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Saw Dust
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:29 am
by rjent
What do you guys do with your sawdust collected by he dust collector? The DC 3000 is just about 2/3's full. I hate to put it in the landfill? Compost?
Thanks in advance!
Dick
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:46 am
by charlese
Sorry! Having nowhere else to put the sawdust, it winds up in the landfill.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:58 am
by kablerj
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:17 am
by paulsgreenbarn
I have a two acre woodlot that gets most of mine.i also have family members with livestock that also gladly take some.You might try selling it by the bag full at a farmer's market.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:44 am
by garys
I don't have a dust collector, but I sweep up a couple of buckets of sawdust from my workshop floor each winter. I save it and dump it around the fruit trees in my orchard for mulch.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:46 am
by sawmill
Mine goes into our outdoor wood stove and some in my shop for oil on the floor. If I have some left like in the summer a friend of ours has chickens and I give it to her
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:47 am
by wa2crk
Sawdust can be used as a mulch, BUT NOT NEAR THE HOUSE!!
It's like predigested food for termites.
Be careful of disposing sawdust from manufactured wood products such as plywood, oriented strand board or particle board. The adhesives and resins in those may not be good for the plants or kids and pets.
Bill V
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:07 am
by rjent
OK, thanks guys. We have about 4 acres, right in the middle of town (small about 5000 population). I have an Ag background as I was raised on a cattle ranch, farm and apple orchard (that was a long time ago), but other than landscaping (which our landscaping produces a lot of organic material) I don't need more mulch ... LOL. I have a few areas that are always weed problems, I will experiment with it there as mulch ....
I was just hoping someone would know how to make battleships or F16's or something with this stuff .....
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:36 am
by beeg
I have the same problem, what to do with it. My yard waste pick-up doesn't want it because it's "PROCESSED".
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 12:03 pm
by Gene Howe
Did you know that during WWll, the Navy experimented with making a carrier from sawdust and Ice? They actually built a 3/4 version just before the end of the war. It was impervious to torpedoes and bombs. Stronger than steel.
rjent wrote:
I was just hoping someone would know how to make battleships or F16's or something with this stuff .....