What does everyone do with their sawdust?

[skyhuck]

Maybe others dont have 200k of kit to lose

 

Having seen the pics, plenty do.

[renewablejohn]

Having seen the pics, plenty do.

 

Whats wrong with being cautious. How many on here have been broken into and had there kit stolen. My major defence is that I live in the middle of nowhere so why should I give out my location to potential thieves. How many times on this forum has an op posted up a picture only to find the piece of equipment in the backgound discussed. Security in this day and age is not just about physical security.

[openspaceman]

Whats wrong with being cautious.

 

Absolutely nothing wrong with caution.

 

I would be interested in knowing which pictures on here have position in their exif data, especially any of my own!

[leswold]

As it was I who first asked for a pic...just want to say that I completely get John's wish for security & there were similar pics on youtube. Anyway back on thread & it looks a cracking use of sawdust.

[detritus21]

Would it be a viable proposition to use a sawdust/chip burner to run a crude firewood kiln.

[WeFixIt]

This beauty burns anything!!

[openspaceman]

Would it be a viable proposition to use a sawdust/chip burner to run a crude firewood kiln.

 

why not? It's a source of clean heat and all you need is the heat to supply the latent heat to change moisture to vapour and a means of circulating it.

 

Air drying is probably the mos economical but it becomes a toss up between cashflow and cost of dry storage verses capital cost and energy use for the dryer.

 

To dry from green 50% to oven dry will cost about 30% again of the energy in the dried wood plus running circulation but it's not worth going below 20% as dry wood picks up water from the atmosphere.

 

We ran a number of experiments on various scenarios when designing a dryer for our client and one which showed promise was a directly fired batch sequential one that dried in 3 days but wasn't adopted because it would have been too costly to certify the burner, which appeared clean and burning with about 30ppm CO.

[renewablejohn]

Would it be a viable proposition to use a sawdust/chip burner to run a crude firewood kiln.

 

No problem at all. Using sawdust/chip burners is common practice in Europe for running bread ovens the only complications start when you try to claim RHI on such tried and tested technology.

[detritus21]

Wouldnt be overly bothered about RHI think i might have to start designing one.

[renewablejohn]

As it was I who first asked for a pic...just want to say that I completely get John's wish for security & there were similar pics on youtube. Anyway back on thread & it looks a cracking use of sawdust.

 

PM me with your email address and I will send you some pictures of my set up or if passing your quite welcome to drop in for a look.