Re: Need suggestions for sawdust & shavings

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Bob Bowles
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can compost them yourself, though friends who "borrow" them for chicken/rabbit bedding and then return when the critters are done are great.

Means you have to make sure it's just shavings and dust, not floor trash.

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George

I usually add a cupful or two to meatloaf for texture. It gives it a sort of outdoorsy taste, especially ponderosa pine sawdust. You can also add it to barbecue sauce. I tried making bread once using a 50/50 mix of whole wheat flour and sawdust, but it didn't rise, and when it came out of the oven it was kinda super-dense, so I gave it 3 coats of acrylic lacquer and entered it in a sculpture contest where it won first place. If you're ever in London, stop by the Tate Modern gallery. It's on the 4th floor, titled "The Savor Unrisen from the Grist of the Long Leaf." With the prize money I bought one of them newfangled sawdust compost digesters, which reduces a whole croker sack of sawdust down to 6 ounces of rich black compost. You can add the compost to regular ground bean coffee and it tastes a lot like Louisiana chicory coffee, which you can't get in this neck of the woods. I haven't figured out what to do with the used compost/coffee grounds yet, although I understand from the newspaper that the Tate Gallery is having another competition.

-- Ernie

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Ernie Jurick

MIx the sawdust with grass clippings--about a 50/50 mix. If you have enough to make a cubic yard, it will heat up, steam, and "cook." You can add kitchen scraps, leaves, etc. In a month or two, it will be ready to use. It helps to turn the pile with a pitch fork every two weeks and this will keep it from smelling bad. It works like magic, and almost amazing. I think it is one of nature's wonders. Try it!

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Phisherman

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Igor

Take the fruitwoods and hickory, soak them, and use them in your grill to add flavor. Real smoke is better than fake flavorings. Dave in Fairfax

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dave

If you do ever get a wood stove, I wouldn't advise throwing your sawdust in there unless, of course, you have some need to experiment with various methods of self-destruction. :o)

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Blue

Would that also work with pine?

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Jim Dalton

Many moons ago, I knew someone who mixed it with kerosene to get their fire going in a woodstove.

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Jim Dalton

If you're not a serious art lover you may enjoy our Museum of Depressionist Art, just down the street from the Tate Modern in Over-the-Bankside at Thamesbottom....

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Ernie ps/ What's your connection to the late, great SPRYNET?

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Ernie Jurick
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The sawdust is a great absorbent, Jim...for all kinds of spills. And you can use both as mulch.

Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

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Trent©

just remember not to use Walnut sawdust if you're making any kind of mulch. Walnut trees emit a chemical designed to eliminate competing trees, basically a plant poison. Mulch made from walnut chips/dust will actually kill your plants.

david

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D K Woods

Something to use the next time I barf after SWMBO corners me and tells me one of her stories about work... Hmmmm.... :)

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Silvan

Although I do not know whether this is true or not, I always get a little smile when I see it posted. On my sisters summer camp on the Ohio River in WV, there is a walnut tree that apparently lost a limb a number of years ago, about 5.5 ft up. The area where the branch was has rotted some and gathered some foreign material over time. A couple years ago I noticed a maple tree had sprouted there. The maple is now about 2 1/2 foot tall growing out of the walnut tree. Looks like the walnut tree's defenses are not working too well :)

Dave Hall

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David Hall

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Hmmm...well I decided to double-check, and here's the scoop:

The ROOTS of walnut trees emit a chemical called juglone that kills the roots of other plants that touch the walnut roots. There are some species that this doesn't effect, though I didn't notice maple on the list. Butternut trees give off juglone as well.

Walnut leaves, hulls, sawdust, or wood chips shouldn't cause a toxicity problem IF the material is allowed to compost actively for several months before using.

So either 1) the branch, being a branch and not a root, didn't contain enough juglone to hinder the maple, 2) the maple is one of the species not effected by juglone and I just missed it on the list, or 3) the dead branch had composted long enough to remove toxicity.

I learn more everyday....

david

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D K Woods

To be more precise the toxins emitted by a walnut do not kill all other plants. I don't have a list handy, but there are many plants that are not affected. They do keep other walnuts from growing though.

-David

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david

Good for you Jim - now just remember that around here - we refer to pine by its generic name: jummywood.

Jums

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Jim Mc Namara

Hmmm ...

that mean you refer to SYP (Southern Yellow Pine) as

wait ...........

better swallow that drink ..........................

y'all been warned! ...........................................

Jum 'Bo wood ???

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Rick

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:55:46 GMT, "Jim Mc Namara" pixelated:

Huh? I thought the cheap stuff was pineywood and the good, high-quality stuff called jummywood was reserved for staining and minwhacking.

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