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“Welcome to The Logmaker website.
The Logmaker began about 10 years ago. I had a wood burning stove back then, a Benjamin Franklin design. I cut my own wood for it and soon started thinking about what other materials I could burn in it – twigs, leaves, sawdust etc. But, as any wood burning stove owner knows, you can’t put sawdust on a fire without smothering it and if you put screwed up paper on it just goes up in flames straight away. So I started to think about HOW I could effectively burn other materials.
It took a lot of trial and error before I came up with the Logmaker. Many frustrating evenings were spent with different types of tubes, plastics, plungers and wrappings. Eventually, I saw that the best process was to pack materials into a tube. But what size, what material and how to get it out again! Now you begin to understand why it was 10 years in the making!
I happened upon a tube within a tube, which required some re-engineering but the final key was using newspaper wrapped around the tube at the correct length with the ends creating a seal, which would hold the materials inside. And so the logmaker was born.
I decided to try and sell a few, never imagining that the demand would be so great. Within 6 months I was being asked to produce 50 a month and the demand just keeps growing and growing.
In the beginning it was very labour intensive with cutting, heating, expanding the tubes, end stopping and taking up to 20 minutes each with the kitchen full of steam and parts. I decided it needed to be mass produced and started searching for a plastics manufacturer (China! – no, it had to be the UK). I eventually found KP Plastics (UK) Ltd and we worked together to design and manufacture the current injection moulded version (lots of changes and expense on tooling along the way).
It is a field of expertise in machining, tooling, and plastic injection to produce the final item and to give an idea of the massive machinery and moulds behind the production below are two pictures of production.
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