cost of running machine, supply of flour and water would be more than the average cost of central heating, wood chips or fire wood. Nice try though but far from being cost effective and actually having efficient burning time!
Cool idea but I feel those leaves have more potential in restoring the condition of soil. An alternative is to use waste fat from fried food outlets. Check out the video Burning fat to shed pounds off your energy bill.
Too bad Obama won't approve this. It's too entrepreneurial, might create jobs, stimulate the economy, and is a very creative concept. He won't have it!
its a natural cycle for leaves to fall. as they degrade they form the topsoil of the forest. the only reason people worry about leaves is because it makes their yard look bad. they put fertilizer on their lawns.....news flash, yeah leaves may kill off grass in your yard, but nature doesn't want your yard to be luscious and green. good idea, but all sorts of compressed material logs are made though......it would be better if it was all hand powered press, no engine
@riflemanjim waaaaaa i assume you are imitating a crying baby and asserting that my comment resembles a crying infant........Fertilizer run-off from neighborhoods that require a strict standard of lawn care are one of the leading factors that are polluting our fresh water supply. The earth was alive and well way before humans were here brother so whats wrong with wanting to preserve that? We have no reliable sustainable fuel source so every gas engine is depleting a dwindling supply of fuel
@riflemanjim and i might add, this leaf log maker isn't going to have that much impact on anything by itself...i agree. but i just made the suggestion that it be designed with a more carbon neutral approach so that it can better accomplish its job of providing an efficient fuel alternative for woodburners etc. Overpopulation has caused a need for resources the earth doesn't have for us so raping our natural resources to sustain a population that is too large, in my mind, is far from over blown
@atz123ify ok well when the end of our days on earth is due to wars over water and fuel don't say i didn't tell you so. plus if you are as educated as you say, you should know the toll that mining and drilling is taking on our land and our fertile soil. (which is becoming evermore scarce) not to mention natural gas driling or "fracking" is ruining enitre underground river systems and base rock across america. Conservation is only overblown to those who wont live to see its negative effects....
Use gas in the car to go get the gas to run the machine. Then release emissions to the atmosphere from the machine, the burning of the "leaf logs", and the car that went to get the gas. Still a few things to work out I think!!!!!!!!
How many more people are going to claim 'Invention' of this concept, it doent take much to mix any combustable matter..Paper, card board, wood shavings, sawdust, leaves, bark chippings, garden waste etc etc, shread it up, mix with a little beach and water, then pack them hard and dry them out.. this machine will cost you three years heating bill, its about making it yourself by hand and not spending a dollar to save a penny...tcho..
This machine is really going to go places! And by that, I mean to the scrapyard. No one is going to stand there and feed leaves to a machine in order to make a short section of fire fuel when you can just fire up a chainsaw and walk up to a dead tree and have its equivalent in ten seconds. Then it's mega-multiple in half an hour. Still, I guess it keeps the old guy out of his wife's hair.
wow...better not let our electric companies see this...im trying to figure out how i can put a wood stove outide my garage and have the heat go inside without filling the garage with smoke. i dont want a bulkiy stove in the garage because of space and i have gasoline and motor oil cuz i work on motorycycle .
'Bad Idea. The smoke from burning leaves contains a number of toxic and/or irritating particles and gases."
Your wrong, the leaves burning create a soot, that plants just love, because its all natural. The energy efficient stoves completely burn everything including smoke. They leave behind particles far more damaging to your health, as they are hundreds of times smaller and go deep into the lungs.
I like the concept, its basically the same principal as a pelletizer just on a larger scale, Find a good sized ball mill a man could do Leaves, soybean plants and corn plants after they have been baled. and I still believe you could burn those in any biomass pellet burning stove.
Bad Idea. The smoke from burning leaves contains a number of toxic and/or irritating particles and gases. The tiny particles contained in smoke from burning leaves can accumulate in the lungs and stay there for years and can increase the risk of respiratory infection.
Leaves (even after compaction) give off hydrocarbons, which irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs and some are carcinogenic. Also Carbon monoxide is an invisible gas that results from incomplete burning (smouldering).
@GiftsByTheGreen Is it as bad as coal as gasoline or diesel? Besides if your impact on the environment or your personal health were more than just lip service, you would not be supporting the incredibly dirt manufacturing of computers. An estimated 20 times the weight of your PC in fossil fuels is consumed to make it. And yet here you are whinnying about smoke while you type on a product that is mainly hydrocarbon and toxic compounds. How about you put some perspective on these claims.
what a waste of flour, cool invention but there has to be something else that could be used as glue...
