Use for sawdust?!

[Toby in Buckinghamshire]

Hi All

 

Have done a search but no real results. Anyone found a use for sawdust produced from milling with a chainsaw mill?

 

When milling in the garden I sometime have to take all the dust with me. Have been putting it on the compost heap but it's mostly sawdust now and I can't imagine it's doing it much good!

 

Obviously it's contaminated with bar oil but I'm using the bio stuff from rotatech which presumably is a bit less toxic than the standard stuff.

 

Any thoughts? Can't even take it to the local dump with the new rules....!

 

Thanks

 

Toby

[trigger_andy]

6 minutes ago, Toby in Buckinghamshire said:

 

Hi All

 

Have done a search but no real results. Anyone found a use for sawdust produced from milling with a chainsaw mill?

 

When milling in the garden I sometime have to take all the dust with me. Have been putting it on the compost heap but it's mostly sawdust now and I can't imagine it's doing it much good!

 

Obviously it's contaminated with bar oil but I'm using the bio stuff from rotatech which presumably is a bit less toxic than the standard stuff.

 

Any thoughts? Can't even take it to the local dump with the new rules....!

 

Thanks

 

Toby

 

Invest in a Pellet making machine? Or build one if you're handy? 6mm Pellets in 10kg bags are around £3-6. 

[Rough Hewn]

Find your nearest allotment group.
Gardeners love sawdust and wood chip.
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[trigger_andy]

Just now, Rough Hewn said:

Find your nearest allotment group.
Gardeners love sawdust and wood chip.

Even with Chain Oil in it? Off a Bandsaw's one thing but Id never put Alaskan Milling waste in my Garden. 

[Woodworks]

Clark forest Bio oil is just rapeseed and natural rubber. Just started using in my processor to make the chip that bit more garden friendly 

[Big J]

Horsey types like it to go underneath straw to soak up the wizz. In the end, we just bunged it all into a biomass skip, along with everything else that would burn.

[gdh]

Can't get a lot for sawdust but horse,cattle or sheep bedding is where ours goes.

[Stubby]

Mark Odin of M J O forestry says he gets a full tank of hot water from a bag of saw dust on his stove . 

[Ratman]

Anyone ever attempted to make their own fire logs from left overs?

[Stubby]

17 minutes ago, Ratman said:

Anyone ever attempted to make their own fire logs from left overs?

Yep .