Sawdust collection bag
I once tried to use a shop vac
hose to divert our sawdust into a 5 gallon bucket, but it only lasted a
week before it came loose.
What I should've done was to
order one of these collection bags that came with the new 15 amp
saw.
The price is 10 to 20 dollars
for the small, and it's much less painless than trying to re-invent the
wheel.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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These bags are fine when they're new. But even if you empty the bag regularly, the fabric tends to get saturated with dust over time. This increases their resistance to air flow and prevents the extraction from working well. I'd advise you to use compressed air to blow the dust out of the bag (from the outside in) when you're emptying it.
If you find yourself doing a lot of sawing, you can build your own dust collector. Here is a really simple one.