem to burn so well. Thanks for sharing, be well.

[@DSAK55]

is Gromit holding the camera

[@struck2soon]

😄

[@ezyjack826]

great video. instead of motor oil, do you think it would be ok to use heating oil sludge? I get the oil sludge from peoples tank when they convert to gas heat so it's free to me. it would not be burned inside the house. it would give me some heat when working outside and would help me get rid of the sludge.

[@struck2soon]

Jack, this would be your ideal solution. You would need to experiment with the ratio of sludge to sawdust, heating oil is quite volatile compared to engine oil. Start with a low amount of sludge first and see how it burns, adding more on subsequent mixes until you reach a point where it seems a bit too volatile. Perhaps even a mix of sludge, engine oil and sawdust? Be sure to report back!

[@entorid6902]

Hopefully you will still see my question :) nice idea but I heard about getting these too hot and damaging stove? what if you dont make briquetes but just put couple small shovels of sawdust and oil mix into furnace?

[@struck2soon]

It doesn’t get too hot, because the flammable material is compressed it only exposes a relatively small surface area for combustion. Putting shovelfuls on will give you a very quick flare-up and possibly cause a lot of heat and smoke. I would not recommend doing that.

[@b_ks]

Have you considered trying your mix in a dedicated sawdust stove?

[@normanmcgill9532]

Didn't mean to be disparaging Struck. It's just that the sound is a tad low from the machine so with the volume up high I can hear what your saying. Sorry about that.

[@radesaul]

I've seen people who burn vegetable and when they filter it they are left with a oily sludge. I thought it might be something you could add it to sawdust/woodchips to help intensify your sawdust briquettes's btu's. Haven't tried it yet, but still might be a good idea.

[@struck2soon]

Sounds ideal! A 'carbon neutral' liquid fuel binder...just wish I had a source close to by.

[@tpangle17]

Would you be able to make pellets for a pellet stove in this manner, without the motor oil and coal? Would you substitute a different oil?

[@struck2soon]

Good question. Those pellets rely on very high pressure to release some of the resin in the sawdust to bond the particles together, obviously that kind of pressure could not be produced in my contraption. But it might be possible to use a type of glue to bond them. However, you wouldn't be able to make small enough pellets for the stove feed system, but they would be fine on a conventional wood stove. I would say using old vegetable oil as an alternative might be possible as a viable bonding agent if you were worried about the use of dirty old engine oil; I just liked the idea of using what was basically waste products that would otherwise have been binned.

[@clairbirkett2270]

struck2soon I reckon a weak solution of PVA and lots of water would do the trick

[@kan815k]

I am bit concerned about the chimney getting more sotted and will it give more smoke? I live in a built-up area with lot of residents.

[@struck2soon]

You would certainly make yourself unpopular in a built-up area if you burnt these! They are very smoky, although the amount of smoke could be reduced by reducing the amount of oil added in the mix. Alternatively, just burn them after dark...

[@kan815k]

@@struck2soon my thoughts exactly. 😊😜👍

[@eamonnmckeown6770]

Growing up we had a back burner to our living room fireplace. Stuffed that thing full of sawdust. It heated the radiators and water tank. Didn't add oil though.

[@MrSIXGUNZ]

im wondering ... we have free wood chips around my area.... think we could use this idea with them ??

[@pyrusrex2882]

I have a bunch of anthracite coal dust myself. Will this work in these briquettes, or does it have to be a higher volatile coal like bituminous/subbituminous/lignite? Anthracite is damn near impossible to get lit.

[@struck2soon]

Pyrus Rex: I would have thought it would be ok. I have just been burning some briquettes I made last week using dust from steam-coal from a friend's traction engine, which is also hard to get going as it needs a good draft on it. Perhaps experiment with the proportions in the mix, start with say one third anthracite dust to two thirds oily sawdust and then see how it burns...you could always increase coal dust quantity if it burns ok. Remember: not too much oil! Just enough to make everything bind together, and plenty of compression to keep the mixture in one piece.

[@macks9499]

I would think these would burn well in a rocket stove. The high temperature burn with plenty of oxygen should reduce the "toxic" output to a negligible amount. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

[@struck2soon]

My pleasure Mack. If you do try one on your rocket stove, let me know how it goes.

[@migueljose2944]

@@struck2soon Great idea! i do the same with sawdust and used motor oil--- not compressed-- and burn it in my rocket mass heater . It burns very clean for almost an hour along with the wood. I think compressing the mix is even better. thanks!

