Bonjour,Utiliser pour seulement une dizaine de bûche 🪵, et les charnières montre des faiblesses importantes. Les bras que l’on doit utiliser pour presser bouge sur la charnière. A la dernière bûches 🪵 faite j’ai même cru qu’elle avait cassée, l’un des bras est descendu d’un coup sec 😱Bref déçu de la résistance de cette presse et absolument pas assez résistante pour le travail à fournir.Je déconseille fortement !

I print newspapers so it made sense to give this thing a try. There were lots of videos out there with advice on how to use this; the plot behind most of them was either making the best brick possible or finding the easiest way to make an acceptable brick. Some of them completely pulped the paper using a power drill and expensive specialty attachment while others just saturated the shredded papers for a couple of minutes. One guy even put his in his ninja blender!I chose this model over the 4-in-1 makers because I just didn't think that the handles on the larger models would stand up to the force required to make 4 bricks at once. It takes 50 - 60 lbs of force to make a single solid brick. There's no way these handles would stand up to 4 times that weight, moreover, at 5' 8", I just don't have that much force to give. The single brick maker is manageable.From way too much experience, I can tell you that newspaper will pulp in hot water with very little extra elbow grease. So I just took 24 newspapers, 14 pages each and shredded them by hand into half inch strips, put them in a pail, and covered them with hot tap water. I went to bed. I woke up, had coffee, took my son to school, and agitated the papers with a stick, pushing them all to the bottom of the pail and breaking them up slightly. At this point, be aware that the ink will start coming out of the paper. The inside of the pail will turn black. Newspaper ink takes literal years to polymerize into a solid. I reached into the bottom of the pail (with gloved hands because those will turn black, too) and worked up a grapefruit-sized (maybe pomelo but not cantaloupe) ball of pulp. I squeezed quite a bit of water out with my hands in the process. I formed the pulp into the brick maker, making sure I had a consistent layer of pulp, and SLOWLY squeezed out as much water as I could. I ended up with a beautiful brick. The results were prettier than the "just get the paper wet for a couple of minutes" method but not quite as uniform as the "I used a $300 blender to utterly pulpify the paper" method. Photo is attached so judge for yourself.If you do the math, 24 copies of a 14 page paper is 336 pages of newsprint. I got about 5 and a half bricks. I'm using the 60 pages per brick figure going forward.I'm reviewing the maker and not the bricks -- they're still drying. The maker seems pretty solid but I did have some issues. The handles are made out of sheet metal at this price point. Where the meat meets the maker, those handles painfully dig. By my second brick, I was looking for something to put between my hands and the metal. Also, I would be careful not to overdo it with pressure on the handles. I wasn't doing push ups on this thing. Next time, when I'm not using my kitchen sink, I'll try putting my boot on the handles and using my weight instead of my muscles. The brick tray can be difficult to remove. I found myself rocking it back and forth in the main cavity to inch it out because I didn't want to permanently spring the holder. Neither one of those critiques is unique to this brick maker since they all seem to be about the same. I did mostly follow the included instructions which kind of argued for a middle-road approach to paper prep.I'm never going to heat my house with newspaper bricks. I'm actually making these as starters for the fire pit - dip one end in hot wax and they should start with a single match. If that idea falls completely flat, I'll update this for the curious. The process was easy and almost fun. The fun will probably last until the 50th brick at which point it will become work. Unless you have a laser focus on repetitive and messy tasks, this is not the way to eliminate your heating bill. I'm glad I got it, though. I've learned a lot.

Sans compter le fait que la bûche est très dure à compacter pour une femme ……. L’extraire de la boîte en fer est presque mission impossible. A revoir tout le principe!! Ma bûche bien sèche a quand même brûlée presque 3/4 d’heure avec mon bois présent dans le foyer. Abonnee a un journal le recyclage était bien.

This was a great buy. In my experience, the arms bent sooner than I'd hoped, but I've resorted to just using my footed weight as an alternative. Overall a great buy