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Sawmill Waste
Posted on 3/31/25 at 10:28 am
Posted on 3/31/25 at 10:28 am
I am in the middle of milling about 70K board feet of SYP and have produced a lot of waste - sawmill slabs and less than 1 inch thick boards. I usually cut this stuff up into 2 foot lengths and use it for fire wood in a firepit or while camping....it has a lot of pitch to burn in a fireplace (although many people do it without a care in the world). Anyone have any ideas of what it might be used for? I have thought about putting some of it on Etsy and seeing if there is any sort of market for it....I hate to put it in a landfill. Any ideas / suggestions.
Also have an amazing amount of very clean sawdust....SYP sawdust....
Also have an amazing amount of very clean sawdust....SYP sawdust....
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Posted on 3/31/25 at 10:30 am to AwgustaDawg
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sawmill slabs and less than 1 inch thick boards.
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Anyone have any ideas of what it might be used for?
One of the best looking deer stands I ever saw was skinned with these. It was a work of art.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 10:41 am to AwgustaDawg
quote:same issues with pitch as your scraps, not that great for landscape use but suitable for livestock and poultry bedding. You could just go dump it and spread it in a pasture
SYP sawdust
This post was edited on 3/31/25 at 10:42 am
Posted on 3/31/25 at 11:11 am to AwgustaDawg
Build a brick or cinderblock oven. Pack it full of the slabs and set them on fire. Have a door with a tiny flue that gives it just enough oxygen to smolder. In two days open it up and sell it as charcoal.
Posted on 3/31/25 at 11:40 am to Clyde Tipton
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One of the best looking deer stands I ever saw was skinned with these. It was a work of art.
I have seen some of those around me....not a terrible idea. I may put them on marketplace and give them away...hate to put them in a landfill and hate even worse to have to pay to put them in a landfill....
Posted on 3/31/25 at 11:46 am to cgrand
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same issues with pitch as your scraps, not that great for landscape use but suitable for livestock and poultry bedding. You could just go dump it and spread it in a pasture
is there any use for it with horses? Lots of horses not far from me....
currently I catch it in a 5 gallon bucket and dump it in contractor garbage bags. I may list it in marketplace as well and see if there's anyone interested.
My original plan was to mix the sawdust with paraffin and make a bundle of sawmill slabs cut down to about 2 feet in length and sell them as campfire kits around the numerous campgrounds and bait shops around us but thats a damned lot of work LOL. Sounded like a plausible idea back in November with a fire going in the fireplace and about half a belly full of brown water....now that its getting into the upper 70s and low 80s by noon every day the less I have to frick with pine trees the better LOL....
Posted on 3/31/25 at 11:47 am to AwgustaDawg
Leave it where lies or pile it up on the back 40, wait 3 years, compost gold
Posted on 3/31/25 at 11:48 am to No Colors
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Build a brick or cinderblock oven. Pack it full of the slabs and set them on fire. Have a door with a tiny flue that gives it just enough oxygen to smolder. In two days open it up and sell it as charcoal.
Will pine work? Seems like it'd be pitchy. I think they cure ham in the black forest in germany with pine trees though so maybe not?????
Posted on 3/31/25 at 8:18 pm to AwgustaDawg
Build deer blinds and paint with the reject paint from Home Depot that is 9$ gallon. Get a few years and let it return to earth. Lol
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