HOW WE MAKE MONEY $$ FROM SAWDUST: a byproduct of the mill

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[@timheincker5579]

You and you sister are exceptional young ladies. Does my heart good to see young people that are not afraid of work and are learning a valuable profession. Keep it up, it will serve you well.

[@victormancini7774]

Absolutely 100% you are. correct a lot of these kids don't even wanna work.

[@steveduval3732]

Yup, kids these days are self in titled brats.

[@todds4101]

It's impressive to see these girls work. God, don't even get me started on young people these days. I'm a retired college prof and I have a lot of stories about entitled kids; however, I'll keep it on a down low for now.

[@theverseshed]

No artificial enhancements - just natural beauty and confidence. Just imagine those selfie-obsessed types having to cope with a life that these girls see as being normal. " Oooo - I've chipped a nail! My batwing eyelash is in the sawdust!!! Can I use Botox to grease this? I've got chippy sawdust all down inside my . . . . .!!!" An insipirational family.

[@nope1918]

@@victormancini7774 You accidentally dropped the end of that sentence: "kids don't even wanna work for low wages" All the companies that figured it out and started paying more aren't having any trouble finding workers. People are more than happy to work when their work is compensated fairly.

[@sawhite27]

I love seeing REAL PEOPLE just doing their thing. It takes good parenting + good character to yield good people. Looks like this family hit the nail on the head.

[@alanparker1598]

Saw dust also works great in a mechanic shop to clean up spills like oil and antifreeze. You can look into adding mechanic shops and the DIY mechanic to your targeted market.

[@msk3905]

Exactly what i use my tablesaw dust for!

[@passerby9123]

Compressed sawdust logs burn great, and there are even adapters for furnaces that allow piles of sawdust to be shaped and on site, and then placed into the furnace. Best one I have seen was on a house next to a sawmill and woodworking shop in Germany, and the heating and hot water of both places was basically a by-product of the family business.

[@garyevans8116]

Yeah but it’s green. Ie wet. And unless you could dry the briquettes. It wouldn’t be worth it. I’ve got a briquette press for dry wood. But I would never put wet wood in it because it works with heat. And would damage my machine.

[@terrancevangemert7508]

Compressed sawdust pellets of various woods like oak birch etc is great for Barbeques That stuff sells at good price. It is easy to do and all it takes is warmer around plates that milled with holes to get smaller and smaller the sawdust is just pressed with hydraulic ram. Same way one uses on a log splitter.

[@andrewadam9544]

@@garyevans8116 yeah but in this scenario you buy a dryer that burns some of the yards waste to dry it to the correct humidity first

[@ericcartrette6118]

I just ended a 20-year career as a saw filer for a sawmill that cut 5/4" decking and stair tread. Sawdust is the bane of the sawmiller's existence in at least one other way: fire hazard. If it sits around and dries out, it only takes one errant spark to set your kill on fire. Even with conveyors to get the dust out of our mill, we still cleaned up before lunch and at the end of every day. Then on Fridays, we took two hours to get all of the sawdust and waste products out of the mill.

[@BradGryphonn]

Eric Cartrette, I worked at a sawmill/truss manufacturer in the late 80s. The plant got shut down because some numpty decided it would be cool to fire up one of the many piles of dust under the exhaust chutes. We had a strict and well-reinforced fire training system, so it didn't become a disaster. But yeah, sawdust piles are dangerous. Years later, after I'd moved on, I'd get log hearts and sawdust from them for free for my garden,.

[@ericcartrette6118]

@@BradGryphonn We were having our wheels ground once. We needed to cut a temporary weld to reposition the grinder. An experienced millwright couldn't wait for the contractor to get an angle grinder to grind off the welds. He stuck a torch to the welds and set the saw dust and resin under the plate on fire. We nearly lost the mill on account of that one. You and I could probably tell a few stories of stupidity we've seen in the mills.

[@Calligraphybooster]

Had to repair a weld on a fluke in an animal fodder compressing facility once. The owner couldn’t understand why I wanted wet towels and other extinguishing materials at hand. Which don’t do anything against dust explosions btw…

[@tomsweet7700]

As a young man I work as a labor for a contractor at a wall panel manufacturer. The sawdust one the ground would just spontaneously ignite and smolder. Nothing to take for granted.

