A challenge for you all

On jobsites we usualy just take a cattle or rather hog panel and bend it completly around and wire it together. It does pretty good keepig the cardboard and other junk from blowing around the yard. NE IA Dave

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Get a 500-gallon fuel barrel. These are about 4-ft across and around 6-feet long. Cut one end completely off, stand it up. Cut 3 holes measuring 1inch by 3 inches in the sides about halfway up.

The door is about 22 inches square. A smokestack is made that's about 2 feet long, goes on top with an 8-flange (smokestack is from old auger tube, it's about 1/8" thick.
about 3 or 4 links of chain are welded on top 2 different places.

Door is reinforced all the way around with straps, with an extra strap in the middle. Door hinges are made by welding on a couple rods and using a tiny metal pipe that just fits over the rod like a sleeve, the straps are welded on directly. Door catch is just a scrap piece of iron with a notch cut in it. Door latch is just a thin bar. Another rod is tack-welded onto this bar for a handle. A single screw/bolt is used to hold the door latch/handle on.

You do separate burnables and tin cans of course, but trash in this can be burnt even in high winds. Trash burns slowly but completely, and it never gets hot enough to hurt the barrel. The ashes seem to just disappear with time - people have owned his barrels for 8 years and never had to dump it - but the chains on top make it easy to pick up with a loader if you needed to.

With a plasma cutter and wire welder, it took us around 4 or 5 hours to do it all. Might take a little longer if you're using a cutting torch.

I'll take a few pictures and post them later.

Then I found out that the local trash outfit (Marengo Disposal), would do weekly pick-ups for something like $20 a month. Been using them ever since.

I use an old underground burial 1000 gal tank that I stand on end and cut a door in the side. It's boiler plate thickness. No rain gets inside so we usually let the garbage pile up in there for awhile so we can wait until we have a wet day to burn. Our newspapers go to a paper collection point the local Lions club has set up. Tin cans and bottles go in a large covered container and once a year they go to a recycler.Jim

Jim WJ

Worked good and it would always burn down to just ashes.

The holier the barrel the better.

Donovan from Wisconsin

To provide a little more insight I am currently using a old steel pallet type basket from a factory. It is made of thicker steel and will hold things the 55ers won't. I can also load it with the fork lift when it is time to empty. Has loops on top so the guys at the transfer station can handle it with chains or a lift bar I made. My county will take trash free of charge (prepaid as taxes) if you live in the country.

As to getting your stuff to burn I pour some diesal fuel over whats there and let it soak in before burning. Amazing how well that works. For a 55 that's 2/3 full use about 1.5 gallon. Let it soak for maybe 30 minutes.

HTH

jt