Thread: getting rid of sawdust

I don't cut a lot yet but it still gets to be bit of a problem. I was going to use the sawdust/shavings as mulch around trees and garden but don't know whether this is kosha or not. Offcuts go in the fire to keep the shed warm during winter and the bark ends up on the bonfire pile.

Cheers

it gets turned into MDF I hear...

We flog it off to stables, compost makers and meat smokers mainly

My red gum saw dust is used in butchers shops for smoking mettwurst and hams. pine shaving is sold in pet shops for animal bedding or for mulch around the rose gardens at worst just spread out in the paddocks when cutting.

I don't generate much saw dust myself, but we get tonnes of the stuff (small pine shavings) in for use in the stables for our horses. Then when it's been "used" after a week or two it gets taken out of the stables to go on various compost piles around the property or onto the gardens for mulch.

...so pretty much what the others have said

i might have to look into getting some bags for the kids to fill for some pocket money

have a look at THIS and THIS

Originally Posted by Broda

have a look at THIS

Hmmmm! That is fantastic!

After having used a gas barbecue for several years, I resurrected and refurbished my old charcoal Weber a couple of weeks ago because there ain't no barbecue taste like a Weber produces in my view. By comparison, a gas barbecue is just a stove used outdoors. The downside of a Weber, of course, is that they a dirty things to clean afterwards and require a bit more time before and after but now that I have retired, time is less of a problem to me than when I was on the "treadmill."

So, being able to make one's own firestarters for the Weber is an awesome idea, I reckon. They certainly cannot be any inferior to the foul kero smelling ones that are available in the supermarkets.

Thanks for posting this.


(ps Just last night I barbecued a duck on the Weber. Awesome! Made even better with a bottle of Brown Bros Crouchen Reisling. Awesome!)


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Originally Posted by Les Caddaye

I don't cut a lot yet but it still gets to be bit of a problem. I was going to use the sawdust/shavings as mulch around trees and garden but don't know whether this is kosha or not. Offcuts go in the fire to keep the shed warm during winter and the bark ends up on the bonfire pile.

Cheers

It's OK I think, but I understand you have to add some nitrogen to it to keep the balance right.

Originally Posted by Charleville

Thanks for posting this.

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happy to

I have used my jarrah for pathways that turn out well when compacted down by hand a bit. The termites dont like it as its to fine.
I had a few bags of marri shavings that I put on my roses once and they went crazy. Best flowers we have ever had on them.
Our local landscaping supplier will take as much jarrah sawdust as he can get but it can't be contanimated with other dust. Bit hard when you are machining up something in jarrah and then you have to change bags on the dusty if you start on another timber.
I have a couple of ideas for making sawdust bricks but that is on the bottom of my long list of things to do at the moment.
A few years back I had a set up for baging all my sawdust/shavings. I had 600 15L bags filled with printed lables of what wood it was and shavings or sawdust. I sold 10 bags for less than it cost me and that was it.

...mark

mark, i'm with you. it's nice that people can make fire lighters but 30 cubic meters of saw dust is a lot of sawdust and i reckon i'd fill 600x 15lt bags pretty quick

i put mine in a big pile that used to be a deep hole.

iv thaught about diging it up because lately nomatter how mutch i put on tehre its getting smaller. so it must be rotting well with all this rain.

when i was cutting only spotty the buthers would come and take bout 3 cube a week but i generate a lot more than that.

I've been lucky enough not to cut at home for quite awhile now, so the sawdust build up isn't so much of a prob for me.

Wifey uses a heap of it on her gardens for mulch, breaks down quick, but looks great when new