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Humble Newcomer
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Need HWFP
#25228359 - 05/25/18 04:52 PM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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A week or two ago I went to the large city next to me and checked out the local feed store, tractor supply, Walmart and one more place I forget to see completely what's available in my area for mycology.
Not much. Last year I spent $15/40# bag and I was elated even though many if y'all said y'all can get it locally for $5.
Well. After finding no other choice I ooace another order for two bags, no big deal with free shipping it's not that bad, but I just got an email the merchant cancelled my order and refunded the money like five days after my order.
So I go on Amazon and search for all buying options on the same product and it's $38 now.
I've searched before and found some huge commercial suppliers but it wasnt feasible to pay for shipping a whole pallet
I have a loooot of spawn that was waiting in those that is almost ready
Anyone know an online vendor that ships small orders Nationwide?
My current best option is these designer wood pellets for pellet grills, the unflavored cheap one is like $10/8 lb or something
Edited by Humble Newcomer (05/25/18 08:27 PM)
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thunderfarm


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If you want specific help, you need to provide your location. I am assuming Waco, TX?
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Spindlymass
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Did you happen to check a homedepot or Maynards type place? I've heard people getting them from there.
Also, maybe not what you had in mind but if you happen to enjoy woodworking a thickness planer would be good.
A small thickness planer could quickly produce wood shavings from any free scrap wood or firewood etc. The shaving size is adjustable from dust to 1/16" or so.
An entry level, new one would run you $250. Maybe online classified ads for cheaper? 
I love mine, but then again I use it for woodworking as well.
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Humble Newcomer
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You know that's not a bad idea actually.
Because I'm in South Texas none of us including myself know what hardwood fuel pellets are for, even after knowing that acronym I still thought they were fuel for the pellet grills, I was unaware people up north buy them for $5/bag to burn for heat.
Down here the same thing is 3x as much and sold for grills. The nice ones are cherry or apple flavored and they're for real $18 for an 8lb thing of pellets at home Depot / Walmart stores
That's why I was asking about online retailers that ship.
But if I'm going to be paying $15/bag when I'm lucky or $20/40#bag local price then I should consider long term options now.
A wood chipper like Bry Bry has could achieve the same thing. I'll see what comes up used in my area
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Quadman
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Do they not have mulch of any type? Long term a small chipper is good provided you can find wood.
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thunderfarm


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Re: Need HWFP [Re: Quadman]
#25231983 - 05/27/18 01:11 PM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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if you are in Waco or surrounding area, lowe's has some instock. $15 40 lbs
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Pit-Boss-40-lb-Wood-Pellets/1000332371
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MorePies
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Where in south texas? They can be a real peach to find. See if your tractor supply has hard wood fuel blocks.
TA has seen a lot of good results on pine pellets.
What are you trying to grow?
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Chwyn
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got a damaged 1 ton pallet for 99$ from tractor supply a year ago. a good time to check is right before winter or in spring
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Humble Newcomer
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Re: Need HWFP [Re: Chwyn]
#25237127 - 05/29/18 09:05 PM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yes, but it's Cypress mulch. And very coarse. I haven't looked for other mulches yet but that's a good idea.
In the future when I'm not living in an population of 1200 cabinet shops or other sawdust manufacturers would be an option too.
I'm surprised Waco has them in stock but it does get cold up there they see snow annually. $15 is still high but I'd gladly pay it if I could find it local.
I'm about an hour from corpus, two hours from SA or Austin.
Yes I have seen Travel agency get oystr grows on pine pellets, lower yield, longer colonization time but I don't mind and those are available locally actually, think a second option of variable softwood pellets too (prob mostly pine I didn't flip the bag for breakdown)
Trying to grow shiitake, reishi, lions mane and turkey tail. Well, I have two 3782 blocks fruiting now and I pick and cook. But I'm almost out of the materials needed.
I spawned some reishi to HWFP last night, I can cut it with verm I've seen a successful reishi mono like that by skullphux. But I dunno about softwoods?
Same with the other medicinals.
Chwyn that sounds great but I'd assume I'd have to be in an area I can find them locally which is the whole problem.
I didn't realize $15/bag on Amazon was such a good limited time deal for me. Now it's $38 for 40# amazon and not much better buying small bags locally (tractor supply, Walmart, local feed store, home Depot)
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Bry Bry
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If you have a table saw, you can make sawdust. If you have one that takes the dado stacks, you can make a TON of sawdust in less than hour.
You can rent a chipper for a day worst case. Just have your limbs ready. Make mucho shred/chips while you have it.
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Humble Newcomer
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Re: Need HWFP [Re: Bry Bry]
#25237928 - 05/30/18 09:48 AM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have a small table saw and a few more than ago I saved a chunk of sawdust and diluted my hwfp as a filler for a while. Things like that help too bc I don't work with hardwoods much, white pine 2xs mainly
I'm gonna overpay for them next time I go to town and that'll buy me a few months to figure it out. It'll probably become available again on some weird seasonal timeframe and I'll buy 8 next time
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Bry Bry
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Get a cheap blade and run hardwood limbs over it. Easy peasy until the bags pop back up.
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Humble Newcomer
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Re: Need HWFP [Re: Bry Bry]
#25272074 - 06/16/18 11:49 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Crisis temporarily averted.

