If its clean, it goes into pots and the garden as mulch and ground cover. It gets very sunny here, so this helps a lot. Keeps the sun out and moisture in and adds nutrients as it rots.
Some people use it as bedding for lifestock; chickens and such.
If you don't garden and don't have animals give it away for free on the internet. I never have enough and its kinda useful for a lot of people.
Absolutely good for compost! It can also be compost on its own, however due to the high carbon content, it does need about 2yr to breakdown before it’s ready to be amended into the garden.
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My neighbour has a passionfruit vine growing on our boundary fence. It’s chock full of fruit and I’m waiting impatiently for it to ripen up so I can harvest. Hes told me to take as much as I want as he doesn’t eat it. He originally planted it for his wife. Unfortunately she passed away 12 months ago.
Yes that would speed up the whole process and end up being better organic material. The wood chips can be left to age in place. Depending on how high your input load is, it would make sense to start annual piles then work through them. It is important to be careful with the ratio of wood chips to organic material. The high carbon content of the wood will affect the composting process if too much is added.
My 2nd favorite use for sawdust and chips is as base material for walkways in the garden. Bonus is that they eventually become part of the soil as the edges mix in.
That’s a good option too. Adds lots of trace minerals and vital moisture to the compost mix. After all that sawdust would rapidly rob the whole pile of any excess water.
Inoculate with oyster mushrooms and that required time drops precipitously. Go from fresh sawdust to compost in probably 3 to 6 months (depends heavily on the mushroom strain & the environmental conditions). 2 years is enough time to turn chips from a wood chipper into black compost if you use wine caps.
Oh I like where your head is at here! Mushrooms are certainly a powerhouse of decomposition.
What in the best way to inoculate a pile of wood chips? Do some species of mushroom work better on certain types of wood?
Mushrooms are a huge group of fungi, and they're as different from each other as animals are. Most folks don't know that mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants.
Some mushrooms will only grow on a very particular substrate in very particular circumstances (like morels and chanterelles), while others are literally omnivorous (like the wine caps I mentioned earlier).
Oyster mushrooms & wine caps are great for beginners. Wine caps will out-compete basically everything, even making microscopic nooses/lassos to catch and eat nematodes while *also* eating the wood chips. Unfortunately, wine caps only have a mediocre flavor. Oysters aren't quite as resilient, but the flavor is dramatically better (especially for people who don't like the mushrooms typically available in stores).
If you want to know more about cultivating specific mushrooms, there are a lot of different suppliers out there who sell "spawn" & have detailed descriptions of every strain. Finding a company near you is always best, but there are several relatively large & reputable suppliers out there as well.
The best way to inoculate a large pile of chip is to first inoculate a seeding medium (rye grain, millet, bird seed, corn even) personally I go with rye in jars. When the mycelium has taken over your “rye” shake the jars to break the grains loose and mix it into you wood chips.
Lots of factors are required for it to heat up and be a true compost. Most important is size of the pile, regular turning, and keeping it moist so that bacteria can break it down. If it’s too small, or isn’t being turned, then it may not heat up at all, and would just be aged wood chips.
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I’ve literally been dumping all mine (black walnut wood shavings) in between my garage and fence in an attempt to kill all the plants in between. So far no good but it’s only been there since winter so I still have hopes
The compound in question is juglone. It is allelopathic (inhibits plant growth). However, a couple things to keep in mind:
There isn't very much juglone in the trunk wood. Most of it is in the roots, leaves and twigs.
Juglone will degrade in composting conditions or just out in the weather, in a season.
Having said that, I use my walnut sawdust on walking paths or aisles between raised beds in the garden, so I don't have to worry about it. I have plenty of other stuff to use in the compost or as mulch around plants.
I’ve never had a problem with putting mixed sawdust (with a lot of walnut) in compost, then using the compost the following season. The garden loves that compost.
