[Stoves] Forest residues use, as applied to the wet process /low pressure, hand briquettemaking, briquetter....

[Richard Stanley]

The resource picture as applied to wet process briquetting, would tend to see the actual forest resource data a bot more selectively, because they will just be picking off the leaf and twig faction... 

Even at that, few producers, working in their local  capacity as self contained and sustained, unsubsidized  entrepreneurships, will go around raking up leaves off a forest floor because it's simply too much work !  They and we here in Obamaland-- for our own household, will generally just look for this stuff where its windblown in depressions or other natural areas of wind deposition (corners of buildings, curbs, trenches,  gullies etc)...These places are,  nicely enough, usually locations where the leaf extraction is both aesthetically friendly and environmentally neutral, because their removal cleans up the environment and has little to zero  impact on soil tilth..

Even at that however, ag residues are only part of the resource. 
Why ? Simple economy of effort. Most of us will prefer to seek out readily available commercial processing wastes ( sawdust/ rice husks / charcoal crumbs/ waste paper and selected cartonboard residues) as these do not require fermentation and / or entensive retting. 

The ag residue blending part requires greater skills in handling too: Its for Briquetting 202

Pressing on,

Richard Stanley
back home in Obamaland

 
On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

> Dear Ron and Richard
>  
> I have seen it writ here and there that 50% of the biomass of a commercially managed forest remains on the forest floor after harvesting (branches, leaves and stumps). It is often raked into rows and burned to prevent fires later.
>  
> Regards
> Crispin
>  
>  
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