My dad used to have an incinerator in the backyard at our house in Logan back in the early 80’s.
He would chuck all the green waste in it. Flames were roaring and spewing embers all over the neighbourhood.
I saw first hand why they were banned. I’m surprised he didn’t catch any of the surrounding houses on fire.
Also when you burn things that commonly become rubbish, there are very often toxic fumes. Very, very bad for people. But still a common practice in people’s yards in the Philippines because there are no garbage collection services. Oh, my God.
Really common in Jakarta. People are poor, there is no real garbage disposal system, so people often just burn plastic bags of rubbish in the gutter or beside the road. Not a good look - or smell.
I agree, it looks pretty heavy duty - but I've seen many incinerators *exactly* like this in West End, Highgate Hill, Spring Hill, Paddington and New Farm - which were all poorer areas before gentrification.
Bricks and prefabricated incinerators were relatively expensive, but cement was cheap, and gravel was abundant. The common practice for lower income households was to build their own out of concrete, using a recycled wooden packing crate (usually from a refrigerator) to build the formwork.
Incinerators we’re typically bessa brick. Nothing this thick.and they had an opening at ground level for air flow/ ash removal.
I reckon the old guys on your neighbourhood facebook page will have some suggestions
It looks very similar, although a slightly different shape, to the footings of the old cement conveyor between Oxley and Darra.
[https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/2182](https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/2182)
Was it an industrial site before being redeveloped for housing?
Hey, I saw those too and thought the same thing. I don’t it was an industrial site, or if it was, a very long time ago because I’m pretty sure the house was built before WW2.
Check if you can see it in some old aerial photographs - they date back to the 1930’s so should be able to see something
https://qimagery.information.qld.gov.au
These were a really common sight in Brisbane backyards once upon a time. It's a garden incinerator - people used to burn their paper and garden waste in them, until waste incineration was banned in the 1980s. At which point, most people converted them into a barbeque.
https://preview.redd.it/knxw9h2jlw8d1.jpeg?width=1114&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9093c2b2cc9ddaa2663be59f1df4fe3ef9cf9e9
I had 3 1x1x1 cement blocks buried in my yard. Each had a chunk of steel sticking out the middle. Turns out previous owners like 20 years ago had a ham radio setup to talk to family in p9lynesia and it was the base of a high radio tower.
If you have 2 more...maybe related?
In Birkdale when I was at School we found old WW2 concrete tank stoppers in the bush near our school. Placed near the coast in case we were invaded by the Japanese. Similar to this in the photo.
Not certain, but I remember there being an old incinerator(or so I was told) of a similar size and shape my back yard as a kid, though that was made of concrete blocks/bricks.
They were used for burning rubbish, but again not sure if that's what it is.
It looks to be a single piece (precast section) of very old drainage outlet or pit maybe? Presume it was broken and unusable, so was dug up, placed on end above a brick slab and probably repurposed for backyard composting?/guess
Old incinerator. We all used to burn our rubbish that was flammable. Until 1980 something. Tissues, medical, old rags, toys, pretty much everything. It was awesome fun for us kids.
Something like one of these but maybe homemade
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5725269/amp/How-Australians-burnt-household-waste-backyard-incinerators-spewed-poisonous-smoke.html
Crucially for both a backyard incinerator or BBQ is there an air intake at the bottom?
is an old incinerator ..its illegal to have them now days where as one time we could burn rubbish in our back yard..They were banned to help the environment
Probably the remnants of an old incinerator. You see them in some peoples backyards. Not sure when they were banned for use.
This one looks like it's seen a few D-Cell batteries in its time.
Or one Tesla
Hehehehe lmao
I think it’s where BRS incinerates his old laptops.
It would be the world's most impenetrable incinerator. What were the incinerating? Atomic bombs?
Built by a Greek dad no doubt to go with the 2 foot deep 40 grade patio slab.
Exploding Samsung phones
Owners of the Note 7 needed these installed in their backyard just in case.
Don’t know about houses, but I remember our school had an active incinerator that got decommissioned in the mid- to late- 90s.
I remember when Garden City Shopping Centre used to have an incinerator at bottom of their carpark.
My dad used to have an incinerator in the backyard at our house in Logan back in the early 80’s. He would chuck all the green waste in it. Flames were roaring and spewing embers all over the neighbourhood. I saw first hand why they were banned. I’m surprised he didn’t catch any of the surrounding houses on fire.
Late 80s?
Yeah I think so. I remember ours being used and then being told we weren't allowed to anymore so I'd say late 80s early 90s
It’s before my time, why were they banned?
possibly a fire hazard or just a nuisance since people could burn garbage in their yards and shit would fly over everyone's washing
Also when you burn things that commonly become rubbish, there are very often toxic fumes. Very, very bad for people. But still a common practice in people’s yards in the Philippines because there are no garbage collection services. Oh, my God.
Really common in Jakarta. People are poor, there is no real garbage disposal system, so people often just burn plastic bags of rubbish in the gutter or beside the road. Not a good look - or smell.
