Thread: Saw Dust Disposal

Any car workshop would use it to clean up oils spills, local stables though some woods can be hazardous to horses, compost piles.

Mine goes on the garden,
but its so big that I could put a few woolbales full of sawdust on and still need more.

Let your local senior cits club know its available free and you'll be surprised how easy it is to get rid of. (keep it in plastic garbage bags)

I burn my shavings

put mine in the wheely bin, funny watching the garbo spewing when he gets covered in dust,most goes in gardens. there is always someone who wants some for all sorts of reasons, i keep hardwood for smoking,huon and coachwood for pot pouri,the rest for garden.bob

Originally Posted by robyn2839

i keep hardwood for smoking

Strange habit you have there.....

Like Echidna said, It makes excellent garden mulch and if you've got neighbours give it to them for mulch.

It never ceases to amaze me that people put so much stuff in the bin then BUY bags of garden mulch.

What sawdust.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

What sawdust.

Cliff i know with your brilliant technique you get shavings from the tools but surely you dont get shavings from sanding??

The implication was that I don't do enough woodwork to have a sawdust problem.

Originally Posted by funkychicken

I burn my shavings

How nice to see the young are heeding the ernvironmental warnings
Wolffie

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

The implication was that I don't do enough woodwork to have a sawdust problem.

For a minute there i thought you would tell me, with your technique/ability you didnt need to sand.

Between my Saw Mill and my Workshop I aquire alot of saw dust so I printed up same bags and filled 600 bags of different types ( marri shavings, Jarrah sawdust etc). Excluding labour the bags and printing cost $1.00/bag plus advertising and I sold 10 for $2.00 each over several months.
Now I just heap all the Sawdust and tell people to come and get there own trailer load when it starts getting too big.
I looked into getting a simple machine to make sawdust briquets but I couldnt find one that didnt cost a arm and a leg.

In the garden.

Dust to dust etc...........

Cliff, are you saying that you still have not fitted out that great shed I saw over 18 months ago. Shame. I am sure you are going to say that it is all done and that you are just too busy

good to hear what others are doing with their byproduct.