Drum Incinerator

[gaz1]

grid no good

angle iron will even bend with hot ashes but it will last longer

cutting bottom off no base to think about as its all hot ashes

oh and yeah burn those conifers at night they smoke like hell do those things

 

[DAPPH]

use a stainless steel washing machine drum for the grate , angle grind in an ash rake out slot ?

 

[Prajna]

Inspired me to make one too, since I happened to have a couple of old 44 gallon drums handy:

I cut round the top with a 2mm disc on a 115mm grinder, cut three tabs near the base and folded them up, step drilled some holes round the lid and base, dropped the lid down onto the tabs and Robert's yer proverbial. Works a treat.

 

[selectedgrub]

Inspired me to make one too,

Me too.
I might use this formula.

Seems it may just work.

 

[Onoff]

Me too.
I might use this formula.

Seems it may just work.

My kinda guy!

 

[nickk]

That won’t work b=P2 is back to front .

 

[selectedgrub]

True but I'm going to use imperial steel.

 

[Onoff]

For a raised grid, if I drilled the cut out lid with a hole saw to make like a big mesh, then anchored it to the side of the drum with cleats/angle brackets, would it still warp?

 

[nickk]

Yes.

 

[Bravheart]

For a raised grid, if I drilled the cut out lid with a hole saw to make like a big mesh, then anchored it to the side of the drum with cleats/angle brackets, would it still warp?

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The lid will soon warp or burn through. Here's one I made earlier, more than a little agricultural but can kick out some flame, should have put some baffle plates in to slow the heat down and stop it disappearing up the chimney.
Not the clearest but the grid is on legs and can be lifted out the lid if need be. Door below the grid for ash removal, draught control.

 

[Onoff]

I feel I've really joined the club now! That's conifer cuttings that, they don't half go up!

(No slides were harmed during this photoshoot).

 

[Aerohead]

For green conifers and vines, used chippy or crank does wonders to move things along.

No need to overthink this, free old washer drum or drier with some more holes punched in it, set on handful of bricks for grate, good to go. Replace with another from always available thrown out machine if gets too tatty, one beer job to extract with a little electric impact gun.

 

[premmington]

grid no good

angle iron will even bend with hot ashes but it will last longer

cutting bottom off no base to think about as its all hot ashes

oh and yeah burn those conifers at night they smoke like hell do those things

@gaz1 I just burnt some off late evening - after I took dog for last dog walk.

"great minds think alike"

 

[gaz1]

im back to this again myself as the rocket burner and other incinerator bins are useless for burning greenery ( weeds, branches and shrubbery )
i know theres 2 times per year you can burn but your forced to play with right to a peaceful life that includes bad burning practices ( allotment reference )

they just smoke too much even the leaf burner smokes as ive looked at it

ive even looked at this all to burn greenery as smokless as possible

ive been looking at this ( dumont incinerator ) but im aware it can throw gas out the door which can set alight

its a down burning incinerator burns the greens to form the gas and allows the burning once they hit the flames

 

[gaz1]

For green conifers and vines, used chippy or crank does wonders to move things along.

No need to overthink this, free old washer drum or drier with some more holes punched in it, set on handful of bricks for grate, good to go. Replace with another from always available thrown out machine if gets too tatty, one beer job to extract with a little electric impact gun.

as they are not my/our trees or bushes they are next doors bushes and trees that have crossed the boundary

i dont see why we have to pay 10 for each bin collection for next doors waste

im not going to pay and use a tree shredder and still have the junk to burn when i can just shove them into a burn barrel to burn them with very little work done with them or pay for a green collection once a month in the summer periods as that bin gets really heavy with just weeds dumped in it

 

[Onoff]

im back to this again myself as the rocket burner and other incinerator bins are useless for burning greenery ( weeds, branches and shrubbery )
i know theres 2 times per year you can burn but your forced to play with right to a peaceful life that includes bad burning practices ( allotment reference )

they just smoke too much even the leaf burner smokes as ive looked at it

ive even looked at this all to burn greenery as smokless as possible

ive been looking at this ( dumont incinerator ) but im aware it can throw gas out the door which can set alight

its a down burning incinerator burns the greens to form the gas and allows the burning once they hit the flames

Loving that smokeless one using the two barrels!

 

[DAPPH]

I feel I've really joined the club now! That's conifer cuttings that, they don't half go up!

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(No slides were harmed during this photoshoot).

Managed to get nine rubble sacks of mulched shredded cuttings off the conifers .. tied up using cable ties inside well wetted bags and stored for five years to slowly decompose .. they have ended up being good soil improver in the well composted beds . Another five years on after incorporating the mulch into the beds there is still evidence of the shredded conifers but they have composted enough to have stopped robbing the veg beds of Nitrogen and have now started producing their own . This should provide plenty of nitrogen from just one dosing for at least seven years. As I have had about five more bags each year and am slowly adding them to the composted garden & kitchen waste there is an ongoing boost of nitrogen in every bed ( save for not adding any to the root crop beds the year of sowing. It certainly works out far cheaper than spending £8 or more per bag per bed of composted farmyard manure ( ten veg beds that get topped up annually * eight flower beds annually

I got a lovely foot long x 3 inch wide carrot out the carrot bed this afternoon . was able to gently pull it out the bed almost totally clean of any of the growth medium.

Burning garden waste off when it can be successfully composted & used long term in your own flower & veg beds seems a bit of an own goal to me.

 

[Mick Annick]

Not the best thing ever but it works, started as a (failed) ‘proof of design’ for a fire pit my son wanted.

 

[Onoff]

@gaz1 d'you reckon that smokeless burn barrel (above) would work if it was half height?

 

[awemawson]

45 gallon drum:
Fill with water (safety)
Plasma cut top off
Tip out water
Plasma cut a few holes in the bottom and sides
Place on three bricks
Light whatever you will with a Rottenburger propane torch through side holes

Works a charm.
Remember to empty ash out regularly ot drum will rot as it gets wet.