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Thread: Feels like 6 Degrees Outside - 5" ash bed in stove!

  1. 12-11-2009, 03:59 PM #1
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    Feels like 6 Degrees Outside - 5" ash bed in stove!

    It's amazing to see the difference within a couple days.

    2 days ago 1 piece an hour would keep the house around 70. Last night and today it seems like we're adding wood every 15-25 minutes and the house having hard time getting above 66!

    We have a small stove but shouldn't the wood burn the same amount of time regardless the temp outside/inside? My ash bed is getting thick and almost level with the door opening.

    How do you clean your ash bed while burning? I usually wait till next morning when it's cooled down.
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  2. 12-11-2009, 04:10 PM #2
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    My old Fisher has the draft in the doors so I will wait till there is no more wood (only coals) in the stove. Pull all the coals to the front and open the draft all the way for an hour or so to get the coals burnt down some. Then I will scrape all the coals to one side and clean the ash out of that side, then scrape the coals to the cleaned side and remove ashes. I recommend wearing gloves because this is a hot process.
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  3. 12-11-2009, 04:19 PM #3
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    My coals have been building up also. I've been adding wood more often to keep the temps up. I just let it burn down good at least once a day.
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  4. 12-11-2009, 04:21 PM #4
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    I take two shovelfulls out every morning. I put the ashes with some hot coals in a steel coal hod and keep it away from any burnables.
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  5. 12-11-2009, 04:35 PM #5
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    I shovel the ash out about once a month. It's went from averaging in the 20's to the low teens and tonight 8 and still keeping the house at 73 and only addin wood twice a day.
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  6. 12-11-2009, 04:42 PM #6
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    Yeah I usually put the ashes in my fireplace but I can't put the hot coals there. I'm thinking of putting them outside in driveway. LOL Like a little bon fire.
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  7. 12-11-2009, 04:45 PM #7
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    I rake and level my coals to the front and place a couple small pieces of seasoned pine or other fast burning wood to the back, which draws air over the coals, burning them down fast. Do that once or twice and then shovel out what's in front, then rake the coals from the small burn in back, to the front, and shovel out the back. Put the coals back to middle and stack on the good stuff. Voila', One keeps the home fires burning.







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    I've always had a stove with an ash pan. Usually I will empty it every other day and do so after the fire has burnt down before stirring the coals. That way I get very few embers in the ashes. I dump the hot ashes in a stainless steel can out back and each time before dumping I shovel out old cold ashes into nearby three gallon plastic nursery pots.
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  9. 12-11-2009, 05:32 PM #9
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    I shovel out old cold ashes into nearby three gallon plastic nursery pots.

    I save my ashes for parts of the garden as well. I put my ashes in a metal trash can, and what few burning coals are smothered when I put the lid on. When it's full, it goes out to the pile by the garden.



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  10. 12-11-2009, 06:08 PM #10
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    Techstuff......sorry, I gave Hansel/Gretel a heads up after seeing that pic.

    Offtopic...you might like www.homesteadingtoday.com....



    To the OP....I feel your chill...sometimes, with a sharp change in temperatures/weather comes a change in chimney drafting, and we'll end up with a firebox full of coals that would be great in a cat stove, but not in a furnace, so I do something similar with raking coals forward to get all the incoming air and put something fast burning in the rear, not even touching the coals just to speed up the draft and get to the point of being able to add some real wood for flames=heat.
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  11. 12-11-2009, 06:54 PM #11
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    I just put the coals in a metal pan and threw into a pile in my driveway. My neighbors must think I'm nuts. LOL! Anyone driving by I'm sure did a double take.

    After 10 minutes I realize the wind wasn't helping so I grabbed some frozen dirt and smothered it.

    I gotta come up with a plan if the winter will be this cold.

    Another stove?
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  12. 12-11-2009, 09:14 PM #12
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    Techstuff......sorry, I gave Hansel/Gretel a heads up after seeing that pic.

    I guess I'm clueless. Hansel/Gretel a heads up?


    Oh, I get it! duh. The size of the firebox. Yeah, it's about 6.5 cubic feet.



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    Yeah,

    Either somebody snuck onto my porch and made off with a Rick or so in the last 3 days, or I have been burning it...Granted, about half was stinky box elder.

    It has been a mite bit cold.

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    I read ya DC, I can burn like a miser at zero degrees if it's calm out, but high wind puts the wood stove into warp factor 10....and we come out the other side of the worm hole orbiting an ice planet without a tree in sight!



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cambium View Post
    I just put the coals in a metal pan and threw into a pile in my driveway. My neighbors must think I'm nuts. LOL! Anyone driving by I'm sure did a double take.

    After 10 minutes I realize the wind wasn't helping so I grabbed some frozen dirt and smothered it.

    I gotta come up with a plan if the winter will be this cold.

    Another stove?
    What do you do with the cold ash? Garden,garbage,woods. Have two steel buckets and rotate them so embers have time to burn out. Its not going to hurt to have a bucket of ashes around for a while.
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