It looks similar to the briquette machines that make them out of paper just soak the leaves over night then blend them with a paddle mixer on a drill chuck the slop in the machine, avoid the need for glue.
@mewmaster151 I think there's a good chance a man of his ingenuity could make it work. It's burning fuel, so it's not some sort of over-unity / fringe science device. There is a lot of embodied energy to harvest the flour and harvest the leaves too. Not the mention the energy from the sun that it takes to grow those things.
I found a source for thick cardboard tubing..more like a pipe...i cut them into 10 to 12 inch pieces and jam pack them with leaves..i use wet paper to plug the ends...they burn nice and no glue needed
Yep. Them old guys all think they have invented something no one ever thought of. Besides that, they think they're going to make a fortune. LOL. Ever hear of "open source:"? Where people share knowledge to help each other? Greedy old fool.
Leaves should be left on the ground to re-deliver nutrients back into the soil and make them available for the tree to take up in the following Spring.
Please dont do anything with your leaves!!!
why needlessly waste money on fertilizers and pesticides when the leaves do it for you!!!
@Jan1515 : The problem with leaving leaves where they are is that often times they choke out grasses and plants that live near the trees. I collect mine up, put them in a compost site with other yard waste like grass clippings, household vegetative waste, some local horse manure, seaweed and coffeegrounds from a local bakery. Four-six months later I have a wonderful crumbly loam that can be used on grasses, vegetables and trees alike to reinvigorate them without fearing suffocation. =)
@Monkeybits1967 There ya go! Why burn your fertility then pay for it at the garden store? Use the leaves to fertilize a coppice or pollard lot, build or buy a rocket stove (the most efficient way to burn biomass) and have wood heat for EVER- providing the coppice trees are kept going. You don't even need to split the wood b/c it's the right size for a rocket stove when you harvest it. They've been doing this in Europe for about 1000 yrs. Permaculture is bringing this back thankfully. Cheers!
@kingofthebrittains On a small scale it's a great application... the other thing that can be done here is generate electricity from the heat and store it in batteries or sell back to the grid in the UK.
@wiicrazy9 And what kind of ideas have you come up with? Or are you just some moron who can't do anything better with his brain cells than call people names and call their ideas dumb? It seems so. I have an idea...why don't we charge a monthly fee to people like you for breathing the same air as the rest of us? There's enough of you out there. I'm sure we could take a nice bit out of the countries debt by doing this.
I tried grinding the leaves up with the lawnmower, drying, then using them in my sawdust burner.. Seems to work as good as sawdust but must be quite dry. I have lots of oak trees. I also use the nuts.
Many people have already been thinking about this. I have already seen one my buddy built that uses a log splitter to get way more density than he is getting here. I sincerely doubt he is getting anything close to 2 hours on that bunch of leaves that they showed. Yeah right. You cant patent compressing leaves. or saw dust or wood chips or flour or glue. its not a patent idea. Good grief ever heard of a trash compactor? it would have more density than he is getting with that tiny arm.
I just had an idea....you could do this by just using a log size aluminum pipe with threaded removable caps on each end. Drill numerous small holes in the pipe to let air in to dry the leaves. Wet the leaves and pack them in real tight with a homemade plunger ...let dry ...then push out the dried leaf log with the plunger. You could even make a number of these pipes and do like 10 logs at a time
Its always good to think first . Can I make this ?
Consumerism is killing us in the U.S. and not just financially but we do not have to think creatively anymore. Its seems you still are using your head : )
Why not make the pipe and pressing device stronger, maby a thick steel pipe and a hydralic pistong that compress all this much tighter?
I think it would be better, easier and maby safer?
But anyway, this is a realy good idéa!
Lets not waste all the good stuff mother nature gives us! :D
ACupOfDuck 1 day ago
cost of running machine, supply of flour and water would be more than the average cost of central heating, wood chips or fire wood. Nice try though but far from being cost effective and actually having efficient burning time!
huslermatt 5 days ago
I agree with x1MasterChief.
theoriginalguy11 6 days ago
why not just wet them and shove them in a tube this machine looks well over complicated
x1MasterChief 1 week ago
how much and were can i get one we have a tons of leaves
firewoodguy2009 1 week ago
love it!
jdolani 1 week ago
If you used vegetable oil to run the machine, or solar or wind power, I'd feel better about it!