[@stevencarlson5029]

We used compressed to blow off all the equipment in the mill. Fine dust on the electrical equipment was dangerous

[@NFAtoys]

Back when I was a kid growing up in the 1950’s my dad was an avid woodworker. He would generate shopping bags full of sawdust from his various power saws. He found two distinct uses for it that today I still use one of them from the meager amounts a sawdust I create, The first use is something almost everyone occasionally needs. If you spill grease or oil on your garage floor, sawdust acts as an incredible sponge, sucking up the spill and scrubbing the remaining traces from the cement. Sprinkle the sawdust on the spill then push it around with a shop broom and it will remove almost every trace of the spill. The second use is a bit more unusual, in that my dad would use it every spring when he had his boat taken out of winter storage and placed back into the water at the marina. Every year he’d scape the bottom of the boat and paint it before putting it in the water. But since wooden boats tend to dry out when kept out of the water, when they’re put back in, they tend to leak a bit. Right after his boat went in the water, he’d dump sawdust in the water all around the boat, just at the boats waterline. The sawdust would be drawn into the leaking cracks between the hull boards sealing the cracks.

[@brucehansen7949]

Your dad is a genius on the 2nd use for the boat. Wow. If you tried that now, be sure to do it at a junk lake or out of site from other fisherman, they tend to think they own the lake and will get butt hurt when seeing sawdust in the lake, especially if it's by the loading dock.

[@reggiemcdaniel1802]

TCPEL Pellet Machine Introduction: This is an efficient way to make money with your sawdust if you have great quantities. In turn these pellets can also produce electricity for your business location by using gasification. A lot of data on KZbin for this sort of engineering. Enjoyed your video.

[@arfarms5711]

I pray my little girl turns out like you. You’ve got to have ab awesome mom and dad. I know it’s off topic, but it’s so refreshing to see a young woman so tuff and that knows her stuff and not scared to work. Big shout out to all of you bc I know you got sisters that works just as hard

[@828enigma6]

Tough but feminine. Hard combo to beat. Even harder to find.

[@arfarms5711]

@@828enigma6 exactly 🙏

[@dancudworth8963]

I hope your mom and dad realize how fortunate they are to have daughters like you guys , I'm sure good family life and good parenting have a lot to do with it , they should be proud ! Keep up the good work and the example you all are setting .

[@bill-nj6fc]

yeah , maybe they can teach them how to properly dress for working in a lumber yard

[@Handlebrake2]

​@@bill-nj6fc 🤣

[@maplejames6992]

@@bill-nj6fc hahaha gonna git sum slivers in there...

[@jackchapo2011]

​@@bill-nj6fclumber😅

[@dgodrummer8110]

I have about 12-15" of sawdust on the bank that goes down, where the mill shoots it. Two years ago, I noticed the periwinkles we planted the year prior, poking thru where we planted them on that bank before the mill was moved above that area. As I dug down I noticed they had been proliferating and expanding through the sawdust, spreading out roots and stalks. In dry summers, I dig down 3-4" into this sawdust, and it's WET! not damp, WET. I now have covered the entire bank with trash can loads of sawdust. one trash can; fill it, drag it, dump it down the bank where my periwinkles and other wild flowers, grass, etc has been planted over the years. I am amazed at how much moisture it holds. My wife uses about 1" sawdust in every planter pot (we have many in and around the cabin). It stays moist, it keeps moisture in dirt longer than w/o it. mixing it with top soil or mulch is also great idea.

[@robertstrickland2121]

A friend of mine has a small mill, he rigged up a snow shovel blade so when he pulls the saw back, it brings the saw dust from that pass with it. He still has to shovel it,but saved a lot of steps.

[@SC-yf4de]

Awesome parent's = Awesome children! You girls rock!!!

[@WoodWorkTherapy]

I am glad you brought up the soil use for sawdust. We use the excess sawdust from the machines here to both work in the soil for gardening, and also for topping as well. Living in the desert it helps reduce the amount of water loss which is always an issue in this part of the country. So basically it works like mulch. And we normally don't have to be picky about the wood dust we use, as long as it is not contaminated by glues or other things that might get vacuumed up.

[@RobCalhounPGH]

It does matter. Walnut trees have a natural herbicide called juglone. It prevents competition for nutrients. Not even grass grows around walnut trees. Walnut sawdust will kill your plants.