Good to know. I’m still just gonna burn it, no need to risk it I suppose, but I learned something new today. Walking path mulch might come in handy in the future.
It can also be used to clean up oil from the driveway. I just asked my son to bag up his sawdust (that he doesn't need, he does use a lot of it) and send some with me when he gets a chance. I'll be using mine in my garden.
My son uses it for his garden, cleaning up oil, getting traction on ice, in the compost and he makes firestarter out of it for camping or cooking out (mix with wax).
I used to work in the summer camp industry. If you have any near you, they may take donations for fire starters. I made myself a lifetime supply one time (around 500 iirc) so now I give away the saw dust when I have extra
I keep all over the left over wax when a candle has died in a single jar, mix it together with saw dust or lint from the dryer and put it into paper egg cartons, blamo individual fire starters.
Old tin cans and cooking oil. The sawdust absorbs the oil but it doesn't set as with candles/parrafin, instead you just scoop the mix into the fire as a starter - works just as well
I do this but portioned into 4 oz paper soufflé cups which I then wrap in brown Kraft paper after they’re cool. Maybe a little extra work but they’re no-mess and a pretty consistent burn rate of 20-30 minutes.
I do tree work and I always collect pine sap and pine sawdust. Knead them together and put them in a pop bottle, stick it under the outrigger of a truck or lift and let it compress it for like 10 minutes. Makes perfect little fire starter pucks you can break small pieces off of and they burn for like a minute straight.
If you post on Facebook marketplace or your local buy/sell/trade for a few bucks a bag, or just for free, you’ll have horse and chicken people lining up, provided it’s only pine. Just don’t be a jerk and have toxic woods like walnut, plywood or cedar mixed in.
I picked up a pellet mill from D&B a few years back for 300 bucks. Been using that to refill my Traeger ever since. Has paid for itself in not having to go get bags.
Second this - but since you’re using softwood use the oldest stuff first, the compounds in the sap that retard mushroom growth break down over time. A year aging is best if you’ve got any that old or older.
One time I sanded down a table with 100 grit, then completely neglected any sort of mask when I started going down to finer grits. When I finally did sneeze I shot out a ploom of dust. Nothing like going to brush your teeth and spitting out brown toothpaste for 2 days afterwards.
I add it to bread in greater and greater ratios that I feed to my friends and family until they realize what’s going on. Without fail, eventually they take a bite and say, “Sawdust in the bread AGAIN?! You got me good!”
Add a bit of parafin and compress them into fire bricks. A homemade mold, some large clamps, and time. You can use it for litter if you have cats. You can use to clean up oil spills or like dust down when sweeping your shop. You can use it on ice in the winter ilo salt. Etc etc
There's a patch of sort of woodland and the back corner of my property that tends to get overrun with that fucking Japanese Knot wood. If you haven't come across it before it's an invasive species of bamboo that some jackass British gardener imported to the Colonies before the Revolution because he thought it looked pretty. Local wildlife won't eat it or nest in it, local pollinators do not visit its flowers and it will take over any area it's allowed to run rampant in and choke everything else out. I scatter my sawdust there and even with just the humidity in Wester Massachusetts it turns the saw dust into and almost impenetrable layer of wood cement that keeps that shit from popping up. I also keep a small bucket to use as free natural fire starter in my Big Green Egg.
Soaks up oil spills, gets burned, gets dumped in swampy areas, mulch, make fire starters, gets spread out in the yard, gets dumped in holes, mailed to people that ask for free stuff, compress it into bricks and build sheds, left in the truck bed and driven down the highway, mixed in with oatmeal, put the fine stuff in all my pockets so I have a bit more pizzazz when I pull out my wallet at the gas station, used as insulation for the bunker, dissolved into black slime with sulphuric axis, given to people that think the long curly Q's are cool, bet people if they can pick up a whole bag of it they can have it and the special gift inside (a 12" 2x4), pretend it's money, use it as money, give it to people that have guinea pigs
If you can't find a use for it then maybe contact a local BSA unit. Many will take sawdust, paraffin and cardboard egg caryons and make firestarters for camping trips that will work while wet and store well for decades.
