Homemade Incinerator
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Anyone ever make a homemade garbage incinerator?
I was looking up some designs, and did not see much online. We have burned our trash here for the past thirty years, but it has never been ideal. The town has trash pick up, but they want $1 a bag, and only pick up once per week. We go through several bags a week, so we have just burned our trash, and then scrapped up what did not burn, and got rid of that...now about 100 times smaller.
So Katie and I were talking, and thought maybe it would be time to build something nice....if you can call a trash burner "nice". Something we could still use even if it was windy, there was dry conditions, or whatever. And then, when it was burning, would burn the trash more completely.
Rocket Stove Design?
Liquid Bottom Boiler?
Horizontal Flue?
Any ideas?
I was looking up some designs, and did not see much online. We have burned our trash here for the past thirty years, but it has never been ideal. The town has trash pick up, but they want $1 a bag, and only pick up once per week. We go through several bags a week, so we have just burned our trash, and then scrapped up what did not burn, and got rid of that...now about 100 times smaller.
So Katie and I were talking, and thought maybe it would be time to build something nice....if you can call a trash burner "nice". Something we could still use even if it was windy, there was dry conditions, or whatever. And then, when it was burning, would burn the trash more completely.
Rocket Stove Design?
Liquid Bottom Boiler?
Horizontal Flue?
Any ideas?
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Warm Morning made incinerators and they doubled as a heater, although Im betting not too efficient. They used propane, coal, or wood I think. I see them on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace once in a while.
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I built a large rocketstove to burn leaves in but it works well for trash too. This one is concrete blocks and 3 pieces of old 6" insulated chimney pipe. The idea is that the high draft burns the fire at a high temperature. High enough to incinerate and run smokeless.
I wish I had not built it so close to the house though!
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That's steam in the pic. The old insulated pipe has holes rotted in it. Water gets in and when the pipe gets hot you get a steam show.I wish I had not built it so close to the house though!
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Yeah, that was what I was sort of thinking of. Maybe something big enough so I could burn 5-6 bags of trash at once, then have an ash area where I could drive into it with my tractor and scoop out the junk that does not burn, and haul it away. A nice big blower to get some serious draft going...
I was thinking something like this, but for burning trash, not heating cannonballs. It was at a local fort that used the furnace to heat up cannon balls so when they lobbed them at wooden ships their hulls/rigging would burn. It seems like it would get a long burn time...
I was thinking something like this, but for burning trash, not heating cannonballs. It was at a local fort that used the furnace to heat up cannon balls so when they lobbed them at wooden ships their hulls/rigging would burn. It seems like it would get a long burn time...
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Out door trash burning is forbidden in Maine. When burning trash , make sure to keep a hot dog in your pocket...... they can't say a thing if you are cooking food.
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Ahhhh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! brilliance is contagious!!!
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Then I should be in jail.....down here, I was informed that it is illegal to burn plywood and cardboard......lol. Put me behind bars boys, I am burning away......Out door trash burning is forbidden in Maine.
Kevin
PS. we used to say so what? It will go to Canada......now I guess it will come to you guys....sorry.
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I burn cardboard and containers (milk jugs, laundry soap jugs ect..) so there is some plastic too. I take a 55 gallon steel barrel and cut the bottom out of it. Then set it on blocks in such a way that combustion air can come up thru the bottom. I just move the barrel aside occasionally to remove ashes. A barrel will last me 3-4 years before it needs replaced. It's simple and works good. Keeps the fire contained if its breezy. Everything burns up pretty complete.. I'm considered an outlaw, but I've seen outdoor wood boilers that are worse.
Once in a while for fun I'll fan it with the leaf blower and get a real fire going
Once in a while for fun I'll fan it with the leaf blower and get a real fire going
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Bad idea, very bad idea, mate. If you don't burn the neighbourhood you'll surely get a fine
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It's done all over rural areas...people in my area burn at dusk ...I do it myself...saves money.ArnoldRebecca wrote: ↑Thu. Apr. 01, 2021 4:58 pmBad idea, very bad idea, mate. If you don't burn the neighbourhood you'll surely get a fine
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Doing it in rural areas is ok I guess, you still can get fined though, not to mention the pollution you create.