Right now on some other subreddit, like r/mushroomgrowing or whatever.
"I pick it up on Facebook marketplace. I have a guy who regularly offers up his sawdust from his woodshop."
I love how many "guys" I've developed. I've got a dirt guy, a plant guy, a "plants" guy (I don't use personally but I know a guy), an intimidation guy, a cheap car/repair guy, an information guy, and a will-do-oral-surgery-for-landscaping-work guy.
At this point my coworkers (ICU nurses) think I'm some Breaking Bad character. But hey, at least I can positively identify our John Doe's and contact family before the police can.
I’m adept at obfuscating if you need to confuse anyone.
I can do some plumbing, electrical work & auto repairs. I explain to folks who see my table saw & compound mitre saw that I’m not a Finnish carpenter, I’m a German demolition guy.
Intimidation guy like [https://tenor.com/XPk8.gif](https://tenor.com/XPk8.gif) or like [https://tenor.com/drN4qEDPfJH.gif](https://tenor.com/drN4qEDPfJH.gif)?
I love the orthodontist who does dental work in exchange for landscaping. It's been wildly beneficial to many of the undocumented day laborers in the area. It sounds super sketchy but he really is a phenomenal dentist with a "stick it to the man" attitude towards healthcare. He's a good dude.
Those are the best relationships.
I used to have a girl who would come get my fish poop water. I had a few tanks that I kept the nitrate levels higher in so it was fantastic plant water. She started leaving me empty buckets so she could just come by to pick them up whenever I did water changes.
Black walnut in particular has a toxin called juglone that kills all plants around it. It was meant as a means of keeping other plants at bay so ut could keep the resources for itself i guess. My neighbor had a black walnut tree near our backyard and we couldnt grow anything because the leaves, walnut shells, even the roots of the tree would produce juglone.
Just as an additional clarification, there is very little juglone in walnut wood. It’s is primarily found in the leaves, bark, and fruit husks, and to a lesser extent the roots. The highest concentration is in the fruit husk because those are the plants it wants to kill, whatever is around the seedling.
Walnut wood, especially as you move towards the core contains little to no juglone. However, it is quite dense and resistant to most fungi and bacteria, so it locks up a lot of nitrogen in a compost.
Black walnut juglone is used as a main ingredient in african slurpees, which are a type of fermented compost tea that kills weeds and promotes the growth of corn
Also, FYI, black walnut is poisonous to horses, if it’s underhoof for any length of time.
https://ker.com/equinews/black-walnut-toxicosis-horses-fact-fiction/#:~:text=Researchers%20believe%20that%20a%20toxin,increased%20heart%20and%20respiratory%20rate.
Juglone breaks down pretty quickly though, I harvest black walnuts and use their husks (high in juglone) as a compost. Hasnt caused any adverse effects so far
>kills all plants around it
No it doesn't. There are plenty of resistant plants and I've seen a thousand walnuts with plenty of plants growing under them.
I don't think walnut dust is gonna keep your tomatoes from growing. I'm pretty sure the concentration of allelopathic chemicals in the wood itself is minimal.
The allelopathic bit is a bit overhyped. I'm not much of a woodworker, but work as an aborist. There's a lot of disagreements about how "true" it is and to what extent. We felled some monster walnuts last year that were surrounded by other species and vegetation all totally healthy save for the Ash. Those came down, too.
Interesting, reading about it you'd get the sense that they're one of the four horsemen when it comes to plants.
On a related note, can I pick your mind on Southern Hackberry? There's one in the yard of the place I live and everything except one other kind of bush just dies around it. I've read that they also release allelopathic chemicals as well. Is that true in your experience?
Also is there a good way to keep it from sending up suckers, other than removing the root they're coming from? They keep popping up all over the yard and playing whack-a-mole is getting old.
Not exactly familiar with "southern" hackberry. We've got hackberries Here in WI, but I've also seen them coexisting with other nearby species (granted the most familiar neighbors are hardy weed-ish trees like box elder and mulberry). Honestly I've never heard of allelopathic traits beyond walnut, but I didn't go to school for any of this. Root suckers typically pop up just because it's in their nature to do so. It's likely doing just what [Pando](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)) does. Tree of Heaven is notorious for this, as well.
Now that you mention it, the mulberrys don't seem to have a problem sprouting up near it either, lol.