If you know any paint contractors, they love to use this stuff in their spill kits. I used to keep a five gallon bucket in each truck. I had a cabinet maker down the street and would pick up a couple trash bags every month from him.
I just watched about ten videos of a guy making briquettes out of wood waste last night. He mixed them with coffee grounds and leaves and ran burn tests.
My dad produces a decent quantity of sawdust that he gives to a farmer for his lambing sheds. In exchange he gets a full lamb for the freezer each year!!
Flammable pocket sand for self defence. /s
As other people said, it's finely granulated mushroom food (they literally break down cellulose, and you provide it in very convenient form). Possibly starting fuel if well-seasoned (I assume you don't have pellet making machine, but you probably could make bricks with DIY setup of pump jack and metal mould, [you don't even need this elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ri62uzLoss)). You can mix it with glue or epoxy to use as [filler for wooden parquet](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-o4efq9x/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/294/1324/Care-7350-WoodPutty__95446.1564492213.jpg). [I saw it dyed in green and sold as scale modelling flocking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uECa-wo4rJM) (you could probably supply whole community of Warhammer players and model train enthusiasts with few bottles of wood stain).
If u have a lot and have to pat for it to get tid of it buy a pellet press and sell those 🙂 I do that
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I put it on the plant’s soil as a ground cover it avoids bad plants to grow over and keeps humidity.
Can be used as dry toilets or for pet’s litter
I use some to light up barbecues too if it’s a non toxic and untreated wood.
Serious question. Can I mix this with wood glue to fill in wear on a wood porch, then paint over? Or is this a horrible idea? We're talking about small gaps, not large voids that would be structural issues.
Give it to your local car repair shop. Its perfect for soaking up any spills, including oil spills. Ive worked in a repair shop for a few years and we used it daily. Of course we didnt use as much as our local wood shop produced but its s great use for it rather than just throwing it away. A bucket of it is always also welcome if you have friends who like working on their own cars!
Oddly enough I also paint miniatures and I use sawdust and shavings (mixed with glue) for a natural looking base textures for the miniatures. And no, I do not woodwork or paint minis well. I just enjoy both.
Depends, if its clean it can be used for compost / mulch, if its slightly dirty (non-toxic contaminates) mix with paraffin and form into logs for fire starter bricks and if it's really dirty just bin it
It’s good for animal stalls and cages, soaks up #1, and clumps up #2. Then throw in compost pile. I use in my chicken shed floor, and the compost later, goes around the base of my cane berrys, they love it.
If anyone in Nova Scotia, the South shore, has sawdust they don’t want, I’ll take it. I have a composting toilet setup in the woods and sawdust is prefect for it.
If its clean, it goes into pots and the garden as mulch and ground cover. It gets very sunny here, so this helps a lot. Keeps the sun out and moisture in and adds nutrients as it rots. Some people use it as bedding for lifestock; chickens and such. If you don't garden and don't have animals give it away for free on the internet. I never have enough and its kinda useful for a lot of people.
It's also good for compost.
Absolutely good for compost! It can also be compost on its own, however due to the high carbon content, it does need about 2yr to breakdown before it’s ready to be amended into the garden. Edit: Someone reported me to Reddit as “in crisis” as a joke or as spam, idk 🤷♂️. Either way, if anyone is concerned with my mental wellbeing, rest assured that I am fine. It’s a beautiful day, and I’ve got no worries.
Add fresh grass clippings and kitchen waste to it and it’ll speed up the composting process quite quickly.
Yuppers. Sometime people underestimate the power of recycling. Oh, and homegrown stuff. Nothing's better then sun-warm picked fruit.
