Thread: How deep do you let it get....?

Excellent mass producing. Show you my pile of sawdust tommorrow, you won't believe it,

Joash

Originally Posted by Auzzie turner

Excellent mass producing. Show you my pile of sawdust tomorrow, you won't believe it,

Joash

Cool, I can't wait to see it.

I clean up fairly regular, as the stuff get tracked everywhere if I don't , and being a small space, well it pays to keep ahead of it.

I also found that if I leave all them nice wet chips about the place, I get a substantial rise in humidity in the old Dungeon, which can spell "RUST"

Show my your chips guys!

I dont have a lathe, but this is my little thicknesser pile

where do you put it next? bin, Garden, or what do you do with it??
Toni

All over the place Some goes to people at a pony club, the cricket club in summer gets some, not long back a snake breader got some for his mice and the excess goes in the bin. If you want Toni i can send you a few bags

I used to bin it, but then I got talking to the local Shinto priest, and found out he composts all the leaves etc from the shrine's grounds, I asked him if I could add my sawdust, and chips, and he was pleased to say yes, as only leaves is not best. I take him a few big bags a month, and now he has some wood waiting for me to get, they took down a sick tree, I hope some of it is worth cutting up for bowls....

Tour of the local Shinto Temple

Pics of the wood there I'm going to collect as well.

Cheers!

Originally Posted by lubbing5cherubs

where do you put it next? bin, Garden, or what do you do with it??
Toni

Gr8 pile of chips especially off the thicknesser!:eek: I have no trouble getting rid of all my shavings. There are a lot of compost toilets up this way (including mine), and people are actually buying wood shavings from the rural supply stores, for that purpose!! Saw dust (off a saw) is too fine, but turnings and shavings are perfect, for airation of thew pile.

Originally Posted by Stu in Tokyo

I used to bin it, but then I got talking to the local Shinto priest, and found out he composts all the leaves etc from the shrine's grounds, I asked him if I could add my sawdust, and chips, and he was pleased to say yes, as only leaves is not best. I take him a few big bags a month, and now he has some wood waiting for me to get, they took down a sick tree, I hope some of it is worth cutting up for bowls....

Tour of the local Shinto Temple

Pics of the wood there I'm going to collect as well.

Cheers!

Checked your Tour out thanks, and it brought back memories for me. I spent the first ten years of my life in Japan in the suburbs at a place called Seta machi near the Tamagawa river, and there was a temple nearby, where I spent most of my weekends in the beautifull gardens and bamboo groves!Thanks again!

Stu - Mine becomes bedding as soon as it's a few inches deep..

Originally Posted by Lignum

All over the place Some goes to people at a pony club, the cricket club in summer gets some, not long back a snake breader got some for his mice and the excess goes in the bin. If you want Toni i can send you a few bags

Nothanks I be right... I am starting to get a collection of my own so I was wondering what you do with it. I did not know if you could compost it or not
Thanks Toni

Beware of some woods, I think Walnut is the one that is usually mentioned, that has toxic dust!

I collect mine in big plastic bags(like the ones from carbatec)and let a few people know and soon as one puts a hand up... they get a full ute load of it!(its a big tray too...)

HEre in Kentucky the Horse barns love it, but I use a lot of Walnut so mine is toxic to horses, so I take mine to my daughter's acreage and strew it throughout the woods (sort of back to nature in a way) But often as not her neighbore sees me coming and asks for it for his cattle lot, they are a muddy lot those Bovine beasts. (I swear, I think hogs are cleaner, just stinkier) It trampled into the mud and looks like a fine mixture of manure, wood shavings, and loam.

Wood requires a ton of Nitrogen to decompose so it sucks the surrounding matter and depletes the soil. It does not make good compost until it is decayed, In fact it will retard other matter from decaying. Best for bedding or mulch fill.

Hey Lignum.
Get a plastic 200 litre drum and cut the top off so it just slides under your outfeed table. Most of the shavings will fall in it so it makes disposal and cleanup a lot easier.