"Anne Welsh Jackson" wrote in message
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Charlie Pridham wrote:
lid says...
tesco are selling those 'fire pits' round bowl fireplaces that you
could have a small log fire on your patio.
then they sell for £19 a paper compressor (apparently you make
newspapers wet and then stuff them in and compress them, then
when they dry out, kind of solid; they burn like logs of wood).
has anyone tried all this? the idea sounds great (who doesn't like
a bonfire, even a tiny one) but how does it work out in reality? i'm
thinking if it was really good, people would have been doing it for
years.. i know these compressors came on to the market years ago.
Know nothing about the fire pits but we used to make the paper logs, but
to get any sort of meaningful quantity we had to use the entire green
house to dry them, they burn hot and clean but produce a lot of ash, we
also had to import a lot of newspaper. I wouldn't bother probably better
off stacking your hard prunings and using that
Which is what I do, but isn't it disingenuous of Tesco to imply that
you can fuel your fire pit by also purchasing their paper compressor.
If they had a notice saying "make paper logs this summer, to fuel
your fire pit _next_ summer", I wouldn't have a problem with that!
Exactly.
You have to remember that most Tesco buyers have no experience with
fire-pits or paper log makers. It will have been someone's brilliant idea
for a good seller for the summer.
It makes me a bit cross really. Lots of people with a new fire-pit trying
to make it go with lumps of soggy newspaper.