Product Description

Our custom made environmentally friendly Dry Paper Log Maker recycles your waste paper into logs to burn on an open fire or wood burning stove. Help conserve forests, reduce landfill and save on heating costs by using newspaper, junk mail, shredded paper, cardboard, wood chippings, and wrapping paper as fuel. Unlike the E-M1001 and E-M1020 log makers you do not need to wet the contents in order to make logs for the fire, however they do not burn as long.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1103 in Home Improvement
• Brand: eko-mania
• Model: E-M1030
• Released on: 2009-10-27
• Dimensions: 2.76" h x 2.76" w x 15.75" l, 1.54 pounds

Features

• Stury Aluminium & Wood Construction
• Free heat from old newspapers
• Easy and safe to use
• No need to soak the paper - ready for the fire right away!
• Logs will burn as well as wood for up to a half hour

Manufacturer's Description
The eko-mania Dry Paper Log Maker quickly and easily turns your household and garden waste into free fuel for your open fire or wood burning stove.

Help conserve forests, reduce landfill and save on heating costs by using newspaper, junk mail, shredded paper, cardboard, wood chippings, and wrapping paper as fuel.

Produce compact newspaper logs in minutes and burn them straight away.

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Customer Reviews

Works OK, but some caveats
First of all, it does work and consequently it gives a relatively easy-to-do use for waste paper. However, there are some things of which you should be aware, so that your expectations do not exceed the actuality:
* If I used it as per instructions and compressed with all my strength, I did not have the strength to push the log out of the tube. The solution I found was not to fill it as much -- four double broadsheets gives about the right fill, so that the force required to eject is about the same as the force of compression.
* Be very careful when ejecting the log and ensure that no part of your hand can get caught between the tube and the plunger -- my second log left me with a 1cm diameter blood-blister! Subsequently OK -- once bitten, etc.
* It says that the logs burn for "up to" 30 mins -- expect about half that unless the fire is damped right down.
* The paper logs produce much more ash than wood or eco-logs.
* We have decided that the best use for these paper logs is as kindling/firelighters -- one log, on top of a scrunched up sheet of newspaper, is sufficient to light our woodburner.

Edit, 22 April 2009: I have found that the best "fill" is paper from the shredder. For some reason it can compress down very tight without jamming.

Great concept
I do believe this is a good idea and we should all be doing things like this!

Log Maker
This product was easy to use but don't pack it too tightly or you will never get it out of the tube. Because the logs are made of paper they do produce alot of ash.