How to keep pile of sawdust and other materials orderly?

Having searched without success for older topics, I hope to find many solutions to these projects.

We are purchasing 1 cubic meter (35 cubic feet) of both saw dust and wood chips. We also have about half of this amount of sand piled up in our garden, close to the main entrance. Even if it's a fun playground for my toddler I don't enjoy staring at it and seeing it becoming lower and more spread for every rainfall we have.

So my question is: how do I build 3 structures for keep each of sand, sawdust and wood chip in place? Everything is welcome: stories of success and failures, pictures, videos, words that will help my research.

The reason why I write under the "composting" forum is because wood chip and saw dust will be used for composting different compost. Hope it's okay that I make the pile of sand freeriding in the same post.

Thank you in advance!

Most options that I have seen use pallets, if they are free in your area to build areas.

Another cheap option is to simply use straw bales... and they can be added to the compost later.

Something like this only larger might work for either the sawdust or the wood chips:



https://permies.com/t/281580/composting/Super-easy-beginner-project-compost

We have a wooden box, much like in Anne's photo, with a removable front and a sheet of corrugated roof panel to keep the rain out for sawdust.
I've also used plastic feedbags (doggy food) to store sawdust in. Would work for sand and wood chips alike!

Nina Surya wrote:I've also used plastic feedbags (doggy food) to store sawdust in. Would work for sand and wood chips alike!

I also use repurposed sacks for sawdust (woven feed sack type thing). I often go to a sawmill and get sawdust and need to transport it home in my car, so whatever large feed/whatever sacks I can get help a lot. Then just store that somewhere out of the rain.
Sand, inevitably it ends up in a pile somewhere in the yard. I try to put it somewhere that later will be planted with something that likes sand.

I once purchased from a mill that sold sawdust in Bulk Bags/Flexible IBCs.  Here is a link to example products from Uline, with their product video linked below.  Sand is heavy enough that you may just want to store it in sand bags.  

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