In the early 80's, I worked maintenance at a company that made interior and exterior doors. We collected our sawdust with a vacuum system that deposited it in overhead bins you could drive a truck under. We were lucky to get farmers to take it for animal bedding. A few years later, I was working for a truck and trailer leasing company. One of our customers was a millwork company that leased special 45' van trailers that had ports on them so they could blow them full of sawdust. When they were filled, they were taken to another company that made wood products out of the sawdust. I do remember that the value of the sawdust was so low, it wasn't worth hauling it over 40 miles away from the millwork company.
How you resolve your projects is endlessly fascinating to subscribers like me. We would be overwhelmed at the start of your projects. The "Like watching someone playing in a giant zen garden" was a great comment too us.
Every night, the local pallet factory ships a 48' load of their sawdust up to an industry that further grinds it down in size, then presses it into sheet form, for sale as presswood panelling used for office furniture, K-mart-grade household furniture, etc. Throughout the day, the trailer gets advanced 5 or 6 feet as the sawdust piles up, then it's levelled out with a shovel or rake by the yard guy, the tarp gets rolled over and secured, then off it goes for that 3 hour tour, and the trailer gets end-dumped on a liftbed at the customers. I know down there in the Carolinas it's hard to fathom, but up here, somebody actually pays for the stuff.
Stan Patterson Yeah they could just get a 53 dry van trailer and figure out a way to fill it, you'd think it a full trailer would be worth a few thousand. Even at twice a year it would seem to be worth it.
When I was younger and when my dad would use his table saw my brother and I would take some of our toy trucks and use it like mulch or dirt. This brought back some memories thankyou
Looks like a botique mill. Small operation with no dry kilns and no boilers. If that pile was a years worth of dust then there would be no market for the small amount. Good job with the clean up!
So cool, I used to bow hunt near a sawmill, every once in a while we'd hear the bulldozer clacking away doing exactly this. That stuff makes really good compost after a few years, 😉
I worked Maintenance at a large mill here in North east Tennessee,they sold Bark,Sawdust and chips ,to paper mills and such. Nothing was wasted,Oh almost forgot sawdust was also used has fuel,for the dry klin's . love the videos Chris.
I remember paying $200.00 for a ton of pellets for my pellet stove about 8 years ago. Kinda looks like that lumber mill operation is overlooking a pretty good side income.
Where I live, sawdust was once burned as waste. Today sawdust is a valued commodity, used to make pres-to logs, particle board, MDF board, charcoal briquettes, raw fiber for the paper undustry, or burned to produce steam for heat needed in drying kilns, or to generate electricity. Even small lumber mills have no sawdust waste.... its a by product to sell, with many willing buyers. they have hoppers that conveyer load trucks or rail cars.. Larger mills use a lot of their own sawdust internally for energy production.
Saw dust is very good for improve soil. You can mix it with different other stuff you need f e compost, manure, wood chips, straw together with infertile soil. Or use it as an additive if you have too wet compost. And a small warning; Piles of sawdust can self-ignite. Higher they get it's a bigger chance they do and especially if it's compacted..
It's amazing how a berm on each side of the blade/Cat helps get material to where you want it.(Especially if you're pushing down hill!!!) As I've noted before.........GREAT BLADE WORK!!!!(:>).............................All I ever had was an old 46-A with a U blade!(;>)
I know a guy in Texas that bought a pallet business (for the saw dust) just for remediation of oil. Too bad the trucking would be so expensive to get it here.
if someone filled an empty paper towel tube with that sawdust and melted candle wax, he could stick a sparkler in that and use it to light a fire pile of tree trimmings and felled trees, instead of diesel fuel and the woosh method... but that wouldn't be much fun
I looked into this a few years ago. The press to make the pellets is relatively cheap (as low as $1500). The sawdust needs to be dried to a fairly exact tolerance to make pellets. The machinery to process the sawdust prior to pressing is very expensive (starts at $150,000). Makes it tough to do on a small scale.