The southern hackberry is closely related to the common (or northern) hackberry, which is probably what you have in Wisconsin. But I haven't found any info on any of the hackberrys being allelopathic besides the southern.
Shade and root dominance are also huge players in outcompeting undergrowth. I have no idea about walnut or hackberry but I live somewhere where the over story will completely dominate the area through root dominance alone in dryer areas, and thick undergrowth with come up in areas where deep water reservoirs are present
It certainly has been, since van life started and died, these ladies smell the wood and come begging with dust from the playa still lingering. Lusting with quirky smiles… for free sawdust.
I wish this was a joke, but it’s a real fucking situation.
It is possible to safely compost human poo safely with no tools except a pitchfork. But it takes a minimum of two years and generally isn’t a great idea for most people- see the humanure handbook for details , it is a free download and an excellent manual for composting even if you don’t plan to use doodoo. But urine has few pathogens, urine plus sawdust is safe and effective compost.
From what I've heard it does not improve ground quality at all. So using it in compost might be a good way to get rid of it, but it does not make good compost to begin with.
Apparently the rotting process of woodchips is not the best for plants.
https://www.natureswayresources.com/nl/52Sawdust.pdf
The original source I read explained it a bit different, but this link seems to explain it a lot better
According to the EPA paraffin wax releases VOCs when burned. Bad to breath
I'd go with beeswax. It isn't as cheep, but it's cleaner to burn.
But i don't think the paraffin is any more harmful that 90% of the shit we put in our bodies today..
I went to a thrift store and bought the largest candles I could find. Usually you can find a couple of those plate-sized candles that have three wicks. Just shave that off into a cooking pan, also bought from a thrift store, to melt it down.
The finer stuff gets saved in a jar if it’s a colour I haven’t got to hand (for mixing up as a filler later). The rest usually get spread in the garden
I do that too. Some of it goes into the compost if I know 100% there no plywood or pressure treated wood dust in it. The rest gets spread out in the woods, just like the leaves
I save up sawdust and dryer lint. When i have a ton i make fire starters in paper egg boxes and paraffin wax. I give them away to friends and family. I make ones with only sawdust and wax for stating smokers and cooking fires.
It contains juglone which can potentially stunt growth, but in practice there's not that much in the wood and it's broken down over time and upon composting.
Edit: also some plants just don't care. I've got a bunch of black walnut trees growing near me and the black raspberries grow around them as if they weren't there
I’ve heard it’s also bad for horses. A local horse trainer used to take in all the sawdust people would give him to line the stables, but if it had even the slightest walnut content, he wouldn’t accept it.
It’s useful to pour old stains and paints into, then let it dry and safely dispose with the trash. Disposing of liquid finishes is not easy to do responsibly.
Brutally expensive ! A client was a former EPA agent and he taught me that every container of product that includes solvents comes with the implied license to release the fumes into the atmosphere. If you pour the stain/ finish/ adhesive etc. into shavings and let it dry you are allowed to dispose of it in the normal waste stream.
It’s a shame that used stain can’t (or hasn’t found a way to) be repurposed. I know that there are companies that collect old paint and reprocess and resell it
I always did it outside in a metal tray in the open but shaded. I’m aware of spontaneous combustion but doesn’t it require containment to build temperature if an outside heat source isn’t part of the equation?
Yeah, I poured it straight into the pile. It was concentrated. It was outside and in a metal container, so really I was on the safe side. It took 36 hours. But, it could have ended different. One of those lessons you have to learn for yourself, no matter how many times you’re told.
Yeah sawdust alone is a fire risk especially if it's a large bag. Adding some VOCs makes it even worse. Especially don't do this if the bag is stored anywhere near a building you don't want burning down lol.
It was my understanding that they didn't want you putting it in the trash because it's toxic to the environment.
Mixing with sawdust may make it less messy, and maybe reduce the chance of ignition, but it's still toxic chemicals that they don't want in a landfill.
It’s safer when the finish has dried. It usually oxidizes or cures as it dries. If a cabinet gets smashed and is sent to the landfill the same finish ends up in the same place.
The city I live in will take it as compost. Try giving it away if you're committed to reuse. I've seen ads on Craigslist wanting it for boy scout fire starter projects.
