What do you do with all your shavings?

[Jeff Grantham]

I have way more shavings than I possible know what to do with piling up. I can use some for the rabbit cage (when they're the right kind of wood), and I imagine they'll be great for starting fires this winter as well. Other than that, what do y'all do with all those shavings?

[Eric Gourieux]

Mine go to the burn pile

[Peter Dougenik]

Best fire pit kindling ever...other than that they go in my brush pile to return to the earth

[Joe Bradshaw]

I dump mine out back of my shop. When the pile gets to high, I pull it down with my FEL.
Joe

[Brian Myers]

yard waste dump with the grass clippings, leaves, branches etc.

[Randy Red Bemont]

Compost pile.

Red

[Stan Calow]

Mulch around trees. Mix in leftover paint cans to harden and dispose of them. Clean up oil or other liquid spills.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Compost, fire starters and also to line our garden pathways. Neighbors also use my shavings for the same reasons.

[Trevor Mills]

A local horse stable happily takes my maple shavings to use as bedding.

[david privett]

instead of using natural bailing twine or pine straw the neighbor uses the non toxic shavings for his bee smoker said the work very well.

[Scott Hackler]

A bunch of mine (as long as there is no black walnut) gets placed around the trees on my 6 acre place. A bucket or so of them gets used in my beekeeping smoker.

[Hayes Rutherford]

Summer time they get mixed with manure and grass cuttings to make soil, in winter as they dry on the shop floor, get fed into an outdoor wood boiler along with other wood and in turn, heat the shop floor. This is third year and the system is working well.

[Wayne Kuhn]

You have radiant floor heat in your shop? Sweet.

[Wayne Kuhn]

Compost pile

[Ben Pierce]

Someone recommended to me, for the holidays, adding perfumed oil and some kind of colored beads, perhaps mixing colors like cherry, walnut, and white ash, and selling in cellophane as potpourri. I don't plan to try it but it's a nice Martha Stewart-type idea.

I do think shavings would work splendidly in a meat smoker. Soak the shavings and throw them on charcoal- oak, pecan, cherry, etc. Mmmmm.

Otherwise, on my compost mountain at the back of the property. Good exercise wheeling the 55 gal. drum out there.