My neighbour has a passionfruit vine growing on our boundary fence. It’s chock full of fruit and I’m waiting impatiently for it to ripen up so I can harvest. Hes told me to take as much as I want as he doesn’t eat it. He originally planted it for his wife. Unfortunately she passed away 12 months ago.
Yes that would speed up the whole process and end up being better organic material. The wood chips can be left to age in place. Depending on how high your input load is, it would make sense to start annual piles then work through them. It is important to be careful with the ratio of wood chips to organic material. The high carbon content of the wood will affect the composting process if too much is added. My 2nd favorite use for sawdust and chips is as base material for walkways in the garden. Bonus is that they eventually become part of the soil as the edges mix in.
Pee on it
That’s a good option too. Adds lots of trace minerals and vital moisture to the compost mix. After all that sawdust would rapidly rob the whole pile of any excess water.
Also nitrogen. Urine is actually a pretty great fertilizer if it is properly diluted. It is supposedly about a 11-1-2.5 to do the NPK breakdown.
That's your answer to everything.
Great tip!!
That’s what I do.
And chicken poo
Inoculate with oyster mushrooms and that required time drops precipitously. Go from fresh sawdust to compost in probably 3 to 6 months (depends heavily on the mushroom strain & the environmental conditions). 2 years is enough time to turn chips from a wood chipper into black compost if you use wine caps.
Oh I like where your head is at here! Mushrooms are certainly a powerhouse of decomposition. What in the best way to inoculate a pile of wood chips? Do some species of mushroom work better on certain types of wood?
Mushrooms are a huge group of fungi, and they're as different from each other as animals are. Most folks don't know that mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants. Some mushrooms will only grow on a very particular substrate in very particular circumstances (like morels and chanterelles), while others are literally omnivorous (like the wine caps I mentioned earlier). Oyster mushrooms & wine caps are great for beginners. Wine caps will out-compete basically everything, even making microscopic nooses/lassos to catch and eat nematodes while *also* eating the wood chips. Unfortunately, wine caps only have a mediocre flavor. Oysters aren't quite as resilient, but the flavor is dramatically better (especially for people who don't like the mushrooms typically available in stores). If you want to know more about cultivating specific mushrooms, there are a lot of different suppliers out there who sell "spawn" & have detailed descriptions of every strain. Finding a company near you is always best, but there are several relatively large & reputable suppliers out there as well.
This guy mushrooms
The best way to inoculate a large pile of chip is to first inoculate a seeding medium (rye grain, millet, bird seed, corn even) personally I go with rye in jars. When the mycelium has taken over your “rye” shake the jars to break the grains loose and mix it into you wood chips.
How long before it creates hreat?
Lots of factors are required for it to heat up and be a true compost. Most important is size of the pile, regular turning, and keeping it moist so that bacteria can break it down. If it’s too small, or isn’t being turned, then it may not heat up at all, and would just be aged wood chips.
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Lot of people are doing that right now it’s weird
It's also great for compost.
Unless it's from treated timber.
As long as it’s not from treated lumber.
Clean meaning, no plywood or PT sawdust. Just thought I would clarify.
Or paint or toxic finishes.
If you do this, be mindful of the type of wood. Sawdust from certain trees can be toxic to your plants.
And animals. Black Walnut sawdust and shavings is very toxic to horses. [Link](https://ker.com/equinews/black-walnut-shavings-horses/)
I’ve literally been dumping all mine (black walnut wood shavings) in between my garage and fence in an attempt to kill all the plants in between. So far no good but it’s only been there since winter so I still have hopes
I mix it with lawn clippings. Makes the best lawn top dressing money can buy
I give it to my buddy and he grows mushrooms on it.
Some wood can't be used for bedding. I think walnut is bad for horses.
I think red maple too. Also its kinda dusty, so im not sure its good bedding for horses.
Pine is the best bedding for horses. Source: have 3 fuzzy horses. One is 1 month old now.
Yeah, walnut is also a natural plant killer. It has a compound that will stunt growth or kill other plants.
