Thread: Disposing of sawdust

Chuck some blood and bone in it and throw it on your garden.

Not sure if it's the right thing to do, but most weeks my wheelie bin gets a 25l bin-load of shavings, sawdust, DC-collection stuff, etc. The garbos don't seem to mind !

I have a line of people who want the leftovers from wood turning.

Off cuts - People with fires
Thick shaving from roughing out. Daughter and her rat. Others for garden mulch.
Fines from dust extractor - people for digging into the garden.

Have trouble keeping up the supply of shavings etc. Maybe I should sell them instead.

collect it all in a 44gallon OPEN top drum stick on ya trailer and go like 'ell around the block a few times :eek: Tonto

[quote=gsouth]After using my saw bench for a couple of days I have a bucket load of sawdust to get rid of.....

What's the recommended way to dispose of it? Can I put it inthe vegetation recycle bin in sydney?


I dispose of mine progressively on the dirt pathways around my garden, it kills the weeds and soaks up the mud and eventually makes a slightly elevated pathway which is soft to walk on.

Aussieglen

Vegie bin should be OK - thats basically what they mix all the kitchen scraps with & then re-sell it to you as bags of 'potting mix' or garden soil'.

You can also put it in your own compost bin, a bit at a time. Rotting sawdust allegedly rips a heap of nitrogen out of the soil if you put it down thick, which is probably why it kills Aussieglen's weeds.

On another wood list, one poster recommends a 'Chimenea' - one of those pot belly 'Mexican' stoves - which is rapidly using up all his off cuts & sawdust (Nth American winter ).