I am hopefully going to be after sawdust shortly.
Any places likely to give it away? (Have yellow pages and thomson directory at the ready...)
Is there an established market for it already or will there be plentiful amounts to scrounge?
What do you want it for? Many years ago in harder times I used to get sawdust for my wife's guinea pigs from a local workshop where they made bespoke window frames mainly from softwood but some hardwood.
I stopped because we were getting high levels of miscarriage and birth defects. I never established whether they were using treated timber, I just stopped using it.
They were happy for people to take it away, though.
Did changing sawdust change that?
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I think bulk sawdust is used for making artificial logs for stoves and fires. So big firms may well sell theirs on. However small woodworking places should still be O.K.
You can come and clear up the sawdust under my firewood saw. About 15 years worth. Can't guarantee no treated timber but most of it is Oak.
My workshop dust extractor bags are nearly full but part of that will be planer shavings.
Wow! Don't spose you're just down the road from me though ... :)
IME it's not good for any animal cages due to the high amount of dust that they're inhaling 24 hours a day.
In message , mogga writes
Not unless you are anywhere near Hertfordshire:-)
Sadly not! Thanks for the offer though :)
Good point although to be fair quite a high proportion was planer shavings and they didn't do much sanding.
Yes
Good!
Used to be all over the floor at our butchers shop but I understand its now both a fire risk and a health hazard....
Brian
probably isn't a fire hazard once it's soaked up a bit of blood.
It used to be over the floor of a pub I knew.
Colin Bignell
One of our livery horses is bedded with what appears to be chopped/dust extracted straw.
Mogga discreetly has not ventured the application....
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It was on Ch5's Eddie Stobart programme once - a truck full of sawdust for animal bedding.
I did. Composting loo!
In message , mogga writes
Ah! Another brain cell missing:-)
Presumably there is a wide spectrum of decay bacteria doing the work. Someone somewhere must know how vulnerable they might be to the rather feeble chemicals in modern treated timber.
Something wrong with earth closets?
Tree surgeons have disposal issues with chipped material and I have occasionally arranged for a free load to be used here as path mulch.
My contact recommends contacting tree surgeons - or someone with a log burner who cuts their own wood! I've just got to find the yellow pages now. The BT book is useless!
Where do we get the spare earth from? :)
We've had a couple of loads free but want some finer stuff for the bucket stuff.
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