Festive Braziers......

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Madriverrob

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At this time of festive madness i was wondering if anyone had any useful tips/plans /ideas for recycling empty sweet tins ( of the Roses/Quality Street variety) they look like they could be turned into useful BBQ'S / Braziers or stoves ???

Ideas welcome.............
 
Interesting idea, i do know that these sweet tins are useful if you want to make artists charcoal, or perhaps if you cut the wood up quite small and pack it in you can make small amounts.

not sure how they'd stand up to being used as a brazier but if they can stand sitting on a hot fire i guess they should do ok.
 
A tad OT but a mate once took a quality street tin to a paint supplier and asked them to mix him up a batch of two pack in the same colour,..

he painted the tank and panels of a (i think) GS1000 Chopper in the same colour and Back Street Heroes Magazine did a feature on it,.....
 
use them to create birch resin? hole in the bottom so it can fall out into a smaller tin underneath, heap a fire over it et voila!! shimples...

OH!!! going to have to give this a go . Do you get much out of such a small tin ?
I take it you split the birch into small bits and just pack it in tight ?
this might be a stupid question but do you leave the bark on or take it off ,or does it not matter ?

Jason
 
I thought this thread was going to be about Festive Brassières.
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Turns out I was completely wrong.
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Blimey, theres a blast from the past - I used to write for them :)

Really??...a regular column??

i,m guilty of being a bit of a Yeti when i was younger, kids put paid to the rally lifestyle a bit sharpish tho,..

still love the bike community and still get out (on a VTR) but cant commit like i did,..

Stu..

(sorry for the hijack Maddriverrob)
 
Really??...a regular column??

i,m guilty of being a bit of a Yeti when i was younger, kids put paid to the rally lifestyle a bit sharpish tho,..

still love the bike community and still get out (on a VTR) but cant commit like i did,..

Stu..

(sorry for the hijack Maddriverrob)

Nah - I used to write some of the short stories

(equally sorry for the hijack)
 
Nah - I used to write some of the short stories

(equally sorry for the hijack)

i,m still impressed tho,...BSH was my BIBLE for years!!!

i would have worshipped you 15 years ago,...(where as now i,m just ever-so slightly in awe of you) hahaha
 
Cutting an inch down every 3 inches around the rim and folding every second one to 90 deg in towards the centre and a few holes bored through the body makes a very good charcoal burner for cooking.
 
I use mine (and ones I collect from others) for a host of things - charcoal burner (stick lots of cut up willow in the tin, fit the lid, punch a nail hole in the lid, put it on the living room fire, take it off when it stops smoking, plug hole in lid, allow to cool), storing sawdust and candle stubs until I get round to making sawdust/wax fuel blocks, storing dry tinder after I have foraged it around the lanes, storing knife-making bits and bobs, made a raised fire box using some old tent poles (I think...they were wombled) as legs (filled the tin with sand, legs attached with wing nuts)...never enough tins for all the jobs I want them for!
 
Sweetie tins are good smokers, the old timers up here used them for years. You need one tobaco tin, two bricks and one sweetie tin.

Full the backy tin with meths put the sweetie tin on two bricks with the backy tin underneath, inside the tin goes the sawdust, you need to build a wire rack inside to hold the fish off the sawdust, few holes in the top, light the meths underneath it, when the meths is burnt out the fish is ready!!!
 

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