PhunkyWilly 2 weeks ago
@PhunkyWilly better than human powered?
itsrtimedownhere 1 week ago
Great job Don. Too many people just talk about their ideas and never build anything. We need more creative guys like yourself in this world.
nospamhere1 3 weeks ago
why is it the logs look a bit off at 2:04 on, kind of like they are leaves glued around a log?
timkunk 3 weeks ago
How is it on the flew of a wood stove? Some logs a burn are dirty and some burn clean but how is this?
gregoryscottsr 3 weeks ago
Cool idea but I feel those leaves have more potential in restoring the condition of soil. An alternative is to use waste fat from fried food outlets. Check out the video Burning fat to shed pounds off your energy bill.
AndrewKFletcher 3 weeks ago
fab idea.
jvsm1971 3 weeks ago in playlist log maker
@Mikenik30 the glue is flour and water, non toxic
dreadfulcreation 1 month ago
Glue into the leaves and then burn it?It brings cancer if you smell this thing.....very bad mistake!
Mikenik30 1 month ago
@Mikenik30 - His glue is made of flower and water. Something you likely eat every day. Awesome idea!
1krr 2 weeks ago
Too bad Obama won't approve this. It's too entrepreneurial, might create jobs, stimulate the economy, and is a very creative concept. He won't have it!
politicjunkee 1 month ago
Add some wood chips to the leaves. And should have shredded leaves before compressing.
bluemountaindrivepae 1 month ago
Are the different flavours for fire eaters?
SiskinOnUTube 1 month ago
does it make a lot of cresote in the chimiey and i hate the smokey smell from burning leaves
firewoodguy2009 1 month ago
I want one with mint chocolate chip! :-)
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sungutsolar 1 month ago
its a natural cycle for leaves to fall. as they degrade they form the topsoil of the forest. the only reason people worry about leaves is because it makes their yard look bad. they put fertilizer on their lawns.....news flash, yeah leaves may kill off grass in your yard, but nature doesn't want your yard to be luscious and green. good idea, but all sorts of compressed material logs are made though......it would be better if it was all hand powered press, no engine
atz123ify 2 months ago
@atz123ify waaaaaa
riflemanjim 1 month ago
@riflemanjim waaaaaa i assume you are imitating a crying baby and asserting that my comment resembles a crying infant........Fertilizer run-off from neighborhoods that require a strict standard of lawn care are one of the leading factors that are polluting our fresh water supply. The earth was alive and well way before humans were here brother so whats wrong with wanting to preserve that? We have no reliable sustainable fuel source so every gas engine is depleting a dwindling supply of fuel
atz123ify 1 month ago
@atz123ify I worked in a epa certified lab for years,it's all over blown.
riflemanjim 1 month ago
@riflemanjim and i might add, this leaf log maker isn't going to have that much impact on anything by itself...i agree. but i just made the suggestion that it be designed with a more carbon neutral approach so that it can better accomplish its job of providing an efficient fuel alternative for woodburners etc. Overpopulation has caused a need for resources the earth doesn't have for us so raping our natural resources to sustain a population that is too large, in my mind, is far from over blown
atz123ify 1 month ago
@atz123ify ok well when the end of our days on earth is due to wars over water and fuel don't say i didn't tell you so. plus if you are as educated as you say, you should know the toll that mining and drilling is taking on our land and our fertile soil. (which is becoming evermore scarce) not to mention natural gas driling or "fracking" is ruining enitre underground river systems and base rock across america. Conservation is only overblown to those who wont live to see its negative effects....
atz123ify 1 month ago
Use gas in the car to go get the gas to run the machine. Then release emissions to the atmosphere from the machine, the burning of the "leaf logs", and the car that went to get the gas. Still a few things to work out I think!!!!!!!!
demofactory 2 months ago
great ! … the all american pragmatic sense at work !…
vincent7520 2 months ago
what about the smoke leaves make wouldn't it be counter productive to use leave?
What about the resin in the chimney wouldn't it be more likely that the build up of resin in the chimney stack would increase buy using leave?
I love the idea, just had some questions.
Great work on all your work and inventing :)
GrowingWardFamily 2 months ago
@GrowingWardFamily Think you mean leaves or leaf.
camelont688 2 months ago
A hand crank?
Keep up with the manual labour and just connect up an old bicycle and pedal. Much easier, quicker and powerful.
