+1 on the lubrication. I have some sort of oil from Fellows that's made for shredders. I put a sheet soaked in it through whenever I think of it.
+1 on the lubrication. I have some sort of oil from Fellows that's made for shredders. I put a sheet soaked in it through whenever I think of it.
When packing to move to a new city last fall, I pitched all our old financial documents. Most went into the shredder. But back in the 70's, 80's and 90's I preferred to pay almost everything by check for record keeping. The bank would mail them back after cashing them, and for many of those years we used the carbon type checkbook. And I saved them all since 1975. Boxes and boxes of those stapled booklets.
We, too, have an ordinance about burning stuff. So I lit up the gas grill and just started feeding it.
Hours of black smoke and flames shooting out. After two full tanks they were all gone.
My wife just commented that all the pork chops she cooked on the grill had all this black stuff on them...
as the soot from those checks came falling from the lid 9 months later.
Comments made here are my own and, according to my children, do not reflect the opinions of any other person... anywhere, anytime.
In my area we have to printout a fire permit from the internet and have it on site when we are burning. Usually a burn ban is in effect during June through October. It may run longer depending on the weather.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I thought the same thing, sounded backwards.
Maybe it's because of the dense vegetation and high humidity in the green months in this part of the country that would keep a spark from setting something on fire. Note that in rare periods of extended drought things dry up and any outdoor burning may be banned until a good rain. Permits are not needed for burning in containers such as burn barrels with a screen on top. Rules are different within municipal boundaries of cities and towns.
They told me another reason they require burn permits in the winter is a fire can sometimes be seen from quite a distance when there are no leaves on the trees and sometimes dozens of people start calling to report it. If a permit is not on file at the reported location they have to send someone out to check on the first call.
Burning without a permit can be expensive if caught. Even with a permit if you are negligent and allow the fire to get out of control, you will probably be fined and charged for the expense of the firefighters and big equipment, but if you don't get the (free) permit you will be in big trouble! Years ago some guy near here was burning logs and brush in a ravine behind his house and went in to eat lunch and take a nap. That nap probably cost him a fortune - fines can be $25,000.
They are specific about what canNOT be burned: https://www.tn.gov/environment/progr...n-burning.html
I see they now allow burning leaves. Otherwise piles up to 8' x 8' can be burned with a permit, larger piles with a call to the forestry division. I know a guy clearing woods for cow pastures who has burned several huge piles, probably 1000's of tons so far and only 1/2 done. Seems a shame to a woodworker with big oaks, poplar, cherry, hickory, and others going up in smoke.
JKJ
I cleared mine and it takes 4 or 5 sheets, so I'm good now.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Thanks Jim, I figured that out.
All envelops will be empty in the future, I can be a bit slow sometimes, but normally I figure things out.
I don't talk back to SWMBO either.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
BTDT: burned out a pretty good shredder getting rid of a couple decades of cancelled checks. (Burning almost anything in SoCal can get you in a world of hurt.)
By comparison, I only wrote one check each of the last three years, all to the guy who trims my trees each fall. Turns out he (finally) started taking plastic last year, but I had already written the check before he told me. So it goes.
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.