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Re: Where to get oak saw dust, or alternative, for Shiitake? [Re: tahoe]
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Roger_Rabbit:
No offense but last I heard the glues used in plywood contained formaldehyde and other noxious chemicals. Not to mention there are many woods that are toxic to humans. I used to to work in wood shops, for many years (I switched occupations a few years ago). I developed occupational asthma and I get a headache just walking into them to this day. I don't think that kind of thing happens from non-toxic agents. Then again, breathing and eating a thing can be a different animal all together.

eric_the_red:
Thanks a lot for the offer man, I appreciate it! I planed some solid stock birch today and got some great shavings. Should last me a while.


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Re: Where to get oak saw dust, or alternative, for Shiitake? [Re: Mobius_Strip]
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Find a sawmill that takes trees down to dimension lumber. You may have to look other places than just the yellow pages. A lot of them have no real need for advertising.

One mill in Wisconsin (Kettle Moraine Lumber, very well known) had to turn me down because a another mushroom farmer already took it. He said he gave away all of the "green" sawdust, that amounted to about 4 dump trucks full. He actually kind of giggled when I asked for "about a trashbag full". Interestingly, he said that other growers have tried using his kiln dried stuff but it didn't produce well.

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Re: Where to get oak saw dust, or alternative, for Shiitake? [Re: YidakiMan]
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The Birch I planed was kiln dried. I guess it won't work well after all, eh?


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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate
-Noam Chomsky

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Re: Where to get oak saw dust, or alternative, for Shiitake? [Re: Mobius_Strip]
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I meant to say also, that this guy is NOT a mushroom grower. I have no idea what to make of his comment, since I know that using kiln dried sawdust pellets is common.

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Re: Where to get oak saw dust, or alternative, for Shiitake? [Re: Mobius_Strip]
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i got oak sawdust from a place that does it for fish smokers in Scotland - they sent me 25kg, enough for ages if i can keep it dry and uncolonised. i spoke to them on the phone, explained i wanted it for growing shiitake and it had to be clean and free of chemicals, mostly dust and a few bits and shavings.

if i can find it, i'll post the address. if not, use a search engine (that's where i got them).


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Re: Where to get oak saw dust, or alternative, for Shiitake? [Re: shirley knott]
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picked up two trashbags full of maple sawdust today, for free! woo! i bet shipping alone would count for alot of this.. might be worth it if you had a pickup-truck or something to take a drive somewhere.. this place sells it for $.20/cubic foot.. seems common, good luck!


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