Dumping Of OWB Ash

[lefturnfreek]

What's the AS crew do with their ash's from the OWB's?

I have a pit I dig every couple years and dump it in there cause of the few nails and kibbles that sometimes get thrown in.

 

[tooold]

Fill old rotted stump holes with it...I have plenty.

 

[Cheesecutter]

No nails in mine( hopefully). I spread mine on my driveway.

 

[cantoo]

I stick my backpack blower in the door and blow it out the stack.

 

[greendohn]

I shovel mine into a burn ring(old tractor rim) I have out back, when it's full I load it on the GRH and ship it out to the woods where I spread it around.

 

[jrider]

Spread it in the woods

 

[battlefordguy]

Fill the back of the old half ton, head out on the highway for, Few miles at high speed, return home..[emoji13]

 

[hupte]

dump it in the skidder bucket and loose it in the field. i also have a couple old cisterns that i've filled up over the years.

 

[lefturnfreek]

Ya unfortunately we got 4 hooved critters out in the bush so just spreading it isn't a good plan, until we stop burning stuff with nails and odds and ends in it, some day it'll only get pure wood....some day....

 

[windthrown]

I use a magnet taped to a stick and run it through the ash to get the nails and screws out if I am burning any recycled construction wood. Then I usually dump the ashes on my long gravel driveway as fines. I also toss some ashes around my gardens and trees here for fertilizer (ash is very high in potassium).

 

[tooold]

I used to dump ashes in my garden, but then I started testing my soil. My soil was way too alkaline and I have read ashes even make it worse.

Here is info about it:
http://vric.ucdavis.edu/pdf/FERTILIZATION/fertilization_Woodashes.pdf

 

[bowtechmadman]

Thanks for the link! I better check my soil PH b/c that it is what I had been doing with them.