Starting My Business #2: What do you do with your Wood Shavings??

I have a friend with a horse farm. Saves him money and makes me feel good.

-- ~the turtle

What does he do with it on his horse farm?? There are lots of them around where I live. I know a couple of my boys classmates have horses on their acreages that came with their million dollar mansions. As opposed to my 15 square foot backyard that came with my significantly less expensive home.

-- Chris, Washington The State! http://www.chris-crafts.com

If there’s any walnut shavings at all in the bag you can not use it anywhere near horses (or probably any other animal of the sorts). Walnut can be deadly to these animals

-- Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!!!!

Shavings are use in horse stalls as beding for them to lay on and keep the place smelling nice they also can be use for other animals as well

Here is a link to a project posted by a lumberjock to make firestarters.

-- www.carvingandturningsbyrick.com, Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

My township has a recycling center where they grind up limbs, compost leaves and grass clippings … and my shavings into compost for residents.

-- Every cloud has a silver lining

A friend with a lot of horses picks it up ones a week.

-- http://thewoodworkersattic.blogspot.com/

If you want to make fire starters and your shavings are too large, use the wife’s food processor to grind them down. You might want to try this when she is out of the house. (grin)

-- The nicer the nice, the higher the price!

Sometimes I’ll use my shavings in the finishing process.
I wad a ball of shavings and use them to hand-rub the wood after final planing, before I apply the finish.

-- 温故知新

I use them to control the weeds between the raised gardens in the back yard. If/when weeds do appear they are dead easy to pull from the sawdust as it is not a real good structural support for the plants, so it makes weeding the paths easy and it also aids in water retention in the soil. I am thinking of putting it between the planted rows as well for the same reasons…I am a bit concerned that it may reduce the nitrogen content of the soil over time, but I think a bit of ‘aged’ cow manure should alleviate any nitrogen deficiencies.

Of course if I use any walnut I’ll have to reconsider its use in the vegetable garden as weed control as the chemical content of walnut that dakremer was referring to is also harmful to plants.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2