wood chips- a result

[Anonymous]

Some body is now taking my wood chips for their horses, this is a real result for me, I had 23 bin bags of the stuff this week.

I bag up all the chips of the planer for them, so its free of debris, ie screws nails etc but its very dusty is this going to be a problem for horses.

 

[JFC]

Not as far as i can see , they just want it to soak up poo and wee .
As long as there are no big bits in the bags and its pure timber saw dust they will be happy .
Ive a few bags ready for the stables myself .

 

[jasonB]

When I used to work for a large contractor with its own joinery shop one of the breweries used to take the planner chips but then didn't take it if there was too much hardwood or fine saw dust in with it, used to leave a crate of beer when they picked it up.

Jason

 

[tim]

Also make sure it doesn't contain any Walnut which is highly poisonous to horses.

Cheers

Tim

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Tim, my next job is walnut so thanks for the info. a couple of dead horses might just play on your mind, also he's a big fellow and a fitness freak so I couldn't even run away and hide :lol: :lol:

 

[Scrums]

Fortunately I've got some horsey people to take my planer chippings too....though he does moan about them being a bit dusty - inevitable when taking very fine cuts or when the wood is super-dry. Interesting to hear about the Walnut though - is that any Walnut.....English/American black et al?

Now if I could only find a way of 'amalgamating' the saw dust into logs that I could burn, the whole recycling process would be complete!

Chris.

 

[Roger]

American Black Walnut it seems
Laminitis in Horses

 

[Taffy Turner]

Some body is now taking my wood chips for their horses, this is a real result for me, I had 23 bin bags of the stuff this week.

I bag up all the chips of the planer for them, so its free of debris, ie screws nails etc but its very dusty is this going to be a problem for horses.

Speaking as an owner of 12 horses, I would be VERY wary of using anything dusty as bedding, as dust + horses = big vets bills in my experience. DAMHIKT

Horses are very susceptible to dust (they have big lungs!!!).

I don't use any of my chippings / dust as bedding for two reasons:-

1) It is too dusty.
2) It is mostly hardwood, and as quite a lot of hardwood is toxic to a greater or lesser degree, I prefer not to take the chance (as horses are inclined to eat their bedding sometimes).

We do bed our horses exclusively on sawdust, but we obtain it from a local fence panel manufacturer, who only works with softwood, and as the sawdust comes of big industrial type bandsaws, isn't really dust, but more like fine chippings.

As a slight aside, two of our GG's suffer from allergic reactions to pollen during the summer months, and this makes them asthmatic, so they have to be given an inhaler twice a day. It was a bit of a challenge getting them to accept it at first (!), but they are fine with it now. The only down-side is that these things are £80 a time, and they only last for approximately 4 weeks (see what I was referring to about big bills!!!)

Regards

Gary