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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:50 am 
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So, what exactly do you do with all the sawdust you make in your shop? You can vote at my blog this week... This one I'm interested in learning about!

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Well, I have two large trash bags of cherry sawdust ready for the trash pickup....and I sure wish I could use it....BUT......

You can only use so much in your compost bin, only so much on your flower beds because sawdust tends to leach the nitrogen out of the ground.

You shouldn't use the sawdust next to the house because of the possibility of bug infestation.

So, at least the trash disposal method has a secondary use. Our fair city of Indianapolis uses a large incinerator for it's trash disposal system that generates steam, as a by-product, for the downtown area buildings for their heating systems. I can honestly say that my sawdust will create heat rather than using our natural resourses (gas, oil, etc.).

Good question, Tom!!

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I prefer to give it to animal people, because it tends to come back nitrogen-enriched later on for my garden. If it's clean and usable stuff, no walnut or cherry for horses, for instance, it goes for bedding. If it's got floor sweepings, it goes out into a swale I've been trying to fill in for over twenty years. Lathe shavings make fire starters, and nasty walnut/cherry/red oak stuff with lots of tannins kill weeds under the electric fence almost as well as roundup.

ALMOST all of the above wasn't offered.


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I just vac it up in the shop vac and toss it in the trash. :oops:
For the most part it is sanding dust and scroll saw dust (which is about the same thing) and not of much use for anything but mixing with shellac for wood filler in the "oops" areas of projects. :D

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I use the nice sawdust abd planer chips as mulch in beds and around trees. Looks great and works very well. The planer chips stay put better than I thought in the wind.

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unfortunately no one I've asked wants mine... so about once every month or so a big-ol jet dust collector sized pile goes into the trash... I feel like it's a waste every time I do it....

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Lawrence - You could always make a mold with your CW and create a glue/sawdust mixture and create some castings! might be neat to try?

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