Cocotte123321 2 months ago
How many more people are going to claim 'Invention' of this concept, it doent take much to mix any combustable matter..Paper, card board, wood shavings, sawdust, leaves, bark chippings, garden waste etc etc, shread it up, mix with a little beach and water, then pack them hard and dry them out.. this machine will cost you three years heating bill, its about making it yourself by hand and not spending a dollar to save a penny...tcho..
Moonfleet41 2 months ago
This machine is really going to go places! And by that, I mean to the scrapyard. No one is going to stand there and feed leaves to a machine in order to make a short section of fire fuel when you can just fire up a chainsaw and walk up to a dead tree and have its equivalent in ten seconds. Then it's mega-multiple in half an hour. Still, I guess it keeps the old guy out of his wife's hair.
localcrew 3 months ago
wow...better not let our electric companies see this...im trying to figure out how i can put a wood stove outide my garage and have the heat go inside without filling the garage with smoke. i dont want a bulkiy stove in the garage because of space and i have gasoline and motor oil cuz i work on motorycycle .
jettastreetracer 3 months ago
'Bad Idea. The smoke from burning leaves contains a number of toxic and/or irritating particles and gases."
Your wrong, the leaves burning create a soot, that plants just love, because its all natural. The energy efficient stoves completely burn everything including smoke. They leave behind particles far more damaging to your health, as they are hundreds of times smaller and go deep into the lungs.
ve3tru 3 months ago
Way to go sir!
ronharveyII 3 months ago
I like the concept, its basically the same principal as a pelletizer just on a larger scale, Find a good sized ball mill a man could do Leaves, soybean plants and corn plants after they have been baled. and I still believe you could burn those in any biomass pellet burning stove.
TheSonofthunder7 3 months ago
Bad Idea. The smoke from burning leaves contains a number of toxic and/or irritating particles and gases. The tiny particles contained in smoke from burning leaves can accumulate in the lungs and stay there for years and can increase the risk of respiratory infection.
Leaves (even after compaction) give off hydrocarbons, which irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs and some are carcinogenic. Also Carbon monoxide is an invisible gas that results from incomplete burning (smouldering).
GiftsByTheGreen 5 months ago
@GiftsByTheGreen Is it as bad as coal as gasoline or diesel? Besides if your impact on the environment or your personal health were more than just lip service, you would not be supporting the incredibly dirt manufacturing of computers. An estimated 20 times the weight of your PC in fossil fuels is consumed to make it. And yet here you are whinnying about smoke while you type on a product that is mainly hydrocarbon and toxic compounds. How about you put some perspective on these claims.
monet108 4 months ago
what a waste of flour, cool invention but there has to be something else that could be used as glue...
It looks similar to the briquette machines that make them out of paper just soak the leaves over night then blend them with a paddle mixer on a drill chuck the slop in the machine, avoid the need for glue.
venezualantree 5 months ago
These guys didnt have video games when they were kids so they have a brain.
24preacherboy 5 months ago 2
@24preacherboy Lol AMEN to that!!! :)
buck6233 3 months ago
Need to make the machine steam driven so It can run off the logs it makes.
KarasCyborg 6 months ago
@KarasCyborgrg trollscience?
mewmaster151 5 months ago
@mewmaster151 I think there's a good chance a man of his ingenuity could make it work. It's burning fuel, so it's not some sort of over-unity / fringe science device. There is a lot of embodied energy to harvest the flour and harvest the leaves too. Not the mention the energy from the sun that it takes to grow those things.
KarasCyborg 5 months ago
Голь на выдумку легка!!!!
7ekk 8 months ago
I found a source for thick cardboard tubing..more like a pipe...i cut them into 10 to 12 inch pieces and jam pack them with leaves..i use wet paper to plug the ends...they burn nice and no glue needed
AnonaThetan 1 year ago 2
Yep. Them old guys all think they have invented something no one ever thought of. Besides that, they think they're going to make a fortune. LOL. Ever hear of "open source:"? Where people share knowledge to help each other? Greedy old fool.
crazy650c 1 year ago
This Video posting is approximately 2 years old. Is there any updated information of improvements on this idea?
terrorterminator 1 year ago
@Cndnborn thats the most pathetic thing ive ever heard
wiicrazy9 1 year ago
This is indeed an ingenious idea. You clean the front and the back yards and in the process, collect fuel for the fireplace too.
