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hello b&g,
have you ever considered contacting a nearby horse farm. we have a man from a horse farm who uses it for his horse stalls, but there are certain woods that they can,t use.
good luck ,
hammertime
Find out who makes compost in your area. It is high in carbon and manure or ground shels from crustaceans or lawn clippings are all high in nitrogen so the mix of both makes great compost. Hardwood and grass clippings are high in acid so then we add limne to it when using.
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Sawdust does make great compost although I would caution that several hardwood species contain toxins detrimental to plants and animals.
Saw a caution about using hardcood mulch in planting beds. Seems that it can actually leach nitrogen out of the soal. may or may not apply to sawdust. Letting it compost or set for six months to a year makes it suitable for a soil amendment.
Dave
Piffin,
I had a friend when I we lived in Maine who had a place on the coast.
He would rake up the kelp at low tide and add it to his garden bed, along with lawn clippin's and sawdust from his shop.
His garden was a thing of beauty!
Mr TDo not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
No kelp - rockweed it is T.
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
fine sawdust can create problems w/ stable animals, but that is usually from sanders, not a saw. Here a lot of farmers use the stuff for their barns.
You might find a farmer willing to take it off your hands, if you can load it on their truck.
Q: What do you get when you mate an elephant with a poodle?
A: A dead poodle.
non skid traction device for icey sidewalks.
Alex
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can be bagged and marketed to cityslickers to clean-up oil spills and such.
when mixed with bark & slabwood cuttings can dramatically help that bog area in your tractor trail and last a long time.
Character? I never had any problem with character. Why, people've been telling me I was one every since I was a kid.
Mix with bread dough for additional fiber?
You laugh. I don't remember where, but I've seen references to exactly that use.
Seriously you should contact some mushroom growers. Hardwood sawdust is great for many lignicolus (wood loving) fungi. Species like #### and Oyster mushrooms grow on sawdust based medium. I have had great success growing mushrooms on sawdust. The best substrate is shavings from your power planer because there is more air and it is not as compacted as table saw sawdust. It is true that raw sawdust robs nitrogen from the soil. Sawdust is not a good soil amendment unless composted first.
Oyster mushrooms grow well on unpastuerized sawdust. Just soak it and drain and add the spawn and in two weeks you will have flushes of beautiful edible mushrooms. I like them sauteed in butter with a little white wine on toast with my eggs in the morning. One of those recipes for the good life.
#### = shiitake?
I'm pretty sure #### = psylocybin. :)
I've used sawdust to extend epoxy when using it as a filler but that is pretty small quantities.
Traditionally, butchershops and slaughter houses used sawdust to soak up the blood on the floor. I'm pretty sure the health department wants a mop-down surface now-a-days.
How about feeding it to rabbits and selling the results to pellet-stove owners?
View ImageWhat a bunch of crap. David, your answers really burn me up.
32 degree, calling for rain in Sitka Timh
you might want to try your local meat smoker/butcher some of them will use sawdust for their smokeing operations met one once that paid to to have ti shipped to him from down south
Some people heat their shops with it. The stickley furniture factory heats their plant with trimmings and sawdust for example. Not sure what kind of boiler you need for loose/fine sawdust, but worth lookin' into if you need heat, and have lots of sawdust....
Or find a way to add a little water and compress the sawdust into burning logs. Ahhh, the multiple uses of a log splitter.Character? I never had any problem with character. Why, people've been telling me I was one every since I was a kid.
Mix wood shavings with cream and sell as shaving cream.