One trick from the old days. If you are camping out and want a fire in the morning, cover the ashes with some dirt before you sleep. 2 benefits, the ashes wont be blown around by light winds while your sleeping and they will still be hot enough to ignite in the morning by adding dry sticks or kindling
When cleaning out the wood stove,, i put the ashes in a Mettle Bucket, put the Mettle lid back on it, take it out away from anything that might catch and USE TO put a big Rock on top,, no air can get in it? and the rock will hold the lid on it if/when the wind blows.. ive seen the wind blow so hard out here where im at? it will knock the bucket over,, so now i use a cement block on top,, works so far... By the time i need to clean out the stove again,, i dump the bucket,, dead ashes and use it again,, the other reason to use a lid is to keep the snow/rain out of it for longer bucket life,, im sure ya know water and ashes make lie......... eats mettle bucket fast........ if i cant find the damn lid,, i will turn the bucket up side down with the ashes in it,, problem with that is if it rains or snows the ashes will suck up the water and eat the bucket, mettle buckets are getting hard to find.. Ive seen some people just set the bucket out without the lid.. and well ya know what happens when the wind blows,, ashes everywhere and will start a fire someplace.. ive even seen people set the bucket of ashes on the deck/porch out of the wind,, problem is the bucket gets hot and will light there porch/deck on fire... I never use water,, it dont work.... my idea is it heats the water making oxygen and fuels it.....Also? ive seen people clean out the wood stove and spill ashes on the floor under the stove and not clean um up and light the floor on fire... that sucks to wake up to..... people dont listen to me,, im just an old ass hat is what they think.... .... JM2C
Get 2 or 3 steel 45gal drums with lids to put your ash in Von. And put a large rock in the bottom so a strong wind gust wont blow it over. Also that ash will be of great use for your gardens and its also great if you get stuck in the snow , put it under the drive tire and out you pop. Carry on Von 👍
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Great advice to all
One trick from the old days. If you are camping out and want a fire in the morning, cover the ashes with some dirt before you sleep. 2 benefits, the ashes wont be blown around by light winds while your sleeping and they will still be hot enough to ignite in the morning by adding dry sticks or kindling
Out in Washington they have root fires,, roots of trees slowly catch and weeks later will ignite into forest fires,, pretty incredible
When cleaning out the wood stove,, i put the ashes in a Mettle Bucket, put the Mettle lid back on it, take it out away from anything that might catch and USE TO put a big Rock on top,, no air can get in it? and the rock will hold the lid on it if/when the wind blows..
ive seen the wind blow so hard out here where im at? it will knock the bucket over,, so now i use a cement block on top,, works so far...
By the time i need to clean out the stove again,, i dump the bucket,, dead ashes and use it again,, the other reason to use a lid is to keep the snow/rain out of it for longer bucket life,, im sure ya know water and ashes make lie......... eats mettle bucket fast........ if i cant find the damn lid,, i will turn the bucket up side down with the ashes in it,,
problem with that is if it rains or snows the ashes will suck up the water and eat the bucket, mettle buckets are getting hard to find..
Ive seen some people just set the bucket out without the lid.. and well ya know what happens when the wind blows,, ashes everywhere and will start a fire someplace.. ive even seen people set the bucket of ashes on the deck/porch out of the wind,, problem is the bucket gets hot and will light there porch/deck on fire...
I never use water,, it dont work....
my idea is it heats the water making oxygen and fuels it.....Also? ive seen people clean out the wood stove and spill ashes on the floor under the stove and not clean um up and light the floor on fire... that sucks to wake up to.....
people dont listen to me,, im just an old ass hat is what they think....
.... JM2C
Get 2 or 3 steel 45gal drums with lids to put your ash in Von. And put a large rock in the bottom so a strong wind gust wont blow it over.
Also that ash will be of great use for your gardens and its also great if you get stuck in the snow , put it under the drive tire and out you pop.
Carry on Von 👍
That's exactly what I was going to say
Yeah man.. when I saw the first vid on your homestead I was like !!! Cut it alllll down Von! lol
Right!!
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