I'm using wood for my wood stove but in the summer I started making manure logs to burn. I tried it out and it does work as long my stove is already hot. I plan on making lots of manure logs next spring because this year I started too late. They have to dry 6 weeks. I have3 horses so lots of poop. Lol. Like to reuse it besides putting it in my gardens. Anyone else does this?
So, buffalo or cow chips, they really do burn? Cool. (Not much of a cowboy, here, aside from what I picked up from watching Bonanza and Gunsmoke. )
I have seen in India where they scrape up the cow dung and throw it against the wall and let it dry and then craps it off and cook with it also buffalo dung was used a lot in the west.
You could also make methane gas out of it in a plastic 55 gallon drum and have a tractor intertube to hold the gas and burn it off in a gas stove.
I could do that but it's hard to stack when drying. I use a loaf pan. Put manure in and press moisture out. Then turn the pan over on a shelve or sheet and tap it out. Then dry it for 6 weeks. Yes I could do that but I'm not handy for stuff like that. Lol
Maybe more a necessity. Have to get rid of all that manure somehow. A lot goes to powder in a hot summer but still lots left. Better put it to use and cut down my wood bill.
mmmmmm....in the immortal words of George Carlin; "could be meat, could be cake!" I think I'll stick to composting the manure of our 5 dogs tho...great for the decorative gardens...not so much for edibles or my wood burner.
cowpies never seemed to burn very well nor to stay together after the M80 and the long fuse (ahhh, lazy summer days of youth long ago)
Efficient Cooking Stove fueled by Cow Dung - Appropedia: The sustainability wiki Dry animal dung fuel - Wikipedia Improved Cook Stove It's NOT cow sh!t...it's "agro-residue". Come on here people, this is the 21st Cen....Oh, wait. Come to think of it further - yeah, it's just cow .eerrrr, dung. Does burn smoke free.... I did some serious research for use of animal (ruminant) dung for cooking in the soon (OK, eventually) to come book, Roll Call : Valley of Death. Just as "buffalo chips" featured predominantly in the expansion out West n early US history, dung-powered cooking is a fact of life for many world-wide.