[@struck2soon]

@@migueljose2944 I mainly did this as an experiment to prove the concept. In practice I find it far more time-efficient to cut logs for firewood, I can produce a much bigger pile of logs in the same time it takes to make a few of these. Of course not everyone has access to logs!

[@mikenestle4679]

Say, aren't you putting out a lot of toxic smoke up the chimney burning old oil? Contaminants include heavy metals as well as plenty of carcinogenic compounds, yes? Doesn't seem like a very neighborly thing to do, if I may say so.

[@struck2soon]

Neighbours? What neighbours Mike? They all moved out to get away from the awful pollution!

[@SignedSign]

struck2soon so thats why ya make em, get rid of the naighbours lol however not a very environmentally friendly fuel source, and if your area is so polluted then maybe time to take steps in getting it a bit better by not making it worse. check up "sawdust stove" on you tube, then make one of a smaller tincan that fits in your fireplace but attach a 45 degree plate on the top that will reflect the heat out in the room better, and voila, you can then burn pure sawdust without oil etc in a way where you can get up to 8 hours use of one charge.

[@struck2soon]

SignedSign, I hear what you're saying but my problem is this: my stove is a boiler-stove, and needs a big heat output to heat all the radiators and underfloor heating. Not the amount of heat you could get from a small sawdust stove, even though they look very efficient.

[@jimg1952]

you complain about toxic this and that, but I'll bet every last one of you ride in a car or bus or some form of mass transit, and anything you buy is brought in by a truck. You electricity is produced by 48% coal power plants, not to mention every time you exhale you are putting CO2 in the air.

[@fauntleeeeroy]

Mike Nestle . Sounds like a great idea, fuck the neighbours

[@Fashionpoint1997]

hii, do you have a video of the burn and exhaust using this motor oil mixed saw dust ?

[@struck2soon]

Hallelujah Alpha Omega To the TOP ...not yet, I keep meaning to get one done. Problems with my editing software have prevented me from doing any clips recently.

[@kodi1415]

Any ideas on the btu's that brick is capable of?

[@struck2soon]

Not reallyCurtis, certainly not in actual figures anyway. I can however confirm that the heat output is high, because oil is a high energy fuel. Clearly there is an effort involved in making these fuel bricks, which is really only worth it if you do not have access to a ready supply of firewood, this needs to be considered when you decide your fuel choices. Certainly gives a sense of satisfaction when you get heat from a waste product though!

[@WorshipTheSavior]

I like your sense of humor! I had an involuntary snort at 1:11

[@S4V0LAEN3N]

How about adding ruined home brew to the mix? Would that alcohol absorb to the pellet and help it burn? I have plenty of that stored.. making moonshine out of it is option, but I'm not very much into drinking nowadays. :)

[@struck2soon]

If it is home-brew beer then no. Spirit on the other hand would be ok, but perhaps a bit too volatile? And then there is evaporation to consider. Old cooking oil from restaurants or take-away bars would be a good alternative to engine oil, perhaps the home-brew spirits mixed with one of the oils?

[@jimmy5F]

Sounds like a good recipe. But how come no one uses a funnel in briquet-making?

[@struck2soon]

I guess most people are just happy enough that all the gloopy mess goes everywhere?

[@t.m.h.7962]

I would imagine the smoke is a little black, but what about the smell ? Does the oil have the normal smell or does the other material you mix the oil into sort of mask the odor ?

[@struck2soon]

Earl Turner , if you burn it on a hot fire the oil smell is partly masked by other materials...the more complete and cleaner the burn the less the smell.

[@jimmytate7587]

the people that are complaining about air pollution or ozone depletion have neglected to consider that the materials are going to deteriorate anyway, just slower, but the aggregate amount of pollution will remain the same.

[@nigelsmith186]

OUCH - I would suggest having your press on a low bench or sawing trestle to save your knees. Otherwise top class content, Thanks.

[@holdenboy1960]

you done well and ty for sharing , to hell with all the negative posts and do gooders your doing better for recycling than not far as i see

[@struck2soon]

Thanks Shane, it's a free world so I don't mind the negative comments. In fact some of them make me laugh, it's amazing how wound up some people get about burning a bit of old oil to keep warm! (I also wonder if they use motor vehicles at all, which have a similar effect on the atmosphere)

[@timsanders8707]

Not sure about the oil but all the rest is brilliant. Great video.

