Garden Incinerator

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  1. wiseowl

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    Good evening I am looking for a new Garden incinerator and have located this online ,has anyone had experience of this one please:smile:

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      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!)

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      I get metal drums from the local garage, use an angle grinder to cut the tops off and get a free incinerator
       
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      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 :fingers crossed: ) new home, I will be taking my standard one with me and have faith it will continue to serve us well :)
       
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        Good evening "M" my garden measures 110ft x 40 ft ,I have got through 4 wilko bins completely burnt through in a year, I have 6 old fence panels to dispose of and burning them seems like to be the best option,Sorry I asked the question:smile:



        Scrungee if you cannot offer any positive and helpful advice then please just ignore my post.

        There's an old saying if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all,thatis what I was taught;)
         
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        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.
         
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        Good evening "Scrungee Well known for it" yes I have taken some offence, you have succeeded where most have failed:mute:

        Least said sonoest mended:old:
         
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        Ebay (as pic posted in post #1 but now deleted) @ £27.99

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        From same supplier direct

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        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.
         
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        I got a good incinerator from my local hardware shop earlier this year - its similar to those that looks like a metal dustbin with legs and holes punched into it, but is made of slightly thicker metal and has an air hole in the middle of the bottom that is guarded by a sort of double 'hoop' thing to keep the hole clear. The bottom itself is also shaped like a bin lid, with the sides held on by the legs which allows ash to fall out of the sides, and stops the build up in the bottom that ends up choking the thing.

        I've done a quick (and admittedly poor) diagram below where the blue represents the legs, and the red arrows show where the ash falls out.

        Its certainly one of the sturdiest I have seen of its type.

        I don't know what brand it is, but I am willing to pop round to the hardware shop and ask if it helps? My local chap might even be willing to supply via a courier?



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          Good morning F/C thank you my friend much appreciated:smile:
           
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          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 :scratch:
           
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            I have one, presumably like the ones you have had:

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            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? :)

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            Might need to chop up the materials more to get them into the fireplace though :sad:
             
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              Good afternoon Kristen my friend,and thank you for your informative and most helpful comments,much appreciated:smile::blue thumb: I am thinking that just maybe, cutting the panels into 4 pieces so that I can put them in to the car and take them to the recycling center,which would be mean 3-4 trips,not sure of the best option yet:smile:
               
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              Hi Woo, I sympathise with you, the trouble with burning fence panels is that they burn so fiercely.. Hence your getting through so many of the dustbin type ones.. I think if you do not get much in the way of garden waste to burn with them to slow them down a bit, then I would break them up and take them to the tip.. Not an easy task but to be honest I don't think the type of incinerator you were looking at will last any longer than the others burning those panels.... :scratch:
               
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                Good afternoon Marley and thank you my friend,yes you are right,I am just cutting the panels in four so that they will fit in the car,if I put the back seats down I have a big space of 4ft 6in x 3ft 6in which is very useful ;) enjoy your day my friend:smile: Probably 3 trips could do it in two but then I couldn't see out of the back window,Mrs Woo said that would probably improve my driving:heehee:
                 
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                  No local neighbours etc. who could use them for anything? Firewood even? (not ideal if the wood contains preserving chemicals)
                   
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