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.