Jotul Castine - my solution to a hot ashpan

No welding gloves & I was having a hard time taking the hot ashpan out in the morning: Here's my low tech hack solution. It's very stable. The vertical screws are to reinforce the weakness of the grain and the horizontal screws are to keep the pan from resting directly on the wood. It cracked a little where the two screws came together, but I didn't feel like remaking it. Same design should work for the oslo as well & maybe some others.

I empty the pan about twice a week this mild winter, usually well before it needs to be. I really don't understand how people scoop ashes into a bucket inside the house - does this not make a tremendous amount of dust? For me, the castine has been making ash about as fine as flour & the stove's in my living room.

Stability isn't a problem - I can essentially turn the pan upside down to empty it before it comes loose. I do wear a heavy leather glove on the off hand in case something were to get tipsy, but never had to use it. I'm sure welding gloves would be easier in some ways, but I hate buying a solution to every little problem if I can avoid it. Haven't ever felt that welding gloves would be at all necessary for loading the stove & I didn't want to get them just for dealing with ashes.

Wow, Just read the "burned threads" I never knew there were so many ways to burn yourself on a woodstove. Sounds like I would need welders gloves AND a welders helmet. Prob'ly just take my chances, though