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Durtdawber
12-22-2007, 06:54 PM
Besides throwing it out, what do you do with all the sawdust created as you carve? Just wondering if anyone had a creative uses for it.

Bubbabear
12-22-2007, 06:56 PM
could be used in a compost mix

http://www.compostguide.com/

pkunk
12-22-2007, 08:17 PM
This month (mostly from my business) I generated a dozen 55 gal. bags of shavings/ sander sawdust. Most went to the landfill. I will not put any on the ground as mulch as it will pull nitrogen from the soil. Some, (hardwood shavings only) go to a local horse stable as bedding. The sawdust/ sander dust, is worthless unless there's a pellet making facility nearby.

Kenm810
12-26-2007, 08:44 AM
Here’s what I do with a lot of my shop wood Chips, Sawdust and Shavings.

I have a 3” id. Piece of dura iron pipe about 60” long with a threaded removable cap at one end, and a 4 ton hydraulic jack with a 24" stroke at the other.
I spray the hard wood chips, dust and shavings with a little less than quarter cup of liquid paraffin wax as a binder, and then load the dura iron ¾ full with the chip, dust, and wax mix. Next I slide a piece brass rod stock ( no sparks ) that just fits in the dura iron and is about 8” long. The first stroke compresses the mix to 36”, I then add a 12” spacer, and the second stroke compresses it to a log 3” round and 24 to 28” long. I remove the cap and with the aid of a short length of 2x2 oak the third stroke of the jack push the newly formed log and brass plug out of the dura iron and it is ready for a reload. It all takes around 10 to 15 minute per log and cost close to $.30 for the paraffin. Depending on the type wood I use and how tightly I compress it, each log burns in the fire place for 35 to 60 minutes. One or two a night is usually enough for Barb and I, one or two more if we’re entertaining guests on the weekend. There is very little ash to clean up and they don’t foul the chimney like scrap or unseasoned wood can do. Oak burns the hottest, Poplar and Aspen the fastest. But for the holidays I stocked up on fresh cut pine to make our logs.
Any one that has used a router or table saw on a nice piece of pine will tell you how great the aroma is in the shop,
and when it is burned in the fireplace, it just down right smells like Christmas. http://www.carvewright.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

IM2HAPPI
12-26-2007, 09:35 AM
I make firestarters with some of ours too. I save all old candles plus get from friends. I melt them down and place shavings in cupcake holder with paper. Than pour 3 or 4 tablespoons of wax in each. You'd be surprise how long they burn. (approx. 15 minutes)I have also dipped those hudge pinecones in wax and tossed them into bag of planer shavings. They are great firestarters as well. Hubby has a press and just said he was going to try and do what Ken does after seeing them being made on TV couple weeks ago. Pine shavings we give to some farmers for their chicken coups, hog pens.
Barb

Kenm810
12-26-2007, 10:16 AM
Hi Barb

If you hubby dose make some fire place logs,
tell him to sprinkle a few bits of copper foil or wire in the mix.
It's mesmerizing to watch the green and blue flames dancing among the red and yellow.

IM2HAPPI
12-26-2007, 11:04 AM
We always take old hose and chop it up into pieces and place some old copper tubing into it. Drill holes into it and throw into firepit. Everyone likes to watch that ; )
Barb

Kenm810
12-26-2007, 11:48 AM
Just like my Barb here at home, your both way ahead of me! http://www.carvewright.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif

TIMCOSBY
12-26-2007, 11:05 PM
here in the south say not to use hard wood shavings for bedding in the stalls only pine????

911guy
12-27-2007, 01:06 AM
We always take old hose and chop it up into pieces and place some old copper tubing into it. Drill holes into it and throw into firepit. Everyone likes to watch that ; )
Barb

Yep...I do the same

With the shavings, great fire starters like Happi said.

IM2HAPPI
12-27-2007, 05:12 AM
Pine shavings we give to some farmers for their chicken coups, hog pens.
Barb

IM2HAPPI
12-27-2007, 06:09 AM
Rich has a Wells 50 ton press, think that will make a 6 in log in dia.? LOL He is going to try using a 6 in piece of ductal iron schl.80 probably 40 in long. Figured at least a 20 in log...maybe ?

Kenm810
12-27-2007, 09:29 AM
Yep here I go; low man on the totem pole again
with my Tinker Toy, Lincoln log sized Christmas Yule Logs.
Some where down the line there's probably someone thinking
he or she can make them the size of telegraph poles with roller on em
to just keep feeding them into back of the fire box as needed. http://www.carvewright.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif


Well I guess some of the little ones Grand Ma Honey ( Barb) makes,
that look like these, can be kind of festive and smell Christmasie too.

(Christmasie) is that even a real word? http://www.carvewright.com/forum/images/icons/icon11.gif

IM2HAPPI
01-17-2008, 01:43 PM
I was walking into Krogers this am and seen this picture. I said to self, wow you need to go get camera from truck and show Ken what Midland County has been known for lol. Check out that load.

Ben Gabus
01-17-2008, 02:33 PM
I make firestarters with some of ours too. I save all old candles plus get from friends. I melt them down and place shavings in cupcake holder with paper. Than pour 3 or 4 tablespoons of wax in each. You'd be surprise how long they burn. (approx. 15 minutes)I have also dipped those hudge pinecones in wax and tossed them into bag of planer shavings. They are great firestarters as well. Hubby has a press and just said he was going to try and do what Ken does after seeing them being made on TV couple weeks ago. Pine shavings we give to some farmers for their chicken coups, hog pens.
Barb

Mine are mostly South Carolina Cedar {really juniper]. They go mostly into my compost, but a small amount is saved to mix with glue and fill any small imperfections in plaques before final sanding.
Benjy:)

Kenm810
01-17-2008, 04:18 PM
More photos of Michigan History and years gone by --- Photos of Michigan Lumbering (http://www.classroomhelp.com/lessons/michigan/index.html)
My Dad was a lumber jack in the U.P. back around the 1920s and 30s, I still remember the tall tales of the saw dust piles He used to make.http://forum.carvewright.com/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif