Is there a use for the ash or clinkers (recycling)?

Well hello!

I'm a newbie at the pellet stove game. having had our install just before Thanksgiving this year. We've just started burning our third ton of pellets, and enjoy the savings we realize by not burning as much oil as the past few years. We have a Quadraflame Castille insert, burning O'Malley pellets.

My wife wondered if there was a good use for the clinkers I pull out of the stove, and I also wonder if there's any use for the ash, considering that the process is supposed to be so efficient. Maybe every bit of usefulness has been used up in the burning process.

Have longtime users come up with ways to recycle clinker and ash from pellet stoves?


Thanks for your attention.

G00k

LOL!

I should have known what kind of company I'd be keeping now.

I didn't know if the ashes or clinker would have anything left to them useful in the garden (it's supposed to be so efficient burning). After 2 tons, I have maybe three pounds of ash and clinker (already spread on vegetation). We've been lucky in the snow department so far this year - very little in north central Maryland.

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G