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Creative uses for sawdust?

Post by slowlearner » Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:20 am

Hi all, almost got a full bag on the dust extractor and I'm wondering if people use their sawdust for anything? Garden mulch, that sort of thing?

Seems a shame to just chuck it. :roll:
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Post by auscab » Wed Nov 13, 2013 11:52 am

I keep a 20 lt bucket of it handy for any thing i want to absorb quickly , from accidental spills to soaking up glue run out on furniture builds.
Also annealing tool steel ,it works good , got to be careful though.

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Post by EricDownunder » Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:15 pm

I can't get enough of it as I use it for paths between the garden beds for weed control and is makes for a soft path.
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Post by charangohabsburg » Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:16 pm

Getting rid of sawdust can be a lot of fun...


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Post by ozziebluesman » Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:23 pm

I give mine to a mate who is a Pest Control Man and he uses it to distribute bait for controlling white ants, borers, cockroaches etc.

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Post by lauburu » Wed Nov 13, 2013 7:10 pm

Half fill a plastic shopping bag with it and put in the firebox once the embers are glowing nicely. It quickly turns into a solid glowing block of heat.
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Re: Creative uses for sawdust?

Post by curly » Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:35 pm

My workmate is attempting to grow exotic medicinal mushrooms in sawdust . Unproven so far .......

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Post by Allen » Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:25 pm

Medicinal.....yep, that's what we told the copers. :-)
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Post by Kim » Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:30 am

I put mine into used shopping bags upon which "Pure Angus" has already been written in large letters with a sharpie.

Then once a month or so, the mates and I grab a few beers of and evening and take the bags down to a local park situated right between a Maca's and a HJ's outlet, and place them out on the white sand between the swings and the slide in the kids playground.

It usually takes no more than the first tinnie before the apposing duty managers from either side turn up to claim a prize and turn on a bit of 'ring side' for the boys that beats the pants off of anything Rupert would slug you an arm and a leg for... Ah sawdust, an extremely underrated commodity IMO..... :wink:

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Post by kiwigeo » Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:40 am

curly wrote:My workmate is attempting to grow exotic medicinal mushrooms in sawdust . Unproven so far .......
Youll get a quicker high smoking the saw dust :mrgreen:
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Post by Tod Gilding » Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:12 am

I Don't know about the high Marty but smoking sawdust can be a good little earner at $11.95 for 500 gms

http://www.inspiredoutdoor.com.au/shop/smoking-sawdust/
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Post by demonx » Sat Nov 16, 2013 7:06 pm

All mine goes in the chookyard.

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Post by slowlearner » Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:54 pm

demonx wrote:All mine goes in the chookyard.
Thanks guys, just gave it all to a friend from church. Suffice to say, I think there are two homes who'll happily take it for their chooks.

And of course I'm happy to help them eat the eggs :wink: *rubstummy
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Post by Tod Gilding » Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:39 pm

Don't you have any fish in your area that could smoked pete ?
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Post by curly » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:10 pm

Smoking sawdust to get high was out there , smoking a fish ?

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Post by Tod Gilding » Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:44 pm

Curly I have tried smoking fish...... but the papers keep getting soggy and tearing :D
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Re: Creative uses for sawdust?

Post by slowlearner » Wed Nov 20, 2013 6:15 pm

Tod Gilding wrote:Don't you have any fish in your area that could smoked pete ?
Not so much. I'm sure there are catfish and carp in the nepean, but I'd prefer to spend my days off building... :wink:
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