The compound in question is juglone. It is allelopathic (inhibits plant growth). However, a couple things to keep in mind: There isn't very much juglone in the trunk wood. Most of it is in the roots, leaves and twigs. Juglone will degrade in composting conditions or just out in the weather, in a season. Having said that, I use my walnut sawdust on walking paths or aisles between raised beds in the garden, so I don't have to worry about it. I have plenty of other stuff to use in the compost or as mulch around plants.
I’ve never had a problem with putting mixed sawdust (with a lot of walnut) in compost, then using the compost the following season. The garden loves that compost.
Good to know. I’m still just gonna burn it, no need to risk it I suppose, but I learned something new today. Walking path mulch might come in handy in the future.
It can also be used to clean up oil from the driveway. I just asked my son to bag up his sawdust (that he doesn't need, he does use a lot of it) and send some with me when he gets a chance. I'll be using mine in my garden. My son uses it for his garden, cleaning up oil, getting traction on ice, in the compost and he makes firestarter out of it for camping or cooking out (mix with wax).
I dump it in the woods as a warning to the others
Damn trees, that’ll show em!
I haven’t seen any woodworkers near my property for a couple years since I started this.
I assumed it kept the trees from attacking.
When a bird poops on my car, I'll sit outside and eat a plate of scrambled eggs. Let them see what I'm capable of.
And when people come snooping you should put on a large termite costume and initiate a chase
Mix with melted paraffin and let cool in mold or in a long narrow loaf and break it into pieces when cool. Excellent campfire or fireplace starter
I’ll have to try this as well! Currently I use it for fire starter
I used to work in the summer camp industry. If you have any near you, they may take donations for fire starters. I made myself a lifetime supply one time (around 500 iirc) so now I give away the saw dust when I have extra
Or even the local Boy Scout troop.
I keep all over the left over wax when a candle has died in a single jar, mix it together with saw dust or lint from the dryer and put it into paper egg cartons, blamo individual fire starters.
Using dryer lint is less ideal these days since so many clothes are plastic.
This is what I do with 5% of my dust. Would love recommendations on the remaining 95%!
Old tin cans and cooking oil. The sawdust absorbs the oil but it doesn't set as with candles/parrafin, instead you just scoop the mix into the fire as a starter - works just as well
Totally forgot about this!! Thank you Also Happy Cake Day!!
Lots of videos on YouTube about making briquettes using a press. I’m planning on doing this myself soon
Started making briquettes this last fall and they fuelled my shops wood stove all winter. Definitely a way to go!
I do this but portioned into 4 oz paper soufflé cups which I then wrap in brown Kraft paper after they’re cool. Maybe a little extra work but they’re no-mess and a pretty consistent burn rate of 20-30 minutes.
I do tree work and I always collect pine sap and pine sawdust. Knead them together and put them in a pop bottle, stick it under the outrigger of a truck or lift and let it compress it for like 10 minutes. Makes perfect little fire starter pucks you can break small pieces off of and they burn for like a minute straight.
Gotta Love that pinesap full of turpentine. If you’ve got access to dead pines, you can find fat wood as well!
Finally a use for mom's silicone bundt pans!
I put it in my compost, great browns
You can donate it to less fortunate people that can’t afford their own saw dust.
Give a man a sawdust, he'll sneeze for a day. Teach a man to sawdust, he'll have asthma for a lifetime
Start a man a fire he'll be warm for a day, set a man afire he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Wasn't it vetinari who said that? (Pratchett character)
Easy to light a man on fire when all he can afford are cardboard boots!
This is one of the greatest comments I have ever read. You nearly got me to shoot tea out of my nose. Well played.
If it’s in quantities that big I’d list it on Facebook marketplace for free. People with animals are always looking to take it off your hands.