They can do what they want but if they put up a small bin for cost of what you just did they could get rid of it for free. Composters love that. Last semi I got in Ohio was 440$ . depending what kind of wood in it you cant use it for bedding for horses
Chris, Where is the saw mill at? We're close to the Clayton/Smithfield area and I am in need of new boards for the floor on the trailers and for the top boards on our dump trucks. We've worked with you in the past hauling mud from a couple of your pond and lake jobs. Thank you, Ron with KB's Hauling
With glue some molds and a press they could make particle strand board. Turn that waste into profit. Considering the price of wood right now the ROI would happen very quickly.
I don't know shit about dozing but it was fascinating watching how you maintained the slot. How you loaded the blade on a angle to suck it over and then kept it in the slot very cool. As someone who knows nothing about this I would have had the urge to remove that whole pile after you pushed it under the conveyer and I would have lost the slot right there. Not sure if this is basic stuff but I suspect there was a lot of subtle knowledge in this video. Anyway thanks for sharing I really enjoyed it.
Having saw dust around like that can be dangerous it can actually can catch fire all by itself seen it happen back in WV when I was on a fire department
Give us a update on the cows and fencing. I'm about to start the same project and want your opinion on your setup. Thanks for the vids. Enjoy them a lot
I see a lot of people saying make heating pellets out of it. I'm not 100% sure where the mill is located. But, I think maybe, down south. If so, there probably isn't much of a market or demand for wood pellets.
Clayton Hartin Spread it in the field maybe. You can’t house or bed animals in sawdust, it’s carcinogenic, especially if it’s hardwood......They only use chips or shavings
I didn't hear one squeak or clunk from metal-to-metal contact between the track & the sprockets. The sawdust must act as a lubricant, you could hear the engine. More saw mill jobs & you'll have 6,000 hrs on a machine that only looks like 3,000 hrs. Thanks for the video.
The owner could make wood pellets or wood logs, both are valuable up north of North Carolina and all points north. Or simply install a wood burning boiler to provide heat to all the buildings at the mill.
That sawdust is worth lots of money Chris the farmers are buying it for bedding because or the weather and no straw etc and they love it better than straw and corn.
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Valuable organic matter.. Here in California. Gold..
Might want to check to see if there is any build up of saw dust in the engine compartment and other places that might get hot after this job. Would be a bad surprise to have the dozer catch on fire because of it.
You are 100% spot on. Yeah I guess I missed the part of the title that said it was Chris's saw mill and he had a choice on what to do with the sawdust. Must be people can't comprehend the idea of being hired for a job and doing what the customer asks
the funniest thing just happened. I live about half a mile from a place that makes mulch/wood chips ect. as i started to watch the video the wind must have shifted because the house filled with the smell of wet sawdust.. I thought you had invented Small-o Vision..lol
I know this mill owner is a friend of yours, but does he not understand that he is wasting a valuable by-product of the wood industry which his mill created? Being a close friend, maybe you should suggest that he look into the various ways that sawdust and wood shavings are used today, it could save him a few dollars and even make him much more.
I had noticed at my friends mill the large by-product of sawdust around his mill and I had asked what he does with it and he said it's just waste I told him to sell it to the horse people around the area ,now he makes cash on it and he gets rid of a problem .Now I dont have to pay for my firewood lololol
You may check out Ecostrat. They are based out of Charlotte North Carolina. I have a sawmill operation and ran across them. They'll buy the sawdust and woodchips.
Great channel!! I got all my grandson's watching you.. I wonder if you could do me a favor....you keep all of your equipment all nice and clean is there any chance you could paint those two rusty hood washers on your Dozer? they bug my 7 year old grandson.......lol
@@stevenclark6209 Yeah, it sucks to see what's effectively money laying left on the ground like that, but if you've got nowhere close to sell it, not much else you can do with it.
Your sawmill buddy needs to talk to a marketing guy, sell "Gen-u-ine Carolina SawDust Pillows" in Std. , Queen & King size. Look at that nutter from Minnesota selling $60. pillows with scrap foam inside, he's prolly a millionaire now.
