If I had a pound for every shaving....

[Woodmonkey]

All from one bowl....

What do you do with it all?!

 

[Grahamshed]

Wait till the neighbour is not looking and tip it on his garden.

Joking

 

[bellringer]

i put them in the garden waste bin

 

[RogerP]

Mine goes on one of the composts and is eventually incorporated with other composts and then the into the soil.

 

[JustBen]

I bag mine up and give to my father in law for his animals bedding.

It's amazing a small chunk of wood can create such a huge pile of shavings.

 

[Mike.R]

At times I produce a fair mountain of the stuff. It can get on top of you.

Then I found this video and now I incinerate my dust and shavings in an oil drum.

I don't use the burner as a stove, I don't really have the facility, but using a length of 6" soil pipe to form the chimney I can burn a 45 gallon drum of shavings in 5 or 6 hours.

Genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMdRRhVJorY

 

[marcros]

I bag mine up and give to my father in law for his animals bedding.

It's amazing a small chunk of wood can create such a huge pile of shavings.

Do be careful with some timbers- walnut and yew for instance are poisonous.

 

[EnErY]

I bag mine up and give to my father in law for his animals bedding.

It's amazing a small chunk of wood can create such a huge pile of shavings.

Do be careful with some timbers- walnut and yew for instance are poisonous.

Laburnum also is not animal friendly I killed my grandkids rabbits 2 years ago but never took the blame directly
Bill

 

[KimG]

Compost, take a year or two to rot down but in the end it makes very good soil improver.

 

[HeliGav]

My advice would be to make bigger bowels! Lol

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My advice would be to make bigger bowels! Lol

Why? Is he going to eat the stuff?

 

[pebbles]

See if you've any local potters who'd like it for smoke firing? http://www.bathpotters.co.uk I'd take it like a shot if I were closer.

 

[Dalboy]

Turn only oak stuff and use it to smoke fish etc

 

[Woodmonkey]

Beech works for fish too ☺

 

[Phil Pascoe]

or hickory, apple, cherry and pear.
I wonder if there's a market? A decent sized polythene bag at a quid a go, or something like that. It goes on barbecues as well, and most people haven't got access to it - specialist suppliers charge a small fortune for the stuff. A few beer tokens here and there for something that would have been throw away can't be bad.

 

[woodfarmer]

It grieves me to see good wood as shavings, it is the main reason I am contemplating getting a woodcut bowl saver.
I do have uses for them though, as animal bedding and it helps my heavy pottery quality clay soil immensely.

 

[duncanh]

I was going to say - if your lathe is powerful enough (minimum probably 1hp) consider getting a bowl saver - it's faster and you don't waste most of the wood as shavings

 

[Woodmonkey]

just looked at the price of a bowl saver.....

maybe not.

 

[Vic Perrin]

just looked at the price of a bowl saver.....

maybe not.

I have a Woodcut Bowl Saver but I still make tons of Shavings

Vic

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Guinea pigs and compost for me with the occasional burn. But I find they don't really contribute that much to an open fire. They tend to produce a lot of smoke and have a dousing effect. They also get everywhere and don't really burn that hot. Not in the same class as solid wood. I know some folks pack them tightly into cardboard tubing like loo roll or kitchen roll holders which holds them together better. I've also seen those log producing machines at shows where they compress the shavings together to make very compact wood burning logs, but they cost a small fortune.

My compost heap is overflowing with them.