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| keith Member Since: 15 Aug 2012 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2237  
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Time for roasting your chestnuts and toasting your marshmallows.
Who has a nice garden fire pic ?  Click image to enlarge |
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29th Oct 2015 4:39pm |
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| Lambley Member Since: 20 Apr 2013 Location: Mid Devon Posts: 1435  
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I love having a good old bonfire, nothing better than being able to burn all 'yer old crap, tree and hedge cuttings, cardboard, anything!
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29th Oct 2015 8:19pm |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347 
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Not quite so fancy as your one Keith but I made this one
Click image to enlarge 10mm Waterjet cut steel grate Click image to enlarge Kit of parts Click image to enlarge Before the legs went on Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Finished Product Can't find any pictures of it with fire in though  Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197
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29th Oct 2015 8:26pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20634
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Same here, sadly no photo though.
We all like adding to our carbon footprint. 
Latest thing I find I'm swamped with is piles of cardboard to burn. Can't even recycle it because they'll only take some small bits.  |
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29th Oct 2015 8:43pm |
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| Venomator Member Since: 25 Aug 2014 Location: Peterborough Posts: 2087
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Great idea (and timing) for a thread subject...
With some impressive responses already, including the OP's image... 
However, could I please make a plea for our native wildlife, especially hedgehogs... 
They will already be hibernating and often choose log piles for their Winter sleeps - they cannot tell what will be a bonfire night pyre for them from a real safe place...
Please, please check under any bonfires before setting them alight, and any log/wood piles you may be using for fuel! If you do come across a sleeping hedgehog and have to move it, use garden gloves and put it in a box with an old towel and call your local rescue number, once disturbed they may not be able to settle properly at this time of year...
Oh, and I do so love roasted chestnuts... Rog...
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29th Oct 2015 8:45pm |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3347
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Well said Rog
Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197
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29th Oct 2015 8:51pm |
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| Daisy90 Member Since: 01 Feb 2015 Location: Hampshire Posts: 845 
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Here's mine, all for free also |
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29th Oct 2015 9:16pm |
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| Lambley Member Since: 20 Apr 2013 Location: Mid Devon Posts: 1435
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Can't agree more about Hedgehogs, I watched an article last night saying they are endangered and less than a million in the UK, real shame, we used to see them in the garden all the time.
I always stack tree waste, cuttings etc up, until it's dried out, then don't light it where it's been stood, I always start a fire at the side with cardboard and then gradually move stuff over on top with a rake, the last pile had a few toads and a couple of field mice, I'd hate to burn anything living. Be vigilant. |
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29th Oct 2015 9:54pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897  
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SNAP!
......except mine's upright. |
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29th Oct 2015 10:03pm |
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| Ryderoo Member Since: 28 Aug 2015 Location: South Oxfordshire Posts: 1666 
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Is that a half load at 40 degrees
 Cheers Simon
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29th Oct 2015 10:05pm |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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29th Oct 2015 10:26pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20634
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Ken - Those little burners give out a good output of heat for size don't they.
Hedgehogs wise - what I tend to do with brushwood if it's not burnt straight away is stack it or leave it in open ground. Rather than burning it where it is, when I want to burn it then actually move it to the bonfire spot. That way you never have issues or indeed need to check. Granted though, you need more room / area to do this which I appreciate not everyone has but it saves these issues. Same thing with birds nests in spring / early summer, a long standing big bonfire heap due for burning can make a good nest site. |
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29th Oct 2015 10:56pm |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471 
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I have a bit of land set aside on the farm here just for having a good old burn-up, it's fairly sheltered and has water on three sides so almost an island. Doesn't take long to get a good blaze going but we tend to leave setting up the boiling pot and roasting the hedgiepigs in clay until the end when we've got a nice bed of embers to do 'em in
 Steve.
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30th Oct 2015 9:22am |
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| Venomator Member Since: 25 Aug 2014 Location: Peterborough Posts: 2087
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If we didn't know you better Steve... Rog...
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30th Oct 2015 9:42am |
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