I've owned a wood stove for several years now and narrowed the most essential accessories to operate it. Do you have other items that I'm not taking into consideration? Thanks for checking out my video.
My top 10 wood stove accessories...
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I don't use a poker, made my "rake". Plain jane stainless steel stock pot, old school ash bucket, just don't dump and stir ash up. My scoop is a chunk of 1/4" steel plate 6"x12" no sides. That is on the "to do list" is make a good scoop. Next is building grilling grate that slides in stove to cook steaks and whatever else you want to cook. For now a cast iron pan works ok
No welding gloves, just use man hands......
Also, I clean the door glass with a towel, dipped in water and rub soot off door for about a minute. No need for cleaners. If you want to get crazy, dip wet cloth into ash and rub, cheaper than "cleaner"
No welding gloves, just use man hands......
Also, I clean the door glass with a towel, dipped in water and rub soot off door for about a minute. No need for cleaners. If you want to get crazy, dip wet cloth into ash and rub, cheaper than "cleaner"
Here are the only tools I ever use ...a long handle shovel , a long handled rake tool to drag coals to the front of the firebox ,a steel can for ash and usually I use welding gloves . I use ammonia based glass cleaner for the window ... Works much better than dipping towels in ashes and rubbing hard. .. A good cleaner gets the thick baked on stuff too wipe right off and far less abrasive cuz it won't scratch up the glass
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Great video!!! Thanks!!!
For outdoor boiler use, my BIGGEST accessory is a GOOD headlamp.
This is indispensable to me.
For outdoor boiler use, my BIGGEST accessory is a GOOD headlamp.
This is indispensable to me.
Landmark
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For my owb my steel handle hoe, square point shovel, not much more needed. Built my woodshed over the stove and wired with lights. Eventually
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Hey tla, I got a bucket just like that. My Grampa had it then my dad now me. It's never left the house my great grandfather built. I wonder how many ashes it's carried.
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Tla, what's the grate with the handle used for?
I rake coals in morning, sifts the large embers to the top. I take it angle down, and scrape floor of stove. Works well.
I use one of these for a wood box. Zero mess holds a few days wood.
I like it simple, just a shovel and an old metal bucket for removing the ashes and moving the coals around.
No poker needed, no gloves.
For a steamer I use a nice stainless steal bucket and set it on top, or a coffee pot.
For a spacer for cooking and regulating the heat I just use the grill from my toaster oven. It fits just right!
I have plenty of land so I just sling the ashes out on the ground or I just make an ash pile out of the way somewhere.
I do use a thermometer but I use my laser Thermometer. I can just point it where I want to get a reading and it's instant and accurate.
I don't need to keep the glass clean, but when I do clean it, I just use plane old oven cleaner.
I keep a dry pile of wood on the back porch, but store no wood inside.
1, shovel
2, buckets, one for ashes, one for steamer.
3, Laser thermometer.
4, toaster oven grill.
That's it!
No poker needed, no gloves.
For a steamer I use a nice stainless steal bucket and set it on top, or a coffee pot.
For a spacer for cooking and regulating the heat I just use the grill from my toaster oven. It fits just right!
I have plenty of land so I just sling the ashes out on the ground or I just make an ash pile out of the way somewhere.
I do use a thermometer but I use my laser Thermometer. I can just point it where I want to get a reading and it's instant and accurate.
I don't need to keep the glass clean, but when I do clean it, I just use plane old oven cleaner.
I keep a dry pile of wood on the back porch, but store no wood inside.
1, shovel
2, buckets, one for ashes, one for steamer.
3, Laser thermometer.
4, toaster oven grill.
That's it!
I don't use a poker, made my "rake". Plain jane stainless steel stock pot, old school ash bucket, just don't dump and stir ash up. My scoop is a chunk of 1/4" steel plate 6"x12" no sides. That is on the "to do list" is make a good scoop. Next is building grilling grate that slides in stove to cook steaks and whatever else you want to cook. For now a cast iron pan works ok
No welding gloves, just use man hands......
Also, I clean the door glass with a towel, dipped in water and rub soot off door for about a minute. No need for cleaners. If you want to get crazy, dip wet cloth into ash and rub, cheaper than "cleaner"
those"buckets" were actually used to carry coal into the house it's called a Hod. for anybody that cares.
All I have ever known was for ash
poker, metal ash shovel, metal ash bucket, cast iron pot for water...and welding gloves of course.
lol
My best wood stove accessory:
zogger
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those"buckets" were actually used to carry coal into the house it's called a Hod. for anybody that cares.
Nice to learn a new word. I have one that I use for the ashes, a modern thin cheap one, not an antique, just called it an ash bucket before.
google is your friend.
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Mapp Gas torch to light the super cedar.
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Your "sifter" looks like it would make a decent grill for a steak, just put a stick of wood on that little shelf below the door and prop the handle on it. Or, you could get one of those long handled grilling frames.http://www.firecraft.com/product/ch...FCWEB___GSHP&gclid=CLadjMCyv8ICFQ40aQod81YAuQ