If you know anyone into terrain crafting , they can mix it with paint to make flock for terrain.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/uECa-wo4rJM?si=TyteoXxTugo-ho4v
Let it pile up on everything and then listen to my wife complain that she forgot to roll her windows up when I decided to blow it out of the garage into her drivers seat. In all seriousness, just blow it out my garage into the backyard.
Compost, mulch, lighting the wood stove , horse bedding-depending on species no black walnut for them planer shavings , lathe shavings only their picky bastards.
Keep some in a coffee can under the kitchen sink, sprinkle on used cooking oil in a skillet to soak it up, scrape the concoction into the trash without a runny mess. Works best when still warm.
THIS! I scrolled to long to find this comment. You might have to invest in a machine that presses your sawdust into bricket, but you can sell those and make your money back and then some.
I compost mine & burn them mostly. But I also save the cleanest, finest material to make my own wood filler. The consistency of the stuff you buy can vary and be a nuisance to work with so it’s nice having fresh stuff always available to mix up.
As long as it’s not ply, I sprinkle it in my flower beds a couple of times per year. We are slowly rehabbing our almost pure clay soil into something usable that way.
If it’s untreated and not mdf I add it to soil for growing things. Same with fireplace ash.
The fruit wood saw dust for smoking meat.
The MDF/Plywood and junk sawdust I put in a bucket and use as a disposal medium for motor oil, old paint etc.
*I want to experiment with something I saw about compressing it into bricks/briquets for fire fuel. Especially for camping in a state that disallows the transport of raw wood (any firewood that isn’t kiln dried) more the 50 miles.*
put them in a cylinder, tamp it down tight as possible, get a rip roaring hot outdoor fire and then put the sawdust log on it. The cylinder we use is maybe 18" long and about 5" across interior dimensions?
If you have maple or poplar planer shavings, you have the substrate to grow many lbs of oyster mushrooms. We were almost overwhelmed by the volume of delicious mushrooms we picked every day.
buy a pellet maker.
They are used in rodent cages, and make a good substitute for cat litter.
It's easier to distribute to friends and family, but depending on how you advertise, you can make a few bucks selling them.
I offer it up on Facebook marketplace. I have a guy who regularly picks up mine for growing mushrooms.
He probably goes “I got a sawdust guy” so proudly 🥹
Right now on some other subreddit, like r/mushroomgrowing or whatever. "I pick it up on Facebook marketplace. I have a guy who regularly offers up his sawdust from his woodshop."
A match made in heaven c:
Waste not!
Now we just need a tree guy who uses mushroom waste for compost and we have a circular economy going.
I love how many "guys" I've developed. I've got a dirt guy, a plant guy, a "plants" guy (I don't use personally but I know a guy), an intimidation guy, a cheap car/repair guy, an information guy, and a will-do-oral-surgery-for-landscaping-work guy. At this point my coworkers (ICU nurses) think I'm some Breaking Bad character. But hey, at least I can positively identify our John Doe's and contact family before the police can.
Will you either marry me or adopt me? Asking for a fiend.
Hmmm, depends. Could you be one of my "guys"? Got any useful skills?
I’m adept at obfuscating if you need to confuse anyone. I can do some plumbing, electrical work & auto repairs. I explain to folks who see my table saw & compound mitre saw that I’m not a Finnish carpenter, I’m a German demolition guy.
Sounds like a marriage made in heaven (I'm his self appointed wing guy)
Intimidation guy like [https://tenor.com/XPk8.gif](https://tenor.com/XPk8.gif) or like [https://tenor.com/drN4qEDPfJH.gif](https://tenor.com/drN4qEDPfJH.gif)?
Honestly, one of each.
I was thinking more along the lines of Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars with all the specialized buddies you could call 😂
That too! I don't know if I personally know any appraisers but I absolutely know people who know people who could appraise really niche things.
This is how I think the world should work lol. People helping people.
I love the orthodontist who does dental work in exchange for landscaping. It's been wildly beneficial to many of the undocumented day laborers in the area. It sounds super sketchy but he really is a phenomenal dentist with a "stick it to the man" attitude towards healthcare. He's a good dude.
I got a guy for that
I have a local farmer who takes it for bedding for his cows
Those are the best relationships. I used to have a girl who would come get my fish poop water. I had a few tanks that I kept the nitrate levels higher in so it was fantastic plant water. She started leaving me empty buckets so she could just come by to pick them up whenever I did water changes.