[@struck2soon]

Cheers Tim! To be honest it was a bit of fun, I hardly ever bother getting the "Compresso-matic" out because it is a lot easier to just burn wood...you can see plenty in my store behind where I am standing. If I was going to be 'eco-friendly' I would probably use the remnants from a roasting tin or fat fryer to bind the shavings and add a bit of calorific value. Still, got a few extreme negative reactions from some folk, always good for a giggle!

[@MrSIXGUNZ]

wow !! a fun and FUN video sir !!! a great idea. im thinking that the tubes could be used from christmas wrapping and used in fire places ??? hmmmmm food for thought. thanks to you both and blessings !

[@bosdad7]

I would have loved to see one of them burning, just to get an idea of the smoke produced.

[@struck2soon]

Funny you should mention it, just been thinking about making a video of exactly that. Will let you know when it is on youtube.

[@fauntleeeeroy]

bos dad . Smoke goes up the chimney, not my problem

[@patterdalezipsuzilil]

will they not give off loads of smoke like a vw

[@struck2soon]

Patterdale Zipsuzilil well there's a bit when you first put them on, but soon drops away to a level about the same as burning coal. I guess if I am honest about the emissions I won't have to face prosecution?

[@benschmolze1266]

Pretty ingenious, friendo!

[@struck2soon]

Thanks Ben, definitely the product of a disturbed mind!

[@normanmcgill9532]

As long as I'm here, what's all the wood for? Do you have any videos of your model rr? Like to see that as it's a hobby for me too.

[@struck2soon]

Well Norm, the wood is the main fuel source for keeping our house warm. We have 3 stoves: the main one which is hooked up to hot water and central heating, a wood-fired cooking stove which can also keep part of house warm and finally a small 4kw stove in my study. Hence always on the lookout for fuel! If you check out my channel videos starting from about a year ago you can see the model railroad from it's inception. I have been working on some scenery recently so hope to put another clip on soon. Sounds like we have similar interests, do your mates also think you are a nut-bar?

[@akashkumar..589]

How to make smokeless?

[@struck2soon]

Not sure! But if worried about neighbour complaints only burn after dark...

[@johnwatkins39]

Just curious, is this safe to burn.

[@struck2soon]

Yes John. Due to the fact it has been compressed it keeps the surface area available limited, unlike if you were to try and just tip some of it on loose. Perhaps I should upload a clip of it actually being burnt on the stove?

[@griffon129]

struck2soon please do

[@gart935]

Good video, once made how long does it take till you can burn the "bombs"? Do you have to wait a few months for them to "cure" Thanks in advance struck2soon

[@struck2soon]

No curing time required, other than a couple of days for oil to soak into sawdust in the initial pre-manufacturing stage. Fire needs to be good and hot with a decent bed of embers, (usually about an hour of burning wood), before bombs go on.

[@gart935]

Great many thanks.

[@QuantumRift]

What's the carbon tax on each briquette?

[@struck2soon]

Carbon dioxide emission is approx.2.5 kg per kg of briquette. This is based on a mix of 50% coal,(@ 2.8kg/kg) 20% oil,(@2.7kg/kg) and 30% wood shaving(carbon neutral). I don't pay a 'carbon tax' on that, as it has already been taxed at point of purchase if that is what you mean.

[@RonJohn63]

struck2soon "Carbon dioxide emission is approx.2.5 kg per kg of briquette" More CO2 mass than briquette mass? That seems to break the laws of physics.

[@struck2soon]

RonJohn63 Not at all Ron. Actually, it is more the chemistry of combustion that needs to be understood here: remember the old chemistry lesson at school where we learnt that CO2 is formed by combining 1 atom of carbon with two atoms of oxygen? Coal is our carbon and when burnt it combines with two atoms of oxygen to form CO2. That is three atoms in the final equasion derived from one atom of carbon, thus three times the mass. But it doesn't produce three times as much CO2 simply because coal is not pure carbon, there are other elements in there as well. So 2.5 times much CO2 is a rough estimation. Hope that helps.

[@RonJohn63]

struck2soon "thus three times the mass" Since the oxygen comes from the atmosphere, I see your point. Unfortunately, that would only be the case with *100%* combustion of a *pure-carbon* fuel like natural charcoal. Parts of the mass will be: a) the hydrogens in oil and wood that turn to steam, b) the nitrogen and other elements in the wood and oil can't be turned into CO2, c) ash, soot, other gases and particulate matter (some of it carbon) that doesn't/can't combust.

