Professional Grade Products Burn Box, 35 Inch 67 Gallon Heavy Gauge Stainless Steel Burn Barrel Yard Waste Incinerator Cage with Lid for Paper Leaf Trash Wood and Backyard Bonfires

You have to bend stainless steel. Do not panic -- the manufacturer made it easy to do. They stamped bend reliefs at all 90 degree bend points. The steel will only bend where it is suppose to bend. The steel is strong enough to tolerate two or more "opps!", if you bend the steel in the wrong direction. The instructions came out of a copy machine, but were clear enough to follow. On panel seams, the SMALL holes go on the backside of the metal sandwich (overlapping seam).All materials are in the box -- instructions and even a pair of gloves. The gloves are NEEDED to handle the stamped steel. My only complaint about the assembly process is the #8-32 self taping machine screws. The screws are made of a SOFTER material than the stainless steel. I was not able to seat one screw properly. I'm a fair to middling wrench, but I was unable to use the screws without stripping them out. After two hours of USMC magic words -- which usually work on the most stubborn assembly, I went to my local hardware store and purchased a box of #8 sheet metal screws. These screws had courser treads, but at least they did not strip out halfway from being seated. With a little practice, you will be able to seat the screws without stripping out the newly formed threads when you seat the screw's head. Go slow and use low torque for the head seat. I would like to meet the guy who's assembling the unit in the pictured instructions. I don't believe he used the same screws that came within the package.

I just burned a large pile of boxes and some household trash first time today after assembling yesterday. The many vents allow good air flow allow for a large column of fire inside the burn box. I was able to keep lid off since it was raining and just kept feeding and feeding the burn box. I would go so far to say to burns better than just a pile on the ground because of the vertical airflow it allows. Much much better than using a 55 gallon drum to burn. Assembly was easy, but you do need some strength to bend the plates. I had no trouble with hole alignment and thought to myself during the assembly process that it was well machined. The biggest question is how well it will hold up and reason for the 4 star rating right now as I cannot rate on hypothetical lifetime of product. If I can get two plus years of use from this without it falling apart it will prove to be a solid investment.

After 2 years of using the cage, it's held up well. Used to use steel barrels which rusted out after 6 months. this has had some deformation, but I don't have to worry about finding a new fresh barrel and disposing of the old one.The cage burns a 40 gal bag of paper trash down in 10 to 15 minutes, with no constant stirring.My only complaint is they need to upgrade the support plate bolts to 1/4 inch. Both the bottom trash support plates bolts failed, but drilled them out and replaced with 1/4 inch SS.

Saw a lot of reviews complaining about how difficult this was to put together and how the holes do not line up. I did not have any of these problems and had it put together and was burning in it in less than a half an hour. 50+ burn cycles later, it is still holding up nicely. We don't add water to cool it down though, we just let it cool on its own and have never had an issue with warping to the point it is unusable. The lid doesn't fit exactly the way it did before we used it, but it is heavy enough to stay in place and do the job it was intended for. Overall very happy with this purchase!

After reading about the problems associated with the assembly that were addressed in some of the previous reviews, I was still pretty confident that I could work around them but as it turned out, I had absolutely “no” problems with the assembly. In fact, the pre-drilled holes lined up so well that I opted to swap-out the #8-32 machine screws that came with it for larger #10-32 machine screws. The #8-32 size screws that came with it were self-tapping screws but I don’t understand why, because they also came with #8-32 threaded lock-nuts to go with them??? Anyway, the pre-drilled holes accommodated a #10 size screw perfectly, so I decided to go with those for added strength. I purchased a pack of 50 stainless steel #10-32 machine screws along with a pack of 100 stainless steel #10 lock-nuts to go with them for around $26 at Amazon. In case anyone is wondering; there are 38 screws and 38 lock-nuts needed for this assembly. I can always make use of the extra hardware, so I didn't mind paying a little more for the additional pieces.

The media could not be loaded.  It worked !! My son purchased this for me to burn my leaves, yard waste , etc.. it held together, however I was cautious as the unit it’s self was bowing out and being sucked in by the heat. I was concerned the screws were going to start popping off the unit itself but it didn’t . So I’m giving it a four stars because it did work . I’m not giving at five because of it twisting and the shape of the unit changing so dramatically that the lid longer fits right .

Good product. Problem, just after I got it assembled fire season startedRemove the top we fully loaded and burning you can put a cast iron pan on and melt aluminum cans and foil

I actually have no opinion on this burn box other than that it does it's job and contains the fire, but my husband loves it. He desperately wanted a burn box. He wanted the burn box right then, but we couldn't find one locally. What's almost as good as immediate gratification? Prime. We had this in a couple of days and he had it set up almost immediately. He said it was "a little bit of a pain" to put together, but not enough to deter him from getting it finished. He gives it two thumbs up because he loves using it, and I give it two thumbs up because it makes the unattractive brush we are clearing off a lot disappear quickly.