Sawdust

[Alycidon]

If you want to make briquettes out of it then the moisture content needs to be below 15%.

 

When I was looking into making pellets a few years ago one of the guys I spoke to was drying willow biomass in a few weeks in the open down to that sort of level.

 

I would have thought that sawdust bagged into arb bags and kept in a barn with no rain access should pretty soon be down to that sort of level.

 

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[Martin Jenkins]

Alright Guys,

 

I was wondering what you all do with the sawdust left from processing?

 

We have stacks of clean/ dry sawdust with must have some use. What do you all do with yours?

 

Cheers

 

Mine goes to chicken bedding, hamster bedding, and mulch.

[SteveA]

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Sawdust burning stove which burns smokeless, unattended for over 8 hours per charge.

[mikey10]

Give it to a local farmer for cattle bedding

[Johny Walker]

mix it in with the woodchip

[ARBOR8]

Depending on how much i/we produce i mix it in with the wood chip.

[ARBOR8]

Love the sawdust burning stove. Would it burn chainsaw saw dust as well. As when we rip stuff and we get the shavings rather than small chips. Would be able to live in me shed then. lol.

[codlasher]

Love the sawdust burning stove. Would it burn chainsaw saw dust as well. As when we rip stuff and we get the shavings rather than small chips. Would be able to live in me shed then. lol.

 

We had two sawdust burners when I was a young fellow, in the saw-mill. They ran on wet sawdust straight from the saw pit.

I looked after my side of the Stenner re-saw and the burner was between the sawyer and I. The most important thing to do was pack the burner well.

There was a central tube that had be be put in first. Then the sawdust was packed as tight as possible. This tube was then removed and a little bit of diesel was sloshed on some newspaper in the bottom which was then lit. The lid and chimney was then put in position and you had heat for nearly all day.

The Stenner was diesel lubricated so there was always some in a can nearby and this also impregnated the sawdust too so it may have burned a little better but I know no difference as this is what was used.

codlasher

[Chopsdaly]

Great for keeping the slugs at bay !!

[mchedgey]

I use mine at our cricket club, stops bowlers slipping in the wet