As I'm cleaning out the stove and dumping my 5 gallon ash can, I was trying to calculate how many pounds of wood it takes to fill an ash can. I have no clue. I would guess for every pound of wood you burn, you end up with only a few percentage of that initial weight in the ash...
If you burn about 4 cords a year of better hardwood, that's somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds of wood per cord or 12,000 to 16,000 pounds total. Using 1% as a rule of thumb, that would be about 120 to 160 pounds of ash to clean-up.
This isn't a woodstove. It's a wood crematorium. Anyone ever try and figure this out when cleaning up every couple of fires?
If you burn about 4 cords a year of better hardwood, that's somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds of wood per cord or 12,000 to 16,000 pounds total. Using 1% as a rule of thumb, that would be about 120 to 160 pounds of ash to clean-up.
This isn't a woodstove. It's a wood crematorium. Anyone ever try and figure this out when cleaning up every couple of fires?