Is there a use for the ash or clinkers (recycling)?

[G00k]

Well hello!

I'm a newbie at the pellet stove game. having had our install just before Thanksgiving this year. We've just started burning our third ton of pellets, and enjoy the savings we realize by not burning as much oil as the past few years. We have a Quadraflame Castille insert, burning O'Malley pellets.

My wife wondered if there was a good use for the clinkers I pull out of the stove, and I also wonder if there's any use for the ash, considering that the process is supposed to be so efficient. Maybe every bit of usefulness has been used up in the burning process.

Have longtime users come up with ways to recycle clinker and ash from pellet stoves?


Thanks for your attention.

G00k

 

[Backwoods Savage]

We've never used a pellet stove but have used lots and lots and lots of ashes. Simply put them on your vegetable garden spot. You can do the same with clinkers. You can also put those clinkers in with your wife's flower pots or even in with her outdoor flowers.

Ashes can also be used in place of salt for melting some ice. You can also carry a bucket of ashes (be sure it is sealed good) in the trunk of your car in case you or someone else gets stuck on ice. Gives decent traction.

Want snow to melt faster? Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow and ashes make it melt even faster.

Make lye soap.

Enough?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Grit for ice...

Feed them to your avitar friend.

Garden or grass fertilizer.

Use in place of Holloween candy.

Matt

 

[edwardkelly]

Use in place of Holloween candy.
Matt

Classic

 

[G00k]

LOL!

I should have known what kind of company I'd be keeping now.

I didn't know if the ashes or clinker would have anything left to them useful in the garden (it's supposed to be so efficient burning). After 2 tons, I have maybe three pounds of ash and clinker (already spread on vegetation). We've been lucky in the snow department so far this year - very little in north central Maryland.

Would food coloring help the presentation of the Halloween "Rock Candy"?

G

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Well hang on Gook. This week might prove very interesting weatherwise. Possibly a bad ice storm in the making for lots of folks and possibly more than one storm moving across the country.

Rock Candy sounds about right. lol

btw, we save all our ashes and put them on the garden spot just before tilling. It is poor man's lime but definitely will not last as long as lime. So, we wait until it is needed. Besides, in our sand, as soon as water hits, everything goes through it like that stuff through a tin horn.

 

[firefighterjake]

I sprinkle them on top of my morning bowl of rice krispies . . . delicious and nutritious with .8 essential vitamins and minerals.