[@jessewilson8676]

Sawdust in planting soils is bad for nitrogen

[@dropndeal]

It’s not “bad for nitrogen” per se. Saw dust is high in carbon, therefore it requires high nitrogen concentrations to decompose. Therefore if used as a mulch, or soil additive, you must add nitrogen to aid in decomposition.

[@jasonmcbride4331]

I'm a handyman by trade . My son has a sawmill, we bag up the sawdust when we cut wood . I keep 2 buckets of sawdust on my truck , because if anyone has a water leak in there basement or yard the sawdust make fast work on cleaning up . I have been in hole 4 foot deep cover it with sawdust & don't get any mud on me at all 👍🤘.. We also use it in our chicken coops for easy clean up.. Enjoy your channel 🤘 Stay safe & God bless

[@dropndeal]

I worked for a sawmill supervising the six steam powered kilns on-site. We generated tons of sawdust, and also ran a large hammer-mill for off cuts, dunnage, and etc. All of this was fed to a large silo equipped with a dozing miller, which in turn fed two dust fired boilers. The boilers created the steam which first went through an electric generator before heating the dry kilns. I forget the output now, but maintained at a high enough rpm, the generator powered the entire mill, and excess would be sold to Alabama Power. In addition, we never had piles of dust, and sometimes would purchase dust from other mills for fuel. It looked archaic at times, but was a fascinating process.

[@cenjim]

Sawdust is an excellent mulch for blueberry bushes and other acid-loving plants. Because of sawdust's natural acidity, it works well with those plantings. It's important to add extra nitrogen before putting the sawdust in place because the sawdust will draw nitrogen from the soil as it decomposes. Gardeners always have to be mindful of not allowing the sawdust mulch to mat down in place. Composted sawdust is also a good garden additive.

[@MissouriOldTimer]

I don't know about walnut saw dust but I do know from experience that you can't grow tomatoes or peppers anywhere near a live walnut tree, they pretty much kill the garden plants.

[@michaelwillson6847]

Thanks for that advice 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@richardlee2488]

The toxin in walnut is where the Latin name comes from juglans nigra I believe for American black walnut. It will kill off pretty much all plants you want to grow but a few weeds will grow through it. Plenty of info online. So no good in compost. Never heard of it being toxic to animals though except that it's a hardwood which is now claimed that all hardwoods can cause cancer. No eating or drinking permitted in UK workshops (by law). Thuja plicata or Western red cedar causes respiratory problems in animals. Most softwood species readily are attacked by molds which can cause serious illness when the spores are breathed in. But the irony of sawdust and shavings is the more you have at first is a problem. Then you find a solution and spend a fortune to turn it into a saleable item. When you start to produce then you battle to find customers. Then wham you can't produce enough.

[@preston9412]

It's a chemical that is found in many nut trees pecan's are bad about it too, though once the wood is sufficiently composted it breaks down but it can take a while if it's cool and wet drying it out can help speed it along as the chemical will evaporate.

[@steveduval3732]

As a kid i worked at the neighbors mill, it was a circular blade about 4 foot in diameter and it was powered by a built chevy 454 lots of belts and pulleys and what not. I loved working there. Did it for 3 years. As a adult i have worked at mills. Must get in your blood. You girls do an ass kicken job, well done! 👍

[@frits1954X2]

In the Netherlands sawdust was used in pubs on the wooden floors for 400 to 600 years. There are still bars with sawdust on the floor, work well God bless you and bye Frits

[@Cinziaking]

Hi! New subscriber here, and enjoying every one of your videos describing your business operations and life. I couldn’t nail it down when I started watching and was thinking’ there’s something about this hardworking family’, then saw your brother? Immersed in the Bible first thing in the morning…then I knew, believers, explains so much. Positive,kind, family centered, smart, faithful…seems like watching you milling wood and working is just a side benefit! And when you said no electricity I was relieved cuz there’s a receptacle sticking out of the wall and live wires would not go well with fresh ‘dust! Anyway, may God bless you all!

[@lumbercapitallogyard]

Hey, welcome to the channel!

[@bwuest]

Good ol' shovel. Nothing wrong with good hard work as you and your family can well attest.

[@KrugerrandFarms]

I make corse chips with my Lucas Mill which uses a circle saw with carbide teeth. I love it for bedding because if you lay it in 8 inches or so the urine passes through and the animals, in my case dairy goats, stay high and dry and you don't have to muck the barn out until the bedding gets really dirty. Naturally if you scoop out the poop and wet spots it lasts longer. This works best on a dirt floor because the urine has a place to go. If the sawdust is fine like you get from a band mill it just makes a wet spot bigger.

