On 27/05/2013 17:11, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:
Spent most of the day feeding crap through a new garden shredder, all
I'm left with is a huge pile of cuttings that are too small to shred,
various halves of trees that are too big to shred, and dried crap/grass.

I've made the executive decision to burn the f***ing lot, but can't
decide whether to buy an incinerator or just build a big heap on the
ground and torch it. There's plenty of stuff here that'll need sawing up
to fit in an incinerator, but on the other hand I don't want to leave a
big scorch mark on the grass (which is the only place to do it with
enough space around). Although I can live with it, it'll grow back one day.

What's the expert opinion? Will it burn quicker if it's "free" rather
than in a dustbin with holes in? I just want shot of the lot now, don't
really care how, and balls to the neighbours they ought to be at work
tomorrow.

It will only burn sensibly quickly if it is all tinder dry. I would say
you are completely stuffed now for at least another fortnight.

Start with the thin bits until you build up a bed of charcoal and then
you can burn pretty much anything. The grass where the bonfire was will
always look different afterwards even if you use the same seed. The
ground acquires a fair amount of potash from the fire ash.

If you burn it wet you will only succeed in generating lots of smelly
smoke and annoyed neighbours. Perhaps that is your unstated intention?

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Regards,
Martin Brown