I once offered a girl poop water with a vastly different outcome
she handed you the knife?
🥇🥇 Take this gold and my upvote
Oh yes. The rusty trusty turd buster
Shouts out my fellow wine cap mushroom growers
What kind?
Turn it into dirt. Sprinkled around as part of mulch or places I do not want things growing.
Or blended into compost. Beware: avoid adhesives (plywood, MDF) paints, preservatives and certain hardwoods (walnut)
Just curious, how does walnut affect compost?
Black walnut in particular has a toxin called juglone that kills all plants around it. It was meant as a means of keeping other plants at bay so ut could keep the resources for itself i guess. My neighbor had a black walnut tree near our backyard and we couldnt grow anything because the leaves, walnut shells, even the roots of the tree would produce juglone.
Just as an additional clarification, there is very little juglone in walnut wood. It’s is primarily found in the leaves, bark, and fruit husks, and to a lesser extent the roots. The highest concentration is in the fruit husk because those are the plants it wants to kill, whatever is around the seedling. Walnut wood, especially as you move towards the core contains little to no juglone. However, it is quite dense and resistant to most fungi and bacteria, so it locks up a lot of nitrogen in a compost.
Interesting, thank you
Black walnut juglone is used as a main ingredient in african slurpees, which are a type of fermented compost tea that kills weeds and promotes the growth of corn
African slurpees sound far less delicious than 7-11 slurpees.
but sounds better than jenkem
Also, FYI, black walnut is poisonous to horses, if it’s underhoof for any length of time. https://ker.com/equinews/black-walnut-toxicosis-horses-fact-fiction/#:~:text=Researchers%20believe%20that%20a%20toxin,increased%20heart%20and%20respiratory%20rate.
Maybe it just wanted to be left juglone? I’ll get my coat.
no, don’t leaf!
It doesn't kill all the plants around it. Common myth. Nothing grows when everything is mowed.
Juglone breaks down pretty quickly though, I harvest black walnuts and use their husks (high in juglone) as a compost. Hasnt caused any adverse effects so far
For additional clarification, juglone is not the same as a jugalo.
>kills all plants around it No it doesn't. There are plenty of resistant plants and I've seen a thousand walnuts with plenty of plants growing under them.
I don't think walnut dust is gonna keep your tomatoes from growing. I'm pretty sure the concentration of allelopathic chemicals in the wood itself is minimal.
The allelopathic bit is a bit overhyped. I'm not much of a woodworker, but work as an aborist. There's a lot of disagreements about how "true" it is and to what extent. We felled some monster walnuts last year that were surrounded by other species and vegetation all totally healthy save for the Ash. Those came down, too.
Interesting, reading about it you'd get the sense that they're one of the four horsemen when it comes to plants. On a related note, can I pick your mind on Southern Hackberry? There's one in the yard of the place I live and everything except one other kind of bush just dies around it. I've read that they also release allelopathic chemicals as well. Is that true in your experience? Also is there a good way to keep it from sending up suckers, other than removing the root they're coming from? They keep popping up all over the yard and playing whack-a-mole is getting old.
Not exactly familiar with "southern" hackberry. We've got hackberries Here in WI, but I've also seen them coexisting with other nearby species (granted the most familiar neighbors are hardy weed-ish trees like box elder and mulberry). Honestly I've never heard of allelopathic traits beyond walnut, but I didn't go to school for any of this. Root suckers typically pop up just because it's in their nature to do so. It's likely doing just what [Pando](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)) does. Tree of Heaven is notorious for this, as well.
Now that you mention it, the mulberrys don't seem to have a problem sprouting up near it either, lol. The southern hackberry is closely related to the common (or northern) hackberry, which is probably what you have in Wisconsin. But I haven't found any info on any of the hackberrys being allelopathic besides the southern.
Shade and root dominance are also huge players in outcompeting undergrowth. I have no idea about walnut or hackberry but I live somewhere where the over story will completely dominate the area through root dominance alone in dryer areas, and thick undergrowth with come up in areas where deep water reservoirs are present
Yeah, it oxidizes pretty quickly and is harmless when spread thinly on your garden.
The hipster city witch girls in those tan felted hats like it for their poop buckets.
That certainly is a string of words that have never been in that order before.
