Cedar wood chips?

[Rod Paradise]

All I can find are expensive sachets of them. Anyone know where I could get a few pounds without spending a fortune?

Fancy putting together some boot driers/de-stinkers - ie filling a couple of socks with cedar chips, keep them dry, when you've got wet boots put the socks in them, dry woodchips draw in moisture & cedar helps mask the drying boot smell.

You can buy them ready-made, but they are £10 for the cheapest I can find.

If I can't get them cheaper I'm going with hamster bedding & I'll buy some cedar essential oil.

 

[Rod Paradise]

Hamster bedding & essential oils it is then.

 

[winst0nsmith]

Shavings do? Greater surface area might absorb quicker

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...KUM_9?ie=UTF8&m=A3910WO8NJ2KUM&n=&s=&v=glance

Garden centres sell cedar chips for mulch but very big bags, 40L or so so it might be a bit much for your needs.

 

[Rod Paradise]

Shavings do? Greater surface area might absorb quicker

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...KUM_9?ie=UTF8&m=A3910WO8NJ2KUM&n=&s=&v=glance

Garden centres sell cedar chips for mulch but very big bags, 40L or so so it might be a bit much for your needs.

Ideal!! Cheers!

 

[toilet digger]

i got a few blocks of cedar but they are unshaved, you're welcome to them if they are of use.

 

[dwardo]

All my broken arrow shafts are Port Oxford Cedar. You are welcome to them and a pencil sharpener will do the rest..

 

[Rod Paradise]

Wow - that's incredibly generous of you both. Will have a root round & see if I can find something nice to say thankyou with.

Will PM.


Cheers,

Rod

 

[Rod Paradise]

Thanks for the kind offers folks, but having mentioned that I was looking for cedar shavings/chips in the pub, the local joiner turned up at my door with a bag of mostly cedar (lovely smell) with a bit of oak mixed in (sweepings from some work he's been doing). That'll cost me a pint or 2 (or some smoked trout), but it's one great thing about staying in a small community.

I'll give some feedback on how well the boot-dryers work, you might want to make them yourselves.

 

[dwardo]

Sounds cool, get back to us once you have had a play.