Fire Thread! - Stoves, Wood, Axes, Chainsaws
Soldato
Bit of a yikes today.
Burner needed cleaning out pre xmas so thought I would do lunchtime.
Had a small Amazon box that was the perfect size for collecting the ash for taking up the allotment.
Cleaned it all out, rescued a few lumps of charcoal to put at the bottom.
Noticed that some of the ash was a little warm still, nothing hot for sure, last fire was yesterday evening.
Bit later noticed a smell, like burning, noticed the box that wasn't yet outside was looking a little scorched on a patch on the side, touched it and it was hot!
Wacked it outside. Other half came home an hour or so later saying she could smell burning outside.
Went outside and the box had literally caught fire and a nice hole was in the side where the scorch marks had been.
Lesson learned. Hot ash bucket being delivered tomorrow!
Reminds me, I must grab some pics to post up, I never got round to that!
Burner needed cleaning out pre xmas so thought I would do lunchtime.
Had a small Amazon box that was the perfect size for collecting the ash for taking up the allotment.
Cleaned it all out, rescued a few lumps of charcoal to put at the bottom.
Noticed that some of the ash was a little warm still, nothing hot for sure, last fire was yesterday evening.
Bit later noticed a smell, like burning, noticed the box that wasn't yet outside was looking a little scorched on a patch on the side, touched it and it was hot!
Wacked it outside. Other half came home an hour or so later saying she could smell burning outside.
Went outside and the box had literally caught fire and a nice hole was in the side where the scorch marks had been.
Lesson learned. Hot ash bucket being delivered tomorrow!
Reminds me, I must grab some pics to post up, I never got round to that!
Soldato
Cheers, I have ordered similar, slightly smaller but will be perfect for storing a fair few weeks worth before taking to the allotment.
Edit to say the box has now gone completely. So the slow long "burn" that was going on eventually nuked the whole box. I now have a heap of ash on the shingle by the side of the house.
Bucket comes tomorrow so will scoop up what I can and wash the rest away.
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Soldato
I use an ash vacuum cleaner, less dust, holds enough for several cleans and can handle hot ash.
I always check the ash even the next day by moving the remaining ash around and check for warmth.
Not sure why you would want to deal with hot ash? Also maybe i am wrong but the ash can be put into the soil or am i wrong? It doesnt have to go into general waste
Not sure why you would want to deal with hot ash? Also maybe i am wrong but the ash can be put into the soil or am i wrong? It doesnt have to go into general waste
Associate
I empty ours in to an old biscuit tin.
Soldato
Its good for soil, apart from certain things (like potatoes) don't like it.
Ash is alkaline so too much will move the soil away from a neutral state.
Stuff like copper is maintained that was in the original wood, and of course the potassium
You may have heard of the term pot ash, that was where they gathered anything green and basically incinerated it, normal wood ash is in effect the same
Associate
We've had ours on most of the day.
I'm just sipping a whiskey and sweating a pan of onions on the top.
I'm just sipping a whiskey and sweating a pan of onions on the top.