HorizSvcs 1 year ago
Leaves should be left on the ground to re-deliver nutrients back into the soil and make them available for the tree to take up in the following Spring.
Please dont do anything with your leaves!!!
why needlessly waste money on fertilizers and pesticides when the leaves do it for you!!!
Jan1515 1 year ago
@Jan1515 : The problem with leaving leaves where they are is that often times they choke out grasses and plants that live near the trees. I collect mine up, put them in a compost site with other yard waste like grass clippings, household vegetative waste, some local horse manure, seaweed and coffeegrounds from a local bakery. Four-six months later I have a wonderful crumbly loam that can be used on grasses, vegetables and trees alike to reinvigorate them without fearing suffocation. =)
Monkeybits1967 1 year ago 9
@Monkeybits1967 There ya go! Why burn your fertility then pay for it at the garden store? Use the leaves to fertilize a coppice or pollard lot, build or buy a rocket stove (the most efficient way to burn biomass) and have wood heat for EVER- providing the coppice trees are kept going. You don't even need to split the wood b/c it's the right size for a rocket stove when you harvest it. They've been doing this in Europe for about 1000 yrs. Permaculture is bringing this back thankfully. Cheers!
kingofthebrittains 2 months ago
@kingofthebrittains On a small scale it's a great application... the other thing that can be done here is generate electricity from the heat and store it in batteries or sell back to the grid in the UK.
madandywalks 2 months ago
@Jan1515 you an idiot. your the kind of asshole that doesnt rake and they all blow into neighbors yards
wiicrazy9 1 year ago
@wiicrazy9 And what kind of ideas have you come up with? Or are you just some moron who can't do anything better with his brain cells than call people names and call their ideas dumb? It seems so. I have an idea...why don't we charge a monthly fee to people like you for breathing the same air as the rest of us? There's enough of you out there. I'm sure we could take a nice bit out of the countries debt by doing this.
cndnborn 1 year ago
@Jan1515 they also insulate root systems.
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cadentavaricegrtrj 1 year ago
great!
PukkPukk 1 year ago
As usual ... trad media are 10 years late! Youll see dozens of these machines on Youtube and, by the way, most are open source projects.
basbrun 1 year ago
This is exactly what I want to do except it will make pellets.
024reredrum 2 years ago
I tried grinding the leaves up with the lawnmower, drying, then using them in my sawdust burner.. Seems to work as good as sawdust but must be quite dry. I have lots of oak trees. I also use the nuts.
99cachorro 2 years ago
Many people have already been thinking about this. I have already seen one my buddy built that uses a log splitter to get way more density than he is getting here. I sincerely doubt he is getting anything close to 2 hours on that bunch of leaves that they showed. Yeah right. You cant patent compressing leaves. or saw dust or wood chips or flour or glue. its not a patent idea. Good grief ever heard of a trash compactor? it would have more density than he is getting with that tiny arm.
definca 2 years ago
what a negative dick! ya need to stop sippin the haterade dude!
sausagenpeppaz 2 years ago
@definca quit acting like a leaf packer!
ohmybentley 1 year ago
awesome
aokspage 2 years ago
good idea
talltreehill7 2 years ago
i'd buy one
scotland456 2 years ago
I love it. Great American know-how at work!!!
lakewood85 2 years ago 16
id buy it and use it.
JonnyTommyGuns 2 years ago
like the way the reporter says wow at 1:43
drfrisby 2 years ago
lol wah....
Sucram212 2 years ago
I just had an idea....you could do this by just using a log size aluminum pipe with threaded removable caps on each end. Drill numerous small holes in the pipe to let air in to dry the leaves. Wet the leaves and pack them in real tight with a homemade plunger ...let dry ...then push out the dried leaf log with the plunger. You could even make a number of these pipes and do like 10 logs at a time
inkey2 2 years ago
Its always good to think first . Can I make this ?
Consumerism is killing us in the U.S. and not just financially but we do not have to think creatively anymore. Its seems you still are using your head : )
bonzaibb12 2 years ago
Hey you stated my thought before I could type it. LOL
anyonefindAMERICA 2 years ago
I hope he is making good progress with his patent. It's a great idea.
hopeforamerika 3 years ago
super duper hit, mazing
venushole2001 3 years ago
that is pretty cool
jasd2d 3 years ago
thats kool,kool,kool. great invention.
landykid40 3 years ago
The early bird gets the worm. ☺
ultrakool 3 years ago