What To Do with Sawdust and Wood Shavings?

There is a lot of sawdust and wood shavings generated in your workshop that can be put to good use in other areas of the home, workshop and even within your local community.

What To Do with Sawdust and Wood Shavings?

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Saw Dust

Workshop and Garage Spills

Sawdust is a great way to soak up and clean spills that occur in the workshop and garage.

You can simply sprinkle the fine saw dust over the affected area, leave to dry and sweep up the loose sawdust.

Wood Filler

Using the fine Sawdust created during a project, it can be mixed with PVA (Poly Vinyl Acetate) glue, also known as white glue and carpenter’s glue, to make wood filler as needed.

Using the Sawdust from the same timber your working on will enable you to match the colour of the timber for a better finish.

Mulch for the Garden

The larger Wood Shavings can be used to put on your vegie patches and garden beds (please note: check what timber your putting into your garden and/or vegie as they may not be ideal and may also change your soil make up).

The benefits of using Wood Shavings in your garden is they can provide nutrients to the soil, reduce weed growth, help plant growth and keep moisture in the soil for longer.

Garden Know How provide good information on the benefits and precautions needed when using Sawdust in the garden.

Compost

Sawdust and Wood Shavings are great to add to your compost.

It is reported that it has a range of benefits and is regarded as a brown composting material that balances the green composting material.

Mixing it through the compost can improve it’s quality.

Farms and Pets

Farms, pet stores and pet lovers are known to put on the ground in animal enclosures both large and small. It can be put into small cages for bedding and to create a natural habitat.

Pin Cushions

Using the Sawdust in a pin cushion is a creative way using the left overs and a great little present idea for any friends and family.

Here is a Elephant Cushion design and a Round Pin Cushion from Etsy that you can try.

Used for Burning

There are several burning options. Sawdust and Wood Shavings can be used to burn for heat, made into fire bricks to burn, burn in heaters, burn in kilns, meat smokers and used as a fire starter.

You can buy different varieties of Sawdust for smoking like Hickory, Apple, Pecan, Cherry, Maple, Mallee Dust, Peach, Sheoak, Mesquite and Alder.

Sell or Give Away

It may be possible that someone is willing to pay you some money for your Sawdust or Wood Shavings, advertising in the local area may give you a little pocket money. Many people search “Sawdust for Sale” and “Sawdust near me” so this could be a great little earner on the side.

There are companies that also sell Smoking Sawdust for cooking 

I would encourage that you give it away if you can and don’t have the use for it around the home, because giving can be really rewarding.

Sawdust and Wood Shavings can be taken, so it can be used by the local mechanic, community garden place, pet store, animal shelter, garden shop, friends and neighbours.

 

Final Thought

So it does not matter what you do with your saw dust, it can be a useful by product from all the work you are doing.

 

Happy Woodworking

Regards

Ben

 

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