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b3jamboree
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Oily chainsaw sawdust
#8295173 - 04/17/08 07:33 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Recently I've felled a number of aspens for woodchips. In chainsawing them I am generation a considerable amount of sawdust, which I would like to use for cultivation also. The problem is the dust is filled with chain oil that drips down from the chainsaw.
I've read about a product offered by Stamets which is some sort of natural oil with spores mixed in that will inncoulate the dust as you saw. That is a little beyond my scope, but is there some way I can make this dust usable? Is there perhaps some sort of natural oil(peanut or even corn) that I could use instead of the petroleum based chain oil that would make the dust usable? Or is the petroleum based oil ok to use it's self? Or maybe there is a way I can soak the oil out of the dust therefore making it usable. Any suggestions on this are appreciated.
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Re: Oily chainsaw sawdust [Re: b3jamboree]
#8295199 - 04/17/08 07:46 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Honestly, you should just pasteurize the wood chips and try them out as an experiment. So long as the chips are not drenched in oil, you shouldn't have any serious issues.
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maybe soak and drain them a few times then pasteurize them?
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I would boil the saw dust and go from there. Simple green or some sort of degreaser would work but it might also remove valuable stuff from the wood chips.
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b3jamboree
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Re: Oily chainsaw sawdust [Re: tahoe]
#8299971 - 04/18/08 07:51 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for the advice everyone. I was thinking about maybe trying to use corn or some other cheap oil in the chainsaw. Am I right in thinking that a natural oil is going to be better than a petrol based one?
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Peterthinks
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Re: Oily chainsaw sawdust [Re: b3jamboree]
#8300012 - 04/18/08 08:19 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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On his site he recommends diluting his spore oil 1 to 10 with canola oil. I'm guessing he sends you some canola oil with spores in it and you just thin it out with more canola oil. Clean your saw thoroughly, run it a while on canola then change the oil again. You should be good to go after that. Best to use an old saw not under warranty for this little experiment, if it seizes up it'd be no great loss. Electric might be a cleaner way to go. Hell you could even drop a couple dark prints in the oil and give it a shake before you put the oil in the saw! Make your own spore oil. I bet you could filter out the mycelum from a LC and put it in the oil for an electric saw. Not for a gas saw though (probably) clog the carb, higher, temps and combustion may kill the mycelum.
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Re: Oily chainsaw sawdust [Re: Peterthinks]
#8300084 - 04/18/08 08:54 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think you could most definitely get away with making your own spore laden oil even, and as suggested one of those little 30-40 bucks at lowes electric saws would definitely work better I imagine, far less heat generated and the only thing they have is a resorvoir for bar oil, I might even have to try this myself
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Re: Oily chainsaw sawdust [Re: kiowa27]
#8300133 - 04/18/08 09:15 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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I was thinking more along the lines of a hatchet and a water pistol full of LC and some hot wax.
WHACK!....squirt....splat
before you go crazy though the spore oil only increases the number of mushroom producing stumps by 8 to 10 percent. He had better results with rope spawn or sawdust spawn packed into cuts or stuck between two pieces of wood....think of a wood hat on a stump with spawn under it. And it had to be waxed shut to keep bugs out.
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