Just a question, why doesn't he have someone make a blade or bucket for his loader? ( one that will slide on the forks) seems like it save him money. Just asking
Not bashing Chris, he's doing a great job. Just wondering why this mill company doesn't do something useful with the dust. Unless it's too small of an amount to do anything commercially with. Will make great soil once it's all decomposed
Just add glue and straw and you got Ikea furniture LOL
You need a little cardboard for a support structure
Glue ? I thought they used Flour
@@zeke112964 nope I've watched how its made the straw is the binding agent
Lmao
That's a fact. Just set a little water on any Ikea 'wood' furniture and call it a night. The morning holds amazing sights.
In the early 80's, I worked maintenance at a company that made interior and exterior doors. We collected our sawdust with a vacuum system that deposited it in overhead bins you could drive a truck under. We were lucky to get farmers to take it for animal bedding.
A few years later, I was working for a truck and trailer leasing company. One of our customers was a millwork company that leased special 45' van trailers that had ports on them so they could blow them full of sawdust. When they were filled, they were taken to another company that made wood products out of the sawdust. I do remember that the value of the sawdust was so low, it wasn't worth hauling it over 40 miles away from the millwork company.
I have the best Bandini mtn around because for 30yrs, I had a cabinet shop (sawdust) and cattle (manure). Great mixture!
Yup a nitrogen source (manure) and a carbon source (sawdust) = great compost
How you resolve your projects is endlessly fascinating to subscribers like me. We would be overwhelmed at the start of your projects. The "Like watching someone playing in a giant zen garden" was a great comment too us.
Strange to just have it as fillings.
Sawdust is a whole industry nowadays.
Every night, the local pallet factory ships a 48' load of their sawdust up to an industry that further grinds it down in size, then presses it into sheet form, for sale as presswood panelling used for office furniture, K-mart-grade household furniture, etc. Throughout the day, the trailer gets advanced 5 or 6 feet as the sawdust piles up, then it's levelled out with a shovel or rake by the yard guy, the tarp gets rolled over and secured, then off it goes for that 3 hour tour, and the trailer gets end-dumped on a liftbed at the customers. I know down there in the Carolinas it's hard to fathom, but up here, somebody actually pays for the stuff.
@@stanpatterson5033 Correctly
Stan Patterson Yeah they could just get a 53 dry van trailer and figure out a way to fill it, you'd think it a full trailer would be worth a few thousand. Even at twice a year it would seem to be worth it.
@@stanpatterson5033 yes its called MDF Sawdust can bring you good money.
@@stanpatterson5033
In Canada too. They make compressed wood pellets and logs for heating. 0 waste. Sad to see this.
Foreman: HEY BOSS, THIS PLACE IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A SHITHOLE AGAIN.......
Owner: GO HEAD AND GIVE CHRIS A CALL......
When I was younger and when my dad would use his table saw my brother and I would take some of our toy trucks and use it like mulch or dirt. This brought back some memories thankyou
Looks like a botique mill. Small operation with no dry kilns and no boilers. If that pile was a years worth of dust then there would be no market for the small amount. Good job with the clean up!
Marius DD Well said
So cool, I used to bow hunt near a sawmill, every once in a while we'd hear the bulldozer clacking away doing exactly this. That stuff makes really good compost after a few years, 😉
This vidja was really relaxing! Like watching someone play in a giant zen garden 😂
Chris on the video the soil looks red n rich n clean. It's like u want to just roll n it... 🤓💕
Ikea Beaver Dam ... some assembly required.
Nice job! Jack has plenty of room now. Boy for a minute I thought you forgot about the camera on the dozer 🤣
I worked Maintenance at a large mill here in North east Tennessee,they sold Bark,Sawdust and chips ,to paper mills and such. Nothing was wasted,Oh almost forgot sawdust was also used has fuel,for the dry klin's . love the videos Chris.
Everybody commenting on what he should do with it. He's doing exactly what he's getting paid to do. Move it for the PAYING customer.
That Komatsu is still a beast after 7..10+ years. Been watching for a while.
Doing a grand job as always
I'm guessing the next video will be air filter maintenance.
