sawdust dispenser

[jimmer]

frightened by the price of push along sawdust dispensers so am going to make one out of a plastic 45 gallon drum and a cordless circular saw on old wheelbarrow wheels will post pics when i get started

 

[RobFZS]

guy at my college made a push along one that was ran from a car battery and i think it was a starter motor that ran it, fair little thing

Have seen the ag mini's got for under £300 on ebay

 

[Sid]

frightened by the price of push along sawdust dispensers so am going to make one out of a plastic 45 gallon drum and a cordless circular saw on old wheelbarrow wheels will post pics when i get started

Please post pics, I've been trying to think of ways to spread sawdust with speanding over a grand on a couple of wheels under a dustbin!! I've got an old teagle versitile spreader(fert spreader that held half a big bag) and try to adapt it, but thats as far as I got. Needs to be electric really? When you say circular saw did you mean belt sander?

 

[JNP]

[quote="Sid, post: 14335, member: 574" When you say circular saw did you mean belt sander?[/quote]

Don't like his chances of making anything if he has got those two mixed up.

 

[jimmer]

imagine a circular saw on its side fixed to the side of a 45 g drum at the bottom .some cup type things like on disc fert spreader fixed to the blade to pull sawdust from inside the barrel and flick it outside
the prob i got is the speed of the blade
cordless so that i can take the battery off and charge between use
will put angled floor in barrell to direct sawdust to blade

 

[Sid]

imagine a circular saw on its side fixed to the side of a 45 g drum at the bottom .some cup type things like on disc fert spreader fixed to the blade to pull sawdust from inside the barrel and flick it outside
the prob i got is the speed of the blade
cordless so that i can take the battery off and charge between use
will put angled floor in barrell to direct sawdust to blade

Would a belt sander not do the same but with variable speed? just got to keep sawdust on the belt for short distance? Think thats what the Ag one uses?

 

[Blue.]

Would a belt sander not do the same but with variable speed? just got to keep sawdust on the belt for short distance? Think thats what the Ag one uses?

I remember seeing the ag maxi and that had a small belt in the bottom,primex type use a wheel with brushes.

 

[jimmer]

the mini ag has a fert spinner type disc that is where my idea comes from
it is a bit too slow for sawdust good for lime and powders as doesnt cause too much dust

 

[Riggy]

We've a an ag maxi, it's also got an agitator in the bottom of the tub as well as the conveyor. You'll have to put some kind of " stirrer" in your drum or the sawdust simply won't come out,

 

[Sid]

We've a an ag maxi, it's also got an agitator in the bottom of the tub as well as the conveyor. You'll have to put some kind of " stirrer" in your drum or the sawdust simply won't come out,

That wounldn.t be hard to do with OP's idea of circular saw!

 

[rc mx110]

@jimmer
did you ever build it?
i built one but used a wiper motor, but couldn't make a good enough joint to fix paddle to the motor.

 

[jimmer]

was searching for a suitable disc last week you have spurred me on to get it done
so does yours not work at all @rc mx110

 

[rc mx110]

was searching for a suitable disc last week you have spurred me on to get it done
so does yours not work at all @rc mx110

worked well empty,
Made mine for lime,
hooked it up to quad battery with a simple on off switch.
Like you are thinking used half of a steel drum, made a spout. paddle on a shaft to flick it out.
Then a floor above that with a hole just above the spout (adjustable with a plastic slider). with a agitating paddle to push the lime over the hole.
I need to have another go with it and put a slightly stronger motor on it.
I picked a wiper moter as it was slow enough, but its output shaft wasn't big enough to fix much to it.
If everyone promises not to laugh at it I may show it.
To the untrained eye it looks like half a can on wheels with a lawn mower handle.

 

[jimmer]

 

[jimmer]

during trial runs the sawdust doesnt fall onto the blade as it just makes a cavity around it ,so am going to make some kind of agitator

 

[rc mx110]

wouldn't like to stand to close

 

[pebbles]

health n safety risk assessment? ouch!

 

[rc mx110]

during trial runs the sawdust doesnt fall onto the blade as it just makes a cavity around it ,so am going to make some kind of agitator

What if you put the blade fully inside the barrel then you could put an agitator on the blade

 

[BAC]

Even with the AG dispensers, the material still sticks and needs a bounce to get it to drop! They have a disc agitator and prongs on at the bottom of the drum to make the sawdust drop but still isn't brilliant :/

 

[clem dog]

during trial runs the sawdust doesnt fall onto the blade as it just makes a cavity around it ,so am going to make some kind of agitator

Hi jimmer, have you had any improvements to show us? Im interested in this!