design for a garbage incinerator

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Design for a gargage incinerator (not a barrel), perhaps turbo-charged?

-- DavidW. Jensen (daavidjensen@starband.net), August 31, 2001

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dave, this may help, in fla. i knew the most savy man who ran a junk/scrap yard. he had a blower from an old home oil heater it was like a giant blow torch, he made a box from old fire bricks and left a small inlet hole for the blower to be inserted. the box was open in front with a simple iron door to remove the waste, and had a ember screen on top that was just an old peice of dimond grate steel. he used it to pile up copper wire and remove the insulation. this man had to be the smartest person that i had ever met. he raised his family of 9 girls and one son by wit and grit. his homestead is a 28'x48 barge that was built from steel gas tanks. i was amazed to watch one single person turn old 20,000 gal fuel tanks into a floating home. kenny cut the ends off and cut it lenght ways tacked it to the frame, and used a block and tackle to roll it out welding as it flatend out. he and his family are floating around in the 10,000 islands somewhere.

-- paul a coleman (wormfarmerone@yahoo.com), August 31, 2001.

I used an old smoker grill made of a barrel on its side for a trash incinerator for many years. It worked extremly well with the vents underneath opened and no fan. As the ashes accumulated I would bag them for trash pickup.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), August 31, 2001.

I would advise just reducing your garbage output for everyone's lungs. Of course food scraps should be composted and turned into black gold. We (2) generate less than one 30# bag a year by diligently working on this.

-- Sandy Davis (smd2@netzero.net), September 03, 2001.

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