Garden Incinerator

When I click on that Photobucket picture link I get no further details other than just the pic, plus wobbling adverts like these (that's Photobucket for you!)








I get metal drums from the local garage, use an angle grinder to cut the tops off and get a free incinerator

 

I have no experience of that particular type, Woo. But, as far as I recall, you do not have a particularly large garden?
At present I have 1/4 acre and the standard incinerator from the likes of Wilko have served us very well over the past 4 years. When I downsize to my (hopefully ) new home, I will be taking my standard one with me and have faith it will continue to serve us well

 

I was rather hoping your link was supposed to be to the product you were thinking of, and you had mistakenly posted something that only displayed shakey adverts without any further product info, and I have been investigating what you were thinking of purchasing + alternative, possibly better value for money products, but as you seem to have taken offence I wont bother posting about them.

 

Ebay (as pic posted in post #1 but now deleted) @ £27.99




From same supplier direct



But as above, I get steel drums for nowt simply by asking at the local garage. Basically they're just steel drums and all that fancy paintwork (inside & outside) will get burnt off on first use.

 

Sorry to hear that, woo - I can only imagine they were of poor quality.
Now you mention it, a friend of mine was bemoaning Wilko incinerators for a similar reason

 

I have one, presumably like the ones you have had:



I favour this as there is very little temperature "leakage" sideways towards plants that are nearby.

However, I think if you are burning fence posts they are likely to generate a lot of heat (more than normal) which may wreck the container more quickly.

Thicker metal will help, but I find this type of galvanised container is not really designed for great heat, so has a short life. I, too, would like to find something better.

At Skool (a while ago, perhaps similarly for you to eh? Woo ) the oddjob-handyman had a square brick-built incinerator. It wasn't much bigger than the metal bins (more volume, being square, of course), it had a metal grill a foot or so off the bottom, and air-gaps below the grill, which also facilitated removing the ash. It had been there years, and didn't look like it was being damaged by the heat, so maybe special bricks and/or mortar. We have builders onsite, I'll ask them on Monday if there is some trick needed - can't be any different to an open fireplace back presumably?

It din't have a chimney, or anything fancy, just straight vertical walls forming the four sides.

What about a second-hand wood burning stove? That wouldn't rot! but I don't know if it needs a tall chimney to "draw". Or a patio-heater / incinerator combi?




Might need to chop up the materials more to get them into the fireplace though

 

No local neighbours etc. who could use them for anything? Firewood even? (not ideal if the wood contains preserving chemicals)