[@EnergeticRhythm]

Sawdust is an amazing cooling product. Mix sawdust with water and freeze it or leave it outside in below freezing weather. Frozen sawdust and water mixed together can take up to 2 to 5 MONTHS to thaw out completely🧊 Its a great alternative to dry ice and its free LOL! The wood keeps the water frozen and keeps it from evaporating for a long long long time. Who Knew LOL! Love your Channel Em!

[@farrellmorgan4916]

They used to pack ice they cut in sawdust and put in caves. Would have ice come summer

[@dickflow3641]

What a sweet, hard working, young woman you are, love you videos.

[@paulprigge1209]

Looking back at your previous videos I’m not sure if you realize how much you have grown more comfortable with the camera more confident more relaxed. Just tremendous difference. Buttons on your daddy shirt must be popping. Keep it up young lady God bless

[@paulyoung5327]

I loved the way you kept composed when the sawdust tube fell off after you showed it to us, :-D good job there. I did really enjoy the information of how you use this byproduct!. You girls not only work hard but are very knowledgeable of the equipment you operate , salute.

[@John-xg2vj]

Good old "Armstrong loader". Never fails, no electricity needed, no bearings, belts or chains to break.

[@paulrambone6705]

You are an inspiration to future woodworkers.

[@bratwizard]

Wow. I have never been so interested in sawdust in my entire life !! Great presentation.

[@SegoMan]

What's this saw dust you speak of?? all I could see is a heart warming smile with red hair..

[@ttran8212]

Very informative and well spoken young lady. Sawing trees into numbers fascinates me.

[@DemocratforTrump]

So I work on a CNC machine and we have an industrial dust collector. You say you don’t have power but you can run one off a generator. What you do is back that saw off of that wall a good 10, 15 feet then you put a long hose that connects to the end of your port there that gets rid of the dust and you have it suck it into a big dustbin that you empty with a forklift. The dust collectors are expensive, but it’ll save you a lot of time down the road.

[@MrBoo1963]

I have a small what I call a Hobby mill. I use the extra dust for filling holes, coating around tree area's because of hot dry spells, and some for the chickens to play in. Just like old wood, it's better to bury it if you have a spot picked out and let it go back to the earth. Level out a hill side as well.

[@robertflindall4692]

Literally stumbled onto your videos and love it! Keep up the great work ladies!

[@traderjoe477]

I am so fascinated by you and your whole family. It's refreshing to see how you present everything all these informations in a positive nice way. No weird "Influencer" acting - you guys are straight out real. You all can be proud of what you have. Keep moving :)

[@toddz8579]

"We don't have electricity up here," said while standing in front of a wired outlet sticking out of the wall. I know she probably meant there was no power being supplied to the location regardless of wiring, but it still struck me as amusing 😁 I can only imagine how much sawdust is generated using that sawmill; I get a lot of it myself with a table saw, planer, and bandsaw. Good job recycling the stuff!

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Wood pellets for wood pellet grills, heaters, etc. Also look at pneumatic transfer systems to move the sawdust. That could be fed into hoppers to feed compactors for pellets(exair). If you sorted your saw dust, IE Oak, Redwood, Etc that would enhance a meat product whether over a flame or smoked. Buy Oak, Hickory, Redwood pellets and put in your smoker, or pellet fired grill. You guys have a unique option.

[@haroldchoate7497]

It's good to see your subscriber count keeps increasing. Emerald you hear how special you are a lot. It's true but I also want to compliment whoever is doing your camera work. They have a steady hand and good eye for keeping the content interesting and varied. Good on ya'!

[@NSResponder]

have you considered getting one of those presses that turns it into pellets for burning in stoves?

[@bluenetmarketing]

NS - My thought exactly. A pellet machine would be amazing, especially with all the preppers looking for pellets for their stoves.

[@KenBreon]

We often look into it to see what is available. Boss Man.

[@KrugerrandFarms]

I looked into making wood pellets but believe me it is a whole new business. the chips have to be dryed to about 14% moisture and that's where the fun begins. there really is a lot of skill involved in making a quality pellet that holds it's shape. I know some use binders but if your process is right the lignin in the wood will do that. You need a lot of volume to make the investment worth it.

