Bear Bricks are made from a blend of douglas fir, cedar and hardwood sawdust, as well as forestry residuals harvested from sustainably-managed public and private forest lands located near our factory in Cascade Locks, OR.
- Bear Bricks are made from 100% wood with no binders, adhesives or waxes
- Each Bear Brick can produce 16,000 BTUs of heat
- One pallet of Bear Bricks (972 bricks) is equivalent to one full cord of seasoned cordwood
- Because Bear Bricks are dried to 8-10% moisture, Bear Bricks will produce less ash than cordwood
12 Bear Bricks per tray, 81 trays per pallet, 972 total Bricks per pallet
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I bought two pallets of bear bricks for this 2013-2014 heating season at Costal; they do not look like pictures I have seen–six in a pack, no “bear” stamp. They are extremely loosely bound, flake apart and make a terrible mess; they are also absorbing moisture in the garage; when I burn them they “puff out” and soon become nothing but fluffy ash; they seem to have as much heat as a stove full of kindling, definitely not like harder wood; I have to treat them like “babies” overly gentle or pieces break off; also, they are pressed the long way instead of end to end and so you can really break a piece off and use it for starter; never will buy them again; apparently they use a looser pressing process then in prior years; will go back to press-to-logs: cleaner and more heat
I bought two tons of bear bricks from Costal Farm and Ranch from the Cornelius/Hillsoboro store. That included 99 x 2 packages of 6 bricks. One pallet was fairly tight, the other is very “flaky” with pieces crumbling off when I stack or move the bricks. They are definitely not “clean” to use, even if they are clean to burn.
With the senior discount, I calculated the cost of the “wood” at 12 cents per pound (including delivery) which compares to about 60 cents a pound on sale for products like Press-to-logs. (Price per pound is the only real way to compare their cost as far as I know.)
The bricks are much more loosely compacted than others I have tried; this means they start easier but burn quicker and come apart in the stove once they really start burning. I use them to get the stove up to temp before I put hard wood CAREFULLY on top of the coals. They save me from using up all my kindling warming up the stove. They do a good job, but they are a bit messy (but no bugs).
Save money and aggravation and buy wood..unless of course you enjoy sweeping and vacuuming sawdust constantly; as well as, this product burns at a faster rate than wood. We paid $300.00 for a pallet (one ton)and went through it quickly. Would not recommend.