The washing machine died on Wednesday.
"Ooh!" I said. "You can turn the drum into a fire pit for us to cook on when we're at the croft."
Poor Grumpy has looked at it and reckons it will be very hard to get the drum out.
Has anyone ever tried it? Is it do-able or just a pipe (and drum) dream?
Grumpy'sBetterHalf wrote:The washing machine died on Wednesday.
"Ooh!" I said. "You can turn the drum into a fire pit for us to cook on when we're at the croft."
Poor Grumpy has looked at it and reckons it will be very hard to get the drum out.
Has anyone ever tried it? Is it do-able or just a pipe (and drum) dream?
I would have written it here, but its easier to watch this small vid series.
The hardest bit will probably be moving the washing machine to an area where you can take it to bits without making a mess, they're heavy!
Other than that I've found its pretty easy to get something to bits if you don't need to get it back together again, pair of thick gloves, a grinder, hacksaw, couple of spanners and a Stanley knife should make pretty light work of it, undo any bolts you can, cut/grind off anything you can't.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Jamesey1981 wrote:The hardest bit will probably be moving the washing machine to an area where you can take it to bits without making a mess, they're heavy!
Other than that I've found its pretty easy to get something to bits if you don't need to get it back together again, pair of thick gloves, a grinder, hacksaw, couple of spanners and a Stanley knife should make pretty light work of it, undo any bolts you can, cut/grind off anything you can't.
Agreed.
They are generally pretty easy to get apart, getting them back together, watertight and working is more difficult!
But if it's knackered anyway, just take your time and grind off/drill out anything that won't budge. But do it in the garden/garage as they do hold water in all the pipes and bits, and you don't want metal shards on the kitchen floor - they hurt!
To make it easier to move you could always take off the top and unbolt the drum weight.... Its hard to miss, its a massive lump of concrete on top of the drum
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Thank you all.
He took off the concrete weight t'other day, then we dragged it on a piece of carpet till we got it outside and wheeled it to the garage on the little sack truck thingummybob.
He didn't want to make a mess of it unless he knew he'd be able to get the drum out, but I'll show this thread to him tomorrow and I'm sure he'll be out there with his tools as soon as the snow clears.
Doubtless the concrete weight will come in useful in our extremely windy field!
