5 Awesome Uses For Wood Ash - WHW - EP12
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- Sharing some tips and tricks on removing wood ash from your wood stove as well as some great uses for them.
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Keep a bowl of wood ash near my kitchen sink- I use it to scrub my dishes and pots and pans. Especially stuck on foods on casserole pans. Then rinse and wash as usual. Works well on my stove also without scratching.
Well also help stop itchy feet temporarily.
Brilliant! Thank you.
Yes I enjoyed your video..I always look up your videos for guidance of homesteading..your very knowledgeable and interesting..thankyou.
We started selling decorative urns to our firewood customers. So when they dump the ash-filled urns into their gardens, the curious neighbors are always amazed at their resourcefulness!
ThAnk you. I did not know except for gardening tips.
Wood ash is good to sweep in between the bricks in your yard or any masonry outdoor paving keeps the weeds from growing
That is genius man!!
Wood ash is a homesteaders friend so many uses for it to remain sustainable.
When we have snowy/ icy driveway I like sprinkling some in front of all tires to get out. Gives ur tires just enough traction to not slip
I use the ash to bury my compost during the winter. The compost pile is frozen, so the only easy way to bury kitchen scraps is with ash, and then i cover it with snow. Then in the spring it can be mixed into the pile. This keeps wild animals out of my compost pile. ( and it looks better)
When using the ash to clean stove glass I use pieces of crumpled newspaper, get them wet then dip it in the whitest ash I see in the stove... This is very fine ash and abrasive enough to clean but not scratch the ceramic glass. I have never ever used any chemical cleaner...
My glass looks as good as new even after fifteen years of doing this.
Thanks so much!! Wood Heat Wednesday videos are great and I always look forward to seeing them👍🏻🔥
Beyond Mountains Homestead 😀
A great channel. More good info per minute than anywhere else.
There are those who will understand this, when I look at trees, it's not trees that I see.
It's firewood. 😄 ✌
Common sense chemistry...very useful to know. Thank you.
Smashing.... As someone else said, great for chickens as an alternative to diatomaceous earth. You can use it to clean any glass that's good quality. Not good for greenhouse glass mind which is a lower quality. Ask me how I know!
Keep them coming chap!
The fire roll friction fire thing is so cool! You can also use cayenne pepper and paper towels. Another use for hardwood ash for people with a pond is to spread it over the surface of the water to help control algae. It works well.
I always end up with having so much ashes by mid January I end up just putting them in the trash. You've made me rethink that this year. Thanks Eric .
I use an outdoor wood boiler. Every thing is out side except the heat exchanger and the two water lines. Love it. Pay back was 3-4 years n I'm now enjoying the free ride.
You are absolutely right at 2:15, I have extinguished far too many fires from people dumping ashes in refuse containers thinking they had cooled. They self insulate keeping the center hot while the bucket is cold on the outside. This obviously applies to any and all ashes.
We put our ashes on the driveway and walking paths for traction. Sometimes we will put it in the chicken coop for dust bathing or into the compost bin for the garden. All great tips!
wood ash supplies 2 of the 3 components of black powder....Carbon (chunks) and Potassium which combined with urine precipitates salt peter (potassium nitrate)....I use it in my compost.
Great video for the beginner, important safety tips which I am going to follow. Thanks.
Thumbs up for you, very well presented with helpful information. Thank you
As simple as it is, i really haven’t given thought to separating the ashes with a magnetic. Thanks
Nice intro! Great tip for cleaning the stove door too.
Right on brother! I am a firefighter and two things you said was right on! 1: take the ashes outside right away EVEN if you think the ashes are out! We respond to lots of activated CO alarms that were caused by the ash bucket! 2: when you do take it out. Take it away from the house and put the bucket on something none combustible! We responded to lots of deck fires and exterior of the house fires because the bucket was just placed on the deck just outside the door! 👍 EVERYONE swore the ashes were out! EVERYONE!