Refinishing all the hardwood floors, not quite done with the first grit of the first bedroom of my fairly large house and I have half a tote of hardwood sawdust already. I was gonna dump it in a little myvo bag and then I felt how much was in there, I was all 
The master bed and walk in closet I'm doing now are 230sq ft and I expect another full bag I guess and I have prob another 1200sq ft of hardwood left.
Stoked!
Edited by Humble Newcomer (06/16/18 01:21 PM)
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Spindlymass
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That will be the first and last time you're excited to sand hardwood floors. 
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Humble Newcomer
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Maybe by the time the job is through but it's not hard work at all. I mean it's a little tiring but I work 10-14 hour days at home sometimes so I'm used to it.
Man what a difference if I buy another hardwood floor house I won't hesitate for a second it's just a matter of putting in the hours I find it no different than huge painting projects, I restored the exterior of this house and it took months. One person to strip and scrape and sand and re nail every board and a gallon of wood fill and sanding and primer and two coats of paint on a big house solo.
It's all a state of mind. I'm considering becoming a GC I can do wiring, plumbing, sewer, sheetrock, build sliding doors or arches and paint and now I'm getting the floors down.
1200sq ft of hardwood about and another 500 of this premium vinyl plank stuff.
Im stoked bro, I've earned $41k as a General Contractor on my own house and done a better job than any of my neighbors houses had with professional crews. It's cost a tiny fraction of that to do the work, tho it's cost every day off for ten months already.
I've literally seen three crews that were shit quality and one dude that everyone says is good but his prices are insane.
I can charge $3-4 per square ft now for hardwood flooring restoration out here all day that was both quotes I got. 5k for my house.
I have a lot of skills I'm always up to something on the side
Gimme that money!
PS I have a full tote, like full full densely packed and I'm STILL not done with one room yet. I'm going to have sawdust storage problems for months these are good first world problems to have
Edited by Humble Newcomer (06/17/18 02:07 PM)
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Spindlymass
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Yeah bro!
You're speaking my language. If you're a handy, patient person you can save money, have a new tool or two for the next job and can rest easy knowing you've learned something, saved money and probably got a better job than half the arseholes would give you.
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Humble Newcomer
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Buddy it's super fun, get a little sativa buzz on and "mow the lawn" with the Drum sander lining up each strip amd being ever so ginger when u lower rhe drum to the floor...
But I'm not gonna lie I've been stressing hard because I had tried one or two things on the borders and was having no luck...
All of my house is hardwood floors how but I'm going with the premium vinyl plank over a few rooms like bath and kitchen. But the hallway is narrow like a door width wide and the hardwood planks are running the width of the hallway not the length so I can't use the drum sander and make long passes, I will have to Austin Powers the thing back and forth one inch each way to get what I can 
So even this morning I went and put the coarsest grit my local do it best hardware store had on my orbital (60grit) which is what people said would be my only option instead of renting the 7" edge sander from HD, which is almost the same rate as the drum sander or the stand up orbital finish sander.
The orbital wasn't doing much, when you push them down hard the mechanism barely rotates the disc it just vibrates and so the anxiety level was rising, I dropped everything and drove to the big city an hour away looking for 40grit for my orbital and..... They didn't have it.
I'm about to explode from stress knowing the entire hallway is all hand no drum sander, I have hella borders in each room and walk in closet, I'm wasting hours driving around and not having any luck so maybe Spindly said some wisdom there, I may be proper fucked ans have to rent that small one for a week ans I didn't expect that soIgrabbed the only thing I saw that might work and I left... https://www.doitbest.com/products/302981 But the whole way home I'm thinking my DeWalt 18v drill is like 10 years old and way outdated this probably won't work without a powerful corded drill, etc etc
Works like a dream. Because I picked the sheetrock up to the ceiling with every piece there's a small 1/4" gap between the floor ans sheeteock and this disc slides under it fine to sand a much wider area at the borders. Material flies off because it's not a finishing orbital kind of motion, it's direct drive with aggressive grit (they have stick on 40grit for these tools with no holes, I was looking for the Velcro hook and loop with five holes for orbital).
Discs are 5 for $3. The adaptor was like $8. What a game changer the stain just flies away and I'm able to bring it down to meet the lower area in the center where drum sander made passes.
What a HUGE relief. I can't even tell you.
The hardest part of any of these jobs is just knowing what will work great the first time. After that you can just do it.
Edit : I need a cordless. Battery charges are lasting maybe 15 minutes and the battery is extremely hot upon discharge and I'm letting it cool before recharging.
Sigh. One step closer. Works great tho
Edited by Humble Newcomer (06/20/18 01:14 PM)
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