"Rocket" Incinerator Burns Fast And Clean

"Rocket" Incinerator Burns Fast And Clean MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 22-4-40 "My rocket-shaped garbage incinerator burns fast and clean and cost little to build," says Bud Braisher, Parson, British Columbia, who welded two heavy steel barrels together to make the incinerator. The 10-ft. high unit consists of a 6-ft. dia. barrel with a smaller 4-ft. dia. barrel on top. The bottom barrel stands on a steel pad. Braisher cut a big door into the side of the top barrel and installed a steel grate inside the bottom barrel about 2 ft. off the ground. Garbage burns on top of the grate. An LP gas torch that's inserted through a pipe at the bottom of the incinerator is used to ignite the garbage. The pipe enters the bottom of the lower barrel and then makes a 90 degree bend upward so the torch flames shoot up through the grate and into the garbage. "The only time I use the propane torch is when the garbage is very wet," says Braisher. "Draft is provided by a series of 1-in. wide, 6-in. long grooves cut into the outside of the bottom barrel. Ashes fall through the grate and onto the ground. The key reason it burns so well is that the flames are drawn upward instead of burning downward as with conventional garbage-burning barrels. The flames burn so hot they turn tin cans into æmush' steel that I can crunch down to almost nothing and it melts glass. I place the incinerator along the edge of my driveway. It burns clean with hardly any smoke. "Ashes eventually fill the bottom barrel. When that happens I use a front-end loader to lift the incinerator out of the way and then scoop up the ashes." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bud Braisher, Box 145, Parson, British Columbia, Canada V0A 1L0 (ph 250 348-2537).

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