Pine Wood Fines, Sawdust & Wood Pellets

Drilling Fluid, Well Fluid, Lost Circulation
and Drilling Mud Additive

 

Quality Dry and Absorbent Wood Fines

These wood fines (sawdust) are ideal for adding to drilling fluids and drilling mud, well fluids and for spills or mixing with drill cuttings. Our sawdust wood fines are dried to an average of 10% or less assuring that they will mix well and absorb moisture properly.

Many bulk wood fines are stored outside in piles and are wet and contaminated. This can cause problems when mixing or using the saw dust wood fines with drilling mud, drilling fluid and drill cuttings as the sawdust often has high moisture content, resulting in poor absorbancy .

Our 100 cubic foot (or more) bulk totes contain dry sawdust fines and are weather proof to prevent the fines from getting wet.

The totes are easy to transport, are tough and durable for rough handling and are easy to manipulate with or without machinery. Ideal for remote sites where there is limited machinery available for handling loose wood fines/sawdust. The totes can be rolled by one person or handled with a skidsteer.

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Wood Fiber Pellets

Wood pellets will breakdown into this absorbent
fiber within minutes of contact with wet material

We also carry pine wood pellets in various grades which are ideal for many drilling, pipeline and environmental applications.

Wood pellets are highly compressed wood fibre that quickly absorb more than 4 times their weight in liquids. Due to the high compression it is possible to move and store a lot more wood fiber in pellet form.

For example it is possible to move around 30 tons of pellets on the average van type semi truck in one load, with loose sawdust or shavings it would require at
least 3 to 4 of the same sized trucks to haul the equivalent load of loose wood sawdust/shavings. In this case the trucking costs far exceed the cost of the fiber, meaning it a lot cheaper to haul the densified pellets.

The fiber in wood pellets is much more absorbent than loose wood dust or shavings. During the process of compression when the pellets are being made, the fiber is subjected to both drying and heat, this basically bursts the fibers making them into a more fuzzy hair like looser fiber that can absorb and hold more moisture than regular untouched wood fiber. Pellets are also a LOT drier than sawdust at 3% moisture. This means a LOT more absorbancy.

Pellet fibers are also finer and decompose more efficiently than shavings which can take years to decompose.

Overall pellets can save you a lot of money and are more flexible plus are easy to handle, move and store than wood fines/shavings. Pellets are available in bulk, bulk tote bags and 40 lbs bags on Pallets. Very flexible options for specific job site conditions.

 

Manufactured from Canadian Pine
(80% bug kill, 10% spruce, 10% fir)

 

Our high Quality Pine wood fines are packaged in convenient industry standard FBIC bulk totes and compressed for an impressive 100 cubic feet of
dry loose perfectly sized wood fines.

These larger bulk bags offer a more economically way to buy fines compared to other plastic bags sold by other distributors. You have more choices for transportation to your work sites with our bulk bags as flat decks, B-Trains , vans and trailers can be used to transport as opposed to expensive end dumps and walk floor trailers which are not always available.

Each bulk tote is 46"x46"x46", weighs about 800 to 1000 lbs plus and contains 100 or more cubic feet of fines when emptied.