A coal stove does not require you to let the fire go out to empty the ash. A wood stove does.
I love how simple it is to empty ashes from my Hitzer coal stove. You shake and they drop into a pan with an airtight door in front of it.
You pull out the pan, shut the door, empty it and put it back in and shut the door again.
Seems to me that a wood stove could do the same thing - although the grate would have to be a finer and the mechanism would not be as simple to avoid putting hot coals in to the pan.
Emptying the ashes from a wood stove is the most annoying issue for me. You have to run a shop vac or make sure the stove is hot enough to be drawing up the dust that falls off your scoop or you have a room full of cold ash dust.
Anyone ever use a special shovel for wood stoves that sifts the ash from the good stuff ?
Seen them advertised but figured they must be a gimmick or eveyone would be using them /
I love how simple it is to empty ashes from my Hitzer coal stove. You shake and they drop into a pan with an airtight door in front of it.
You pull out the pan, shut the door, empty it and put it back in and shut the door again.
Seems to me that a wood stove could do the same thing - although the grate would have to be a finer and the mechanism would not be as simple to avoid putting hot coals in to the pan.
Emptying the ashes from a wood stove is the most annoying issue for me. You have to run a shop vac or make sure the stove is hot enough to be drawing up the dust that falls off your scoop or you have a room full of cold ash dust.
Anyone ever use a special shovel for wood stoves that sifts the ash from the good stuff ?
Seen them advertised but figured they must be a gimmick or eveyone would be using them /