Talk:Sawdust

message: Some engineers such as Diesel engine can combust sawdust directly (or mixed with fuel) and power your machines, though the ash - which makes a good fertilizer if scattered thinly over a forest from an airplane to replenish the trace-minerals, but dumped into high concentration local pits - can cause an even worse environmental issue. Sillybilly 19:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ash hazard when used as fuel

message: Canada has used its cheap supply of sawdust as a medium for hydroponic industry to rasie strawberries and tomatoes. Warning: for logs that have been transported in ocean water, the salt needs to be leached out to make the sawdust useable. Note: red cedar cannot be used as it is toxic to plants.
Sawdust is one of several media that is used in column culture, where the medium is placed in a column that has openings space along the sides where crops like strawberries and tomatoes can grow. Nutrient fluid is driped or pumped from the top, and collected at the bottom for reuse.
Occasional adjustments on the nutrient fluid must be made.
71.114.182.236 (talk) 02:24, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hydroponic Use of Sawdust

message: Saw-Dust by Leonard Sargent was so named because a many of the true tales involve lumberjacks and the impact of timber operation at the turn of the twentieth century.  Sawdust is the by-product of cutting timber.  Sawdust was used to absorb grease, to clean locomotive engines, to soak up spills on saloon floors and as compost. 
This book follows the Sargent family from Vermont in 1860 as they move to Wisconsin.  Life was different before there were highways, radio or television, but certain elements of business, economics, politics, religion and education remain the same.  Along the way, the family improves its situation by moving from general labor to lumberjacks, to owning farms, to running saloons and operating hotel owners.  They also become intertwined with the local lumber baron, W. D. Connor who was the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. 
Sawdust1885 (talk) 21:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book:  ''Saw-Dust'' by Leonard Sargent 

message: Add glue and you've got woodfiller. Often used.
Also wood particle and plastic composite materials are becoming more popular.
82.31.207.100 (talk) 01:41, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Filler

message: On 31 January 2012‎ Buster7 added a section entitled "Oga coal", without any documentation as to source, except the enigmatic translated and transferred. It read in full Oga (sawdust) coal, Ogalan, is produced by compressing and molding sawdust under heat into charcoal. Oga coal is uniformly shaped machine-made charcoal. There is a general low awareness of Oga coal and they are often mistaken for charcoal briquettes. There are several problems with these statements:  (1) I have found no reliable source documenting use of the term "oga coal". (2) The Japanese term is ogatan (オガ炭), not ogalan, and it means charcoal briquette. (3) Charcoal briquettes are made from sawdust and have been since their invention, see citation in the article's text. (4) The only difference between Japanese charcoal briquettes and American or European charcoal briquettes seems to be the shape. Buster7 seems to have based his material on a poor translation of the Japanese Wikipedia article on charcoal briquettes, :ja:オガ炭. Apparently some traditional charcoal-grill restaurants in Japan had started using briquettes instead of real charcoal. Anyway, based on the above mentioned problems, I have deleted the section in its entirety. The picture of ogatan existed in the article before Buster7's edits, and serves as a reasonable example of one of the many uses of sawdust, so I have left it in place. --Bejnar (talk) 01:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oga coal 

message: There's currently a draft on wood dust at WP:AFC, apparently written by an expert, well-sourced and very detailed. It is in fact longer than this article, but it's currently stuck in limbo because this article counts as an article on wood dust and we won't create a content fork. The author vehemently argues against a merger; see the discussion at the help desk. He does have a point; wood dust, the particulate matter, is not the same as sawdust, the stuff used on barroom floors or for particle board. Therefore I suggest splitting this article again, with the draft as the basis for the separate article on wood dust. If there are no objections, I'll work on that in a few days. Huon (talk) 00:07, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: wow. that was some serious snark. Having read through his article, I'm afraid I must agree with your original assessment; this new material (which is good) should be merged. Another option is to have two articles - one called sawdust, and another on Health and environmental impact of wooddust (or similar, since in that case for a purely technical article, the more technical term would be more appropriate); the sawdust article can have the so-called mom&pop stuff, as well as the more detailed technical description of the various particle sizes for wood dust, etc and how it gets created. Also, his assertion that the pros only use wood dust is not true- see this ; there are many articles there that use the word sawdust in the context of health issues, talking about sawdust inhalation, etc. But these are still, no matter what his claim, basically two words for essentially the same concept. I understand his point that in certain technical literature, wood dust is used to mean sawdust made up of small particles, but in common usage outside the technical literature these terms are frequently used one for the other, and sawdust is clearly the more common term. Consensus may change, and in the future the article may be moved to wood dust, but for now a merge makes sense, or a split focused on the item (e.g. sawdust), how it's made, and how it's used, and then a second article, linked from the first, on environmental and health impacts of same. --KarlB (talk) 03:16, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wood dust once again 

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message: Just as wood dust was merged here in 2012, wood flour should also merge here. Wood flour covers the same material, with less detail. The uses of wood flour is covered here already, since it is the same thing -- 70.51.201.106 (talk) 05:13, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge - Wood flour as a term is used to refer to sawdust and does not merit its own article. Terasaface (talk) 17:59, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge (2019) from [[Wood flour]]

message: "мозговое вещество" .. ))) 🙀🤸🤕 🛌 85.140.9.69 (talk) 11:16, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "макулатура" 

message: I propose to merge Health impacts of sawdust here, to the "Health hazards" section. The Health impacts article is short and mostly overlaps this article, which is much better already. The few extra points can easily be merged. This would follow the pattern of all other "Health impacts of <item>", which are merely redirects to the item. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 20:57, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: --Dustfreeworld (talk) 03:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from Health impacts of sawdust