[@bluenetmarketing]

@@KrugerrandFarms Then sell it to someone who does make pellets.

[@KrugerrandFarms]

@@bluenetmarketing Good Idea! but if you have a big enough pile of something, doesn't really matter what it is, it can become a commodity. I get $20 a pickup load for sawdust as bedding but I cant fill a trailer every week...

[@3mOffroadTeam]

Hi Em, If you do not have electricity at your log yard it doesn't matter. You could use your Woodmizer hydraulic system to drive an oil motor which pulls the saw dust conveyor. Just a hydraulic valve and a few hoses. That's it. Much smarter than good old shuffle. 😉 Looking forward to your next Video. Take care. Kind regards from Germany

[@williamsmith9287]

Back in the 60's I worked with my grandfather in a saw mill. We use to have people from butcher shops and meat packers come in and buy the saw dust to put on their floors to soak up the blood. Of course we never had the amount that you have. All our lumber came in rough cut slabs and we would turn in into finish grade. I was only 15 years old then...but it was a skill I never forgot.

[@peaceraybob]

I have seen sawdust pressed into bricks as a fuel source but can't remember which wood that came from or if they needed additives. Still, I do remember that the bricks had a burn rate just under that of the hardwood examples they were testing against, and far superior to pine logs.

[@wayneday3916]

We have bought firewood logs made from compressed sawdust they mix flour and water and sawdust and used an old log splitter and a 5 in pipe to make the log. The used a cement mixer to blend it up.

[@dgodrummer8110]

brilliant!

[@Tom-oz7iy]

Pellets for pellet stoves

[@KenBreon]

How did it work? Our sawdust is also soft wood. Boss Man.

[@wayneday3916]

@@KenBreon the logs worked great it the fireplace as well in the woodstove.

[@byrongrover5286]

That's exactly the way I make pellets for my pellet stove. Flour is cheap at Costco and I buy 6-10 bags at a time. I only add enough water to bind the flour and sawdust together in the pellet mill. 14 quarts of sawdust, about a half pint of water and 1.5 cups of flour to make a batch of pellets. I made drying racks to dry the product in about 8 hours. I'm designing an auger system to feed the pellet mill continuously so I can make around 1000 lb of pellets a day. My neighbor owns a logging and shaving business for chicken houses so I get all the shavings I need for free. I also have a bandsaw mill, but don't use it enough to make enough sawdust for me

[@ryanchicago6028]

Great job there. I'll bet you could easily build a separator that was like.. built onto a truck bed or something. My buddy used to have a dust collector that was like a big rectangular box on huge castors. The output just went to a shop vac, but the input hose went all over his big shop area. If I were you I'd want like.. some kind of big box with a couple screens that do sifting or something. Then, you'd have like 2 or 3 separate grades that you could empty outta there. Good luck to you!

[@danleach4123]

I work for a company on Vancouver island that hauls woodchips from the large mills. Basically all of the saw dust that is produced (we call it hog fuel) goes to a pulp production mill and is used for fuel for boilers. That is a viable option for sawdust. It makes good fuel

[@sharonhampton5173]

I use sawdust on ground between garden boxes and compost boxes. Works great

[@Rejoice1631]

There are fairly basic, and inexpensive machines that turn sawdust into compressed logs as another source of burnable materials. If mixed with oils, waxes, etc, they are great fire starters as well. That way even more of the sawdust "waste" is used and becomes another source of income for the Family Bizz. =)

[@mrwest5552]

as a helper in a small independent auto shop, i would collect sawdust from the wood workers next door and spread on the shop floor, soaks up liquid nicely.

[@jackiegammon2065]

In Western Maine, lots of folks heated their homes with sawdust. Like you, there were plenty of mills around, and a local person designed a furnace to heat people's homes. IN many ways, it was very similar to some of the pellet stoves of today. But from the 40's through the 70's, lots of folks heated with sawdust. Farmers started buying it from the mills, so then the mills did not have to try and keep the sawdust dry.. so that was pretty much the end of the sawdust burners. Just another tidbit from the mill industry here in Western Maine.

[@danmal6984]

I'm back from exploring Anticosti island (no internet there), and I just realise that I have almost 2 weeks of your videos to watch. Great time for sure. You are right about black walnut toxicity. It contains juglone wich is really toxic. That is why no plants or trees grow around them except for certain species like sugar maple. Horses are really sensitive to juglone. Thank you!