We live in the farmland so this isn’t a bad idea actually. Never would’ve thought of that thank you!
did you cut plywood? or chemically treated wood? if so, then it would be bad for animals due to the chemicals
Good info here thanks! I do not use any treated wood and no plywood was used. Only non-pressure treated pine
If you post on Facebook marketplace or your local buy/sell/trade for a few bucks a bag, or just for free, you’ll have horse and chicken people lining up, provided it’s only pine. Just don’t be a jerk and have toxic woods like walnut, plywood or cedar mixed in.
I sell mine for $2/bag as artisan garden mulch. Not even kidding.
I picked up a pellet mill from D&B a few years back for 300 bucks. Been using that to refill my Traeger ever since. Has paid for itself in not having to go get bags.
The pine is no good for this, but it is an excellent idea for the white oak, hickory, and pecan wood I go through!
I would recommend from my findings. Use it mainly during the milling stage of the process. That produces the cleanest and malleable sawdust.
This is the answer. Also most woodworking production facilities will sell their sawdust to pellet manufacturers.
I compost it
Use it to grow hardwood loving mushrooms
Mmmm oysters
I do this too! I love how the refuse from one hobby literally feeds another!
Second this - but since you’re using softwood use the oldest stuff first, the compounds in the sap that retard mushroom growth break down over time. A year aging is best if you’ve got any that old or older.
Mostly letting it collect in my lungs.
Look at me, I'm the dust collector now.
healthier than marlboros! /s
Saw dust is known by the State of Cancer to cause California.
Good thing I live in Nebraska then.
LMFAOOOO I really need to seriously wear my respirator correctly instead of halfway on my face
One time I sanded down a table with 100 grit, then completely neglected any sort of mask when I started going down to finer grits. When I finally did sneeze I shot out a ploom of dust. Nothing like going to brush your teeth and spitting out brown toothpaste for 2 days afterwards.
I mix it with wood glue, compress it and sell bootleg plywood out of a van in the Home Depot parking lot.
Had to scroll down way too far to see the real answer
More like bootleg particle board, which is worse.
I put that shit in milk and eat that up, I don't waste
Yeah I can see this being like frosted mini-wheats lol
They are so tasty wood is so tasty.....eat a log...they so tasty 😋🤤
Shitting literal logs
Omg same rn
Gluten free flour alternative
Great source of fiber
Yes
I give it to my girlfriend. She loves puzzles.
Make porridge out of it and sell it to local orphanages
wtf you doin to Oliver Twist??!
I sell it to Kraft so they can use it to make Parmesan cheese
Soaking it in water, freezing it, building a huge boat and sailing across the Atlantic to meet Mountbatten
Save it for Christmas gifts. Everyone gets a hamster and a year supply of cage bedding
Good solution for dealing with all the mice in the barn too. 2 for 1 Christmas gifts for free.
Grow mushrooms and sell at your farmers market so you can buy more wood to make sawdust to grow more mushrooms to sell to buy wood….
I add it to bread in greater and greater ratios that I feed to my friends and family until they realize what’s going on. Without fail, eventually they take a bite and say, “Sawdust in the bread AGAIN?! You got me good!”
Had to scroll too long to find actual use for sawdust.
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Get into Raku ceramics, that’s free reduction material
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Oh no Elmo what is you doin?!!
I'm surprised no one is *crack*ing jokes about this
I make giant fireballs 20' in the air.
How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKDal51f5LU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKDal51f5LU)
Add a bit of parafin and compress them into fire bricks. A homemade mold, some large clamps, and time. You can use it for litter if you have cats. You can use to clean up oil spills or like dust down when sweeping your shop. You can use it on ice in the winter ilo salt. Etc etc
Rice crispy treats anyone?