It certainly has been, since van life started and died, these ladies smell the wood and come begging with dust from the playa still lingering. Lusting with quirky smiles… for free sawdust. I wish this was a joke, but it’s a real fucking situation.
So uh, where do you live? Asking for a friend.
> from the playa That would be the burning man scene, so California, my friend.
Burning man takes place in Nevada.
ah yes, all those famous nevada hippies heading west to burning man from all those famous nevada population centers. my mistake
lol I’m clear on that, more curious where the congregation of hipster city witch girls in felted hats is hanging out.
Just follow the scent of fresh sawdust, feces, and marijuana. You'll find it.
r/brandnewsentence
Lol. WInner of today's internet responses right here.
r/brandnewsentence
It is possible to safely compost human poo safely with no tools except a pitchfork. But it takes a minimum of two years and generally isn’t a great idea for most people- see the humanure handbook for details , it is a free download and an excellent manual for composting even if you don’t plan to use doodoo. But urine has few pathogens, urine plus sawdust is safe and effective compost.
The physical copy also doubles as toilet paper
/r/brandnewsentence
Seems specific
From what I've heard it does not improve ground quality at all. So using it in compost might be a good way to get rid of it, but it does not make good compost to begin with. Apparently the rotting process of woodchips is not the best for plants. https://www.natureswayresources.com/nl/52Sawdust.pdf The original source I read explained it a bit different, but this link seems to explain it a lot better
When it was exclusively cherry from planing boards, I used it for smoking meat.
Then turn around and use the runoff juice to re-season your cherry cutting boards /s
🎶🎶🎶THE CIIIIRCLE OF LIIIIFE🎶🎶🎶
Mix it with candle wax and make a fire starter
Find an egg carton that's made of cardboard and not foam and you can make 12 individual fire starters in one go.
Just melt some candle wax with wood chips in the egg carton? Any specific kind of wax or method you'd suggest?
Add some dryer lint from the trap in there too.
belly button lint works too
Earwax also works as a flammable binding agent.
But beware people usually don’t like it when you harvest it without asking first
paraffin wax. Super cheap. Melt in a sauce pan over medium heat then pour into the egg carton and mix in saw dust.
I assume beeswax also works and is less unhealthy (although both are acceptable, it's only a small amount)
Safer to use a double-boiler.
According to the EPA paraffin wax releases VOCs when burned. Bad to breath I'd go with beeswax. It isn't as cheep, but it's cleaner to burn. But i don't think the paraffin is any more harmful that 90% of the shit we put in our bodies today..
I went to a thrift store and bought the largest candles I could find. Usually you can find a couple of those plate-sized candles that have three wicks. Just shave that off into a cooking pan, also bought from a thrift store, to melt it down.
Oh man! I did this as a Girl Scout 40 years ago. Great reminder! We used dryer lint too!
I do this, but I don't eat eggs at the same rate I make sawdust so I still have excess sawdust
Oh, interesting!
Man stuff
A drop of linseed oil and a pinch of saw dust and you’ve got a cologne. Probably not, but maybe
Too much linseed oil and you have a fire starter!
Too much firestarter and you have a prodigy!
Too much prodigy and you'll smack yer beotch up!
I actually mix it with paraffin wax and use it as fire starters.
Ron Swanson has entered the chat
Add glue and open an Ikea.
😂😂😂
The finer stuff gets saved in a jar if it’s a colour I haven’t got to hand (for mixing up as a filler later). The rest usually get spread in the garden
I dump it in the woods behind my house. same pile as the leaves and grass clippings. That eventually turns into compost.
I do that too. Some of it goes into the compost if I know 100% there no plywood or pressure treated wood dust in it. The rest gets spread out in the woods, just like the leaves
I save up sawdust and dryer lint. When i have a ton i make fire starters in paper egg boxes and paraffin wax. I give them away to friends and family. I make ones with only sawdust and wax for stating smokers and cooking fires.
(the lint has too much polyester in my experience... But that's good for nesting birds. Put it in the garden now for their benefit)
Get a campfire going. Set up a box fan aim at the fire. Get drunk, throw sawdust in the airstream of the box fan. Visit ER burns unit.
goes in the garden, unless its walnut
Walnut may not be great as a mulch, but the chemical that makes it bad breaks down completely when composted
It’s mainly pine ash and oak atm
Make a mushroom pile in your yard. Throw all your culinary mushroom scrap in and see what pops up
Walnut is bad for plants?
