Post #157233 by Gigantalope on Sun, May 8, 2005 9:24 AM

Good with compost, (unless you're using old phone poles) you can mix it with manure and it breaks both down quickly.

If it's chips it's fine for gardens, just to keep moiture in the ground.

If it's fine dust,it can also (if you have other creative outlets) be mixed with clay and when fired will turn the clay sort of pummicy.

Roger Welsh has a series of books on restoring tractors. He's not a mechanic, in fact he makes jokes about being a dummy about it.

He spends quite a bit of time writing about "setting up a shop" and has a million good ideas about workspace.

One of my favorites is that he has an old franklin stove which he set up in his. (He lives in Nebraksa) and he fires it up an hour or so before he starts work in winter...and he also uses it to get rid of solvent rags, greasy newspaper, sawdust and other things which can be dangerous to keep around as they are combustable.

He will actually use the stove to hold the stuff. If they do combust, they are in a stove.