what to do with sawdust?

[Brushcutter]

Hi

 

What do all do with your sawdust. We have a big Stenner 41 bandsaw for milling and it makes a lot of dust. It all goes through an extractor where its bagged up.

 

However we just cant get rid of it is there a machine that can turn it into something useful pelets, fire bricks? Or is there someone to sell it to?

 

Thanks

 

Andy

[Robert_S]

when i worked in a saw mill we use to sell the dust to the local abattoir they could not get enough, it was a good few year ago so the rules may have changed now.

[treedave]

Try local farmers with stock, by law the trailers they move them in need dust in. They even buy it if they get short!

If its really clean a dairy farm with take as much as you can give, but they are tight on what they will or will not take.

[Wee Jim]

its no good for the animals if its too fine as it can cause breathing problems fro them as it can for us. Some garages will use it as a basic spill kit!

 

i think its something like this your after though

 

From Sawdust To Bricks: They burn like wood and take up less space

[firewood]

Try local farmers with stock, by law the trailers they move them in need dust in. They even buy it if they get short!

If its really clean a dairy farm with take as much as you can give, but they are tight on what they will or will not take.

 

 

some farmers will also take it to use as a soil improver. they just mix it in with the muck for spreading. or use it as bedding (chip rather than dust) especially now as barley straw prices are going up and up

[eddie8217]

try getting your hands on a second hand briquetting machine, seen one being used in pakistan, very basic set up, made briquetts all day long,.

[tommer9]

poultry and duck farms use tonnes of the stuff. Smokeries also if it is not mixed up with softwoods, as long as you only use water to cool the blade.

[John Barleycorn]

Bag it up & take around the horse people

[Mike Dempsey]

The horsey people dont like walnut sawdust/shavings as I believe it is poisonous for horses, according to my sister in law who is one of those horsey people!

Mike

[renewablejohn]

If the moisture content is less than 12% then we could make into wood pellets or upto 15% for briquettes but it must be virgin timber.