Do you hate your Ash Pan + Poll

Don't hate mine actually love it once a month I empty it works great ,nothing but baby powder ash consistency to empty with the King.

That's what I use. I usually hook the snout under the stove's ash lip to sweep off any ash that may have accumulated there. Usually that ash can will hold two cleanings from all three stoves before I need to dump it outside and hose down the ash pile.

I absolutely love the design of my PE ash pan. It works really well. Dump the ashes from the stove to the pan through the "trap door". Wait a few days if you wish before removing the pan and dumping the ashes.

Rick, I use my coal hod for the same thing. Have an ash bucket with a lid for ashes.

Let's face it. Emptying the ashes comes in all different forms depending on the stove, and what you put the ashes in. and your technique, and etc., etc........ It just isn't one of my favorite parts of wood burning and I usually wait until the fire box doesn't have room for wood before I get rid of them.

So thats what it called, that I use. Works great because you can slide the shovel out from under the ashes you put in and not dump them in it out of your shovel, works great, very few ash fly'rs if you do it slow.

That's funny. I use the same thing. Mine doesn't seem that old, but I did inherit it. Who knew? Well, Rick did I guess. It really does work great for shoveling ashes. I have a piece of sheet metal that I set on top of the "hod" on the dirt outside for a couple days before dumping.

I don't have an ash pan on purpose. No offense to anyone, but personally I don't see the need. It takes me maybe 72 seconds to shovel ashes.

I wasn't doubting you at all. I just thought it was funny all the folks that use them and didn't know what they were. I always just thought it was an ash bucket. I would give my personal recommendation for using this contraption as an ash bucket. It works great. A lid would be nice though.

The cat even likes the Coal Hod, every time I take it out hot an set it on the concrete slab, he'll curl up beside it as long as theres no snow.

I use two stainless steel compost buckets from Lee Valley. They have handles that swing down and nice fitting tops. Two buckets easily hold a weeks ashes.

I saw a bucket very similar to that at TSC and am thinking about getting it mine is round with a crappy shovel.

Pete

I wondered about this, but I never asked. I get this a lot with the Defiant and Encore since clean-outs happen only every 2-4 weeks. Never had it with any other stove. It was a mild concern as I wondered if it had to do with my fuel quality.

I think I may have accidentally clicked "unliked" when I meant to hit reply.
If an "unlike" shows up in some interface or on some social media page - my apologies - its an accident and I don-t know how to un - unlike a post

Anyway - about that rake - is it a homemeade or a product you bought. I need one for my 30 ?

Hehheh . . . that's pretty much how I pictured it.

I used to use the shop vac with a dry wall filter on occasion to clean up around the hearth . . . but typically this was only after I was done burning for the year . . . otherwise I would use a brush and dust pan. Then I won an ash vac . . . and that gets used to clean up around the hearth now . . . a lot safer than the ordinary ol' shop vac. I never vacuum out the inside of the woodstove though . . . just the hearth.

SmokeyCity - Woodstock sells a nice, functional rake at a reasonable preice.

My ash pan was a pain when I first used the stove as ash often flew everywhere when I took it outside.

I made a top out of the side of a cardboard cereal packet and the problem was solved.

One day I'm planning on a mark2 top made out of something that's not combustible, just in case......

Not sure why anyone would be surprised that someone would want an ash pan. I have a Progress Hybrid with and ash pan and I like it. I rake the ash over the grate once a day, and empty the large ash pan about once every 4-5 days. It seems to make life easier to me. But I can understand why someone who had a stove with a very small ash pan would find that it might not be worthwhile.