Re: Sawdust?
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03/09/21 03:30 AM
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There's a huge difference between sanding dust, which is called wood flour; cutting dust which is more like chips; and shavings from a planer or joiner. They all have use, what are you using it for?
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Re: Sawdust?
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03/09/21 08:01 AM
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Like KenaiKid said, big difference. I have a two-stage dust collector in my shop. It has a cyclone separator that collects all but the finest sawdust before it reaches the filter. The super-fine stuff ends up in a bag below the filter. That's the dangerous stuff you don't want to breathe or have around open flame. So don't use very fine sawdust in you fur shed.
All the larger stuff except for really big shavings like from a hand plane will work good in your shed for rubbing grease off skins, tumbling media or soaking up coon grease on your floor.
Most of mine gets either composted or used for chicken coop bedding.
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Re: Sawdust?
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if you know any one with power planner that is the stuff to get it is all little curs
when you go to sweep a spray bottle that you can mist the area with will keep the dust down also.
an old trick to getting a very clean sweep is to moisten shavings and toss handfuls of them around the floor then sweep them all up with the corn broom and it collects more of the fine dust , dirt , dander than a dry sweep alone.
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Re: Sawdust?
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The best source IMO is a cabinet or millwork shop, which will have mostly shavings. Second choice would be a sawmill, truss or panel plant, which will be cutting chips. There used to be a shop right up the road from me that would give away all the shavings/dust people would haul because it saved them from disposing of it. Like Lugnut said you want to avoid the fine sanding flour; the good news is that most of those sources do very little sanding so even if it's all mixed in a single stage collector the dust should be minimal.
Of course if you don't need a lot you could just buy packages of shavings for animal bedding.
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Re: Sawdust?
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Re: Sawdust?
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I use livestock bedding, fine grade
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Re: Sawdust?
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Be careful of the type of sawdust you use for cleaning fur, look at it very closely under a magnifying glass before using it. Some sawdust will look like a miniature corkscrew and will get locked into the fur fiber and is almost impossible to remove. Obviously you don't want that type.
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Re: Sawdust?
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I like the carpet idea. Ishtar still get some sawdust to clean pelt edges. I do very little finishing fur but 20 mule team borax works great for that for me, a little goes a long ways.
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