Gigantic Shop-Vac

[Cliff_Johns]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I think that if there was no method of agitating the shavings, then some would fall out the bottom, and then the rest would sort of "lock" together, and not fall down the chute properly.
Dave )</font>

OK, but I bet an agitator would be easier to construct. and wouldn't generate as much dust. Perhaps an old auger stuck up into a hole with a small motor on it would just pull the shavings down. An old washing machine? Then again there's this guy at work who's an agitator, he might work cheap.

Sounds like quite a building.

Cliff

 

[DAP]

Dave ... you're making me crazy too. I just had visions of using a mini-manure spreader to dispense the shavings into the stalls. Have to be PTO driven though ..

See, you're makin us all nuts!

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[em14]

I hope that you are right about how dry these shavings are. When I was a kid we had lots of fires due to internal combustion of saw dust and shavings. Our dust and shavings were used to fire a boiler which produced the steam to run all of our steam engines. The storage "building" was made of old boiler flues and old roofing tin. It had a sprinkler system ... this thing was always catching fire. That's why the old flues and metal roofing were use in the construction. Incidently, saw dust piles have been know to burn very slowly for many years and leave lots of excellent but very dangerous, tunnels which fox liked. These saw dust piles were left in the forrest by the timber men when they finished cutting the logs. Anyway, I would check the codes in your area on storing combustionable materials such as shavings and check with your insurance company!
Leo