Bad Product at Tractor Supply.

[Tractor Seabee]

Anyone looked at one of these fire rings in person?...I'm curious if there is a sticker on them that has "burn off" instructions...it seems unlikely that a corporate product is not fully covered by warning label legalese ??

Maybe the OEM did not intend marketing for this use.

Ron

 

[hosspuller]

Maybe the OEM did not intend marketing for this use.

Ron

Click on the pic to enlarge. Price tag says "CNL Galvanized FIRE Ring".
There's a label on ring at photo -right SKU 1041378


Tractor Supply web site has several different galvanized fire rings available.

 

[MossRoad]

"the Solution to Pollution is Dilution"

Ron

Unfortunately, that's no longer true. The environment is getting saturated.

 

[Threepoint]

Re: Bad Product at Tractor Supply.j

That reminds me of an outdoor party we attended several years ago where the host served HoBo stew as a part of the party theme.
Of course, the concoction was brewed and served from a new galvanized garbage can and, as one would predict, it took about two hours for a steady parade of party goers to the bathroom. It wasn稚 until several weeks post party that someone figured out what what was wrong.

B. John

Hah! When I was a boy I'd spend one week each summer at a Boy Scout camp on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. At every lunch and dinner, the cooks offered Kool-Aid, mixed and served from large galvanized trash cans. In my high school chemistry class in 12th grade we studied the periodic table. When the teacher explained that zinc was poisonous in certain concentrations, I told him about the Kool-Aid. He was incredulous!

 

[hosspuller]

Galvanized pipes used for water supply are a common thing. The key factor is heat or acid. Kool-Aid ( cold and slightly acidic) served from a galvanized trash can is minor exposure.

 

[Oldoak]

"the Solution to Pollution is Dilution"

Ron

Unfortunately, that's no longer true. The environment is getting saturated.

Exactly!

The ocean is the "poster boy" for a great example of that today.

 

[Molalla1]

Any body want to sit around a fire breathing ZINC fumes with your wine?

Enjoy a bout of Metal Fume Flu ...

See at link the danger >> https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/81-123/pdfs/0675.pdf


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Just dip them in some HCl. . .it'll take the ZN right off.

 

[Argonne]

See at link the danger >>

I see nothing in that link that suggests that exposure to "campfire" temperature ranges will result in any hazard whatsoever, and my galvanized fire ring has not even discolored after years of use.

 

[Threepoint]

Galvanized pipes used for water supply are a common thing. The key factor is heat or acid. Kool-Aid ( cold and slightly acidic) served from a galvanized trash can is minor exposure.

Yep, all us scouts were minors.

The mess hall kept those trash cans going day and night, all summer.

 

[Budweiser John]

Re: Bad Product at Tractor Supply.j

Hah! When I was a boy I'd spend one week each summer at a Boy Scout camp on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. At every lunch and dinner, the cooks offered Kool-Aid, mixed and served from large galvanized trash cans. In my high school chemistry class in 12th grade we studied the periodic table. When the teacher explained that zinc was poisonous in certain concentrations, I told him about the Kool-Aid. He was incredulous!

I’m no chemist but according to those more learned, the real culprit in the HoBo stew incident was the copious amount of cabbage in the brew that reacted with The galvanized can.
To this day my wife and I don’t eat cabbage. Well, may be except for some well made sauerkraut.

B. John

 

[aczlan]

Are we sure a camp fire will have high enough temp to burn it off? Gee, for $40 we we might need to get one for our camp....

Get a big enough fire going in there and you can turn it cherry red. Been there done that with a semi-truck rim.

I see nothing in that link that suggests that exposure to "campfire" temperature ranges will result in any hazard whatsoever, and my galvanized fire ring has not even discolored after years of use.

You must have small campfires then. I remember when I was in Boy Scouts, we used to get the semi truck rim that was used as a fire ring red hot when we got a good fire going.

Aaron Z

 

[Jstpssng]

Get a big enough fire going in there and you can turn it cherry red. Been there done that with a semi-truck rim.You must have small campfires then. I remember when I was in Boy Scouts, we used to get the semi truck rim that was used as a fire ring red hot when we got a good fire going.

Aaron Z

As we were standing around our lunch fire a former coworker used to quip" Red man build small fire, stand close. White man build big fire, stand far away."

I build white man fires.

 

[hturner12]

As we were standing around our lunch fire a former coworker used to quip" Red man build small fire, stand close. White man build big fire, stand far away."

I build white man fires.

I use to work with a guy that only had 1/2 a lung due to welding galvanized. When I saw this fire ring I ask the manger if it came with a health warning n" not to heat galvanized as it can kill you" got a deer in the headlights look and "If it was not safe we could not sell it

 

[mcfarmall]

We have a name on TBN for people who'd buy a galvanized fire ring...ROPS drillers!

 

[Argonne]

Get a big enough fire going in there and you can turn it cherry red. Been there done that with a semi-truck rim.You must have small campfires then. I remember when I was in Boy Scouts, we used to get the semi truck rim that was used as a fire ring red hot when we got a good fire going.

Aaron Z

Steel cherry red is ~1300 Deg F., which is about tops for a wood fire. Charcoal can hit ~2000 Deg F. To get either hotter you have to add Oxygen like LOX or some serious stoking. We're 1000 Deg F short of melting by my math.



This was clearly a "red man" fire, just big enough to cook the brats.