[@fistpunder]

You Brits always come up with such novel ideas and inventions.

[@struck2soon]

I am a Kiwi! (Well, half Kiwi, half Brit to be fair)

[@fistpunder]

Bless you anyway what ever your heritage. You are creative. Thanks for the video.

[@struck2soon]

...thinking about it, if you include inventing the steam engine,(Trevethick) splitting the atom,(Rutherford,1919) inventing television(Baird), and the World Wide Web(Sir Tim Berners-Lee) then you are right: the Brits are a fairly creative bunch. I am sure the "Compresso-matic" will be referred to in the same reverential tones in years to come...

[@funnytilltheresblood]

Er Rutherford was NZ born.

[@struck2soon]

He certainly was. A great Kiwi hero. Although I believe he was calling himself British after he had lived here a few years. Be happy to be proven wrong on that though..

[@fauntleeeeroy]

He's got shitloads of logs in the background, fair play to him for not wasting the sawdust

[@struck2soon]

Kurrdt kobain ...I have become a 'heat miser'....I can't stand seeing any energy going to waste!

[@fauntleeeeroy]

struck2soon . Cool, I've just saved 2 bags of sawdust today

[@struck2soon]

Kurrdt kobain ....good lad, now you just need some lovely, filthy old engine oil! ( best wait for a dark night before trialling your mix, nothing worse than "concerned" neighbours banging on your door!)

[@luciusirving5926]

Use a sawdust stove and use a sawdust/waste oil mixture in it. Bad for food, but good for heating and powering a steam engine. Apply bicycle generator principles to a steam engine and you'll have free electricity powered by a a sawdust/waste oil fired boiler. Paper briquettes would not be able to fire the boiler for long compared to a sawdust stove. The finer the sawdust in your simple sawdust stove, the longer the burn or combustion. Waste oil can also help sawdust light much faster. P.S all I got is fucking pine, but whatever! I can just use propane and charcoal briquettes for cooking.

[@ingridburling8731]

I would avoid burning oil and old tyres. The fumes from these things will be toxic for your lungs and overall health.

[@MinimalistMotoLife]

Do you live near a road or eat food from the grocery store? If so you injest the same toxins everyday Halfburnt oil(gasoline, diesel, motor) tire dust, brake dust and asphalt. Fertilizers used in mass agriculture... All basically the same carcinogenic oil and byproducts there of. Petroleum is horrible stuff, it rules our modern life in every way, from plastic wrappers to backing the worlds most used currencies. The issue in this sawdust-waste oil log thing lies is getting it to burn hot enough for complete combustion without having a meltdown in the stove. I have burned enough petro products and creosote to know it's a fine line involving red glowing stove pipe and a good bed of coals I'll play with it, some cardboard quart jugs are the only thing I don't have a steady supply of but I think I could always find old cardboard coffee cups laying around, burning sawdust and oil so what's a little PET or whatever they coat the car board in on top of it?

[@fauntleeeeroy]

Ingrid Burling . You're bad for my health

[@CaptainEverythingHumorandMore]

Good idea. Very Inventive. Thanks.

[@timmcneil1536]

nice, and pretty resourceful. good work.

[@struck2soon]

Thanks. It was a bit of a daft experiment just to see if it would work, in reality I prefer to put my effort into splitting logs for firewood, more heat return for a given amount of effort.💪

[@luciusirving5926]

The point of briquetting is to reuse waste and a good briquette can burn with virtually no smoke.

[@struck2soon]

Thanks Lucius, nice to see a reasoned comment for a change! 👍 By limiting the amount of oil used in the mix, (just enough to act as a "binder" for all the ingredients) it is possible to make a fuel briquette which burns safely and relatively cleanly. Some of the radical comments I have received would suggest I am about to burn my house down or destroy the planet!

[@j.g8799]

...the oil part is messy and it makes me to think twice.

[@bobburnitt1411]

I like to burn OLD TIRES, easy to get and boy do they burn HOT.

[@struck2soon]

Yeah Bob, but what a bloody awkward size...

[@jimmytate7587]

how do you get them in the stove...or do you just have an open fire on the living room floor?

[@adjustablehammer3749]

Bob Burnitt smell much?

