Sawdust use

[reswire]

I have friends who own horses.  They claim that bandsaw dust is too fine to be around horses and livestock, they claim it is too easily inhaled. They use large chip shavings from circular mills.  Anyone use bandsaw dust around horses?? 

[reswire]

I suppose I could use it around my goats and grits.... :D

[4x4American]

I just glue my bandsawdust together and try to sell it as circle sawn sawdust lol
hasn't worked yet!

[Peter Drouin]

I have friends who own horses.  They claim that bandsaw dust is too fine to be around horses and livestock, they claim it is too easily inhaled. They use large chip shavings from circular mills.  Anyone use bandsaw dust around horses?? 

I trade it to horse farmers all the time. Farmers with cows too. all for Poo.
I put the poo all over my place and I get a lot of clover from the poo. My Bees love it and so do the deer.
And good for the green house.


  

  

 

[Chuck White]

I have friends who own horses.  They claim that bandsaw dust is too fine to be around horses and livestock, they claim it is too easily inhaled. They use large chip shavings from circular mills.  Anyone use bandsaw dust around horses??

Used as bedding for dairy cattle, it can cause a lot of problems.

Bandsaw sawdust is to fine for cattle bedding, because it will many times get into the teat opening and cause infection and lead to mastitis, which means a sick cow and lost milk $.

Sawdust from a circular sawmill doesn't seem to cause problems because it is a lot more coarse than sawdust from bandsaws.

[taylorsmissbeehaven]

I use sawdust in my goat barn all the time. A little straw on top keeps the dust down and makes good bedding while the sawdust underneath absorbs wetness. Works well for me.
Great green house P.D.!! I have a large pile now that I will try putting on my garden if it ever dries up around here. Rain again! Brian

[just_sawing]

For years I transported my dust to my neighbor. I spread it out in his pasture in a circle about thirty foot wide and a foot deep. He placed a Hay ring in the middle and hayed all winter. The next summer we collected the mix back and placed it in a pile. One year later it was black gold. The cattle would sleep on it since there was a thermal break down and it was warmer than the ground.

[samandothers]

I give some to my neighbor that runs a garage.  It works as a absorbing material for oil or stuff that gets on his floors. 

[Chuck White]

If you have a place to dry the sawdust, it is also usable in a sawdust stove!

Google sawdust stove for info!