[@drstrip100]

The specific issue for horses is laminitis from the juglone.

[@gregmaffei4820]

Always great to hear the moral of the story from you,

[@richardthomas1566]

Small cart or Box with casters so it sits low to the ground you can roll to your dump spot works good . I made one with 1/4 mesh wire on the sides so it wouldn’t interrupt the flow of air and still blow out and not every where and it worked great

[@klausgeiben6608]

Sawdust can easily pressed into some kind of pellet. What you need is an hydrolic cylinder that presses the sawdust consistently through an slightly more narrow getting tube. The sawdust will stick together because of friction heat and compression. Those pellets have then the diameter of the used tube and can be sold as fire wood. There are some vids on youtube to show how to build a machine for that. It is not really complicated.

[@dlaitch]

A great video ,Emerald, all business and no nonsense just the way teaching videos should be made. I'm guessing that making pellets from sawdust would take hours of production time away from your family's core business. Everything is costly these days but with the rising cost of gasoline & diesel fuel electricity may now be a viable option. Perhaps electricity is not available in your location. Have heard of Power Companies charging extreme fees to run power poles to remote ares in Canada.Looks to me like the system that you use now is working just fine. Wish you and your family success in all of your endeavors.👍👍👍

[@Tom-we3zx]

Congratulations on breaking 30,000 subscribed. Love from Boston

[@lumbercapitallogyard]

Thanks! We are excited

[@jonathanmoor7035]

@@lumbercapitallogyard congratulations to you guys i knew you wood be able to do it

[@Funknwanker]

My compost pile is comprised of sawdust from my woodworking and grass clippings. It makes such a beautiful soil amendment.

[@rdesutter76]

a beautiful woman talks about a sawmill... I might be in woodworker heaven. Thx, lady. Keep up the strong work!

[@williamhall5924]

There is a pellet maker that you can use saw dust to make pellets for wood burning stoves that use pellets. Y'all might look into it.

[@JRP3]

Would it work for wet sawdust from green logs?

[@williamhall5924]

Some of the pellet presses I’ve looked into they use fairly dry saw dust and the press adds a small amount of water to keep the press from getting hot. There’s a lot of KZbin videos showing different types. As soon as I get running my sawmill sometime this fall I’ll really start looking into a press for my wood stove. Works been keeping me from doing any sawing this summer.

[@deepsleep7822]

The saw dust has to be at a certain moisture level to make pellets. No, I don’t know the level. I’ve watched enough of those vids, I should remember. There other issue is that they have no electricity at this sight.

[@williamhall5924]

I’ve seen a few that had gas engines.

[@richardlee2488]

@@williamhall5924 the moisture is 11% ideally. At that moisture it is just a case of building the heat to melt the lignin. If its dryer then you can add water or steam but want the process heat at about 95 degrees until the material is actually in the die under compression. The timber choice is very important as recycled or very soft timbers and natural low lignin content will stop even good timber pelleting. Uneven moisture can make perfect pellets crumble. As for power it's not so important to have electric as the mill I have run with 4000 kilo in 8 hours capacity used electric power to drive a slewing motor from a 360 excavator. What you need is torque and the right speed. It's easy to get it right and even easier to get it wrong.

[@kenbauman2294]

I have no idea why I watch these videos. Nothing she says can I use in my daily life, yet I still watch and find them interesting. I will ask my therapist some day.

[@southernjoes8372]

So true. I woodwork as a hobby since retirement and I fill up bags of it on a daily basis. I only keep the cedar sawdust

[@Dark78Sabre]

Another use for your fine sawdust from the mill is as an additive for grout. It would be mixed 2.5 to 3 parts fine sawdust, 2 parts fine or coarse sand (depending on finish or wall fill), and 1 part cement. Mix in enough water so you have an 8 to 12 inch slump (thick pancake batter) and you can easily replace the damp aggregate with your fine sawdust.

[@SawmillerSmith]

Looks like the shovel work keeps you slim and trim! I haven't sawn wood in a long time. Like you said, sawdust everywhere. Always in my pockets. For some reason I still drag in dirt and wood chips. It's like im a Magnet to the stuff.

[@JRP3]

I think they get plenty of physical work each day, shoveling sawdust is the least of it.

