15 November 2015, 18:49
This is old hat to most of you, but it was new to me so worth mentioning.
I have a DIY incinerator, for disposing of animal guts and skins. It's made from an old tumble drier drum with holes punched into it. The trick is not to punch too many holes so it burns for a long time and incinerates properly.
Anyway, today was very windy and I had trouble lighting it - matches and lighter kept blowing out. I remembered my friends lighting cigarettes inside the lapels of their bike jackets, but I wasn't going to try that, so next best thing - an old tin can.
It's possible to light a small fire inside a steel tin can, on its' side. You can feed it small twigs and shavings and actually get some heat from it. It's like a mini-stove, next time I might punch a small hole in the back to act as a chimney.
A bonus is the it won't be seen from far away.
I have a DIY incinerator, for disposing of animal guts and skins. It's made from an old tumble drier drum with holes punched into it. The trick is not to punch too many holes so it burns for a long time and incinerates properly.
Anyway, today was very windy and I had trouble lighting it - matches and lighter kept blowing out. I remembered my friends lighting cigarettes inside the lapels of their bike jackets, but I wasn't going to try that, so next best thing - an old tin can.
It's possible to light a small fire inside a steel tin can, on its' side. You can feed it small twigs and shavings and actually get some heat from it. It's like a mini-stove, next time I might punch a small hole in the back to act as a chimney.
A bonus is the it won't be seen from far away.