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11-13-2005, 01:35 PM
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Name: Steve
City: Apex
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How do I get rid of wood scraps?
How do I get rid of wood scraps? As I was finally sorting my wood and scraps to load load up my lumber rack, I found a lot of scraps that will never have a use, plus some things that I have to get rid of fpr space reasons. Don't worry it is all junk.
I don't have wood burning fireplace, so that rules out that scheme. I had been putting some of long and thin scraps into 40 gal trash can but that is now full.
How do I get rid of this stuff? 
Thanks, Steve
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11-13-2005, 02:43 PM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
Use it. Do you turn wood on a mini/midi lathe? 1.) You can use for accents and inlays in your turned items. 2.) If you don't turn, build a game board using the small scraps as an inlay between the squares. 3.) Do a complicated intrasia project. 4.) Any jigs you ever wanted to build? 5.) Have children? Build a detailed train using the scraps for the bars, chimneys, wheels, fences, windows,... Use 2X4s as the body of the car(s) and glue the scrap pieces on the body. Ideas anyhow...
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11-13-2005, 03:01 PM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
know anyone with a wood chipper? Mulch it and toss it in a flower bed or behind the house somewhere. After a few days it will probably blend in with everything else.
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11-13-2005, 05:49 PM
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Name: Steve
City: Apex
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
Thanks for the ideas guys. I've already taken the scraps that I can use. The rest is now in the back of my SUV. Either to find someone who has a chipper or to the dump
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11-13-2005, 08:30 PM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
Here in Durham, we have "Yard Waste" pickup once a week, anything under 3ft long and 6in in diameter and not PT. I don't know if that's an option where you live.
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11-13-2005, 08:44 PM
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Name: Steve
City: Apex
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
Here in Durham, we have "Yard Waste" pickup once a week, anything under 3ft long and 6in in diameter and not PT. I don't know if that's an option where you live.
Good idea, I think I'll look iin to that.
Hey apex drwellers, anyone know?
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11-13-2005, 10:15 PM
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City: Apex
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
Originally Posted by SteveColes
Hey apex drwellers, anyone know?
Lucky for me the kids down the street are buidling a Fort...So, no dump runs for me.
I would call the town, Apex usually has a yard pickup the day after trash pickup. Or you can take it to the dump..
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11-13-2005, 10:56 PM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
I dump mine in the wood around the house, I will probably kick myself in a few years when the piles of PT scraps are still there. Pressure treated lumber scraps is about all I toss out, I find a use for most small pieces of any decent hardwood. Does it cost to dump at the Apex dumps? If so you are welcome to my woods. Dave 
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11-14-2005, 12:56 AM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
Steve,
As long as it isn't PT, you can unload here 
I use my scraps for starter wood in fireplace. Of course, most of my projects are 90 percent scraps and 10 percent usable 
Sapwood
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04-03-2006, 12:20 AM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
out here in the country I just throw my scraps in a pile a good 200 yards from the house and when I get enough I burn them....
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04-03-2006, 01:46 AM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
If it's oak or hickory, mix some chunks in with charcoal and use it in the barbque grill, thats what I do anyways.
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04-03-2006, 01:27 PM
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Name: Dave
City: Raleigh
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
The dump off Durant Rd in Raleigh works for me if I can't give it away (which I usually can't). When I had a fireplace I'd just burn it.
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04-03-2006, 07:38 PM
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
By the time I call them scraps they fit in the garbage can. On the other hand my "off-cuts" are getting out of control!
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04-03-2006, 08:29 PM
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Name: Jim Campbell
City: Hillsborough
State: NC
County: Orange
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
In a bizzare twist of irony I just picked up this book at a library sale in burlington today...
Woodworking with Scraps by Percy Blandford
There is a whole book dedicated to us scrap'r folk!
Jim
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04-03-2006, 09:39 PM
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City: Horse Shoe
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Re: How do I get rid of wood scraps?
I send cskipper a PM 
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