At Thor’s Hammer, we repurpose our waste sawdust from workshop operations into fire briquettes and our recycled hardwood timber offcuts into firewood, an important part of our mission to minimise timber waste.
Fire Briquettes
We turn our waste recycled hardwood sawdust from furniture production into highly efficient, clean burning, fire briquettes for use in your wood heater.
We collect the dust from all the machines in our workshop via a dust extraction system, feeding it all into our RUF Briquetting Press from Germany. This machine then compresses the sawdust by using immense hydraulic pressure, resulting in a high density product with a very low moisture content (10 - 12%). The natural lignins in the timber bind the briquettes together. It’s one of our many sustainability initiatives here at Thor's—all to reduce our impact on the environment.
Why Use Fire Briquettes?
Our fire briquettes have no glue, no additives, just pure recycled hardwood sawdust. Just a clean burning, cost efficient, environmentally friendly heat source for your home.
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Use less fuel to heat your home, get a hotter fire with less ash and creosote build up in your flue. The smaller particles and lower moisture content of briquettes compared to firewood - means you will burn less fuel and create more heat using super dense and dry fire briquettes.
The moisture content of commercially available firewood commonly ranges from 20 - 30%, our fire briquettes are 12% moisture content or below - meaning you’re paying for more fuel, and less water. Higher moisture content means much of the energy in normal firewood goes up your chimney as steam, reducing the temperature in your firebox and creating a more polluting burn. Our super dry fire briquettes light and burn more easily, hotter and cleaner.
Fire briquettes are hugely popular in Europe for their convenience, efficiency and sustainability. Read what The Guardian has to say about the benefits and popularity of fire bricks here.
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No more firewood deliveries dumped in your driveway left for you to stack, no more axe.
Our fire briquettes are delivered on a 1 ton or half ton pallet, and they can be delivered into your carport or garage* in Canberra, ready to throw on your fire. Or for the occasional fire buy a sample box of 12-14.
*Delivery has clearance and gradient restrictions, please provide detailed delivery instructions when ordering.
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Made from sawdust from our recycled timber mill, with no glue or additives. The density and low moisture content mean significantly reduced smoke emissions from your wood stove while at the same time saving forests and animal habitat. Reduce your carbon footprint with a wood stove and fire briquettes.
A Note on Our Waitlist
We make approximately three briquette pallets per week. Sometimes that’s plenty to keep up with demand, and sometimes it’s not. Spring and summer are the best months to place an order as we receive far less orders and have more stock when the weather is warmer.
If you wait to make an order until autumn or winter, there’s a chance that we will be out of stock. When you visit our website and a product is out of stock, you’ll see a “Notify Me When Available” button. Simply click the button and enter your details. As soon as stock becomes available, we’ll send an alert (SMS and email) to everyone on the list at the same time.
Once you get the alert, if you’re still keen to purchase, head straight to the website and place your order.
If you can’t wait, how about a Briquette Box?
Pallet Returns – $15 Store Credit
We’re currently running low on pallets and need your help getting them back into circulation. If you have empty pallet bases from previous orders, return them to Thor’s Hammer and we’ll give you a $15 store credit per pallet. It’s a simple way to reduce waste, keep materials in use and give you a little extra towards your next firewood or briquettes order.
We can also pick up empty pallets when we are doing another delivery in your area. Feel free to give us a call on 6282 9900 if you have an empty pallet. If we are picking up the pallet it won’t be eligible for a store credit.
Size & Price
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Size: 1075×1075×900mm high (1170×1170×1070mm high inc pallet)
1000-1200 briquettes (briquettes vary in length) - 950-1000kg
Price: $465
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Size: 1075×1075×450mm high (1170x1170×620mm high inc pallet)
500-600 briquettes (briquettes vary in length) - 450-500kg minimum
Price: $275
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Size: Box of 12-14 briquettes
Price: $20
Briquette boxes are a great option if you want to test out the briquettes to see if they’re right for you.
Currently, we aren’t providing shipping for briquette boxes, but plan to provide this in the future so watch this space! To grab a box please visit our workshop and showroom and 10 Mildura Street, Griffith (Canberra) to pick up your briquette boxes.
We’re committed to keeping our transportation footprint as small as possible, so we really wanted to take our time to consider how to offer Australia-wide briquette shipping, while still encouraging local pickups whenever possible. If you’re outside of Canberra, it’s also worth asking around in your local area to see if there’s a briquette supplier closer to home—plenty of sawmills and timber businesses also provide waste sawdust briquettes.
Delivery & Pickup
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Briquette pallets and boxes are available for pick up (from Griffith, Canberra). Pallets must be collected within 7-14 business days after placing your order.
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We can arrange delivery within the ACT and surrounding towns at an extra cost.
Delivery costs are as follows:
Local: Canberra & Queanbeyan = $95
Regional: Bungendore – Burra – Bywong – Hall – Sutton = $160
Far Regional: Gundaroo – Murrumbateman – Michelago = $200
We deliver pallets and half pallets using a truck with a tailgate loader and pallet jack, or manitou forklift. Deliveries will be made within 7-14 business days after placing your order.
Please call us on 02 6282 9900 if you are unsure and have questions about delivery or pickup.
How To Order Briquettes
Purchase your fire briquette pallets over on our online shop. Make sure to choose your pickup or delivery preferences when you are ordering. We’ll then let you know when the order is ready for collection or delivery has been scheduled.
Briquette Boxes are currently only available for pick up. To grab a box please order online and then visit us to collect your box of fire briquettes (including 12-14 briquettes).
Firewood
From the same quality dry recycled Australian hardwood we use to make our custom timber furniture and flooring. When we de-nail our recycled timbers we have rejects and off cuts which don’t make the grade. These are docked to lengths from 150mm to 350mm long and stacked neatly on a pallet. The timber is very dry and burns really well. Perfect to keep you warm through the winter!
For easy pick up, we can load the pallet with our forklift as long as your trailer or vehicle can fit 1200mm wide.
The Details
Pallet of dry recycled hardwood offcuts for firewood, from 400-500kg depending on the species mix.
1100 x 1100 x 450mm high of firewood (1170x1170x620mm high inc pallet)
Timbers are docked to 300-350mm long with some shorter pieces in the mix. Section size mostly 100x50mm or larger. A small amount of kindling is included to make starting your fire easy
Firewood is $240 / half pallet
Available for pick up or delivery at an extra cost
Half pallet fits on a standard 6x4 trailer rated to 750kg GVM
May occasionally contain very small amounts of softwoods
Some offcuts will have broken off or bent over nails in them. These do not need to be removed before burning. The nails will fall through and can be removed with the ash.
Firewood is available in a half pallet only, as variations in the timber cause the pallet to become unstable when stacked higher
How To Order Firewood
Visit our website, and you can order, pay and arrange delivery of your half pallet of recycled timber firewood. Pallets can be collected on a standard 6x4 trailer rated to 750kg GVM from our workshop in Griffith or we can deliver.
If we are currently out of stock of firewood (which can happen during winter), when you visit our website, you’ll see a “Notify Me When Available” button. Simply click the button and enter your details to join the waitlist. As soon as stock becomes available, we’ll send an alert (SMS and email) to everyone on the waitlist at the same time.
Once you get the alert, if you’re still keen to purchase, head straight to the website and place your order.
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