Backyard Incinerator

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My godparents had one in San Jose, California. I remember it still being warm when passing by it to play. The family is long gone now:
https://www.zillow.com/homes/2111-Dry-Creek-Rd-San-Jose,-CA,-95124_rb/19593900_zpid/

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that house is way older, has less square footage then mine, fewer beds and fewer baths...also less indoor parking and it sits on a lot 1/5the size of mine but they want more then 2 million dollars more then what mine appraised at?

AND ITS IN COMMIEFORNIA?
 
You can thank Silicone Valley for the exponential real estate price increases. When Santa Clara County was still mostly farmland, no such inflation.
 
diymirage said:
that house is way older, has less square footage then mine, fewer beds and fewer baths...also less indoor parking and it sits on a lot 1/5the size of mine but they want more then 2 million dollars more then what mine appraised at?

AND ITS IN COMMIEFORNIA?
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Your house is less expensive because nobody wants to live near you.
 
We had one in SoCal when I was growing up. I remember when they got outlawed and it was torn down, except the concrete slab is sat on remained.
Our house was one of 5 residences on the same property without any separating fences. Only one incinerator for all five.
I remember my mom getting upset when she would hang the wet laundry on the clothesline to dry and someone would burn something in the incinerator and the clothes ended up either smelling like smoke or with both smoke and ashes.
 
I've been looking for something like this but haven't found anything that would seem to work.
 
I made a leaf burner out of a 55 gallon barrel. Forced air in the bottom under an expanded steel platform... lots of holes higher up. It would burn them almost as fast as you could shovel them in, flames shot out the top 6 or 8 feet, the barrel turned cherry red. Didn’t last long but it was fun
 
That San Jose house price went up $85K in 30 days....not bad! Gramma had one on her back acre in NE Texas last time I was there in 1978. Buddy has some sort of cast iron steam train boiler in his huge back yard that butts up to a golf course, antique looking thing. He throws wood in there and a whole bottle of tiki torch oil and lights it up. Thing glow red and people sit about 10 feet from it. I burn branches occasionally in a copper raised portable fire pit, nothing larger than a camp fire, but we got no burn days here. F' em.
 
pishta said:
I burn branches occasionally in a copper raised portable fire pit, nothing larger than a camp fire, but we got no burn days here. F' em.
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Wow, we're closer to each other than I thought! You could be my next-door neighbor. He cut down about 25 Italian cypress trees from around the perimeter of his property, left the branches in his backyard until they dried out and then burned them in a 55-gallon drum.
He only burned on overcast days with gray skies so the smoke wasn't so easily seen.
We're only three blocks from the closest fire station. I was a little surprised that the fire department never showed up on "burn days".
I found it funny since he's the type that makes sure everyone else on our cul-de-sac follows all the rules and regulations.
He's been restoring an old Jeep for the past 15 years and occasionally paints parts in his driveway - not using rattle cans but using his compressor and spray gun.
 
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ocdart said:
Wow, we're closer to each other than I thought! You could be my next-door neighbor. He cut down about 25 Italian cypress trees from around the perimeter of his property, left the branches in his backyard until they dried out and then burned them in a 55-gallon drum.
He only burned on overcast days with gray skies so the smoke wasn't so easily seen.
We're only three blocks from the closest fire station. I was a little surprised that the fire department never showed up on "burn days".
I found it funny since he's the type that makes sure everyone else on our cul-de-sac follows all the rules and regulations.
He's been restoring an old Jeep for the past 15 years and occasionally paints parts in his driveway - not using rattle cans but using his compressor and spray gun.
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I don't paint in my driveway....my burns are more like low smoke s'more fires.....
 
My grandparents in Indiana had one - concrete culvert about 3' in diameter and about 3' tall with a vent window cut in the bottom on one side
 
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