Caramanos2000 Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 I am trying to find someone that will sell me a few pounds of Alder, Willow or Balsa charcoal. Please PM me.
flying fish Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 You may have already seen this, but in case not:http://www.customcharcoal.com/willow-lump-charcoal.html Of course, I'm not sure where you live, so this may or may not be a practical source for you (depending on shipping costs and such).
Mumbles Posted October 8, 2007 Posted October 8, 2007 www.artisancharcoals.com is good too. It's steve baron's new site.
Caramanos2000 Posted October 9, 2007 Author Posted October 9, 2007 Thanks man, I tried emailing customcharcoal about a week ago. I think I had talked to him before but he gave me a quote of something like $80 just for shipping.
Caramanos2000 Posted October 12, 2007 Author Posted October 12, 2007 Got a better quote of $31 for 3Lbs shipped. Will get that and also begin experimenting with making my own from local woods as I dont think we have any of the major ones used in bp that I know of. Gonna try Bamboo and coconut. Any other suggestions?
k1ley4evr Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Got a better quote of $31 for 3Lbs shipped. Will get that and also begin experimenting with making my own from local woods as I dont think we have any of the major ones used in bp that I know of. Gonna try Bamboo and coconut. Any other suggestions? from customcharcoal?
Mumbles Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Both bamboo and coconut charcoal are reported to give poor BP results, just to let you know.
Caramanos2000 Posted October 12, 2007 Author Posted October 12, 2007 Yeah I believe I had heard on here that they did. My dad saids its gonna take ages to turn a coconut into charcoal though No from the other site Mumbles pointed out www.artisancharcoals.com.
tentacles Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 You should plant yourself a few paulownia trees, they would grow fantastically down there, and they grow very fast too! http://www.paulowniatrees.com/ No affiliation. Someone somewhere mentioned planting a couple seedlings and at the end of 1 year they were 3 feet tall. They died on him in the winter because it was too cold. Definitely not too cold down there!
Caramanos2000 Posted October 14, 2007 Author Posted October 14, 2007 Finally got around to making some coconut charcoal. It has the consistency of balsa bp, cant even be moved without creating a huge cloud. Milling my first batch of bp with it now. Problem is 1 medium coconut gave me about 150-200g of good well coked charcoal.
psyco_1322 Posted October 14, 2007 Posted October 14, 2007 ^haha, did the shell hit the ground before it went off? Hay does anyone know about coffee beean trees? Not real coffee like what you drink but they have big pods that look like flattened bannanas and have huge hard beans in them? I have one in my yard and it recently got hit by lightning and blew some wood off, so it drying for charcoal right now. Oh I made some cotton bp up the other day after cooking 2 XL t-shirts. I only got 47g of charcoal out of two XL 100% cotton tees. Wtf?
Caramanos2000 Posted October 15, 2007 Author Posted October 15, 2007 Just tried some of the Bp after milling for 12 hours. OMG lol no comparison even with my bp made with commercial airfloat after milling for 5 days lol. My monitor is broken, using my grandpas PC will post a video as soon as my new one arrives(officemax bl0ws lol).
tentacles Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Is it from coconut wood, or from coconut shells? I'm assuming wood because of your comment on how long it would take. Also, what kind of coconut?
Caramanos2000 Posted October 15, 2007 Author Posted October 15, 2007 I have a palm tree in my back yard This is milled for 12 hours with a rock tumbler. About 2g of it.http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/Caramanos2000/PICT3144.jpghttp://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/Caramanos2000/th_PICT3145.jpg
psyco_1322 Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 What the heck is that first pic of? Looks like a flower pot gorwing out of somethings ass that got burnt. Ya thats how lost I am.
Caramanos2000 Posted October 15, 2007 Author Posted October 15, 2007 That is what an actual coconut looks like. You guys have prolly only seen the little round ball that goes in the center at the supermarket.
crazyboy25 Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 i have seen coconuts in their raw form in Florida they didn't look like that they looked like this:http://www.bic.searca.org/photo_exchange/i...coconut_jpg.jpg
Caramanos2000 Posted October 16, 2007 Author Posted October 16, 2007 Well those are still green and on the tree. The coconuts I have, probably sat on the ground for several months.
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