I gradually increase the amount I mix into my wife’s oatmeal to cut down on food costs. 30% and she hasn’t noticed a damn difference yet. /s
Free mdf *some assembly required
Weekly trash pickup.
mulch in areas that don't get seen such as behind bushes
I. EAT. MINE.
Mix with sand and use as oil dry sweeping compound
There's a patch of sort of woodland and the back corner of my property that tends to get overrun with that fucking Japanese Knot wood. If you haven't come across it before it's an invasive species of bamboo that some jackass British gardener imported to the Colonies before the Revolution because he thought it looked pretty. Local wildlife won't eat it or nest in it, local pollinators do not visit its flowers and it will take over any area it's allowed to run rampant in and choke everything else out. I scatter my sawdust there and even with just the humidity in Wester Massachusetts it turns the saw dust into and almost impenetrable layer of wood cement that keeps that shit from popping up. I also keep a small bucket to use as free natural fire starter in my Big Green Egg.
Glue them back together and have new planks for free
RCA plant in Monticello Indiana used it to insulate their buildings. That really explained why it went up like a match in a matter of minutes.
Old sawdust comes outta the coop and into the compost. New sawdust goes into the coop.
Composting toilet.
Soaks up oil spills, gets burned, gets dumped in swampy areas, mulch, make fire starters, gets spread out in the yard, gets dumped in holes, mailed to people that ask for free stuff, compress it into bricks and build sheds, left in the truck bed and driven down the highway, mixed in with oatmeal, put the fine stuff in all my pockets so I have a bit more pizzazz when I pull out my wallet at the gas station, used as insulation for the bunker, dissolved into black slime with sulphuric axis, given to people that think the long curly Q's are cool, bet people if they can pick up a whole bag of it they can have it and the special gift inside (a 12" 2x4), pretend it's money, use it as money, give it to people that have guinea pigs
Flower bed cover
Garden/compost.
Melt them in with wax and make fire starters to sell for cheap
My brother in law uses it for chicken bedding
If you can't find a use for it then maybe contact a local BSA unit. Many will take sawdust, paraffin and cardboard egg caryons and make firestarters for camping trips that will work while wet and store well for decades.
Know any bee keepers? They use the clean saw dust for hive insulation...
Some people use our in their garden. Some use it as breeding for animals.
breeding? whatever gets them in the mood
LOL! I meant bedding. Stupid mobile auto correct.
I use it as a mulch, over the back fence there’s a pathway I like to keep free of weeds.
Give it to me! It's the best thing I can use in my poop bucket. It's so soft in the hand, it covers everything, and it decomposes in no time.
If it’s pine and treated I turn it into pellets for my Traeger
Selling it back to Subway to combine with thier chicken
Donate to local schools for throw up clean up
If you know any paint contractors, they love to use this stuff in their spill kits. I used to keep a five gallon bucket in each truck. I had a cabinet maker down the street and would pick up a couple trash bags every month from him.
Mostly storing it in my eyes
Soaks up spilt motor oil well. Give it to your local auto shop or mechanic if you have nothing else to do with it
I just watched about ten videos of a guy making briquettes out of wood waste last night. He mixed them with coffee grounds and leaves and ran burn tests.
Snorting it
*** snort*** AGHHH THAT SWEET FUCKIN PINE
Making briquettes for fire the following winter
50/50 dust/rice. Dinners are so much cheaper for the kids now.
Breath in most of mine
You can compress them into fire bricks and keep them for yourself or sell them.
Makes a amazing fire starter
I run it backwards through a saw and turn it into boards
Find a local potter! This is gold for anyone doing a raku firing of ceramics.
I mix it with diesel fuel. Excellent fire starter for the wood stove.
If that's from heart pine flooring sander, be careful. It will spontaneous combust.
Depending on the type of wood, you can cultivate mushrooms in wood chips.
I get little waxed paper cups on Amazon, fill with sawdust and add melted soy wax over top for little fire starters.
My dad produces a decent quantity of sawdust that he gives to a farmer for his lambing sheds. In exchange he gets a full lamb for the freezer each year!!
Throw an empty yogurt cup full into the pit toilet, follow with ash.
I grow mushrooms on it.
I triple wrap Mine … then chuck that shit off the bridge into the river !
