Oslo - Producing a lot of Ash!

The amount of ash remaining is directly related to the type (species) of wood you are burning. Example: I can burn well seasoned full Oak loads and don't need to empty my ash pan for 4 to 5+ days with around 3 full loads per day. If I burn Elm at 3 full loads per day I probably empty the ash pan every other day. I am burning 24/7.

By the way, bump that temp up to around 600. Your Olso is rated to run 400-600.

Sounds to me you are getting good burns out of the stove. I would normally have to take a couple shovel fulls of ash out each morning from my Vigilant.

As Shari said. Stoves don't produce ash, the wood your burning does.
ON a good note, if its all ash, then at least your burning it all up to create that ash.
Try packing it down with your ash shovel prior to reloading. I do that when I burn alot of Black Walnut, as it leaves lots of ash, but compacts very nicely, and don't have to shovel out for a few days.

3 to 4 weeks here between cleanings.
24/7 burner.

dggreen said:

I purchased an Oslo recently and have discovered that it is producing large quantities of ash. I burn the stove once a day and have to empty the pan every other day. I have spoken to a friend who has a Castine that only needs to be emptied once every week or ten days. Our wood is seasoned, we have good draw and we burn at 400 degress for the most part. Any suggestions are appreciated!

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Are you scraping the ash around to force it all to fall into the pan each day? If so, that's a sure way to have to empty the pan all the time. I burn 24/7 with the Oslo, and empty the pan on average once per week.

The key is to disturb the ash as little as possible. Just leave it in the stove, and rake it around only as much as you need to stop it from overflowing out the door. Since you don't burn around the clock, your procedures will be different, but our typical day involves just tossing wood into the stove when it burns down to a small bed of coals, with no raking at all. If you rake it around, you're dropping not only fully burned ash, but also partially burned small coals into the ash pan. That fills up the pan faster, since they take up much more room than the ash they would produce if allowed to burn fully.

Wood species does matter. One of the biggest factors is thickness of the bark, since bark produces more ashes than the wood it surrounds, volume for volume.

I have to empty the Castine every 3 days burning 24/7

I have twin 24/7 Oslos, and I generally need to empty the ash pans about once a week. Mostly burning maple, cherry and black locust. I'm also a habitual ash raker as I feel like all that ash is taking up valuable wood stoking space.

Not much to add here . . . as stated it is the wood, not the stove that produces the ash . . . I am an unreformed raker myself . . . burning 24/7 and generally I empty the ash pan twice a week . . .

I have to empty my hearthstone mansfield almost every day. I'll rake around the pile in the morning and the tray will be completely full, along with 4-5 small shovels full from the box. Sometimes I'll sift another full load down into the tray. The only times I don't empty the ashes are if I'm just feeling lazy. If I go more than 2-3 days max without emptying it I practically drown in ashes.

I'm burning 24/7 with a mix of mostly honey locust and green (the species) ash right now.