Oh I’m at my local hardware to pick up a new chain for my beast and come across this flyer outside the store. For the sake of the argument, I thought about lumping anyone’s experience with the other pressed logs threads here on their burn times. But first : Does anyone burn these get the inflated 12 hour burns? I have no intention of buying them. But maybe for a test?
If you can limit the airflow they will certainly burn for more than 12 hours, but the heat output would be limited as well. The big question for me is the price. If the cost per BTU is less than I can acquire splits I will give them a try. So far, all the pressed wood logs/blocks/bricks I have found around here are 40% or more above local seasoned, split, and delivered hardwood prices. If I was extra lazy, I could actually pay to have wood delivered and stacked for me for less. Obviously it is way above the cost of doing your own cutting and splitting.
At the top it says “save a tree burn me “ then says 100% wood ? This wood did not come from trees? Intresting
It is and frankly I’m more into burning real splits. Even if I won the lotto I would stay burning, in fact it would perpetuate it. Long Burn times are what I am after but I would happily agree that within 6 hours the heat greatly decreases and becomes more of a coal. Ive burned duralogs before but these seem to be much more than that. More substantial as the consistency of the log was a lot like looking at a piece of OSB in a tube.
I think the idea is that they are made from sawdust, scrap and other “waste” so the tree wasn’t cut specially for their product. It is certainly a bit of a stretch. Like saying save a chicken by eating only dark meat. I am pretty sure it doesn’t make any difference to the chicken who eats the breast and who eats the thighs, he’s cooked either way.
Burning manufactured, high heat logs are pretty nice. They do generate a lot of heat and if your not careful, you can overheat your stove. I have an infrared thermometer which I use to ensure I don't invalidate the warranty on my stove by over-firing. When I have a fire box full of red hot coals and I drop an Idaho Log on it, the thing can scarily raise like 200 degrees. I often can only burn the one log safely with maybe a single cut of wood. And they burn about 1.5 hours.
