Burn Barrel

[crash325]

Hi Lady,
Am sure you remember the fires it started a year or so ago.
It is 8/9 years old & was very good most of its life. If I find another barrel & have the strength will do it the same again.

It has a door, the bottom about 1/2 way up & clean out door near bottom. Steel mesh holds trash about 1/2 way up.

When first made it was used too cook on. All parts except the barrel high $$$ wood stove. Temperature regulator on door. Cast iron top with a warming grate. Cleaned up everything & did use it to cook on. Hamburgers & such on the top & a pot of coffee on the warming grate.

If they can be found will post pictures for you.

Crash 325

 

[dragoneggs]

Even worse here. They banned them about 30 years ago and were even paying a bounty for reporting their use.

Yep same here... wondering if I should turn in my BIL. :laughing: Don't get me wrong, I love to burn and I do a lot, but it can't be household trash that is easily recycled here. I've been recycling before it was popular and easy (40 years now). Can't get my BIL to do the same.

 

[Redneck in training]

When our burn barrel rusted I built one. I cut the pattern using plasma by hand and stitch welded it all together. I made it from scrap metal I had laying around. The bottom half is made from 1/4" and top from 1/8" sheet metal. If I would do it again I would buy 3/16" sheet and make the top door little taller. We burn only paper and some wood scrap. Sheet of 3/16 steel cost less than $100. The steel supplier usually have the ability to cut it for you for a reasonable fee. For reference it is a square about 2 feet wide.
It sits on cement blocks so I can stick my FEL bucket under and use showel to clean the ashes.

 

[Wagtail]

WHOOooosh-ka!

 

[PILOON]

Great idea.


And yeah, getting rid of the old shell of a burn barrel is definitely a problem. I can see chopping it up with a saws-all or cutting torch is in my future.

I squash mine flat using the FEL making it a smaller profile and put it roadside for monthly 'large items pick up' but usually a scrapper gets it first.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I squash mine flat using the FEL making it a smaller profile and put it roadside for monthly 'large items pick up' but usually a scrapper gets it first.

Best idea yet! That will be my plan. Many thanks.

 

[Thall303]

WHOOooosh-ka!

Looks like government doesn't interfere with every facet of life in Tasmania��

 

[CobyRupert]

Burning trash and all open burning is illegal here, except for the 4 "C"'s: "campfires, cooking, and/or ceremonial or celebration (bonfires)".
It's always a ceremonious celebration when I ignite the contents of my burn barrel, so..... I'm legal!!

 

[turnkey4099]

Yep same here... wondering if I should turn in my BIL. :laughing: Don't get me wrong, I love to burn and I do a lot, but it can't be household trash that is easily recycled here. I've been recycling before it was popular and easy (40 years now). Can't get my BIL to do the same.

Over here on the dry side they don't care what one burns, it cannot be done in a burn barrel. I was burning a small brush pile one day and commented about that odd fact and the DOT supervisor who was there confirmed that I couldn't burn it in the barrel.

 

[turnkey4099]

Burning trash and all open burning is illegal here, except for the 4 "C"'s: "campfires, cooking, and/or ceremonial or celebration (bonfires)".
It's always a ceremonious celebration when I ignite the contents of my burn barrel, so..... I'm legal!!

Well, I guess mine back then was also. I always sacrificed several brews to it.

 

[bcp]

WA claims that burn barrels are too cool.

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Bruce

 

[PILOON]

I heartily that brews need to be scarified at every barrel burn.
Man thast is a necessary tradition, Hik!---

 

[PILOON]

Around here they want your Lat and Long in order to issue a burn permit.(LOL)
If we have a permit (and comply) and a forest fire results we are off the hook. (kind of an insurance)
Problem is that we are supposed to log onto the forestry web site to see the cautions.
Sure, everybody has his blackberry in hand when he strikes a match, especially in this very poor reception area!
But all being said, complying with the regs and a resulting forest fire result gets us off the hook for liabilities.
So we log on and get an annual burn permit!
Called CYA!

 

[Wagtail]

Looks like government doesn't interfere with every facet of life in Tasmania��

You're right there Mate. 'They' pretty much treat us as adults.

Mind you, rural living Aussies are fairly 'switched on' when it comes to burning and the potential for bush fires. All that the State Fire Brigade asks is that you consult their website for burning conditions (yes or no) and get a "Burn Permit" (which is free). The permit is so that the local Brigade knows about it and doesn't have to run around like a blue-arse fly looking for a fire. :fire:

 

[Looking4new]

Around here you must get a burn permit IF your open fire is more than .3 m cubed, I am guessing a 1 cubic foot area. And then the permit is null and void if there is a fire ban happening.
All my fires are in the decommissioned wood stove so I don't need a permit.

 

[TomSeller]

I have to drive a bit to a recycling center but it takes paper, plastic, cardboard, glass, kitchen scraps, yard waste, oils, antifreeze, batteries, TVs, metal.... All for free.

I do it every Saturday morning in my pickup with a cup of Jo and the 3 dogs and they don't let me forget to do it. I ditched the burning barrel but do have an old BBQ grill that I burn some paper in (old check books, credit card solicitations, etc.) about twice a year. Beyond that we are down to one 30 gallon garbage can per month which costs $5 to dispose of and it is often only half full except when I receive a shipment with styrofoam. I hate that stuff. I bought a Bosch gravity stand for my table saw and the styrofoam cost me $5 to dispose of !

 

[bcp]

I have to drive a bit to a recycling center but it takes paper, plastic, cardboard, glass, kitchen scraps, yard waste, oils, antifreeze, batteries, TVs, metal.... All for free.

Here is is $10 entry, plus you are weighed in and out and pay a weight fee. Only a little of what you listed is free at the recycling center. There is lots of illegal dumping. Might be a connection.

Bruce

 

[TomSeller]

Here is is $10 entry, plus you are weighed in and out and pay a weight fee. Only a little of what you listed is free at the recycling center. There is lots of illegal dumping. Might be a connection.

Bruce

I think recycling for the most part should be free, particularly if you self haul. Certainly for the materials of value to the recycling industry. The easier it is to get rid of recyclable material the more goes back into product and less dumping, less burning, less garbage, etc.

 

[dragoneggs]

Wow... pay for recycle? Not here... you pay for what you dump. Recycling of glass, plastic, paper, metal, cardboard, batteries, etc. is free. Just need to haul it to the transfer station. With recycling and composting we go to the dump/transfer station once a month. Total cost is $11.

 

[Looking4new]

We dump for free here. Metal items, cardboard, glass, paper, lumber and styrofoam all free.
Fridges, Stoves and freezers you have to pay for. As well as mattresses,couches, chairs and tables.