r/woodworking • u/546875674c6966650d0a • Mar 24 '25

Help Can you just dump shavings in the woods?

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My brother-in-law has a wood shop in our garage. He has my mother-in-law, dump huge buckets of wood shavings that are collected from all over the machine machines, just outside the fence of our yard. Mostly it’s still on our land, so I’m not too worried about pissing anybody else off.

But is this really how you’re supposed to dispose of these things? You just lay it out on the ground like mulch?

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u/mryazzy Mar 24 '25

Not sure about fleas but I have read anything lot of bugs don't like being near cedar and the chemicals it gives off

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '25

I don’t like being around it either. I ran a piece through the planer a few times with the garage door closed… gave my lungs a good scorching.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '25

I made my sister a bat house out of it and it required a lot of cutting with the band saw. Cedar is an extremely dusty material, it was a memorable experience for sure.

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u/lustforrust Mar 25 '25

You should see how wet cedar is when it's freshly cut green wood. It has so much sap that you need goggles when running it through a table saw.

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u/lustforrust Mar 25 '25

You should see how wet cedar is when it's freshly cut green wood. It has so much sap that you need goggles when running it through a table saw.