Sawdust useage

[jeff...]

Got my Wood-Mizer Way mag in the mail today. Seemed to answer the question what to do with sawdust :-D

 

[NZAPP1]

I know of a Pharmaceutical plant the uses dust, bark and chips for heat and power

 

[DaveO]

That's basically how pellet stoves work, except you have to buy your sawdust compressed into pellets. Sounds like a great way to Tree-cycle even more :icon_thum

Dave

 

[jeff...]

Didn't know pellets were compressed sawdust. Heating seems like a good use for sawdust. Kyle and Randy must create a lot too. I seem to haul it out by the trash can load from the shop and pickup load full from the mill.

 

[jerrye]

Also used to fire brick kilns. Had brick plant that was customer at last job; maintenance mgr told me they get several thousand degrees of temp by the flash fire from dumping in sawdust/chips they used. Hauled it in by the 40' trailer load. Also told me they never shut down kiln unless necessary as it took 7-10 days to get it back up to temp once down. Seems it'd do well to heat home.