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Title: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: woodypecks on September 16, 2010, 14:40:15
The incinerater that I boiught last year has fallen to bits ! Where can I buy a good big strong longer lastiong one ......please.....anyone . Very annoyed that this b and q dustbin type one did not last . It cost me around £29 ......I would be prepared to pay a little bit more for a better one .  Thankyou   Debs   >:(
Title: Re: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: nilly71 on September 16, 2010, 15:29:46
Make one for free out of a washing/tumble dryer drum. Just stand it on some bricks or bolt som metal legs to it.

This is a tumble dryer drum.
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x296/nilly71/allotment/21122008867.jpg)

Worked great for me

Neil
Title: Re: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: woodypecks on September 16, 2010, 21:10:35
 :D Wow! Neil ! That is brilliant ! I am sure we are all very proud of you ! I will take a look for one, when next we go to the rubbish tip . How do you get it out of the machine, is it difficult ?    I ,m sure that it would be very much stronger than the one I bought .  Thankyou for posting a picture of it too !   :) Debs
Title: Re: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: manicscousers on September 16, 2010, 21:16:52
Ray uses an old washing machine drum, the one with all the holes in  :)
Title: Re: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: nilly71 on September 16, 2010, 21:18:11
Thanks Debs,
I don't use it anymore as I converted it into a petrol shredder.
I asked on my local freecycle/freegle and someone had a drum already out of the dryer. I think you just unscrew the back and unbolt the drum.
Dryers are a lot lighter to move and I think the drums are bigger.

Neil
Title: Re: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: caroline7758 on September 16, 2010, 21:45:24
Quote from: manicscousers on September 16, 2010, 21:16:52
Ray uses an old washing machine drum, the one with all the holes in  :)

I've got the same, although it's only about half the height of the dustbin type. Got mine from freecycle.
Title: Re: Incinerator want a better one ?
Post by: woodypecks on September 17, 2010, 07:43:24
   This one very quickly rusted up and became so thin that as I picked it up to move it ,I put my fingers through it . It just crumbles ....and the chimney bit fell off the first week .   I wonder why they dont make them out of the same kind of longer lasting metal as your washing machine drum ?   Surely we should expect them to last longer than one year . It seems to me that they are only designed to dispose of waste paper bin stuff  rather than garden waste .   Debs    (still moaning ! )