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Garden incinerator.
madpenguin
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Where I live we have to pay £1.30 per garden waste sack to be collected.Just had 8 sacks taken at a cost of £10.40.
I have no transport so cannot get it to the tip unless someone takes it for me.
This mounts up over the year as you can imagine so I am thinking of getting a garden incinerator (the dustbin with a chimney type.
Are these good for general garden waste,prunings,lawn cuttings etc.
Not sure where I could place it but maybe on the patio with a metal tray underneath to collect the ash.
What experiences have any of you using one?
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We had a job getting stuff dry enough to burn (west coast of Scotland, so was a job even in summer
) & cuttings from pruning etc didn't burn if even slightly 'green'. Can you not compost?
No space for composting I'm afraid
I can see that lawn cuttings would be a problem to burn but I only have a small lawn and the clippings are not much.
Would burning paper and card with the cuttings get it hot enough to burn slightly damp stuff?
I have used these incinerators before at my sisters and they really did get the stuff burnt,but I was also using them in a 2 acre field and feeding them from a vast bonfire (the size of my entire garden!!).
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I would probably save stuff in bags in the garage an do a 'burn' every now and then so nothing would be stored in the incinerator itself.
The incinerators don't seem too expensive so I may just give it a go anyway!
Check with your LA that you're allowed to burn garden waste in your area. Some places have bye-laws - don't want you ending up with a fine. That could be more expensive than the rubbish sack charges
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just had a check on the local bylaws and you can have a bonfire as long as it does not cause a nuisance. So I should be OK!
Great - just make sure the neighbours haven't got their washing out or a family BBQ planned - trying to put a fire out makes even more smoke than the original fire ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As your garden is small I would use the lawn clippings as mulch on the borders. Shrub pruning should burn ok but perennials would be too green. An incinerator may be more bother than it's worth. How long did it take you to fill eight bags? If that is the sum total of your cutting back after the winter, I would just take the hit once or twice a year. The trick would be to cut the stuff as small as possible to get as much in a bag as you can, then leave the bags a while so they all settle down, then top them up. And use as large bags as possible unless there are rules on bag sizes!
We have just burnt piles of green twigs and green ivy in our incinerator. Just used some very dry kindling (older twigs), newspaper and a fire lighter to get it going. It was hard to keep up with it once it was away.
I filled all 8 bags in a week and generally put out at least a couple every fortnight.We have to buy the bags supplied by the council and they are awful.As they are biodegradable they start to sweat as soon as anything is put in it.You can't store anything in them and I have to fill them up the night before collection.
I also have to store the waste somewhere for up to a fortnight and space is limited.
I was hoping to have a burn when I got to maybe 2 sacks worth.
Good info. I see now why you need to get rid. I used to put a couple of bricks in the bottom of my incinerator to help save the bottom.