[Stoves] {briquetting} Fwd: Seeds in Briquette blend = new form of bird food.

[Rok Oblak]

Hi Nora et all,

just a quick note on starting the fire in the side-feed holey briquette
stove: i usually just tear one half of a briquette into small particles,
like 2-3cm and stack them in the center of the combustion chamber. There
are already 2 briquettes inserted from the side as well. Then i start the
fire from the top, just igniting some of the briquette material, or better
twigs or paper or whatever handy. The briquettes would ignite in 1-2
minutes..

it does very much depend on briquettes you are using, so if your briquettes
contain charcoal or some slow-burning biomass, you might end up using more
starter materials like small twigs to warm up the stove and make some amber
as you say. It takes some practice if briquettes are slow-burning i
suppose, but its interesting to try and build up the skill!

The bird-briquette looks nice! You should just leave them on the floor so
birds could practice wheel-walking while feeding :)
Rok

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Richard Stanley
<rstanley at legacyfound.org>wrote:

> This is just in from a one Nora Feldmar who is studying in Holland and
> doing her dissertation in amongst the gypsy population in Hungary.
>
> Hello …..
> I am attaching you a nice moment from today. The multifunctionality of a
> briquette; this time as perfect winter brid food.. (there are quite a bit
> of seeds in our mix)
>
> So winter has started here and the foundation has already distributed some
> briquettes to the families who worked in the "plant" over the past months..
> I am going there on tuesday to have a look how it is going with the
> heating, and how the briquettes funcion.
>
> I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations/tips in terms of having
> the best burning in heating stoves.. I was also wondering how do u most
> quickly start the fire itself, specially with Rok's stove.. We also have a
> rocket stove and i can only keep a briquette going once I have quite a bit
> of ember going (but once its on it burns over 30-40 mins!).
>
> Greetings,
> Nora
>
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