Hey this is Brad from Earlywood here. I am taking
a minute to show you guys one of our new sweet tools we got as an effort to lower the amount of
sawdust we end up throwing away and do something good with it. Let's take a look here, there's
the machine right there it's called a briquetter, and there's the rest of the machine.
This little carousel I built over there. As you might know, we get our wood in and it looks
like this, just big, long, rough pallets full of wood. We make our products out of them if there's
anything left over of any size we make these guys, which are pen blanks that people make wooden
pens out of. These are only three quarters by three quarters by five inches so if we have
anything bigger than that it gets turned into one of these. So we don't throw anything away
any bigger than that. With everything else, we make a ton of sawdust, we've got our three
big dust collectors over here and they've each got three bags on them so we make a ton of dust.
Here's a bunch of planer shavings from the other day. So we use this guy here to a make our sawdust
way smaller and actually make something usable out of it instead of throwing it away. You can see
in the hopper here it's just full of sawdust and what this machine does, there's a big auger in
here you can't really see it but it spins around and mixes up the dust. It funnels it down into
this little cylinder down here and there's some hydraulic oil and a just a big hydraulic ram
down there and it knocks the sawdust in there and then it just pounds it into a puck. Those
little pucks go along this little feeder here and it's kind of hard to tell what's going on
here but I've made this carousel that's got six bags in it of a size that you can actually carry
when they're full. Because they are pretty heavy when they're full and every time a briquette moves
through there it turns this carousel a little bit. It evenly fills these six bags we got here and
it they come up the little chute here and they drop out right here into the bags. We've
just been packing these bags up and we've been giving them all away so far. Everyone was
using them for heat in their house this winter, they're going to be great for camping this
summer and we've also got a girl that's been picking up two or three pallets, she's starting
a mushroom farm around here somewhere. So she's using this to add a bunch of carbon to
her soil so uh let me turn it on for you. Right here you can change the size of the
briquette it makes and all you do is hit start. You can see the briquettes coming out right
here and every time one comes out you'll notice this thing turns just a little bit.
These bags are about full so I'm gonna have to stop this and dump them here real soon. So
this is a pretty sweet way to use our sawdust for something other than just filling the
the garbage. We're going to be heating a lot of houses and having a bunch of sweet
campfires with this stuff this summer. All right, thanks guys for
watching, hope you enjoyed.
