What to do with ashes???

I'd hate to have to walk through those ashes every time I went to the wood pile. No, I don't think they'd help much at all anyway.

Add water and mix ashes until you get a nice smooth paste, them apply all over body and let dry for approx. 1 hour. Wash off gently with warm water for a great exfoliating treatment. ;-)

For any hunters out there. An old saline nose spray container filled with fine ash makes a great windicator for the field. Shake, give two puffs toward the sky. Works even in still air.

Shari said:

If you don't want them for all the uses already stated, put an ad on Craig's List - works for me.

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Just make sure you advertise them as "seasoned"!

Spread on lawn but in the driveway they track in horrible.Kills that darned moss.

I put them in the backyard firepit (built a nice stone sunk-in firepit last spring) until they get cool and damp. Then I haul them over to the garden where I spread them out and when spring comes, the ashes, along with all the leaves I mulched in the fall, get roto-tilled into the garden......totally recycled......not sure I like the 'spreading in the driveway' idea because I could see that ash being all through our kitchen when it gets tracked in by the kids....lol..

oldspark said:

Set open can in back of pickup and drive 70mph (or the speed limit) till gone.

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Good one! LOL!

For some reason in 5 months I don't have enough ashes to fill a 5 gallon bucket up? But I save em up and throw them in the chicken yard,they love scratching and pecking in them.

Backwoods Savage said:

No, I will not model for this...

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It's OK, we'll use Danno as the model instead ;-P

ohlongarm said:

For some reason in 5 months I don't have enough ashes to fill a 5 gallon bucket up? But I save em up and throw them in the chicken yard,they love scratching and pecking in them.

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do you burn 24/7? We do, and we probably fill up around four or five heaping bucketfuls in a year......if you are only gettin one five gallon bucketful in a whole season burning 24/7, you gotta share how yer doin that!!

Blasket said:

Add water and mix ashes until you get a nice smooth paste, them apply all over body and let dry for approx. 1 hour. Wash off gently with warm water for a great exfoliating treatment. ;-)

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Pictures?

I fill a metal pail and set it outside for a week or two and then dump it out in the dumpster. I'm not filtering it out to remove staples, nails, etc so I can dump it on the ground.

Don't know how I've got so few ashes,maybe that's a trait of the stove,been burning since September and have emptied the ash pan 6 times whatever that equates to that's what I got. I'll have to see what the volume is on the ash pan and report back.