Where Do You Chuck Your Stove Ash?

[AHPP]

I've often wondered whether it would be good for soaking up oil spills. 

[GarethM]

Kinda turns into a horrible paste, woodchip is good for oil that. Plus you get to burn it afterwards 

[AHPP]

I've always thought I'd use the paste for fire starting. It's just a medium to hold the oil. I use dry sawdust and oil atm but drying sawdust is inconvenient for me.

Edited December 7, 2022 by AHPP

[John Skinner]

12 minutes ago, AHPP said:

My burner can be left for months.

 

I can get about 3 full days burning (wood) until my ash drawer is brimming over. Or about 1/2-1 day if i've added some smokeless fuel. Discovered it's all but useless for producing viable heat, but is very handy for just keeping things going overnight. The volume of ash it produces though... it's atrocious. When this load is done, i doubt i'd buy it again.

[AHPP]

1 minute ago, John Skinner said:

 

I can get about 3 full days burning (wood) until my ash drawer is brimming over. Or about 1/2-1 day if i've added some smokeless fuel. Discovered it's all but useless for producing viable heat, but is very handy for just keeping things going overnight. The volume of ash it produces though... it's atrocious. When this load is done, i doubt i'd buy it again.

 

Smokeless is dreadful for ash. You want big lumps of old-fashioned, sulphurous, oily, black planet-death.

[John Skinner]

Just now, AHPP said:

 

Smokeless is dreadful for ash. You want big lumps of old-fashioned, sulphurous, oily, black planet-death.

 

Aye the smokeless stuff is all ash and no heat.

I like my softwood, hardwood and nice big chunks of local peat. Might venture down the route of trying lumps of planet-death. But the black (gets onto everything) mess and the potential to foul the flue puts me off.

 

My immediate issue is how to get the 6cube of loose softwood thats being dumped around the front of the house next week (or maybe later this week) round to the far back of the house without freezing to death in the process 🥶 lol

[AHPP]

 

[Stubby]

On the muck heap from the stables . 

[AHPP]

3 minutes ago, John Skinner said:

 

Aye the smokeless stuff is all ash and no heat.

I like my softwood, hardwood and nice big chunks of local peat. Might venture down the route of trying lumps of planet-death. But the black (gets onto everything) mess and the potential to foul the flue puts me off.

 

My immediate issue is how to get the 6cube of loose softwood thats being dumped around the front of the house next week (or maybe later this week) round to the far back of the house without freezing to death in the process 🥶 lol

 

My house backs onto an old coal pit. I got dead excited when the electricity board dug it up to replace the poles a few months ago. I was envisaging disrupted pockets of black gold that I could stroll up to and glean a bucket a day from. No such luck. Found about a tea cup full.

[coppice cutter]

I put it on the dung heap after trawling a magnet through it to get any nails out.

 

If your local council have a composting bin scheme on the go, I think it should be perfectly appropriate for that.

 

I'd be wary about using it around fruit trees/bushes, etc as it's not a balanced feed like manure and may cause a localised mineral imbalance in the soil, which is not a good thing.

 

Scattering it lightly over grass occasionally would probably be ok though.