nice little windfall

[devonwoody]

Me. I just not save anymore offcuts otherwise I shall be making boxes for life.

 

[crazylilting]

Me. I just not save anymore offcuts otherwise I shall be making boxes for life.

I burn my off cuts. It seems like a waste but it burns better then any wood we can buy for burning. And like you say, how many boxes does someone have time to make in a life time?

Shop space is way to valuable to be cluttered up with piles of wood that I might be able to use one day if i had the time and energy to build something with one day. Mind you i don't mind cluttering it with useful tools and good sized pieces of wood i can make something worth selling though.

However i do think there is something wrong with binning things the way the government does. shameful!!

 

[wizer]

I'd love to have a way to turn off cuts into fuel, but we don't want a log burner in the house and I don't really want one in the workshop (space, dust, etc).

 

[devonwoody]

There ought to be a shredder on the market that churns it up and makes sheets or boards, smalltime.

 

[crazylilting]

I'm having a press made to turn my sawdust into big pellets. And am making a dryer box for them. I'll post pics when it is done. They want want way to much for a pellet maker.

 

[lurker]

I'd love to have a way to turn off cuts into fuel, but we don't want a log burner in the house and I don't really want one in the workshop (space, dust, etc).

In Brit Wood (or was it Living Wood :-k ) a few months ago there was a wood burning patio heater made out of an old washing machine drum.

 

[woodbloke]

I keep all my decent hardwood off-cuts in two big drawers, one under the bench and one under the lathe. Long skinny bits are kept in a smaller separate box. Small ply, mdf off-cuts, bits of pine etc are kept in a couple of large stacker boxes to one side of the bench and these get weeded out from time to time...maybe a couple of small carrier bags at a time go into the bin.
Why keep all the hardwoods though? I find them really useful for all sorts of small projects, for example, turnings on the lathe (knobs, light pulls etc) anything that's about 20x20x150mm could get turned into a Blokeblade handle. Flat world bits get used for tools (small planes, marking gauges, wedges for joints, splines for pictures (doing three at the moment for people at work) glue sticks, bits for test joints and anything else really where a small piece of quality timber is needed (say the top panel for a box or some quarter sawn oak for small drawer sides)
To me, the stuff is too valuable to be burnt and it takes me a long time to decide just what bits of timber eventually go into the bin - Rob

 

[Ironballs]

Your local tip will usually take wood in all shapes and sizes, goes off to the chipper I believe.

Any offcut I have that is too small or odd shaped for me to do anything with I'm putting to one side and when I have a boxful I'll put them on here for any turnist that wants them. Either collect or cover the postage.

If there was someone local to me who wanted offcuts destined for the fire taking off their hands I'd gladly do so. My local timber man sells his bags of offcuts for firewood, fairly reasonable price and the fire just loves kiln dried hardwoods!

 

[lurker]

I keep all my decent hardwood off-cuts in two big drawers, one under the bench and one under the lathe. Long skinny bits are kept in a smaller separate box. Small ply, mdf off-cuts, bits of pine etc are kept in a couple of large stacker boxes to one side of the bench and these get weeded out from time to time...maybe a couple of small carrier bags at a time go into the bin.
Why keep all the hardwoods though? I find them really useful for all sorts of small projects, for example, turnings on the lathe (knobs, light pulls etc) anything that's about 20x20x150mm could get turned into a Blokeblade handle. Flat world bits get used for tools (small planes, marking gauges, wedges for joints, splines for pictures (doing three at the moment for people at work) glue sticks, bits for test joints and anything else really where a small piece of quality timber is needed (say the top panel for a box or some quarter sawn oak for small drawer sides)
To me, the stuff is too valuable to be burnt and it takes me a long time to decide just what bits of timber eventually go into the bin - Rob

That make you sound a real sad git Rob.




PS - I do pretty much the same :roll:

 

[woodbloke]

I keep all my decent hardwood off-cuts in two big drawers, one under the bench and one under the lathe. Long skinny bits are kept in a smaller separate box. Small ply, mdf off-cuts, bits of pine etc are kept in a couple of large stacker boxes to one side of the bench and these get weeded out from time to time...maybe a couple of small carrier bags at a time go into the bin.
Why keep all the hardwoods though? I find them really useful for all sorts of small projects, for example, turnings on the lathe (knobs, light pulls etc) anything that's about 20x20x150mm could get turned into a Blokeblade handle. Flat world bits get used for tools (small planes, marking gauges, wedges for joints, splines for pictures (doing three at the moment for people at work) glue sticks, bits for test joints and anything else really where a small piece of quality timber is needed (say the top panel for a box or some quarter sawn oak for small drawer sides)
To me, the stuff is too valuable to be burnt and it takes me a long time to decide just what bits of timber eventually go into the bin - Rob

That make you sound a real sad git Rob.




PS - I do pretty much the same :roll:

Yup...sad as sad

On the other hand, Paul C is coming down in a couple of weeks (en route to the WakaBash) and he's going to give me a demo on the delights and wonders of the Dom, so the off-cuts drawer is going to take a hammering - Rob

 

[Ironballs]

Just so you don't think I'm some kind of pyromaniac hedonist, I do also go through a similar process of weeding out what I really can and can't use. Eventually though, some stuff has to go and the oak offcuts I fed it this week really were offcuts, sap, waney edges, shakes, cracks, splits etc etc

 

[DaveL]

I sort and save offcuts but when they get smaller than a light pull, into the fire wood pile, gets the shop warm in the winter, won't be long now before I fire it up of an evening.
Ah proper toast lovely. 8)

 

[wizer]

Lots of Iroko to burn Dave