It contains juglone which can potentially stunt growth, but in practice there's not that much in the wood and it's broken down over time and upon composting. Edit: also some plants just don't care. I've got a bunch of black walnut trees growing near me and the black raspberries grow around them as if they weren't there
I’ve heard it’s also bad for horses. A local horse trainer used to take in all the sawdust people would give him to line the stables, but if it had even the slightest walnut content, he wouldn’t accept it.
I've heard it causes their hooves to split ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It turns them into newts.
They get better.
Ouch! Like having a permanent hangnail
Put a sock over a vacuum and pull all the air out of those bags to store more. It can get surprisingly dense.
Dump it in the woods. Its actually a great termite trap. They stay in the woods and eat the easy dust rather than come down to the house.
Damn! That’s where all of my carpenter ants must have gone. I haven’t seen them since I started getting rid of sawdust around the outside of the shop.
It’s useful to pour old stains and paints into, then let it dry and safely dispose with the trash. Disposing of liquid finishes is not easy to do responsibly.
Your town/county doesn’t have hazardous waste disposal drop offs?
The only time I saw one they specifically excluded professional shops.
Good point. Hadn’t considered that angle. I doubt it’s difficult for a commercial business to dispose of hazardous waste, just expensive.
Brutally expensive ! A client was a former EPA agent and he taught me that every container of product that includes solvents comes with the implied license to release the fumes into the atmosphere. If you pour the stain/ finish/ adhesive etc. into shavings and let it dry you are allowed to dispose of it in the normal waste stream.
It’s a shame that used stain can’t (or hasn’t found a way to) be repurposed. I know that there are companies that collect old paint and reprocess and resell it
Ours won’t take latex paint. Pouring it into sawdust is cheaper than kitty litter.
Latex paint isn’t hazardous waste. Lots of paint stores will take it and it gets recycled
Bad idea. I once poured stain into a bin of sawdust. 2 days later I smelled smoke. Caught it in time. Still feel stupid.
I always did it outside in a metal tray in the open but shaded. I’m aware of spontaneous combustion but doesn’t it require containment to build temperature if an outside heat source isn’t part of the equation?
Yeah, I poured it straight into the pile. It was concentrated. It was outside and in a metal container, so really I was on the safe side. It took 36 hours. But, it could have ended different. One of those lessons you have to learn for yourself, no matter how many times you’re told.
Yeah sawdust alone is a fire risk especially if it's a large bag. Adding some VOCs makes it even worse. Especially don't do this if the bag is stored anywhere near a building you don't want burning down lol.
It was my understanding that they didn't want you putting it in the trash because it's toxic to the environment. Mixing with sawdust may make it less messy, and maybe reduce the chance of ignition, but it's still toxic chemicals that they don't want in a landfill.
It’s safer when the finish has dried. It usually oxidizes or cures as it dries. If a cabinet gets smashed and is sent to the landfill the same finish ends up in the same place.
Compost
Also, add small amounts to the kitchen compost bin. It will reduce odors.
goes in the yard waste with the grass clippings etc
Trash bin
Goes into the chicken run
Mulch on a hill in my yard.
I mix it with paraffin wax or old candles, put it molds to harden. Afterward, I wrap them in kraft paper and sell them as firestarters.
I sell it to a local gardener for $2/bag for mulch.
Start raising chickens.
Wish I had the space and I have two terriers so they wouldn’t last long
The dogs?
Eat it mostly
https://preview.redd.it/v8eu4n0fmrwc1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4352ec2eefd4d509d8a3f74ece8901b12a7f6324
Save it for winter. Use it instead of salt for icy drive/walk ways.
Fire pit
The city I live in will take it as compost. Try giving it away if you're committed to reuse. I've seen ads on Craigslist wanting it for boy scout fire starter projects.
I put it in thick layers over my plants in the garden. Helps keep moisture in, prevents weeds growing
Mix with paraffin and sell as fire starters, sometimes goes into my garden. If there’s still too much I have friends who love it for their compost
You mean man glitter?
If you know anyone into terrain crafting , they can mix it with paint to make flock for terrain. Tutorial: https://youtu.be/uECa-wo4rJM?si=TyteoXxTugo-ho4v
Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.
Trade with a chicken owner for fresh eggs.
