I have just went through the posts in the last 2 months as I have been away for a while, and noticed a few posts regarding the problem of burning sawdust in a wood burning stove.
Suggestions were made of buying/building expensive gizmos to compress the sawdust in an attempt to make sawdust logs or bricks. Some even tried using a weak pva glue mixture, waited weeks on it drying only for it to fall to bits.
Some mentioned the impracticality of the mess being made as they very carefully shovelled sawdust into the fire hoping to not get a mini explosion in the fire that blew their eyebrows off.
Nah...fret no more...its simple... put it into handy sized bags in your workshop. Tie knots in the tops of the bags if you wish. I just take 15 mins or so wearing a dust mask and fill ordinary plastic shopping bags with enough for my size of fire.
I then just chuck in a whole unopened bag. The plastic melts away immediately, but its safe and clean and there is not enough plastic to damage the fire. Use paper bags if you want. And it fairly throws out the heat.
Hope this helps
Ray.
Suggestions were made of buying/building expensive gizmos to compress the sawdust in an attempt to make sawdust logs or bricks. Some even tried using a weak pva glue mixture, waited weeks on it drying only for it to fall to bits.
Some mentioned the impracticality of the mess being made as they very carefully shovelled sawdust into the fire hoping to not get a mini explosion in the fire that blew their eyebrows off.
Nah...fret no more...its simple... put it into handy sized bags in your workshop. Tie knots in the tops of the bags if you wish. I just take 15 mins or so wearing a dust mask and fill ordinary plastic shopping bags with enough for my size of fire.
I then just chuck in a whole unopened bag. The plastic melts away immediately, but its safe and clean and there is not enough plastic to damage the fire. Use paper bags if you want. And it fairly throws out the heat.
Hope this helps
Ray.