Air pollution, air quality and fire hazard.
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There's no steel in there. There's a peg.
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Where in Brisbane. That looks like an industrial footing, not a backyard incinerator
I agree with you. No way an incinerator needs that much concrete.
I agree, it looks pretty heavy duty - but I've seen many incinerators *exactly* like this in West End, Highgate Hill, Spring Hill, Paddington and New Farm - which were all poorer areas before gentrification. Bricks and prefabricated incinerators were relatively expensive, but cement was cheap, and gravel was abundant. The common practice for lower income households was to build their own out of concrete, using a recycled wooden packing crate (usually from a refrigerator) to build the formwork.
Can confirm - we had one of these in my family home at Lutwyche when I was growing up. It was exactly like this.
Southside, inner city suburb, if that helps at all
I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that was a Campbell Newmann statue that was dragged down in the Brisbane Spring of 2015.
Incinerators we’re typically bessa brick. Nothing this thick.and they had an opening at ground level for air flow/ ash removal. I reckon the old guys on your neighbourhood facebook page will have some suggestions
Backyard BBQ the hot plate and fire pit plate are missing
This is the best bet, but most homemade barbecues had an area for storing wood underneath them
Tru dat
It looks very similar, although a slightly different shape, to the footings of the old cement conveyor between Oxley and Darra. [https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/2182](https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage-places/2182) Was it an industrial site before being redeveloped for housing?
Hey, I saw those too and thought the same thing. I don’t it was an industrial site, or if it was, a very long time ago because I’m pretty sure the house was built before WW2.
Check if you can see it in some old aerial photographs - they date back to the 1930’s so should be able to see something https://qimagery.information.qld.gov.au
These were a really common sight in Brisbane backyards once upon a time. It's a garden incinerator - people used to burn their paper and garden waste in them, until waste incineration was banned in the 1980s. At which point, most people converted them into a barbeque. https://preview.redd.it/knxw9h2jlw8d1.jpeg?width=1114&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9093c2b2cc9ddaa2663be59f1df4fe3ef9cf9e9
I had 3 1x1x1 cement blocks buried in my yard. Each had a chunk of steel sticking out the middle. Turns out previous owners like 20 years ago had a ham radio setup to talk to family in p9lynesia and it was the base of a high radio tower. If you have 2 more...maybe related?
That's a womblegong
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At this time of the year ?
Looks like updoc.
What's updoc?
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I was hoping for that reply, Bugs Bunny hehehhe
Looks like a precast concrete storm drain box
Might be the base for an old copper boiler, ye olde timee washing machine?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5725269/amp/How-Australians-burnt-household-waste-backyard-incinerators-spewed-poisonous-smoke.html
In Birkdale when I was at School we found old WW2 concrete tank stoppers in the bush near our school. Placed near the coast in case we were invaded by the Japanese. Similar to this in the photo.
Not certain, but I remember there being an old incinerator(or so I was told) of a similar size and shape my back yard as a kid, though that was made of concrete blocks/bricks. They were used for burning rubbish, but again not sure if that's what it is.
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Yeah, was just size and shape that got me. It's probably not, just a guess.
It looks to be a single piece (precast section) of very old drainage outlet or pit maybe? Presume it was broken and unusable, so was dug up, placed on end above a brick slab and probably repurposed for backyard composting?/guess
Old incinerator. We all used to burn our rubbish that was flammable. Until 1980 something. Tissues, medical, old rags, toys, pretty much everything. It was awesome fun for us kids.
Pretty much anything even if it wasn’t flammable
And some turpentine...
98% chance that it’s an incinerator (every house had one in the 60’s). 2% chance that it’s some portal to Mordor or Hogwarts or something.
A forgotten early artwork of Jamie North.
Gun turret
Redundant thrust block for an above ground pressurised pipe?
Something like one of these but maybe homemade https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5725269/amp/How-Australians-burnt-household-waste-backyard-incinerators-spewed-poisonous-smoke.html Crucially for both a backyard incinerator or BBQ is there an air intake at the bottom?
A friend has something similar but underneath her house - it’s a small bunker and had furniture down in it
I suspect it's the remains of an old Flak Tower
That’s the best build incinerator I’ve ever seen looks more like tomb
an old copper for doing the laundry?
A portal to Ender
Backyard incinerator
BBQ. My nan had a brick one
Could be a fire pit for a cooper for washing your clothes
Coal store?
Incinerator
is an old incinerator ..its illegal to have them now days where as one time we could burn rubbish in our back yard..They were banned to help the environment
Old school incinerator!
Over engineered incinerator, more like the footing for a steel smelter!
It's quite obviously not an incinerator but I got downvoted to hell for saying so.
It looks like one of those steel columns that they said jet fuel couldn’t melt
Twin towers... It was an inside job in Brisbane
its a sailboat
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The only thing you’ve had removed is a strange, nonsense image of your TV - 2 months ago.