[@carolfernandes8099]

Love your videos and your work ethic, also the relationship you have with your siblings. I have often wondered how you could recycle the sawdust you produce. Would it be possible to mix the dust with paraffin pellets and compress the mixture into fireplace logs? Keep up the great videos...I love seeing you and your sister cutting up like a couple of happy kids!

[@jakebredthauer5100]

There are recipes in these comments.

[@greggmcclelland8430]

You could sell it as oil dry. You could get a press and make synthetic fireplace logs. This could be a mixture of waste cardboard or paper and sawdust with water. The slurry is pressed into blocks or logs and sold as firewood. the other way to do it is to compress it into pellets and sell it for pellet stoves.

[@jackmclane1826]

A sawmill in my neighborhood started pressing wood pellets for heaters.

[@rrbb36]

No tattoos??? Amazing!!! It’s so refreshing to see such a lovely young lady that isn’t tatted-up from head to toe. Simply beautiful.

[@mrfatty]

Now what were you saying? All I saw was that beautiful red hair blowing in the wind. 😳 Just kidding sawdust is good for flower beds.

[@tomstarr1779]

I was always curious about Sawdust and the many types along with the many uses of sawdust . This was Very informative. Thank You!

[@ajpsawmill4314]

I hooked up a 5 HP gas leaf push blower to my circle mill to blow the sawdust into the compost high tunnel. I don't know if it would work on a homeowners band mill

[@galdessa1]

They like the shovel, its good for their slim bodies.

[@mikewhitley1183]

Please don't take this wrong I think you're absolutely gorgeous the red hair and the blue eyes does not get any better than that !!!! You're definitely a 10

[@MrOddball63]

THIS is the image my mind conjures up when I think of "America". Hard working family in a rural setting far from the glitz and superficial glamour of New York or L.A. Good luck in your future endeavors (and that goes for the whole crew)...

[@mrtrailesafety]

Years ago red oak sawdust made great stable bedding. When it caked, after it composted, was perfect and Ph neutral.

[@albertpetry7238]

Why do you two not model?

[@DazedandInsane]

Because they want a real career?

[@bobcatwelder00]

you are beautiful and your hair blowing in the breeze is awesome

[@jwstanley2645]

A couple of days ago, I watched one of your other videos, one about boxes you make and sell, and during the part about slicing a log into boards, I saw the way the mill makes and dumps sawdust. I wondered what you do with it. So, thanks for this one too. Two uses you might not have known, just for curiosity. I used sawdust in the making of stained-glass windows as a cleaner to remove an oily residue left by the glazing process. It absorbs oil well, does not scratch glass, and polishes lead nicely. Another weird way... In my high school long ago, janitors used sawdust to absorb, collect, and sweep vomit. Clay kitty litter makes too much airborne dust for High School vomit applications. Finally, no, this is not the only thing I learned in High School. Thanks for the videos.

[@rustyrobinson8027]

Thanks family for showing us how hard work equals succuss

[@eduardocarvalho1547]

In my country sawdust is used in brick and tile factories as fuel. Rather than using natural gas or fuel oil, sawdust is dried and pulverized to a very small grain and then feed trough special "injectors" in the kiln.

[@mikerubynfs]

I used to work in a furniture factory, our sawdust went from the extraction system into the boiler for heating we used less in the summer so had a large hopper above the boiler house to store enough to last though winter when we burnt more than we produced. We also chipped our waste wood and feed that to the boiler as well.

[@mkllove]

Another use of the sawdust (non pine) is for firing up charcoal or wood smokers, or use the pine for normal non cooking fires, you mix it with just enough wax to bind it, (make it in summertime so it doesn't freeze up too quickly before getting well mixed) and cut it with a saw... have read that will also help keep clean chainsaws vs oil. You could also make those fake logs that are popular under duraflame or enviro-log names to use a LOT of it in bulk.

[@herbwatkins4719]

Congrats on 30K can't wait for 100! All the best

[@rongray4118]

Love the rear tractor blade!! I need one of those on the 406 Unimog. As to sawdust blocks - great idea for putting through the Hydraform Compressed Earth Block machine. Stack them quite easily too.

[@keithprentice8298]

Good work with using everything up! and selling every last bit of the log. As for your method of cleaning up sawdust, I think you have nailed it, cheap replaceable and reliable tools (shovel) and just a little bit of labour. I doubt you will ever find a method that works better or cheaper. Never be afraid of a little hard work I say.

