OWB tools! Homemade or Purchased?

[bitzer]

Just wondering if any other OWB owners have a set of tools with their stove. I have a shovel, a hookeroon, a small metal rake for stoking and stiring coals, a "ram," bar similar to those that swat teams use to break down doors and an ash dragger(snow shovel with rounded ends fitted to a long handle at a 90 degree angle to drag ashes from the back to the front). The OWB i'm using is a biggie tho. Box is 50" deep by 36" by 36". Anyone else make or use anything for theirs?

 

[Butch(OH)]

Woodmaster sends along a tool that is made to bring the coals forwards and scrape the firebox. Besides that there is a pretty well worn out square point shovel, a coal bucket and a broom and a wide putty knife to scrape creosote from the door area. I don't burn very many large pieces that need to be shoved back into the firebox. My wood is all cut and split stove size.

 

[boyland]

Standard Shovel, Homemade coal rake, 5 gallon metal bucket.

I rarely remove creasote by hand usually winter takes care of thathttp://www.arboristsite.com/images/smilies/blob_fire.gif

Blaine Boyland
Wood Boiler LLC
www.woodboiler.us

 

[Jon E]

I've been 'making do' with an old 4-tooth potato hook, a garden hoe, a flat-point shovel and a 7' length of 3/4" galvanized electrical conduit as a poker. Except now, after a few years, the hoe has a busted handle, the potato hook is starting to char, and the shovel can't reach to the back unless the fire's out and I can stick my head in there.

Central Boiler sells tools but can't be bothered to include any of them as a standard accessory to their boilers. I am going to spend some time this winter welding up some specialized tools for the OWB that will allow me to rake coals, scrape the firebox and move wood around.

 

[bowtechmadman]

Same pretty much as Butch, Woodmasters tool for scraping sides and draggin coals, couple sizes of putty knives, and a wood handled flat shovel. Learned that a synthetic handled shovel doesn't work so good for shoveling out ash (they MELT).
Just pull my tractor w/ bucket up to the door when time to shovel out ash.

 

[urhstry]

And Shaver sends you a long metal hook to poke at things when you need to.

 

[Laird]

Bolted a 7' section of 3/4" steel pipe to an old steel rake head and use the rake to rake coals and the other end to poke logs into place.

 

[bitzer]

Thanks for the replys. I've been running the stove for about 3 years now and a add a new tool every year. The tools I listed like the ram bar and ash dragger are welded. The others I purchased. Its interesting to hear what everyone has. I didn't think of the putty knives for the creosote, but the fire takes care of it eventually. Oh yeah forget one, 5' pry/wrecking bar for leverage and a poker on occasions. I seem to get a little stronger in the winter.

 

[J.W Younger]

Lenght of rebar bent at a 90 for cleaning grates
garden hoe straightened out for scrapeing creosote build up
wide flat homemade shovel for ashes

 

[nparch726]

Central Boiler threw in a few tools as a special when I bought my 5036 this spring, a flat shovel, a hoe, and a monster sized potato fork looking deal. They're pretty nice, but they're heavy steel, the handles are about 6' long (probably built for the larger models) so I can't stand to use em, so far I'm going with a cheap old garden hoe and an old flat shovel.

 

[Cayuga]

First Post

I bought an old "clinker grabber" tool from a junk shop that is very handy for grabbing and moving smaller chunks of wood. It has two stationary hooks "((" and one moveable hook ")" . It is made of a piece of pipe with a rod running inside of it to control the single hook. The rod has a 90 degree bend on the user end for leverage. The stationary hooks are welded to the outside of the pipe.

 

[Bcat22]

I noticed i had a lot of un-burned coals burried in my ashes ( still learnin the tricks to this thing), so i took an end cap from a large electric motor and welded a length of 2 inch conduit to it to use as an ash scoop and sifter.
I just pull all the ashes forward, sift the powder into a 55 gal drum and toss the unburned coals into the back of the stove. you might be surprised how much unburned charcoal is burried in the ashes.

 

[fourapples]

Auger for ash removal
Raking hoe for cleaning chimney pipe and stirring ashes
Modified (shortened tines with disc grinder) potato fork bolted to 1/2 dia. conduit pipe handle. Good for penetrating ash buildup and clearing grate

 

[Jaberwky]

Stock Central Boiler long handled scraper and rake. I use the rake for EVERYTHING. Short handled grain shovel for ash removal. Plus I paid $40 for the local welding shop to make me a 7' long steel bar tool with a 10" shallow hook on one end and a wedge at the other. I can use it to pull logs and prybar when cutting, and also pull those stubborn burning pieces forward when the rake won't work.

 

[Beagledoc]

I have a hoe for stirring coals, a square shovel for cleaning out the fire box, and a scrape on a long handle for cleaning creosote when needed. Taylor supplied a brush and scrape for cleaning the tubes and a rectangular scrape for moving ashes with the stove when purchased new.