Paper Shredding

[mikester]

Burn barrel only works if you stand there the whole time feeding only 1 page at a time. If you are trying to burn banker's boxes worth of files forget it. The paper bundles just char on the outside and inside all your documents will be perfectly readable and remain intact.

Look for a local company that does on site shredding using a self contained truck. They usually charge $20-40 per bankers box to shred at your site. These trucks have shredders that will shred complete phone book or encyclopedia sized items including all bindings like staples and paperclips.

Your wood chipper will handle wood but choke on paper and bindings. It won't chip the paper into little bits.

 

[grsthegreat]

Burn barrel only works if you stand there the whole time feeding only 1 page at a time. If you are trying to burn banker's boxes worth of files forget it. The paper bundles just char on the outside and inside all your documents will be perfectly readable and remain intact.

Look for a local company that does on site shredding using a self contained truck. They usually charge $20-40 per bankers box to shred at your site. These trucks have shredders that will shred complete phone book or encyclopedia sized items including all bindings like staples and paperclips.

Your wood chipper will handle wood but choke on paper and bindings. It won't chip the paper into little bits.

Nonesence, ive been using burn barrels for years. I just stand there and throw in crumpled pages just about as fast as i can while burning. I empty box full of paper pretty quickly. About 12 hrs later theres just a pile of ash. Than i fill barrel with water. Barrel has holes in bottom. Next day just a pile of mush. That mush goes into dump trailer. No one is getting anything out of that mess.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Bonfire?

That is what we typically do. We have an outdoor fireplace on our patio. We burn anything we don’t want to just throw into the garbage as far as private paperwork, but we never burned garbage in there.

 

[sandman2234]

My Bride worked at home and generated a lot of paper that had to be shredded. I would set the shredder next to my easy chair and run paper thru it during the commercials when fast forwarding wasn't allowed. It isn't like there is a hurry to get it done, and why stand around a hot fire when you can be sitting in your easy chair!
David from jax