Veteran's Day 2009
Just a quick update....
Work has begun on the masses of old paperwork that has been moved, and moved, and moved again with us as we have relocated many times in our lives. Too many times to count.
Tax records, school records, military records, etc....
I've never owned a reliable shredder and had just begun scoping them out on eBay recently.
I've also been "calling" a burning barrel into my life for some time now.
We decided that a second elliptical was more important than a 220v shredder recently so I once again placed the vision of a burning barrel out there.
Well, that day with its burning barrel arrived.
We were moving things around to relocate our workout room to be in a more stable area of a falling in 1820's Virginia Farmhouse and part of that relocation required the removal of an old kitchen sink with metal cabinet and the removal of an old fire breathing coal furnace.
The sink was cake walk compared to the cast iron, whole house furnace.
The only way the furnace was going to come out of the place was in pieces.
So I started on it with a hammer and then upgraded to a 13# sledge.
After taking off the outer shell of the unit it dawns on us that the main burning section of the furnace IS a burning barrel!!
WHOOO HOOOO!!! I'm like a kid at Christmas!!!
It has been here for the past 7 years!!!
All I had to do was give in and begin removing the clutter to find it!!
Needless to say, we have modified it, placed it in the yard and "fired it up" for our needs.
Many years of burning coal was evident when I stoked it full of scrap wood that has accumulated and the unit began to belch black, foul smelling smoke.
Now it burns paper with the ease and efficiency of an incinerator.
On to the next clutter project....our old records.
~ Pete
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