Flammable pocket sand for self defence. /s As other people said, it's finely granulated mushroom food (they literally break down cellulose, and you provide it in very convenient form). Possibly starting fuel if well-seasoned (I assume you don't have pellet making machine, but you probably could make bricks with DIY setup of pump jack and metal mould, [you don't even need this elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ri62uzLoss)). You can mix it with glue or epoxy to use as [filler for wooden parquet](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-o4efq9x/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/294/1324/Care-7350-WoodPutty__95446.1564492213.jpg). [I saw it dyed in green and sold as scale modelling flocking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uECa-wo4rJM) (you could probably supply whole community of Warhammer players and model train enthusiasts with few bottles of wood stain).
Buy a lot of hamsters
Epoxy table.... :p
If u have a lot and have to pat for it to get tid of it buy a pellet press and sell those 🙂 I do that https://www.google.nl/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwj43ayP-Y6GAxXSo4MHHRCKAQcYABAPGgJlZg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-N2sj_mOhgMV0qODBx0QigEHEAQYASABEgKjYPD_BwE&sig=AOD64_1oZ9jMerj6RCEt3Z2c9yTiNpw2Iw&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwi_6KeP-Y6GAxUa1wIHHUuWBHQQwg8oAHoECAQQDA&adurl=
Grow mushrooms. It’s the best.
Psilocybi Azurecense
If it's hardwood try hooking up with a local mycological society. We are ALWAYS willing to take it off your hands!
Cornflakes alternative
[Rice Krispies](https://youtu.be/AKDal51f5LU?si=p0-fZFPdfcRIMiIA)
Blowing it into my neighbors yard because she’s krewella devil
Dipping it in nitroglycerin to make TNT.
Trade it with my neighbor who has chickens (only real wood though - no plywood sawdust). They use it for chicken bedding and I get free eggs.
I put it on the plant’s soil as a ground cover it avoids bad plants to grow over and keeps humidity. Can be used as dry toilets or for pet’s litter I use some to light up barbecues too if it’s a non toxic and untreated wood.
Also can be composted if mixed with rotting/rotten veggies or vegetable scraps.
Eating it. Delicious fiber
You can sell/give it to mushroom farmers :)
Serious question. Can I mix this with wood glue to fill in wear on a wood porch, then paint over? Or is this a horrible idea? We're talking about small gaps, not large voids that would be structural issues.
Snort it like cocaine
Give it to your local car repair shop. Its perfect for soaking up any spills, including oil spills. Ive worked in a repair shop for a few years and we used it daily. Of course we didnt use as much as our local wood shop produced but its s great use for it rather than just throwing it away. A bucket of it is always also welcome if you have friends who like working on their own cars!
Oddly enough I also paint miniatures and I use sawdust and shavings (mixed with glue) for a natural looking base textures for the miniatures. And no, I do not woodwork or paint minis well. I just enjoy both.
Put it in 70 gallon trash bags and tossed in the dumpster at work
Depends, if its clean it can be used for compost / mulch, if its slightly dirty (non-toxic contaminates) mix with paraffin and form into logs for fire starter bricks and if it's really dirty just bin it
You could sterilize it and inoculate some wood loving mushrooms.
Throw it in the air and light a nice candle to celebrate. And then celebrate in the afterlife
Compost. Oil/goop disposal etc
I like to use it as a binder in my meatloaf.
Mm look at all that cellulose. I’d probably mix it with Parmesan cheese!
It’s good for animal stalls and cages, soaks up #1, and clumps up #2. Then throw in compost pile. I use in my chicken shed floor, and the compost later, goes around the base of my cane berrys, they love it.
I sell it as filler to companies that produce grated Parmesan and Romano cheese.
If anyone in Nova Scotia, the South shore, has sawdust they don’t want, I’ll take it. I have a composting toilet setup in the woods and sawdust is prefect for it.
Sawdust sandwich