What do you do with your walnut saw dust?

[Matthew Chamberlin]

How much are you generating? My next door neighbor says there's no way I can generate enough sawdust from any toxic wood to harm his horses and that I'm welcome to add it to the pile he has trucked in for them.

I was given a bunch of ROUGH cut walnut. The last dresser i made produced about 2 garbage cans of planner chips and saw dust. Now I'm working a hallway bench, and i've almost made the same amount.

[Dave Gaul]

What I don't burn in my fire pit when the kids want to roast marshmellows, I take by bags of sawdust to the local lawn waste dump...

[Charlie Plesums]

I keep my walnut shavings segregated, and have a waiting list for it.

I understand that horse urine reacts with it to produce a toxin that is absorbed through the hooves of horses. Okay, no horse stables for me. even one that doesn't mind low levels of toxin.

However, walnut contains a chemical that prevents seeds from germinating. If you have a rose garden, you don't plant seeds, and all the weeds come from seeds, plus walnut shavings make a pretty brown mulch. Same for lots of other gardens grown from plants rather than seeds. I put an inch or so under my foundation plantings, and get very few weeds for the next few years.

[Ron Blaise]

I give it to my nasty neighbors for their flowers

[glenn bradley]

I toss it out in the "green" barrel. I also shake the bags out real good if I plan to use the next non-toxic batch of sawdust in the garden.

[Fred Voorhees]

Dump it in the woods, behind the house. That's where is started, that's where it finishes up.

Ditto for me.....back in the woods from whence it came.

[David Gregory]

Depending on the sizes of your "end use" Walnut, and whether you get it green or not, I save mine and then pack my "green" pieces in it to slow dry. I do the same with Maple and other woods though Walnut is the only one I will segregate from the rest of the shavings/chips. I use cardboard barrels which let air in and out extremely slowly and the pieces get a chance to dry evenly. Works for me, YMMV.