Thread: How do people discard their timber scraps?

Originally Posted by artful bodger

So is it better to throw things like mdf, melamine, plywood etc on the tip where it will contaminate the ground for years to come?. .....

There are worse things going into landfill.
I happily feed MDF, chipboard, Ply & painted timber to the garden & let the microbes eat it.
I just dump the plastic coated stuff.

I burn the wood and compost the shavings, like Tonto said cats are more difficult .

Originally Posted by pommyphil

like Tonto said cats are more difficult .

You don't throw out dead cats - you tie them around the waist of your anvil to muffle the ring.

Originally Posted by doug3030

You don't throw out dead cats - you tie them around the waist of your anvil to muffle the ring.

On the mountains we have a place for the dead cats - " Kat toom ba"

About those cats. This is a true story.
We live in a rural situation and one evening we saw a feral cat walk down our pathway right in front of the room we were in.
Next day I borrowed a possum trap off friends and that night caught the cat.
Following day decided to try my luck again and that night caught another one.
This kept up for SIX nights in a row!.
On the seventh night no cat, however on the eighth day another one. Nothing on the ninth but another on the tenth. Then no other cats after a few weeks of trying.
Did not burn em with the melamine and mdf, however our compost heap swelled noticeably. Also the eastern striped/barred bandicoots breathed a few sighs of relief and have been increasing in numbers.

Originally Posted by artful bodger

.... the eastern striped/barred bandicoots breathed a few sighs of relief and have been increasing in numbers.

I have my contacts in the waste industry* and I order a 3 cubic metre bin practically for free whenever I need one

*No, it's not owned by the mafia, and no, they don't grind dead bodies in those trucks.

So as I said in the OP I don’t have a fireplace in house or workshop, so those suggestions are no good to me. If I did I definitely would not be putting any ply, mdf, etc in there. I didn’t think about garden so I might use some for that, otherwise it looks like I will chop it up to add to the council rubbish.

Originally Posted by John G

So as I said in the OP I don’t have a fireplace in house or workshop, so those suggestions are no good to me. If I did I definitely would not be putting any ply, mdf, etc in there. I didn’t think about garden so I might use some for that, otherwise it looks like I will chop it up to add to the council rubbish.

Why not just lash out!, pay the few dollars and dump all your scraps at the nearest tip.
It's gotta be worth it.
Nothing worse than a workshop filled with useless scrap bits of rubbish.

Originally Posted by artful bodger

Nothing worse than a workshop filled with useless scrap bits of rubbish.

You have a funny way of talking about my treasury.



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Originally Posted by DaveVman

You have a funny way of talking about my treasury.



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I am glad it's your treasury, not mine.

I usually keep my offcuts for about ten years, then burn them the week before I need 'em.


Cheers

Graeme

I like it.

I put shavings in the compost.
Small bits of decent stuff to local men’s shed, rest in council bin.
Years ago I did a lot of turning in MDF at a mates workshop in Fyshwick.
He had a pot belly stove so we bagged the MDF in paper bags and burnt it.
The poor stove used to go boom and we thought it would explode.
Instantanious combustion, we called it woof wood.
H.