Garden incinerator?

This might sound like a bit of a dumb question but if I don't ask, I'll never know!!

I have quite a large area to clear in my garden which is heavily overgrown with weeds, grasses etc.

If I buy one of the silver garden incinerators will I be able to burn what I'm ripping out?
My green bin is always filled to the max with lawn cuttings so using this is not really an option.

I look forward to your help :-)

 

yes you can. I used to leave it to dry out for a few days before burning it. it burns allot better that way but produces a hell of a lot of smoke. I think it is considered an environmentally neutral way of getting rid of your excess garden waste too.

 

Oh and remember to keep it dry as much as possible when it rains or else you will find that it will rust through within a few years.

 

Brilliant, thank you.

Another dumb question......what do you do with the waste that is left when its all burned out?

 

I had one for a while. They don't last long, maybe a year or too. But then mine was on the go on a regular basis, and I did take great pride in seeing if I could get it hotter than last time etc, and when it was done, I sometimes used to pour water into it to make sure it was out, so rapid cooling, which is not good for longevity.

I used to burn leylandii trimming in mine, including some fairly beefy lumps of wood. Sometimes other stuff would go in too. Once it was going it didn't care. Its not like a bonfire where you have to give careful thought to which bits to add when and where. They are designed so that the flow of air and heat is such that once its going, its going. I used to shove great branches into the chimney and they'd be sticking out the top by a good 4ft or more sometimes, and the bit would just eat it in minutes.

Nowadays I've got a different kind. Much smaller, and more as a solid fuel patio heater rather than waste incinerator. Inspired by one of @EddieJ's creations, mine is the drum out of our old washing machine, mounted on a stand which is actually the drive wheel for the drum.

 

Put it on your flower beds. Its rich in potash.

 

That's brilliant thank you

 

Becarefull, being every thing else is dry at the moment one spark and you could have at bigger fire that you don't want

 

WOW!!!!!!! You weren't kidding!!! How much smoke!!!


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Hope you kept down wind!

 

Not quite........I smell like a dead dog........smoked of course!!!!!!!!

Are they always that smoky?


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Competition time................can anyone spot my garden???? Lol





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I suppose it very much depends on what you put in them.

Did yours come with a lid? That reduces the amount of smoke (once you get it going, of course) and then you can get on with other things too.

Personally, the incinerator smoke smell is less offensive (to me) than the smell of dying BBQ coals after they've been drenched in dripping oils/marinades

 

Is it the one on the left?

Do you need an incinerator? How about just pile it up? Incinerator might help concentrate the heat, but its fiddly getting bigger things in there. With a bonfire you do have to push the stuff from the outside into the middle - once the middle has burnt most of what is there - i.e. the fire isn't hot enough to consume everything right to the perimeter.