clemsonfor
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Good thinking. Glad you thought about that. I would hate to see you have to try and remove them intact if you wanted to drywall that area or whatever after you spent somany days working on them.
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Good thinking. Glad you thought about that. I would hate to see you have to try and remove them intact if you wanted to drywall that area or whatever after you spent somany days working on them.
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Tonight when I got home from work I cleaned the ashes out of the fireplace. We put the ashes in a heavy galvanized bucket that we purchased for the purpose.
Since we are heating the house with the fireplace, we have to clean out the ashes while we still have hot coals in the FP. We can't remove all the ashes but do get enough to keep the ashes from filling the fireplace and overflowing onto the hearth when the doors are opened.
I used the shovel to move as many of the coals as possible to the back of the fireplace. Then I shovelled the ashes remaining in the front of the fireplace into the bucket. When dumping the ashes into the bucket I have to be careful or the fine light ashes will puff up into the air and make a mess in the room. So I hold the bucket cover with one hand over the top of the bucket while dumping with the other hand the shovel full of ashes into the bucket. Covering the bucket as much as possible with the cover catches most of the ashes that would otherwise float into the room.
A few warm coals made it into the bucket so I put the bucket of ashes outside in the gravel driveway to let the ashes extinguish themselves.
Since we are heating the house with the fireplace, we have to clean out the ashes while we still have hot coals in the FP. We can't remove all the ashes but do get enough to keep the ashes from filling the fireplace and overflowing onto the hearth when the doors are opened.
I used the shovel to move as many of the coals as possible to the back of the fireplace. Then I shovelled the ashes remaining in the front of the fireplace into the bucket. When dumping the ashes into the bucket I have to be careful or the fine light ashes will puff up into the air and make a mess in the room. So I hold the bucket cover with one hand over the top of the bucket while dumping with the other hand the shovel full of ashes into the bucket. Covering the bucket as much as possible with the cover catches most of the ashes that would otherwise float into the room.
A few warm coals made it into the bucket so I put the bucket of ashes outside in the gravel driveway to let the ashes extinguish themselves.
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Obed--Hi--
A couple of cold days down here in Charleston---fire was nice---The ash situation is just messy, although your system sounds fine with some hot ashes.....I usually wait til the fireplace is cold, and use a couple of plastic bags--one inside the other...Carefully shovel out a good sized scoop at a time and carefullly deposit in the bag, until about full..Then tie the handles together and ease out the house--carefully---I have a minimum amount of dust, but still a little.....I`v tried wetting the ash down with a small amount of spray, but is just still is a worse mess....Tony
A couple of cold days down here in Charleston---fire was nice---The ash situation is just messy, although your system sounds fine with some hot ashes.....I usually wait til the fireplace is cold, and use a couple of plastic bags--one inside the other...Carefully shovel out a good sized scoop at a time and carefullly deposit in the bag, until about full..Then tie the handles together and ease out the house--carefully---I have a minimum amount of dust, but still a little.....I`v tried wetting the ash down with a small amount of spray, but is just still is a worse mess....Tony
ruralruss
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That is what we do as well. Just make sure you don't suck in any coals!
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Two weeks ago a work acquaintance left hot ashes on her back porch. It ended so very badly. Make sure no matter how cold it is those coals get moved away.
We lived with a metal wood stove as sole heat as a kid. My dad had a lid welded onto a coal bucket with a hinge. Worked like a charm.
We lived with a metal wood stove as sole heat as a kid. My dad had a lid welded onto a coal bucket with a hinge. Worked like a charm.
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Cleaned out the fireplace today...Man what a mess...Tony
Cleaned out the fireplace today...Man what a mess...Tony
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Tony,Hi
Cleaned out the fireplace today...Man what a mess...Tony
I can see how using the plastic bags could be tedious. We got our galvanized bucket with the lid at True Value Hardware; it was $10 or $15 dollars. I can clean out our FP using the bucket and lid without much mess.
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I've attached a picture of my aborted attempt at attaching vertical supports to a pallet a few weeks ago to keep the firewood on the pallet. The chicken wire pallet baskets are easier to make.
I've included a picture of the first pallet basket I made a couple weeks ago. The chicken wire does a great job of keeping the firewood on the pallet. I can throw irregular pieces of wood in it with no trouble. I have some one foot long logs in the basket. If you've ever tried to stack logs that are only a foot long, you know that they don't stack very well. The stack just wants to fall over. That's not an issue with the pallet basket.
Today my wife and I made 3 more pallet baskets using chicken wire. The slats on one of the pallets overhung the joists so I trimmed the slats with my circular saw so that I could attach the chicken wire to the sides of the joists. To make the baskets, I just staple the bottom of the chicket wire around the sides of the pallets. Then I splice the ends of the chicken wire together.
I've included a picture of the first pallet basket I made a couple weeks ago. The chicken wire does a great job of keeping the firewood on the pallet. I can throw irregular pieces of wood in it with no trouble. I have some one foot long logs in the basket. If you've ever tried to stack logs that are only a foot long, you know that they don't stack very well. The stack just wants to fall over. That's not an issue with the pallet basket.
Today my wife and I made 3 more pallet baskets using chicken wire. The slats on one of the pallets overhung the joists so I trimmed the slats with my circular saw so that I could attach the chicken wire to the sides of the joists. To make the baskets, I just staple the bottom of the chicket wire around the sides of the pallets. Then I splice the ends of the chicken wire together.
