I till sawdust in the ground in the fall. You have to add nitrogen at the same time, I use grass clippings or feather meal.
I till sawdust in the ground in the fall. You have to add nitrogen at the same time, I use grass clippings or feather meal.
Be very cautious when collecting sawdust from unknown origins. A Portland handyman gave us a huge amount of sawdust shavings and we were so excited to put them in our compost pile. Later he informed us that the shavings were from a deck he had built using pressure-treated wood. Treated wood contains arsenic-based preservatives. Obviously we didn't want this to end up as a garden amendment and, eventually as part of our food so we emptied the compost barrel and started over. Just a word of caution from my experience!
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You don't want to burn it either. Breathing the smoke is bad, too.
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in WW11 the british gov. wre building an air craft carrier out of saw dust frozen in water the material was called pycrete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier. Pykrete has some interesting properties, notably its relatively slow melting rate (because of low thermal conductivity), and its vastly improved strength and toughness over unmodified (crystalline) ice, actually closer to concrete.
Pykrete is slightly more difficult to form than concrete
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Man, the bunks in that rascal would have been cold.
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"I'm trying but I keep sliding off the bloody deck!"
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cant sink a ship made of ice,cause ice dont sink! Captain, the planes are coming in and we 100 pairs of mucluks!
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I watched an episode of Myth Busters a while back where they explored pykrete. http://mythbustersresults.com/alaska-special-2
ive done some experimenting with home made Pycrete. it is tough stuff. and very uesful.
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here is a link to a saw dust stove design, How to Build and Use a Sawdust Stove - Organic Gardening, Modern ...
Guide to constructing a homemade stove, including illustrated instructions, diagrams, proper burning and efficiency, and installation.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It...ust-Stove.aspx
I may build one myself.
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I use coconut coir instead of saw dust. I find it works better and my worms in my vermicomposting bin love it.
Where do you find that much coir?
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