Uses of woodchips/sawdust

[email protected] (heyscott) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
> and woodchips.
>
> I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
> dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
> So:
>
> How can sawdust or chips be used?

Keep this in mind...it's a fire hazard! You're talking nickels and
dimes here. Get rid of it. We produce mountains off the sawmill and I
could sell it but no one wants it until they need to use it. I give it
away to any farmer that pulls in the yard. I even load it for free.
We've had one fire and that's enough. Losses were a sawmill, tool
trailer, and logs. Luckily, the wind was going right between the house
and horse barn filled with hay and nothing else caught. Took 5 fire
departments to put it out and we stayed on it for two days putting out
spot fires. The sourse was spontaneous cumbustion and there were blue
flames seeping out of the pile dancing all over. Eeriest thing I
could ever imagine. I realize we're not talking about quite the same
quantity but the results are the same. No one else has mentioned this
so I thought I should. Jana

It goes on the mulch pile or sometimes the neighbors want it for their
animals.

Dave


"heyscott" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
> and woodchips.
>
> I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
> dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
> So:
>
> How can sawdust or chips be used?

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplrn/fplrn208.pdf

or

http://www.amgron.clara.net/ under Hints and Tips

It makes wonderful snake nesting material in sufficient quantities, as
evidenced by the heap beside my garden. Lathe shavings and other sorts
with sufficient air can be rolled loosely in newsprint to make fire-starter
doobies.


"heyscott" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
> and woodchips.
>
> I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
> dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
> So:
>
> How can sawdust or chips be used?

On 19 Aug 2004 07:23:13 -0700, [email protected] (heyscott)
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:

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For all the suggstions given, _always_ separate chipboard, plywood,
masonite from the other. Nasty.

>Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
>and woodchips.
>
>I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
>dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
>So:
>
>How can sawdust or chips be used?

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I got complaints from the manager of our mobile home park. the neighbors did not
like purple and red and yellow and so forth colored mulch (G)

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Burning it's not a waste, if you're not just burning it to get rid of it.
Use it for kindling in the fireplace, or at the campsite.

Kevin
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"heyscott" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>

"heyscott" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
> and woodchips.
>
> I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
> dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
> So:
>
> How can sawdust or chips be used?

If it is all good hardwoods (no exotics) you can use it for smoking food.
Butcher supply houses sell 50 pound bags of hickory sawdust that is used for
smoke curing hams, bacon sausages. Maple, cherry, oak all work well,

If you use it on a grill, make a foil pouch so it does not burn up too fast.
Ed

<<Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
and woodchips.

I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.>>

Assuming you have planer & jointer chips and not just powdery dust, you can
use handfuls of them as a substitute for steel wool or synthetic pads when
stripping paint remover from non-flat surfaces.

Lee


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Steve Knight <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I got complaints from the manager of our mobile home park. the
> neighbors did not like purple and red and yellow and so forth colored
> mulch (G)
>

Shavings from the walnut I milled last summer sure kept the weeds down
behind the shed. I have no idea what padauk might do for the local soil
chemistry. ;-)

Patriarch

Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

<snip>
>
>>Shavings from the walnut I milled last summer sure kept the weeds down
>>behind the shed. I have no idea what padauk might do for the local soil
>>chemistry. ;-)
>
> Someone would surely call the EPA about the pink grass in the area.
>
We're in California. Near Berkeley. There's all kinds of strange grass in
the area. ;-)

More importantly though, in my case, is what would it do to my wife's
roses? That's where things get serious.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:04:31 -0700, "TeamCasa" <[email protected]>
wrote:


>"heyscott" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
>> and woodchips.
>>
>> I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
>> dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>>
>> So:
>>
>> How can sawdust or chips be used?
>
>It goes on the mulch pile or sometimes the neighbors want it for their
>animals.

I've seen a setup where the chips were fed into a unit that compressed
them into logs which could then be burned.

JP

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (heyscott) wrote:
>Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
>and woodchips.
>
>I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
>dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
>So:
>
>How can sawdust or chips be used?

At my house:
- Mulch in the garden.
- Bedding for my son's guinea pig.

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:55:44 GMT, patriarch
<<patriarch>[email protected]> calmly ranted:

>Steve Knight <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> I got complaints from the manager of our mobile home park. the
>> neighbors did not like purple and red and yellow and so forth colored
>> mulch (G)

They're sooooo closed-minded, aren't they, Steve?
(BTW, congrats on the flatter irons this time.)


>Shavings from the walnut I milled last summer sure kept the weeds down
>behind the shed. I have no idea what padauk might do for the local soil
>chemistry. ;-)

Someone would surely call the EPA about the pink grass in the area.


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On 19 Aug 2004 07:23:13 -0700, [email protected] (heyscott)
vaguely proposed a theory
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Hey Scott! Where are you?

>Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
>and woodchips.
>
>I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
>dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
>So:
>
>How can sawdust or chips be used?

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that neither of them can do what they want to because
of the other one.

On 19 Aug 2004 07:23:13 -0700, [email protected] (heyscott)
wrote:

>Much like yourselves, I have and generate a large quantity of sawdust
>and woodchips.
>
>I'd like to get people's imaginitive ideas of what they do with their
>dust. It seems like a waste to burn it/throw it away/etc.
>
>So:
>
>How can sawdust or chips be used?


Walkways, mulch, compost, etc. Rotting sawdust/chips will draw lots
of nitrogen, so you may need to add 34-0-0 to the sawdust and allow it
to "cook" for a couple months before using it as mulch.