I bought myself a little Chiminea for the garden to warm it up a little when it gets chilly.

These things really do work! It's only a small one and sitting 5 feet away it was damn hot!

What does everyone else burn in theirs?
I used a Fuel Express Instant Light Log, just light the paper and chuck it in. I then topped it up with some heat logs:

I found they burned a little too quickly, and if it wasn't hot or enough flames then all they did was smoked.

What does everyone else use in theirs?

What does everyone else burn in theirs?

Not nuclear fuel by the looks of your one!! 😯

Is it supposed to have flames shooting out of the top?

What does everyone else burn in theirs?

Scrap wood

Bloody hell!

Stick a pair of wings on that and you'd have a V1…..

I bought myself a little Chiminea for the garden to warm it up a little when it gets chilly.

I just don't understand that why would warm the garden up? Can you not put another layer on or go inside?

Soon you'll be burning that trellis

I just don't understand that why would warm the garden up?

Am I missing something here? Why would something that burns really hot, warm up a garden?

Can you not put another layer on or go inside?

We don't get much sun in this part of the garden, so when the barbeque comes out at 5ish, its cold and you can't take the barbeque inside. 😆

Is it supposed to have flames shooting out of the top?

I don't think so, it was overfilled at the time.

Scrap wood

Are pallet's ok, or wooden boxes from China?

Is it supposed to have flames shooting out of the top?

Ours always does

Are pallet's ok, or wooden boxes from China?

can't see why not

Blimin eck, that is really throwing out some flames, I bet your neighbours were enjoying a warm back garden too! Did your Chiminea melt and were you left with a puddle of molten metal?

Bits of old pallet to get it going, then coal seems to give the best results.

Sure it isn't the engine out of an old V1?

Warm up the garden? That fecker could warm up Hyde Park! 😆

I bet your neighbours were enjoying a warm back garden too!

(Snigger)

Scrap wood and branches here too. Not thought of coal.

Plus which it's a lot more manly that one of those ponsy patio heaters.

Worth going with a cast iron or are the steel ones suitably thick walled these days?

Worth going with a cast iron

I would. Don't go for a clay one, they take a lot of care apparently.

I've seen some logs on a few rides, might have to lug one home every now and again! 😉

IT was more the steel/iron differential I was concerned about – steel tends to corrode a lot faster when heated and most are ~2mm thick, whereas the cast ones are meaty and possibly last longer, Im not sure. But the steel ones come in far more contemporary designs and look nicer in my eyes.

They are good. And great at parties as you always get some drunkard who has to look down the chimney to see how hot it is 😯

😯 which is strangely just how they look afterwards, only ginger and eyebrowless.

logs in mine. Ash and Blackthorn at the moment, after going through a fragrant Lime/Oak phase.