So... My Son Collects Sawdust

It he's compressing it into paper towel cardboard tubes wrapped in newspaper, sounds like good sense to me.

Otherwise?...

I always leave a couple gallons worth of wood flour in dust collector drum for soaking up the occasional drips or leaks from my older saws.Rarely does it take more than a handful if that much.

Jacktheknife said:

Yeah... That boy ain't right lol. Anyone else have similar issues?

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A wood hoarder has to start somewhere.

It's what we call a "gateway wood"

The twigs and sticks will come next

I collect it as well ,for use in some composting camping toilets. Almost everything has a use somewhere.

Can he identify the species of wood from the chips?

Get him some shitake mushroom spawn

My kids love to play with sticks, we buy them new toys and they lay on the floor in the toy room while they are outside playing with sticks and rocks. lol

Teach him how to melt some paraffin with the sawdust and mold them in muffin tins for fire starters.

Jacktheknife said:

Yeah... That boy ain't right lol.

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The apple didn't fall too far from the tree, then?

I use it in the garden, chicken coop, around trees, and compost.

Jacktheknife said:

Anyone else have similar issues?

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Mine collects rocks, acorns, pine cones. Actually he's had a bizarre relationship with rocks since he was only 1 year old. He'd pick up a "special" rock in our gravel driveway as we're headed out for the day, carry it with him all day, and then put it back in the gravel driveway when we'd get home. A day or two later, he'd come out, and find the very same rock in our 6-car wide x 150 foot long driveway! It was almost hard to believe a 12 month old kid could find the same rock (among a million), several days in a row. A week later, he'd find a better "special rock", and repeat. We have red plastic cups full of his "special rocks" all over the house, as he still finds / steals a few each week (two from his school playground yesterday).

When we went to look our our current house the first time, he only wanted to climb on the pile of rocks in the back yard. When we left, he said, "bye bye rocks." He was 18 months old. When we bought the house, he'd ask if we were going back to the house with the rocks.

That's awesome joful. My kids hunt for quartz around the house and sell them to my grandparents. They call them their crystals.

Joful said:

Actually he's had a bizarre relationship with rocks since he was only 1 year old.

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Hmmm, I'd like to see my wife in childhood; She's quite the rock hound, and I wonder if it started that early?
I don't know if I'd call that 'bizarre,' though. If we started doing it now, maybe....

Hey, I'm doing that with wood! I put my "special" wood in a certain spot, and return there time and again. It's been previously established that I'm bizarre, though.

Heck, when I'm noodling big rounds, I collect those noodles myself! Now the kids are doing it also, and I've shown them how it can be useful for a LOT of different things. Wife uses them in her Nativity set during Christmas, we've used them to make wax firestarters, they also make great tinder for doing friction or flint/steel fires. And as of recently, I've also found that it works as a great packing material for shipping things through the mail!

Geez... and I've just been dumping them in my burn pit!

I like noodles for tinder and keep a big ole bag of dust for spilled oil and any other various fluids my truck decides to deposit in the driveway!

Jacktheknife said:

No, we did that last year. He says he likes how absorbent it is. My boy is going to grow up to be a janitor :S

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ahem......we prefer "Custodial Engineers", Thank You