[@AB-C1]

Great video! Love your channel! Love your energy too and thinking outside the box on your projects for compost and sawdust etc.. Cheers from London England 👍😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@DigitalModz]

Who knew logging could look this beautiful 🔥🔥🔥

[@ulrichneumann4068]

I am from Germany. I am no woodworker but i know many woodworkingmachines have vacuum cleaner inside to save this really valuable material to not get dirty and wet. They make paper, pellets firestarters or they put in special stoves for sawdust. They heat the workrooms. It is important to separate sawdust from chips. I like your videos.

[@diverdave4056]

...mmm line up a bunch of Heavy Duty TOTE BINS along the side of the saw mill ! they do make some that have two wheels on one end or put them on top of moving dollies ! they will catch a lot of that saw dust and you can wheel them out to dump them

[@montanawhite5699]

You could place a wheelbarrow under the shoot. When it’s full you could dump it or just let it over flow and do you shovel thing after. Also, you should try contacting your local mechanics. We use sawdust to soak up oil spills all the time.

[@vinnyfalcone]

Emerald, I use Okocat cat litter that is made from wood chips or sawdust. I love the idea that we use what would be considered waste for this. Thanks again for all the great info.

[@andybayliss2020]

I take all of my sawdust from my mill and woodshop and pack it into cardboard boxes then throw it into my outdoor boiler. It burns hot and is a great way to bring up the temp on the stove on really cold days. If I get too much sawdust, I throw it in the woods on low spots.

[@andrewrich4046]

Poor jade seems to get the clean up job with sawdust . Keeps her fit and trim . Your both brilliant

[@frankpestana4906]

I've always been skeptical of home schooling but these young ladies are so impressive to the point every young lady and especially young girls should watch this show to show

[@garrysgarage1958]

Glad to see you back making videos … hope the time away was good!

[@jenniferwhite6089]

yes we use the sawdust for bedding in our calve barns to save the straw bale too

[@ronskancke1489]

I use the sawdist from my sawmill and planer under my spruce trees to keep grass out and also around some of my garden plants for the same reason. It works good at about 4 " thick and eventually turns into organic matter.

[@wesleymonske8103]

Press it into brickettes. Cook it into charcoal and sell it. Put charcoal into filters for water sourse . Mmmm pure water !

[@666toysoldier]

Last I knew, Springfield Missouri, with lots of sawmills in the area, composted sawdust with treated sewage sludge to make black dirt---a rare commodity in the rocky Ozarks.

[@raykoziupa8275]

Would not recommend mixing sawdust with "treated" sewage...it's loaded with PFAS...VERY bad stuff and a toxic nightmare!

[@dysfunctional_vet]

i do the exact same thing you do for pick up, however, i cut pine so i compost it apart from my garden compost until it is decayed totally. the grain scoop is the best friend

[@petersimpson633]

Hello from England, I pay the equivalent of $20 for two 44 pounds bags of compressed sawdust 'bricks' for my fireplace. I love that's it's a renewable resource and it's a waste product to boot. Burns hot, easy to light, leaves little ash... Think you're got a splendid side hustle there, and folks will drive up to take it off your hands

[@aesopdemoor7595]

saw dust is great for traction on ice, giving solidity for dirt roads, fill in dirt road pot holes, wet and dried into fire logs wrapped in paper, in place of mulch, sell to paper mills...if around, mix with water to make ice stronger,

[@09jt1]

Where I live, northern Europe, it was common as insulation. Need to filld up after some years. Here sawdust became shortage. Factories make different boards of it. And so on. Some people also make heat stoves of it. KZbin have films about it. And of course in barns. Menure handling. Bale it and sell it. Press it to make pellets fore heating ovens. And at last. We used a fan to collect and remove any industrial dust. Just remember a cyclone in the outlet. Good luck with your good work.

[@828enigma6]

I have used sawdust or tree chipping to amend soil with little organic material. Turn it in, wait a year or two for decomposition, add some lime if necessary. Problem with bark chips around here is there's a lot of lot of poison ivy seeds in it. Wood mills in Alabama used to use dome shaped and screened fire houses to burn the sawdust. You could see the smoke from an active site for miles.

[@SuperPirate100]

Like most people I've used timber I DIY projects all my adult life and apart from getting the right type of wood I've never given it a thought . These videos are very informative where our wood comes from , thanks .