Richard clarke I've been a FF for 17 years and in EMS for 28 years. You are right on brother. My ash bucket sits on concrete with nothing around it for 3 feet.
Excellent points! I ran a smokehouse, and my guys started s couple fires from our ash can. Even after, 2 days of no new ash, drowning with water, and stirring the whole can.
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I know you mentioned spreading in on the driveway. We keep a 5 gallon bucket of cold ash in our trucks/SUVs and a laundry bottle in our car. If you get stuck, dump a little on the drive tires and you will pop right out of where you're stuck without shoveling.
A slight breeze is all you need to get those ashes fired back up. I always used a metal garage can with a lid placed on a cement pad. Never had a fire in over 20 years.
Great videos with alot of information and tips. I plan on putting a wood burner in our cottage and never had a wood stove before so im learning alot.
I use it on my garden. If you throw it up above the plants it will give it a lite cover of ash over the leave and pest won’t eat your garden. The rain and morning dew with wash it away so I do this once a week or after the rain. Good for the soil.
Work your ash into the soil during the winter where you plan to grow and your pot plants will take off like rockets the following summer.
Thanks for the tips. We also use the ash for the chickens so they can bath in it to keep mites down. Thanks for sharing.
M and B Homestead, that’s what we do ! They love it
Great tip!!
M and B Homestead we do the same for our chickens.
Also, I think it helps to keep smells down, like biochar.
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Hardwood ash is a key component in making lye, which can be used for making soap.
I have read that but have never tried. Would be a fun experiment.
That ash should not be used for chicken dusting.
@@mariannewiebe9461 why?
@@user-io3hy4zb4s , definitely contains lye, and I suspect that the ash might contain traces of heavy metals. Coal,
formally a leafy organic material, contains quite a bit of Mercury! I suggest You look it up online to see if there are toxic affects from long term exposure to wood ash.
@@goodun2974 good point. I suspect that the mercury content isn't nearly as high in ash as it is in coal just since coal is far more condensed than ash is. I'll go look up the toxicity effects you mentioned. I know that wood based charcoal is a really good thing to give to pigs in general but especially if they are sick. Before the age of pharmaceuticals, agricultural texts routinely advised that practice. Because it works.
At the end of Winter if you want to accelerate the thawing of Snow Drifts or an area you would like cleared earlier, sprinkle Wood Ashes!
Whoda thunk there were so many ins and outs of wood ash! Thanks for the great info and tips, as usual, Eric!
Great for cleaning glass fireplace doors! Tks
I'm halfway thru and still haven't heard any uses for ash?
same here. while we're waiting--and i'm at the 4:36 mark with no uses listed yet--my aunt said if you have any holes in your yard you can fill it with the ashes and put a little dirt on the top.
At 2 minutes he already said 1. Insulate the bottom of the pit....2. Smother a fire. Pay more attention.
Excellent info! Thanks
VERY helpful! That make me subscribe right there.
I'm going to get a second ash bucket and one of those awesome ash traps. And, I was one of those dummies who threw water into my stove when it got too hot. Now, I'll smother it with the ashes from my second bucket. Thanks!
I dump them in the garden. Always have had a great garden. Keeps bugs away if you sprinkle some around all plants. This is exactly what my grandfather did and he had a beautiful and bountiful garden every year.
The magnets out of old microwave ovens are great, they are powerful, and free!
very informative! The friction fire and ash for cleaning was all new to me!
Thanks for doing this series! So many great tips!
Works great for traction on icy driveway. I have people come to my house with rear wheel drive cars or just bad tires. I spread a couple of shovel fulls on the driveway, and the have traction.
I use it in large amounts along the barbed wire fence to help keep the weeds down. I have always loved having a fireplace. Our fireplace is 95 years old and has seen its share of ash, Even if we do live in Florida. lol
Thanks a ton! Really enjoy your WHW segments. I am trying to heat with wood this year and the thing I am finding is that I am using way more wood than I thought I would... Other than that, it is working great. Haven't used the furnace yet, although it has been pretty mild so far.
Thanks again!
