Anyone ever find stones or rocks in the ashes?

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shortmillie

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Nov 15, 2011
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Kentucky
I've had my wood stove for about 6 weeks now and every once in a while I find a small stone in the ashes......
just curious where they come from. I'm burning mostly white and pin oak, if that makes a difference, and try to keep stove temperature around 500 degrees.
 

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Thanks BeGreen!
I missed that thread. The knowledge on this site never ceases to amaze me!
 
Probably but I don't shift through my ashed. Shovel it out every month or so, dump in pail and outside it goes.
 
I usually get those clinkers when I let the ash build up and add wood .. I mentioned this a while back and Jake thought I should find diamonds in there lol.. A combination or heat and pressure over time creates those "diamonds" and oh yeah they are definitely in the rough..

;-)

Ray
 
I think it looks like bone fragments. Is there something you aren't telling us here?
 
Hush now, Brother Bart. My ex-husband is a clunker not a clinker!
Plus, I'd hate to soil my pretty new Jotul....
 
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Clinkers . . . isn't that what Santa leaves in the firebox for all the girls and boys who have been naughty during the year? ;) :)
 
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