I’ve upgraded my tools every chance I could over 14 years of gulching, that quest having been helped a lot by the various incremental upgrades in my electrical system. Today I was able to knock out in less than an hour a chore/ordeal I really used to dread: Drilling holes in a new burn barrel.
Using the old saw buck as a stand, I scratched 12 24″ lines and then measured and punched locations for four holes per line. Then using a proper drill motor the Lair’s inverter can comfortably run and one of those nice new sharp bits a Generous Reader sent me two years ago, I quickly drilled 48 holes…
…and there we are. Job finished before the day even got hot.
I sincerely hope that with the addition of that new lid, which previous barrels have conspicuously lacked, I won’t have to do this again for quite a long time.
Glad those drill bits are still working OK. Have any gone to the great beyond and need to be replaced?
Curious. What get burned? Big, heavy, nasty stuff, or essentially the lightweight daily paper scraps and such?
Mark: yeah, I burned through half of them last year. There are three left, one of which did 48 holes in thin stock this morning.
Kentucky: it’s just paper and cardboard packaging, occasionally some wood or yard waste.
Were the sizes and lengths appropriate? If so, it might repeat before long…
The 3/8″ is very useful, thanks.
I used my barrel for target practice using 12 gauge slugs. Two boxes later 20 random air holes.
Back in the day the perforations were accomplished with a pickaxe.
I agree, the pickaxe is the way to go!