looking for shavings/coarse sawdust

flynnboy · 19-09-2009 12:43PM #1

Hi

I am looking for a supply of hardwood shavings and or coarse sawdust - oak etc. Do any of you have or know where I can find a regular supply or perhaps a few binbags of the stuff ? It's for my wood smoker for my fish etc.

Cheers

FB

centre half · 19-09-2009 03:49PM

try any sawmills maybe? Or I would suggest bolton street institute of technology or the likes

SpitfireIV · 19-09-2009 06:01PM

Yeah give a few sawmills or timber yards a go. The shavings from a planer/thicknesser would be ideal. Although I'd imagine in a lot of these places the table saws, sanders, p/t's etc are all hooked up to the one vacumn system and thus there could be any amount of varieties of wood in the sacks and desposits ranging from course to very fine.

ttm · 19-09-2009 10:31PM

Tree Surgeons?

Ask them to put a few oak branches though one of their big shredders.

CJhaughey · 27-09-2009 07:51AM

The best way to ensure that you get clean woodchips with no treated wood amongst them is to make them yourself.
I use an Arbortech disc on a 4 1/2" grinder and put a piece of plastic DPC on the floor/wall, get a lump of oak and grind away.
It doesn't take long and you don't have chain oil in them as you get from chainsaws or nasty treated wood dust.

flynnboy · 27-09-2009 10:28AM

Thanks for all of the suggestions. I've actually found a smokery that is willing to sell me their own stuff.

Cheers

FB

centre half · 27-09-2009 07:23PM

Excuse my ignorance, but WTF is a smokery?

flynnboy · 27-09-2009 07:32PM

centre half wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance, but WTF is a smokery?

A place where they 'smoke' stuff - like fish......

looking for shavings/coarse sawdust

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