Well on a positive note that sawdust makes for a smooth ride in the dozer.
I remember paying $200.00 for a ton of pellets for my pellet stove about 8 years ago.
Kinda looks like that lumber mill operation is overlooking a pretty good side income.
They have a place not far from me that burns woodchips and sawdust mixed with shredded tires, the incinerator creates electricity.
Where I live, sawdust was once burned as waste. Today sawdust is a valued commodity, used to make pres-to logs, particle board, MDF board, charcoal briquettes, raw fiber for the paper undustry, or burned to produce steam for heat needed in drying kilns, or to generate electricity. Even small lumber mills have no sawdust waste.... its a by product to sell, with many willing buyers. they have hoppers that conveyer load trucks or rail cars.. Larger mills use a lot of their own sawdust internally for energy production.
Eventually mill yards need maintenance. You did a great job using 'sideboards'!
Brings back memories of push lint piles at the cotton gin.
That stuff makes good compost too
Too bad you don't know anyone who could burn that in a kiln or something. Make pressed mold flower pots that decompose after few years.
Saw dust is very good for improve soil. You can mix it with different other stuff you need f e compost, manure, wood chips, straw together with infertile soil. Or use it as an additive if you have too wet compost.
And a small warning; Piles of sawdust can self-ignite. Higher they get it's a bigger chance they do and especially if it's compacted..
Just return it to any cut forested area or find a farmer willing to truck it for his fields. Great for loosening heavy soils
That blade shaker is pretty slick!
Motocross track owners would pay big money for all that sawdust
Wyatt Wells lol I was thinking the same thing
You gotta be glad you have a enclosed cab !!!
Hi Chris,
free access to dirt, sand and sawdust.
My potting soil comany would start today.
Have fun, make money
Gerhard
what a shame! we have a sawdust shortage, it is hard to get and very expensive when you do. a 40' semi van full is around $2300.00
It's amazing how a berm on each side of the blade/Cat helps get material to where you want it.(Especially if you're pushing down hill!!!) As I've noted before.........GREAT BLADE WORK!!!!(:>).............................All I ever had was an old 46-A with a U blade!(;>)
I'm surprised no local farmer wouldn't use all that sawdust for bedding. If that was near me farmers be fighting to get a load of that
Wade sells theirs to a paper company for boiler fuel
I know a guy in Texas that bought a pallet business (for the saw dust) just for remediation of oil. Too bad the trucking would be so expensive to get it here.
95% of our Sawdust is sold for Oil Remediation. The remainder goes for horse bedding.
if someone filled an empty paper towel tube with that sawdust and melted candle wax, he could stick a sparkler in that and use it to light a fire pile of tree trimmings and felled trees, instead of diesel fuel and the woosh method... but that wouldn't be much fun
The woosh method keeps you on your toes
That ramp is getting tall and that a lot of sawdust
They could make heating wood pellets with that and make a few dollars
or bag it for speedy-dry. absorbs oil better and smells good too!!
Beat me to it.
I looked into this a few years ago. The press to make the pellets is relatively cheap (as low as $1500). The sawdust needs to be dried to a fairly exact tolerance to make pellets. The machinery to process the sawdust prior to pressing is very expensive (starts at $150,000). Makes it tough to do on a small scale.
@@gman4937 or sell it to a company that does that. Unless it's primarily pine. Then the pellets would burn too fast
They can do what they want but if they put up a small bin for cost of what you just did they could get rid of it for free. Composters love that. Last semi I got in Ohio was 440$ . depending what kind of wood in it you cant use it for bedding for horses
You're on your way to making a mountain. LOL
Seems a lot more compact than I thought saw dust would be, made the dozer work when you were breaking the pile up.
I'll say it again - I bet you love your job. Must have been fun pushing around all that sawdust. So cool to watch!
Barn bedding!
Chris,
Where is the saw mill at? We're close to the Clayton/Smithfield area and I am in need of new boards for the floor on the trailers and for the top boards on our dump trucks.
We've worked with you in the past hauling mud from a couple of your pond and lake jobs.