Look at rocket stove mass heaters. I have a vid of one I built for a guy. He uses 20% of the wood to heat his house now. They're the way of the future.
Hope your wood burning is going better this fall! There are all kinds of tips you can find to maximizing heat output on your wood stove, but the most important is the type, moisture level, and quality of your fuel!
What an intro, love it.
My grandmother traveled from Georgia to Texas in a covered wagon when she was a child. She often told us of how they used wood ashes from their fire to wash clothes with in the creek or rivers along the way. They took a stick to push the clothes up and down with in the water and added the wood ashes as they agitated the clothes. They used lye soap a lot, too, but this was just something unusual to hear of how they did things and used what they had on hand when traveling in wagons like that
Man that must of been a long trip. It was either very memorable and fun or very horrible. Lol probly more fun and adventurous than anything.
Great vid. Perfect time of the year for this info. Never thought about using wood ash to clean the glass.........excellent idea....I will have to try that friction fire. I have a wood burning cook stove and am just learning how to use it. Looking forward to using the oven.
I just discovered that about cleaning the stove glass, had been using oven cleaner but now I see I wasted my money. Maybe I should clean my gas stove oven with ashes, too.
Very informative,
Thanks for the tip about using wood ash to clean the wood stove glass door.
Well done, I have a small wood fire place as a backup incase of a furnace or power problem and for enjoyment. I will definitely be using some of these ideas. Thanks!
No scratch cleanser cleans the glass better than anything else. Good video.
Love the WHW videos!! Keepum coming! Thanks
I don't like using the ashes in the driveway or the walkway. The wet ashes cling to your shoes and can really make a mess in your entry way.
Lost Nation salt and sand are just as bad but you don't notice them like you do Ash because it smears into a paste
Dont put it in high traffic area.
Hence living on a farm :)
Thorough and succinct information!
It’s a good fertilizer.
Very good info, thanks.
awesome video another great use for ashes is when you bbq with charcoal use the ashes to decrease the temperature of your coals and dramatically decrease flare ups. Of course you add ashes once your coals have sufficiently burned. Thanks again.
I use my ash for ice on my driveway, it's somewhat steep and will help add grip but also helps melt the ice when the sun is out. I only put it on one side though and make sure my kids walk up the other to avoid having them track the ash back into the house. I like your video though, I can tell you put some time into it. Good job
Wood ash can also melt snow and I love mixing it in with compost and giving it to my tomato plants.
Great intro! And great video like always! Thank you!
thanks Eric for sharing your knowledge and info on the uses for wood ash !!
Great info, thank you. The two-bucket system would save loads of frustration. Love the round wood piles.
Throw the ash on your berry bushes .makes them go crazy with berrys
I must add .I'm in acidic pine flats in clay and useing it on Saskatoon berrys
Oops. Now I KNOW I put more than 10 lb per 1000 sq feet of garden!! Have only had good results in the 13 years I've been doing it though. Great video as always
if you haven't noticed any negative effect it could use it. A soil sample would let you know.
I use a magnetic pickup tool that's got a plastic enclosure for the magnet with pull rod that moves it back away from the plastic when it's time to dump all the metal it picked up. It releases instantly, much better than using a bare magnet and trying to pull all the sharp fragments by hand. Harbor Freight, I think-
Otherwise just use a plastic cup with your magnet inside to keep it free of metal, and just lift it carefully away from the center until it all drops.
Well that was really good. Im new here, and you earned a new sub. Thanks!
Great to have you part of this community!
Great tips, thanks! Keep up the good work.
M abt to start farm dis month, so m trying to gather as much information as I can....... :-)
Careful to mix it with acid loving plants. Ash has high alkalinity.
I use it as oil dry works well
I use the ashes as filler for dips on my lawn, just a top layer of dirt. Also in the garden, for my cucumbers. (Wood ash is a source of Lime and potassium)
Wood ash is a great Potasium fertilizer for plants and crops.
Excellent info. Great presentation. Thank you.
