Planer waste

[DIY Stew]

I have just used my new Planer/Thicknesser (Axminster MB9020) and my Axminster Vacuum Extractor (RDC100H) which I bought before Xmas when they were on special offer, I am well pleased with both which will suit my needs for a long time. I am however at a loss as to what I should do with the waste wood other than use it to light the chiminea!
I shred all our bank letters etc and dispose of the paper in the composter so does anyone have any ideas what to do with the waste other than burning it.

Stew

 

[toolsntat]

Any one with chickens nearby :?:
Or just drive by and find some and ask em :wink: (the owners, don't ask the chickens :roll: :lol: )
Andy

 

[Blister]

I take mine to the recycling center

When asked what I have I say garden waste

they tell me to put it in with the garden waste / grass / shrubs / branches . trimmings :mrgreen:

 

[cambournepete]

I put mine in the garden/kitchen waste bin to be turned into compost.

 

[OPJ]

Anything I've swept off the floor generally goes in one of the green bins at the local recycling centre. With "cleaner" shavings, I usually build up a few bags and list them on Freecycle. Occasionally, I've been able to sell them at £5 a bag through local advertising sites... Though, whenever I choose to sell or pass them on, I stress clearly in my adverts that these shavings are not totally clean of fine dust and so, I cannot personally recommend it for use as animal bedding, for example. Shavings straight out of your extractor's bag are not "dust extracted" in the same sense as what would be produced by a larger firm specialising in wood shavings for small animals.

 

[Dibs-h]

I have just used my new Planer/Thicknesser (Axminster MB9020) and my Axminster Vacuum Extractor (RDC100H) which I bought before Xmas when they were on special offer, I am well pleased with both which will suit my needs for a long time. I am however at a loss as to what I should do with the waste wood other than use it to light the chiminea!
I shred all our bank letters etc and dispose of the paper in the composter so does anyone have any ideas what to do with the waste other than burning it.

Stew

Stick it on Gumtree - I had a chap drive over from Lancs, take about 6 bin liners of the stuff and pay me £20. Beats binning it.

He wanted it for his chickens.

HIH

Dibs

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

Mine goes to mates and family that have rabbits.

 

[Acanthus]

If you are a gardener, and have the space then follow this plan: Put the shavings in a black plastic sack, get them good and moist, add a generous measure of nitrogen in the form of a solution rich in nitrates, tie up the bag and leave for a year or three. Wonderful top dressing material. I leave you to dream up a liquid rich in nitrogen.

I am not taking the p*** here

David

 

[Pvt_Ryan]

http://www.axminster.co.uk/briquette-pr ... 36686_pg1/ if you have the cash to spare..

 

[Jacob]

I have just used my new Planer/Thicknesser (Axminster MB9020) and my Axminster Vacuum Extractor (RDC100H) which I bought before Xmas when they were on special offer, I am well pleased with both which will suit my needs for a long time. I am however at a loss as to what I should do with the waste wood other than use it to light the chiminea!
I shred all our bank letters etc and dispose of the paper in the composter so does anyone have any ideas what to do with the waste other than burning it.

Stew

Burn it in a woodburner and save on your heating bills. And all your offcuts. Stupid not to IMHO.

 

[gnu]

Planer waste is ldeal for woodburning stoves or wood boiler heating sytems with it being so dry and light.

 

[goldeneyedmonkey]

There used to be a bloke on Ebay that made & sold briquette presses but I can't seem to find the same type on there. But it might be this bloke, he's evolved the design to be more robust I think. I've never tried any of them, it just seems like a decent idea. So I've no idea how well it works mate, but maybe worth a look?

Cheers _Dan.

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

Burn it in a woodburner and save on your heating bills. And all your offcuts. Stupid not to IMHO.

Just what i plan to install this year in the workshop.

 

[Richard D]

I have a ProQ cold smoke generator, which I can use for smoking cheese/fish et cetera. Larger offcuts go into the ProQ barbecue. Throwing a few sausages onto an outdoor grill is *not* barbecuing so far as I'm concerned. Barbecuing is smoking and slow-cooking racks of ribs for 4-5 hours at a time. And oak, cherry and beech all make excellent smoking woods.

I'm waiting for the weather to get a bot better before firing it up for the first time this year, and I've yet to try cold smoking anything, but I have several bags of shavings/dust set aside for when I do.

Needs to be as clean as possible, though - no MDF dust!

 

[Argus]

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It's only waste if you can find no use for it. But, you really need a garden!

Providing that it's not contaminated with chemicals (i.e. preservatives), I either compost thicknesser chips straight onto the heap, mixing it in well with all the other stuff.

Everything cut or trimmed in the garden is either shredded for compost or put aside for firewood. The relatively short grain pattern of thicknesser chips means that it breaks down quickly with all the other stuff. The garden experts tell you not to use fresh wood, but I can't understand why - it's all organic. I have a large garden so I keep a couple of compost heaps on the go at once and I find that I have an annual cycle of compost. The huge number of earth worms and wood-lice in it go a great job - that's the secret.
Last year's compost goes on the garden as a top dressing this year about now; this year's goes on next year and so on.
The local birds think it's fantastic when the heap is dug over.

I use mostly Oak and a bit of Douglas, so it's all 'clean' stuff.

Lately I have been giving some of it away as chicken bedding to some folk in the village.

As a last resort you can ditch it, but it's not a waste product as far as I'm concerned.

A bigger problem for me used to be long-grain shavings, from hand planes. These don't compost well and remain intact for a long time. I had bags and bags of the stuff and no viable outlet.
Now I've moved to the country I have got a couple of wood burning fires and it's terrific for lighting obstinate kindling.

The wood ash goes on the compost heap....... and so on..

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[Kev]

We have started keeping chickens so use sme of it on that (which gets added with manure evetnually and then goes on the compost heap) and some other people in the village with pets etc.

I have a hot spot woodburner in the workshop but always a bit nervous putting them in there as concern bout all the particles etc. Is there a specific technique to this that will stop bit sof burning sawdust and chip pings from being dispersed over the neighbourhood or am I overly worrying about nothing?

kev

 

[dennyom]

Hi folks; Most of my chippings go into the compost pile. Plane shavings are great used for starting the BBQ. The shavings of some of the fruit trees if soaked in water and added on top of the coals will give a nice smoked flavor to stuff on the grill. There are a few trees here (upper midwest USA) that are toxic to other plants and should not be put into the compost pile. Black walnut is the worst offender in that regard. Another use for the finer chips is to put them on top of the soil in plant pots. Some say this can harbor bugs but so far this has not been a problem for us.
Dennis

 

[Stormer1940]

Rabbits and horses - Softwood shavings only..... MDF and most hardwood dust/shavings I tend to just give to the yard owner to burn.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Rotting wood leeches nitrogen from the soil, apparently, so if you put it in compost etc. you need to p*ss on it or add nitrogen in some form.

 

[mbartlett99]

Black walnut shavings are excellent for muddy paths - dump a few bags down and hey presto one reasonably decent path and weeds don't like it one bit (we have a path from the back garden out to the fields, wouldn't use it in the garden itself as they tend to get everywhere).