[@normanmcgill9532]

Thanks for the reply. It's just so much wood I had to ask but with three stoves to run you'll need all that no doubt. Do you ever go to the' model railroad forum' online.? Lots of great guys with some nice layouts and a very friendly bunch too. I'll look back to see your pics but right now I better take my dog out or I'll be cleaning the floor. Ha! "Pete" my nick name. Please call me Pete.

[@struck2soon]

Yes Pete, on several of the forums. Very informative they are too. Was thinking of taking my dog out too, but she has made a lovely meal instead.

[@jimmytate7587]

mix it with sawdust and oil and it will burn

[@danskpridehansen9191]

it doesnt hurt the ozone the gov tells us that to make money off us and control us, this guy is smart..great video

[@MrNelsonhsieh]

It’s better to use cooked flour paste instead of oil.

[@adventurious1234]

Lol...love the offshoot humor..

[@struck2soon]

Cheers! Actually quite nice to see the wife smile for a change.

[@mark_osborne]

Love it ! keep up the great work

[@struck2soon]

Cheers Mark. Must get myself outdoors for a session on the "compresso-matic" as the days are certainly getting colder. I need to post a video showing them being burnt, might cut down some of the scare-mongers out there accusing me of trying to poison my village folk.

[@struck2soon]

Ok, will make it my mission this winter. Looking at the missus, there is bound to be an abundance of flabby offcuts this autumn.

[@Wendybellrings]

Sheds crammed with 25 years worth of logs - you need to use your time more wisely

[@raymondbucher49]

the oil makes this a bad idea

[@BlueAcid9]

+raymond bucher Why?

[@fauntleeeeroy]

raymond bucher . Makes it a nice flammable idea

[@christophris3602]

Burning old oil is very healthy.....

[@muddymuddymuddmann]

I like it. sweeeet. MUDDy

[@woodwitch2o]

Turned my volume as loud as it would go. Still can bearly hear a mumble.

[@struck2soon]

Apologies for that Sandy, it was filmed using ipad so not the best mic. Any part of the explanation you would like clarification on?

[@Rlewisrlou666]

It helps to have a wife with a sense of humour.

[@struck2soon]

Yes. And experience caring for the mentally diturbed.

[@zazarays]

Lol, wtf

[@scottsutton7989]

That a lot of stinking work why not use wood for crying out loud? It’s simpler to burn oil in an oil burner and wood in a stove, or burn coal if that’s your thing?

[@normanmcgill9532]

Too bad we can't hear anything your saying. Looks like a good thing to kow about.

[@mgord9518]

you're*

[@struck2soon]

+Matthew CLASSIFIED: one star! At least it's one more than the wife gives me..

[@yahyaa1]

Lol his wife was recording look at 2:05 the shadow

[@struck2soon]

Yahya Safoury ...yep, that's the wife. At least she knows where she will end up if she puts on too much weight!

[@GreenCroco1]

VOLUME-------VOLUMEEEEEE

[@struck2soon]

Apologies, crap microphone on iPad.

[@GreenCroco1]

ok :)

[@speedbuggy16v]

LOL @ dead pets and off cuts of the wife......

[@adkchip1]

Ecologically

[@berthayellowfinch5471]

Lard gawd.

[@scorpion-in2xj]

great video if you want air pollution like china

[@struck2soon]

I live in Teesside. It's already like bloody China!

[@verdgj626]

engine oil? And burnn it? Ever checked your chimney for PCB's? Run forest, run!

[@struck2soon]

Positive Carbon Build-up?(PCB) Not in my chimney mate!

[@verdgj626]

www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/pcbs/about.htm

[@struck2soon]

Sorry, but where is the evidence that burning oil produces a significant amount of pcb's? If it were a serious health concern then I am sure burning waste oil would be prohibited, and clearly that is not the case. Some people do worry a bit too much!

[@thepoultrypeople]

struck2soon theres some info here - www.epa.gov/ttnchie1/ap42/ch01/final/c01s11.pdf

[@struck2soon]

Excellent. Nothing to worry about then. Lets get burning!

[@adkchip1]

Why not grind up some tires too! Seems very irresponsible.

[@struck2soon]

Hmmm. I would be inclined to agree if a lot of noxious smake was produced, but burning these on a very hot firebed gives a fairly clean burn. Oil, coal and wood are not exactly new fuels either, so I have a fairly clear conscious.

[@jerbear7952]

Adkchip1, I am happy to know that you dont use electricity or drive a car. Thanks for not polluting at all in any way.

