Alternative fuels for logburners anybody?

Thank you lovely ladies for your responses and ideas. I hadn't looked at this thread for a while but will get cracking with a coffee log trial...yeah pretty pricey really.

SueDonim I love peaty and coffee smells and can sort of imagine those two combined, fascinating.

I was disappointed with mine - I ordered 16, but when they came the logs were tiny - about 5" max.

I hope you like them, Gardenoma!

They are small, yes, but they seem to last well on the fire. I don't burn logs of any kind on their own, I mix them with coal so size doesn't really matter for me.

Hadn't heard of coffee logs; we can get compressed sawdust briquettes.

However remember to check your local bye-laws before using alternative fuels. Here we may not used briquettes made of compressed newspaper, but only use newspaper when lighting a fire,

Why use alternatives? Log suppliers get their wood not just from a renewable source, by definition but also firewood suppliers usually get their wood from estates and farms with active woodland management schemes, so no clear felling is involved.

A load of POO.
Seriously!

We collect our dog and chicken droppings and burn them in the wood burner. Ideally, let them dry out but if you have a very hot fire burning, you can chuck in fresh turds. As the log burner has a door, you don’t smell anything.

My DH spent time in areas where the ground is frozen for most of the year, there are no trees and the local people use animal dung for fuel.

Cow pats are a common source of fuel in Africa and India.

We use cobs, They give good heat and last well. We have also bought a fan for the wood burner that gives even moor heat. We get our kindle from the same place as the cobs.