Sawdust - the mountain grows

[Joy Yeomans]

This is the amount of sawdust moved today, after 2 days cutting, this weekend! - cant sell it/move it quick enough, didnt get the trailer to load it back in time, so had to pile it up and will let it rot down, with the other piles of the same size, will spread it on the fields.

[bob]

thats a lot of wood in that pile

and a lot of fuel

and a lot of time

 

thank the lord it was not me:thumbup:

but wish i sold that many logs

[renewablejohn]

Logbaron

 

If you get this amount of sawdust on a regular basis I could set up a regular collection and turn it into briquettes . PM me with quantities if you are interested

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

or mix it with Mycelium and get a cash crop! Oak sawdust mixed with soil for grifola! cool beans

[Joy Yeomans]

its a mix of both hardwood and softwoods, was try and move it daily as it just clogs up the tractors pto etc and usually it goes off for animal bedding, but we couldnt get the trailer back yesterday and the lads were in a "lets go mad and clean up" mood, so just piled it up with the manure to spread in autumn.

[Stephen Blair]

get the lads to do a bit more thinky thinky and a bit less diggy diggy, or give them a shovel instead of a digger, and see how keen they are to waist a product:lol:

[garth mc garth]

how much is sawdust worth in a similar quantity to those piles? does it matter what timber its from?

[Stephen Blair]

it depends who is buying it garth and how you package it. loose in a trailer i reckon not very much, get it bagged,sealed and very clean and fine, then the horsey folk will give you top dollar. with the sawmills quiet it is hard to get your hands on it, horsey folk are now buying woodpellets for bedding and wetting them down, because it is so easy and clean to handle they are paying up to £300 a tonne( if you are adding up all the smaller bags you can carry) big wonga

[Johny Walker]

iv just had a wagon & jcb in the yard this morning to shift 4, 8,wheeler load of crap ,& the space ,more log storage

[garth mc garth]

not really interested in bagging it as i know the margins arent massive as we had a guy on our farm who used to bag up artic loads by hand and deliver them to stables.

was more interested in getting rid of it loose and in bulk if there is a customer for it, all kiln dried timber if it makes any difference, 40 yard ro ro skip full a fortnight.