Turning shavings

[bob]

Any reason not to give away as pet bedding

Neighbour has a hamster and mates have rabbits?

[Ian Leach]

Usually has to much dust with it, don't know if can be cleaned some how.

[IRE David H]

screen the dust though a steel mesh

[se7enthdevil]

stay away from yew and laburnum as people (other turners) have said that it can kill small mammals if used as bedding.

 

i give all mine to a chicken farmer...

 

he's never told me any birds get sick and i turn things like beech, sycamore, rowan, robinia, oak, ash, hornbeam, elm, sweet chestnut, field maple, boxwood, catalpa, walnut and cherry and they are just the ones that grow in this country.

 

exotics include things like afara, padauk, bubinga, ansenfina, chenchen, makore, african walnut, angelim vermelho, lignum vitae, verawood, ipe, pink ivory, mgurure, afzelia, pau amarello, jarrah, opepe and wenge.

 

if none of them irritate the animals i'm betting that anything you produce will be fine.

 

it's good advice to not make it too dusty though.

[dervishcarving]

You can give it a quick winnowing first (just put a big cloth on the ground outside (when there is a bit of wind) and drop the shaving from shoulder height onto the cloth. Most of the dust will blow away and the shavings should be fine for pet bedding. We give a lot of bandsaw-dust to chicken farmers and no issues yet. Id agree with Steve though, avoid poisonous species .. Steve knows his woods

[Ian Leach]

Chickens would be fine, but the other animals are caged