Application of Wood Shavings and Sawdust

Whenever the wood worker works, eventually he will meet the problems of how to deal with all these piles of wood shavings and sawdust. Rather than dumping them to the landfills, in this way, they will do nothing but just add the quantity of waste. In fact, you can reuse them in a number of different ways, or you can give them to someone who need it.

01. Animal Bedding:

Wood shavings is ideal for animal bedding. Spread wood shavings on the floor of the barn, the wood shavings not only absorbs urine, but also softens the floor for the animals' hooves and make them comfortable to rest on. When the bedding becomes dirty, you can dump it in a back area, and it will simply compost into the soil. If you create a large amount of wood shavings, you can try to contact local farmers and inquire whether they need your wood shavings. Many wood shops have cooperation with local farmers, and the farmers will come to take the wood shavings away every a certain time. In this way, it solves two people's needs.

Nowadays, some people produce the wood shavings specially by shaving the logs and lumber, and then sell it as product. In this way, compared with the normal workshop,  they can produce much more wood shavings every day, but they will also meet the problem that there will be very much moisture inside the fresh wood shavings, moisture about 45-50%, or even more. Such wood shavings is not suitable for storage and animal bedding. Then they will need to find ways to dry the wood shavings moistue to about 10-15% which is suitable for storage and animal bedding. For the massive drying, just use sunshine is far from enough, and usually it will need special wood shavings dryerto dry the wood shavings continuously and quickly.   

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02. Mulch and Compost:

Wood shavings and sawdust is ideal for mulching around the base of trees, in gardens and on lawns where you are trying to choke out unwanted growth. 

03. Plywood Shavings Board.

04. Raw mateial of wood pulp paper.

05. Pyrophoric material for boiler.

06. Biological energy source. Nowdays many people use wood shavings and sawdust to make biomass fuel such as wood pellet which is very popular in the green energy market.

07. Filling for the transportation of fragile cargo.

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