What do yall do with sawdust

[Al_Smith]

While saw dust is acidic the reversal is that wood ash is alkaline .

I had evidently forgotten what I learned in high school chemistry and foolishly mixed in a liberal amount of wood ash in one of my raised  bed gardens . Worst tomatoes I ever had until I moved the bed and replaced the top soil .For some reason the weeds did okay though. :(

Fixed it,last summer was by far the  best .No more wood ash on the garden  for me .

[Magicman]

Ashes are also high in Potash.  It seems that whatever we have an abundance of is never what we need.   :

[Okrafarmer]

Well in Maine we needed everything that was in the ashes. God blessed Maine with a lot of things, but a generous dousing of good topsoil was not one of them. At least our part of Maine.

[SwampDonkey]

They don't have any trouble up in the potato belt of Maine. Much the same as my area, about the best soil you'd want. ;D

[Al_Smith]

Oh this is good soil,some of the best .I just erred greatly with what I  tried to do with it .

Learned a little lesson though .Had two tomato plants I'd ran out of room for so I stuck them in my wifes flower bed that was heavily mulched with wood chips .Early girls mind you that never get really big .My heavens they had vines 9 feet high on stakes and tomatoes the size of a beef steak variety  .

The old gal got a big kick out of that .The city girl knew more than the country bumkin about soil evidently . :D

[Taylortractornut]

I cant bury containers at the landfill and some wise acre in the the  plant chunked some tin 5 callon cans and  a few gallon paint buckets.       I put them in the truck and  ran them to the shop to put them in a scrap bin.        I had a hole saw  in the drill so on break I drill a 1 3/4  hole in the bottom of the pain can and   an air vent  and exhaust in the   5 gallon can then lit it and put a lid on the the top of the 5 gallon can.     It took a bit to get going but the gallon  can burnt  for 3 and a half hours.   


I found a 500 gallon stubby tank and a 200 gallon stubby tank.   I may mak a bigger burner with a water heater coil in it to assist in warming the house.

[bandmiller2]

Taylor,sounds like a plan,what you will need is two, one running and the outher cooling and getting refilled.If youy get those circular mills you will have more sawdust than you know what to do with.An average log will give you a good wheelbarrel full of dust. Frank C.