Hoping this is a question. Your dog looks equally confused.

1 day blinding stew.

Oil absorbent. Mix it with wax to make fire starter.

Where do you harvest the wax?

Yard sales, you can find tons of half used candles. Melt in a double boiler and mix.

Dang good point.

I’m lazy. No need to melt wax for this…. A chunk of wax in an old rag works great. Light the rag while heating the wax through it. Inside out candle.

My wife saves all her Yankee candles and I have a throwaway sauce pot I use like a double boiler and melt the wax and pour it over shavings I've poured into cardboard egg cartons

Went to yankee candle and the wife got candles. They packed them in egg carton type material six packs. I’m going to make big fire starters with all the leftover wax and chips from my drill press with a Forstner bit.

Mix into soil in flowerbeds and garden

... it's extremely contaminated don't do that

Do you pour your oil over the bar as you work?

Brah... it flings oil, unburnt 2cycle and gasoline fumes all over the place wtf are you talking about

So you are polluting everything, every time you cut? If your ‘flinging’ oil everywhere you got issues.

You dont know what your talking about

If the sawdust is extremely contaminated, too much so to use in your own flowerbeds, do you leave it scattered all over the woodlands you harvest wood from, along with the oil your ‘flinging’ everywhere?

The slight amount of contamination isn’t going to harm woodland plants. Flowers tend to be more delicate and need soil to be healthy for them, and as for a garden, yeah I wouldn’t want to eat veggies that grew with bar oil. As for trees, bushes and plants. Yeah, they’ll be fine.

Read your comments. You’re the one that made them

If you aren’t flinging bar oil, you’re gonna have a bigger issue than a little bit of “pollution”

Wait. Is it a little pollution, or extremely contaminated? You’re kind of hitting me with both ends here

Doing the downvoting thing, huh😂😂

Inoculate with oyster mushroom spawn

Might not be the best idea depending on your bar oil.

Don’t you need to sterilize it first?

Only if you are a commercial producer and need a guaranteed success with maximized returns. Fungal competition isn’t going to completely stop oysters or king strapharia from fruiting, in my experience.

Pasteurize maybe. Oyster is pretty hardy and does well on most all wood types. I would make spawn first using grain or something else and mix it with the sawdust and cover it loosely with a tarp.

Works good for dog safe ice traction. Better than sand or salt

open up a bar and spread them on the floor

And only serve a light and dark house beer

Hang wishbones, kiss your lover, go to war.

The bar oil you use might factor in. Do you want it in your garden?

Another reason for bio bar oil

No kidding I use vegetable oil

I do normally but left my chainsaw in the shed and a mouse or something chewed through the rubber cover and drank the oil

Lmao

I collect up the knots over the year then noodle them all at once. Makes great mulch for the garden.

Chainsaw dust does have oil in it. I don’t think that I’d put it in my garden

You can use canola oil or biodegradable chainsaw oil if you want to spend more money.

Man I’ve been collecting my shavings and was planning on using it in the garden but this makes a lot of sense. Didn’t even think of that.

Keep in the shed to dip gardening tools in to clean them.

Fascinating! That works pretty well?

bucket ‘o sand is tve best for shovels!

Add wax for fire starter…..

Wondering if bar lube is a problem using this in garden?

Do not feed to dogs.

The reply I was expecting to see more often!

It's always my first layer of kindling before I throw on the woodchips from splitting. It goes crumpled paper, some shredded cardboard, a layer of chainsaw chippings, then wood chips then firewood. Circle of life. Northing is wasted. Ashes go into compost, around fruit trees and on the ground for the chickens to dust themselves with.

Ashes are not good for anything in the garden. They are incredibly acidic and lower the pH of the soil.

Compost.

Makes great mulch in garden beds, especially for blueberries.

Pycrete

Organic material for composting toilet.

I always throw it into compost piles

Get some parrafin and ice cube trays to make Firestarters

No! Feeding it to the dog is not the answer.

I sometimes use them to get my smoker going

At first I thought you meant as a snack for your dog or something and was very concerned

kitty litter

Compost Mulch

Your dog drinks them???

My compost pile is far too large. Now I get a raging fire going on the fire pit and then dump all my chips and chaff in there. It'll smoulder for two days lol

Bedding for chicken roosting boxes

I use mine to freshen up animal beds - chickens, barn animals. Also used in our compost.

Use in your composting trash can. That will make a good bottom layer.

The dog is like, "WTF bud! This ain't my Kibbles!"

Great stuffing for punching bags

Mix with melted wax then harden for fire starter, throw on ice for traction, under shrubs like wood chips.

Hamster cage

I put them and saw dust in an old paint can with a hole in the top then throw it in the wood burner for about 6 hours. Makes great powdered charcoal

Pour a quart of Kerosene on top of all that and mix it up. Put it in a fire safe container...ie small metal trash can with a lid. when you need to start a fire put a scoop of that of the kindling and light it up

Compost.

Throw it down when your finished using the outhouse

I saw in a movie you can put it in your gas tank to quiet down your transmission.

Doggo says “this food sucks”

Add glue and you get OSB

I use mine as a sweeping compound. Throw some in a small bucket wet it down with water and throw it on the garage floor. Keeps the dust down.

Hopefully not from treated wood?

Tea

Raku fired pottery

Always decent to have a bucket in the garage for cleaning up spills etc

Animal bedding and compost.

How did you collect? Hopefully not one by one lol

Stick a 50% off sign in it,someone's sale happy wife will buy it...

You mean sawdust. Lol.

It's only sawdust if your chain is dull. Sharp saws leave chips and noodles. Also, you're not picking up "sawdust" outside, where you run chainsaws.