Thank you,
Ron with KB's Hauling
Well so much for King of the Hill.... well at least we have a good plot for a garden. Now go thank the man on the bulldozer.
Crank up a pellet mill and sell for horse bedding....
I am surprised they don't sell it...
That's what we used for on the farm also.
I thought the same thing. Seems like lost revenue for the mill.
Sawdust proper is poor bedding. What the farm crowd want is shavings, not so much the dust.
Fuel for pellet stoves, I used to pay $200.00 for a ton of pellets for my pellet stove.
Dozing sawdust cleaning up the place nice again Chris.....😎✌👌
Post number 2 Chris is good enough to get us to watch that should tell you something
they need to buy a big press and press the sawdust into firewood logs just throwing away money in this operation
Not to mention if those piles would go up in flames (if dry enough) like a bomb going off....
With glue some molds and a press they could make particle strand board. Turn that waste into profit. Considering the price of wood right now the ROI would happen very quickly.
I don't know shit about dozing but it was fascinating watching how you maintained the slot. How you loaded the blade on a angle to suck it over and then kept it in the slot very cool. As someone who knows nothing about this I would have had the urge to remove that whole pile after you pushed it under the conveyer and I would have lost the slot right there. Not sure if this is basic stuff but I suspect there was a lot of subtle knowledge in this video. Anyway thanks for sharing I really enjoyed it.
Having saw dust around like that can be dangerous it can actually can catch fire all by itself seen it happen back in WV when I was on a fire department
Give us a update on the cows and fencing. I'm about to start the same project and want your opinion on your setup. Thanks for the vids. Enjoy them a lot
I see a lot of people saying make heating pellets out of it. I'm not 100% sure where the mill is located. But, I think maybe, down south. If so, there probably isn't much of a market or demand for wood pellets.
Back up a semi trailer with a open top and have them dump the saw dust into the trailer, sell the saw dust to farmers. $$
Clayton Hartin
What’s the Farmer gonna do with it....???
Bedding for the animals, if they milk cows you can put the saw dust in the stalls when the cows get milked, spread the sawdust out in the fields also.
Clayton Hartin
Spread it in the field maybe.
You can’t house or bed animals in sawdust, it’s carcinogenic, especially if it’s hardwood......They only use chips or shavings
Clayton Hartin o
@@slomoe5409 no you are wrong go to channel the farming life he is using it and loves it and the cows like it too.
Hard to believe there isn't a market for that stuff....Should be good for something!
I didn't hear one squeak or clunk from metal-to-metal contact between the track & the sprockets. The sawdust must act as a lubricant, you could hear the engine. More saw mill jobs & you'll have 6,000 hrs on a machine that only looks like 3,000 hrs. Thanks for the video.
I think you may have found a good home for the old army truck. Park it under the shoot.
He sold it
The owner could make wood pellets or wood logs, both are valuable up north of North Carolina and all points north. Or simply install a wood burning boiler to provide heat to all the buildings at the mill.
You could take the 160
and load of that that has composted and take it to your place it would be clean fertilizer with no chemical make up plus free
Ain't nothing free in this world. You have to remember the fuel costs and time
couple more piles like that1 and you could land Piper Cubs on it
That sawdust is worth lots of money Chris the farmers are buying it for bedding because or the weather and no straw etc and they love it better than straw and corn.
Valuable organic matter..
Here in California.
Gold..
Those trees out back are weeping...seeing their relative's remains...all ground up into sawdust...sad day.
Might want to check to see if there is any build up of saw dust in the engine compartment and other places that might get hot after this job. Would be a bad surprise to have the dozer catch on fire because of it.
Wow.. Chris is getting roasted for dozing sawdust.. I bet they *never* thought about the recycling part.. (sarcasm). Keep the vids coming!
You are 100% spot on. Yeah I guess I missed the part of the title that said it was Chris's saw mill and he had a choice on what to do with the sawdust. Must be people can't comprehend the idea of being hired for a job and doing what the customer asks
the funniest thing just happened. I live about half a mile from a place that makes mulch/wood chips ect. as i started to watch the video the wind must have shifted because the house filled with the smell of wet sawdust.. I thought you had invented Small-o Vision..lol
now you can pretend the komatsu is a D11 N
Man they went through few saw blades to get that much sawdust!
