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| BoSlady |
Help needed with Wood Shavings PleaseHi All,Please can anyone help me  . I live in Sunny Somerset and i am desperately looking for someone that can help supply me with good wood shavings, I have 2 horses and i am struggling to get them locally from the shops, so am hoping someone on here might be able to help me or know someone who may.
I do not mind travelling to collect them. Many thanks BoSLady 
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| jamanda |
We have a couple of members who keep horses in North Devon. Hopefully one of them will be along soon and will be able to tell you where they get theirs from. | ||||||
| BoSlady |
Thank you Jamanda
BoSLady
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| RichardW |
Try your local agri merchant. Most stock it in plastic wrapped bales.
Richard |
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| Mary-Jane |
Yes, we get ours like that from our local Farmer's Co-op and it's excellent value and good quality. |
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| alison |
WE get ours from Mole Valley Farmers, our local ag merchant.
They are having trouble getting them though, because of the downturn in the building trade, apparently |
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| vegplot |
My family used to live in Devon/Somerset/Dorest (South Chard). I loved going to Mole Valley Farmers. |
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| alison |
I do too. Somehow I always spend more than I anticipated when I am in there! 
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| mochyn |
Other women spend too much in shoe shops, handbag shops, at perfume counters... We go to ag. merchants. |
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| joanne |
or plant nurseries or wool shops or material shops or on Ascotts web site - went to buy some jars from there the other day and a new preserving pan accidentally fell into my electronic basket  - its very pretty though and has got a good solid base
Gods help me when I go to the BBKA Annual Convention in April next year - very very deep purses needed apparently |
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| mochyn |
Try living by there... 
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| Penny Outskirts |
You live near a web site Do you mean you're a virtual person? But I've slept with you
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| mochyn |
You know what you are, don't you, Mrs? Just waiting for the responses now... Where is NL, by the way? |
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| chez |
Ditto. I sometimes schedule in an extra day just so we can visit  .
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| yummersetter |
have you tried Sparkford Sawmills or Yandles in Martock?
No idea if they supply woodshavings, though, but they must generate them |
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| BoSlady |
Thank you all for your input
BoSLady |
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| boisdevie1 |
Yellow pages. Look for joiners, sawmills, cabinetmakers. They generate a lot of shavings. Good luck. | ||||||
| chez |
I don't know if this will be of any help - but I've just been speaking to my Ma and there's a chap who farms at Fennington, near Kingston St Mary, that has started selling dust-extracted bedding bales of that elephant-grass stuff they use for power-station fuel. He's called Dusting; but she can't remember what the company they've set up is called. I've had a look on yell.co and his farm is listed, with a phone number. | ||||||
| Treacodactyl |
Ideal bedding for elephants... 
This chap? http://www.fennington-fibres.co.uk/index1.html |
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| gnome |
i used to get mine from a sawmill. i know most of the country has been taken over by B&Q, but there are still a few old style woodyards to be found, and they usually sell bags of sawdust and shavings dirt cheap. i used to buy bagsfull as a cheap alterrnative to kitty litter. | ||||||
| moneypenny |
Wood shavingsHi,I am looking for the same thing, try www.somerlap.co.uk They seem to provide cheap shavings and will deliver. |