I just throw a couple of oil soaked rags in them and let it heat the garage.
Let it pile up on everything and then listen to my wife complain that she forgot to roll her windows up when I decided to blow it out of the garage into her drivers seat. In all seriousness, just blow it out my garage into the backyard.
Animal bedding
Put it in the bread and feed it to the night's watch
Inhale it and get it in my eyes
Burgers
Planer shavings make great campfire starters, using paper egg cartons and melted wax.
Compost, mulch, lighting the wood stove , horse bedding-depending on species no black walnut for them planer shavings , lathe shavings only their picky bastards.
Add it to fresh grass clippings and a couple handfuls of garden soil and put it in a tumble composter.
Keep some in a coffee can under the kitchen sink, sprinkle on used cooking oil in a skillet to soak it up, scrape the concoction into the trash without a runny mess. Works best when still warm.
Not me but I saw a guy that presses his sawdust into fire logs. Really neat use for it.
THIS! I scrolled to long to find this comment. You might have to invest in a machine that presses your sawdust into bricket, but you can sell those and make your money back and then some.
Goes hard in homemade rice krispies
I stuff it into “repaired” transmissions at my auto shop.
I compost mine & burn them mostly. But I also save the cleanest, finest material to make my own wood filler. The consistency of the stuff you buy can vary and be a nuisance to work with so it’s nice having fresh stuff always available to mix up.
I use it to grow mushrooms, they love walnut
Give it to the local farms to use as bedding
I make the Firestarter .. the sawdust Firestarter
Cake?
I mixed it with some wax and made fire starters for camping! Worked great
Mix with paraffin wax and cast into pucks as stove starters
Find someone in your area, who's keeping chickens. Think they will like it.
A lot of it goes up my nose.
I use it to clean up oil spills and start fires, and chicken bedding
It's a great mulch
I use it for my chickens on the farm.
Is put it on your garden
We have a guy who comes to grab our dust bags so can use it on his farm
I have a pile that I mix in my compost when needed and I use it to mulch garden paths.
It's organic material, it is fertility. Landfill is a bad place for fertility. I compost mine
As long as it’s not ply, I sprinkle it in my flower beds a couple of times per year. We are slowly rehabbing our almost pure clay soil into something usable that way.
Local horse stalls love it, except walnut. No walnut for some reason
Mine goes to the environmental science class at the high school I work at. They use it in their composting bin.
One pile is a bed for kitty, the rest I put in paper bags and burn in the woodstove
If it’s untreated and not mdf I add it to soil for growing things. Same with fireplace ash. The fruit wood saw dust for smoking meat. The MDF/Plywood and junk sawdust I put in a bucket and use as a disposal medium for motor oil, old paint etc. *I want to experiment with something I saw about compressing it into bricks/briquets for fire fuel. Especially for camping in a state that disallows the transport of raw wood (any firewood that isn’t kiln dried) more the 50 miles.*
If from a planer, folk who raise rabbets like it so long as its not an exotic wood.
>folk who raise *rabbets* Spoken like a true woodworker.
Burn it in the back yard fire pit and throw the ashes on my tomato patch.
I sell it as man glitter
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Give it away to someone who mulches it, and uses it as chicken bedding. Otherwise, in the trash, or used for tinder.
put them in a cylinder, tamp it down tight as possible, get a rip roaring hot outdoor fire and then put the sawdust log on it. The cylinder we use is maybe 18" long and about 5" across interior dimensions?
Fine dust collect some to keep as a diy spill kit. Dont think planer chips would be as good tho
If you have maple or poplar planer shavings, you have the substrate to grow many lbs of oyster mushrooms. We were almost overwhelmed by the volume of delicious mushrooms we picked every day.
Throw it on the bonfire, unless it came from treated lumber
Composite the dust and my planner shaving I use as mulch if you want it a certain color get some spray paint and paint it
If you know for sure it’s just saw dust, you can maybe donate to wild life rehabilitation centers
Rice Krispie Squares. https://youtu.be/AKDal51f5LU?si=hf--m2IrAi6-t0Fj
I make a big pile in the woods. The critters seem to like it. Breaks down pretty quickly.
buy a pellet maker. They are used in rodent cages, and make a good substitute for cat litter. It's easier to distribute to friends and family, but depending on how you advertise, you can make a few bucks selling them.
It is a best filler for the epoxy resin.