shop heat

[justjoe]

I have a small hobby wood shop and was wondering if there was a way to use the saw dust and small shavings for heat.

[Bob Gramza]

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Yes, you can use them for kindling to get a real wood fire started in a wood burning stove. A pound of wood will give you about 1600 Btu of heat energy. It will take about 19 pounds of wood to give off the same heat as a small (30,000 Btu) propane heater in one hour.

To make this a worth while venture, you sure have to crank out a lot of shavings.

Watch those thinners and chemicals out there though. Don't go POOOOOF ! ! ! Ed