Dwayne
I know this mill owner is a friend of yours, but does he not understand that he is wasting a valuable by-product of the wood industry which his mill created? Being a close friend, maybe you should suggest that he look into the various ways that sawdust and wood shavings are used today, it could save him a few dollars and even make him much more.
You should use some of that for bedding for your cows
Ol Logger Wade wouldn't let that go to waste !!
Wow that was a bunch of sawdust
Good video Chris, like dozer work.
I had noticed at my friends mill the large by-product of sawdust around his mill and I had asked what he does with it and he said it's just waste I told him to sell it to the horse people around the area ,now he makes cash on it and he gets rid of a problem .Now I dont have to pay for my firewood lololol
Nice, I was thinking maybe Twice a year doing that...
So Zack has you clean out there only about every 10-12 mounts.?? 🤷🏻♂️
I've seen a couple sawdust fires that seem to burn forever. I assume you have to leave sort of a road way just in case?
You may check out Ecostrat. They are based out of Charlotte North Carolina. I have a sawmill operation and ran across them. They'll buy the sawdust and woodchips.
That’s some good driving that dozer.
This looks like a combustion fire waiting to happen.
Great channel!! I got all my grandson's watching you.. I wonder if you could do me a favor....you keep all of your equipment all nice and clean is there any chance you could paint those two rusty hood washers on your Dozer? they bug my 7 year old grandson.......lol
You have done this before maybe a year ago I believe...he can make money off that saw dust .. it's such a shame .
From what I remember of that video, he was saying that there isn't a market for it in the area.
@@sandy1653 okay thank you it's a pity..
@@stevenclark6209 Yeah, it sucks to see what's effectively money laying left on the ground like that, but if you've got nowhere close to sell it, not much else you can do with it.
maybe he's using it to raise his land for more area to store wood for later.
Shawn Ecklor not the most solid foundation...
That has to be the biggest pile of sawdust I have ever seen! whole lotta pushin
Your sawmill buddy needs to talk to a marketing guy, sell "Gen-u-ine Carolina SawDust Pillows" in Std. , Queen & King size.
Look at that nutter from Minnesota selling $60. pillows with scrap foam inside, he's prolly a millionaire now.
Once again proves how using the slot dozing techinique is the best wayto move material with a dozer.
even added the blade wiggle at the support leg for style points
After pushing all that you might have to change out your air filters along with the radiator and a good preasure washing.
Do they not sell it? Big money in sawdust these days, especially if they invest in a press and compress it into fuel pellets
Apparently the price is per bagged 1 ton is between $220 and $369. Yeah would take some effort but definitely cheaper than paying to have it moved.
Just a question, why doesn't he have someone make a blade or bucket for his loader? ( one that will slide on the forks) seems like it save him money. Just asking
Definitly Chris won't tell the sawmill owner, since Chris will lose his job doing it :-)
People in the UK buy this stuff (sawdust) for bedding down their animals (cattle & horses)
Not bashing Chris, he's doing a great job. Just wondering why this mill company doesn't do something useful with the dust. Unless it's too small of an amount to do anything commercially with.
Will make great soil once it's all decomposed
Question....why not a skid steer to aid in the removal of the pile around the shoot?? Or a front end loader?
Spontaneous combustion is going to set in
Sure did not look like much when ya started, but there was alot of material. Hope the check clears? Gotta watch them sawmill guys!😁
Not to worry. The owner is a personal friend of Chris.
@@ldgrmp I know...That is why I made the comment! It is all good!
A pleasant relaxing video Chris
The sawmill people should find a mushroom grower.
Yeah. Magic mushrooms!!:)
A termites dream
The farmers in New York use it for horse bedding.
Fine stuff like this? I've put horses on shavings before, but you need to be sure it's just softwood, some hardwoods are irritants.