Actually a fireman said to always have 8oz of water by the wood stove for chimney fires. It won’t damage the stove but it causes steam. You dump in the water and shut the door and shut the intake air flow. The steam puts ou the chimney fire.
Any beekeepers out there, dump wood ash under and around bee hives, small hive beetle problem solved
Yep I am and didn’t know this. Any side effects
Zaza BP
Does this ash help reduce varroa mites, too ?
Ash is supposed to repel/kill many types of bugs. Gets into the joints of their carapace/exoskeleton and makes them explode.
Thanks for tip.
Great video, your eyes are a beautiful green!
Wood ashes are excellent for ridding the garden of pests just like the chickens dusting in it for mites. Your tips are always so good and safety conscious. Thanks for sharing. Now a little off topic, did you by chance keep back any of your rainbow hens to see it they would lay and if so how is that working out.
Excellent video. What is there to learn about wood ash, I thought. Plenty.
Great info and tips!
I use the ash constantly to clean my glass on my stove. I keep a mixture under the sink in an air tight container, ready to go when I need it.
Try using plain ammonia...let it sit on the glass a little & it wipes right up. No scrubbing with ashes is needed
If using ash to clean the glass make sure you sift it to get a very powder like ash so that all black particles are removed. Use a fine opening sifter. But ash does a good job of cleaning with a little elbow grease.
I scatter ashes in my maple sugar bush. Particularly around smaller trees that need the nutrient boost. Also particularly in the more acidic, coniferous parts of the bush. (here in Canada the bush menas the forest or the woods)
Good stuff as always!
Great video
Thanks
When I have to use the wood stove their is usually snow cover already on the ground. I then spread them around my fruit trees. Great fertilizer.
Into the outhouse hole really decent smell control
Really useful thanks never knew it would work to de-ice!!
Hey friend, I’m sorry I don’t know your name mine is Paul. I’m in central Texas and I saw your video on the blue ox tool, I have watched several videos since and I subscribed and I appreciate you sharing and your contents. Thank you.
😀 thanks for taking the time to watch!
Thanks, very helpful
Great stuff. Thanks.
Mega thanks.! Great helps !
Good information, thanks and take care.
Good video. Just the right length. Two ash buckets: good call. Not sure why I didn’t come up with that on my own. I am careful with pallets as a lot are made in China and that wood can have chemicals in it. There are so many other uses for them - other than burning. I leave them outside.
not really, most pallets in europe are made in poland, they just plain wood except if something leaked on them, i would be more worried about nails in them if you are going to use the ash for something, and if they are really any chemicals in them if you burn them hot enough nothing bad will stay in ash.
Take a heavy plastic bag to wrap the magnet with before you search for nails, very easy to keep magnet clean and release nails
We are heating almost exclusively with wood now and love the perk of having lots of wood ash to use around the homestead. I am learning about how to use wood ash to tan deer hides and saving ash in a 50-gallon drum for that.
Liked the video, thanks.
Awsome video.
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uses start at the 6 minute mark. I don't like putting ashes in the driveway either. It's a mess. Not sure I want to use it to try to adjust ph in the soil either.
I spread wood ash on the shady portions of the lawn to kill moss by raising the pH. Also, I have heard that, when growing potatoes, you should not add too much ash as it can lead to scab
First thank you for all the info! I am using a galvanized bucket for hot ashes but don’t feel it’s safe enough. Looked on line but need at least 4 gallon that is safe. What is a good bucket to use? -Sharon❄️☃️
Good points, thanks.
You're welcome
Dump a bucket full into my food plot, put under tires when the truck stuck
I recently ran across your videos and enjoy them very much. We also cut, split, and burn firewood for heat. I was wandering what that "tool" you used to pickup a piece of wood to set in your splitter in the beginning of the video. I have a very bad back and it looked handy. Not having to bend way down to pickup wood.
Thank you in advance!
MB BAR RANCH
Pickaroon, Peavey.
@@earnestbass4043 it's a log ox, not a hookaroon