Sawdust/shavings available in Bolton

[mmmartin]

Hi all, I have a small factory machining kiln dried Oak/Walnut in Bolton and typically produce 4 cubic metre of shavings/sawdust per week. Are there any members out there who would like to collect it on a regular basis?

[MATTMOSS]

All you need to do is mention it to a local horse stables and they will be more than willing to take it from you, probably even pay you for it.

[se7enthdevil]

i think they only want softwood "chips" for bedding?

 

i used to work with a guy who's daughter had a horse and he would only take the bags if they had 100% only softwood chips and very little sawdust in it.

[woodworm]

Every horse owner I know would only want shavings or sawdust. Chip isn't absorbent enough.

[Peter]

The oak would be good for food smoking, if you can separate the dust and keep it clean it's worth good money.

[se7enthdevil]

Every horse owner I know would only want shavings or sawdust. Chip isn't absorbent enough.

 

by chips i mean the stuff that comes from a planer...

 

 

as a joiner they are chips to me and anything finer is sawdust.

[MATTMOSS]

It doesnt matter whether its soft or hard wood shavings its just for soaking up the hosspiss not for bedding.

Just as long as its not dust off mdf, which is harmful to both man and beast, or got nails in it.

[MATTMOSS]

The oak would be good for food smoking, if you can separate the dust and keep it clean it's worth good money.

 

Most folk i know with work shops have large extraction machines which gather all the sawdust from different machines and blow it into several large bags or even a dust room, theres no separating it.

[winchman]

Has no one got a saw dust heater?

[Big J]

Walnut is very toxic, so is a no no for any animals.

 

As someone who produces quite a lot of sawdust (about 3 artic loads so far this year), trust me when I say it's not that easy to get rid of. After much buggering about, I've not got to the stage where the new operators of the local farm are taking it all for purposes that they haven't fully decided on. But given that they've just installed a huge biomass dryer and have cattle, it will get used.

 

Regarding the OPs question, with kiln dried chip and sawdust, it might well be best to invest in a small briquette press. They are slow and not that cheap to buy, but 4 cube is about 500kg or so? At £200 a tonne for briquettes, it will quietly and automatically work away to produce £5k a year of briquettes a year. I'm not sure where else you'd get rid of it as all of my outlets have been for animal bedding and the walnut is really nasty, I'm told.