A better ash shovel

[Dalmatian90]

Holy schnikes! I actually had an idea that worked perfectly!

No matter how slow and careful I was, I would always throw up ash when unloading a conventional fireplace shovel into a bucket while sitting indian style in front of the woodstove. Even if I put the shovel into the bucket (which was on maybe a 30 degree angle) and just slid it out from under the ash.

$10 grain scoop from Tractor Supply, threaded bar I had in my spare parts pile in the garage, buck worth of nuts and lockwashers:

Left the bucket outside, well away from the door. Took all of four scoops to completely clean the stove -- maybe a couple minutes instead of ten minutes the old way. Being outside, I could just dump it quickly and go to get another load. Almost no ash drifted away in the house!

 

[john taliaferro]

I like the scoop , but what does it say on the end of your stove ?

 

[Motorsen]

Looks to be a Swedish text on the stove there. Something like, "When the day is over God shall see to that my fire never goes out". What stove is it. Could be old fashioned danish text also, maybe.
Some stoker you have there. The Lord himself!

Motorsen

 

[Dalmatian90]

It's Norwegian (it's a Jotul stove)

Few translations out there, but Motorsen is close to other ones like:

I bank my fire;
set for the evening
when day is done.
God grant my fire
never die out.

 

[Erik B]

What happens on a windy day when you head outside to your bucket? If the fire in my stove is mostly dead, I use a metal coffee can that I put in the stove and shovel ashes into it before putting it in the ash pail.

 

[Marine5068]

I just use a home made ash shovel and use a round ash pail with a lid,. Never had a problem with fly-ash.
I NEVER dump ashes outside until they've cooled down enough to not pose a risk of fire.
The pail usually gets dumped the next day or two and also has a double bottom for safety of burn-through.

 

[zogger]

That's a great idea!