[@kambibolongo7530]

struck2soon Smoke is just visible gas(es) due to differences in temperature. Absence of smoke does not necessarily mean clean air.

[@fauntleeeeroy]

adkchip1 . Ground up tyres, nice one, thanks for that tip

[@pheenix42]

"...flabby off-cuts from the wife." Are you still alive, by any chance? 8-D

[@struck2soon]

Yes! And the wife is keeping me warm, without resorting to burning the 'flabby offcuts'...

[@usnva5638]

This video needs a sign language interpreter.

[@struck2soon]

Apologies for wind noise.

[@markmathews5117]

Not really.

[@musicisitall]

this does no good to OUR environment.

[@struck2soon]

Sorry but I don't see how: the fuel used is simply wood and oil, which are used every day as fuel in many applications. You probably do more damage to OUR environment every time you go for a drive in your car.

[@dieseldaddy4205]

I hope you don't burn them indoors or in a garage!!!!!!😧😧😧😧. The HYDROCARBONS put off from used oil combined with coal dust when burned would be like sucking a car exhaust. Not to mention the extreme carbon build up in your chimney,,which will eventually clog the chimney and create a chimney EXPLOSION or if not an explosion,,,,a partially clogged chimney gets IMPROPER drafting and can also cause a backdraft. Please,,,Please,,Please,,BE CAREFUL in your endeavor,,as this is a great way to die of asphyxiation or BLOW your house to HELL. Sorry,,but this is a BIG thumbs down!!!!!

[@struck2soon]

Frank Castronuovo whilst I appreciate your concerns, actual experience has proven your worries to be unfounded. The only way ANY fumes or gasses would be able to enter the room would be if the chimney was not drafting properly...in which case you would be asphyxiated from whatever fuel you were burning, not just my 'special mix'. As far as the combustion goes, these burn in a controlled fashion giving off a steady heat...as mentioned in other comments the key is to get the mix correct. Too much oil in the mix would certainly not make for a good burn. If further proof were needed, I am still alive and living in a house which hasn't burned down despite several years of oil & sawdust burning!

[@jimmytate7587]

i have never heard of a chimney explosion....have you experienced or know someone who has? Don't make up scenarios without any proof, you damage your own credibility and make your statements worth less to anyone..

[@dieseldaddy4205]

Burning oil and coal,,as he says is very flammable. Ok,,with that being said,,those 2 combined produce over 2800ppm of hydrocarbons. If hydrocarbons do not get the proper amount of oxygen,,example,,, all windows CLOSED in the house or shed or barn,,,they CAN and HAVE had VOLATILE reactions,,,as BOTH are petroleum products. So far,,so good,,you're still with me or am I getting over your head,,because you challenge my credability. I'm 56 years old and a volunteer fireman for over 30 some odd years,,,which means I have attended FIRE SCHOOL in the state of New York,,,and passed all classes. I have also UNFORTUNATELY extinguished MANY out of control blazes and been in garages and repair shops with waste oil heaters that weren't or didn't get vented properly causing TOXIC explosions. And on 3 occasions,,,UNFORTUNATELY have had to drag UN-IDENTIFIABLE remains of people who were unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time..........IT ISN'T A PRETTY SIGHT to move a body sooo BADLY charred that a finger breaks off in your gloved hand. Now,,,,,,I don't care what you guys do,,,,,,as I warn all NON UNDERWRITERS certified heating devices,,,,, JUST BE FUCKING CAREFUL IS ALL I'M SAYING....it's not my business to tell you what to do,,,,,,,but for CHRISTS' sake,,don't hurt yourselves. I've seen poor souls burned to death and it's not pretty.......with that being said,, I will no longer participate in this conversation,or comment any more on your videos. I'm sorry if I offended you,,,,stay SAFE,,,,and have a great day,,,,BYE-BYE😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@struck2soon]

Frank Castronuovo I appreciate your concern, obviously you have seen the unfortunate effects of combustion when it all goes wrong.

[@fauntleeeeroy]

Frank Castronuovo . Are you serious? Like anyone would been shit indoors! Fuckin ell

[@lewisp3954]

thats a lot of phaff.

[@struck2soon]

Indeed it is. It was more about proving you could do something with your waste engine oil and wood shavings than anything else. In my case it is much easier to split logs for firewood, but of course not everyone has access to logs without having to buy them. Always fun experimenting!