WARNING: your favorite little ash removal pan

[kenny chaos]

So I buy this cute little ash pan or bed warmer antique off of e-bay.
It's a brass pan, six inches in diameter with a thumb operated lid.
Perfect for getting in the stove, filling with ash, and closing the lid before it's even out of the stove.
It was obviously not an antique and more like some cheesey ornament you hang on the wall.
I've used it religiously everyday for the last few months.
Today I need to take out an extra pan or two 'cause I have a huge pile of those little hot ember ashes.
I took out one pan load and the handle was warm like it often got. I went in for another load.
Just as I cleared the stove door, coming out with the pan, the dirty little thing dropped to the hearth and emptied itself of
the whole pile of hot little ember ashes.
I glanced down at the handle in my hand and wondered why I never noticed it was soldered on before.

 

[LLigetfa]

...more like some cheesey ornament you hang on the wall.

...why I never noticed it was soldered on before.

ROFLMAO

Glad it was the hearth it hit and not the carpet on the way out.

 

[kenny chaos]

...more like some cheesey ornament you hang on the wall.

...why I never noticed it was soldered on before.

ROFLMAO

Glad it was the hearth it hit and not the carpet on the way out.

Well that's exactly my point.
My stove is in the kitchen and about six feet out to the back room where I keep the big ash can. No carpet!
I posted this, not just as another dummies story, but to maybe get people to rethink their own process.
I really worry about those who surround their stoves with carpet.

 

[burntime]

I have a lab that has gotten yelled at more than once when she was underfoot and I was going out the door with a hot ash bucket.

 

[LLigetfa]

I have a lab that has gotten yelled at more than once when she was underfoot and I was going out the door with a hot ash bucket.

For me it's the damn cat that decides to twirl around my ankles as I walk toward the door with it.

 

[fossil]

I take the ash bucket with its lid on & the little shovel inside to the stove, shovel the ashes into the bucket, toss the shovel back in there, put the lid on, and carry it out of the house. I have a cat that won't budge from his position right in front of the stove. I have to step over him to tend the fire, reload, remove ashes, whatever. Rick

 

[burntime]

I probably have the same bucket Rick, its just hard to argue with a 72 pd lab ;~) I take the ash out first and then feed her, guess what she wants me to do first :roll:

 

[fossil]

Well, in any case...all pets aside (so to speak)...it's a valid warning that Kenny posted. He's not a dumb guy, by any stretch, and the fact that something like this could happen to him is ample evidence that it could happen to anyone. I applaud his having told his story here, so maybe someone else will read it and think twice about the tools used to tend a hot stove. I'm not at all sure that the very same couldn't have happened to me. In the shop, no big deal...in the house, very big deal (wife just got a brand new rug for in front of the hearth). Thanks, Kenny! Rick

 

[kenny chaos]

Well, in any case...all pets aside (so to speak)...it's a valid warning that Kenny posted. He's not a dumb guy, by any stretch, and the fact that something like this could happen to him is ample evidence that it could happen to anyone. I applaud his having told his story here, so maybe someone else will read it and think twice about the tools used to tend a hot stove. I'm not at all sure that the very same couldn't have happened to me. In the shop, no big deal...in the house, very big deal (wife just got a brand new rug for in front of the hearth). Thanks, Kenny! Rick

Fozz you are so full of it. If you still want the etched glass off my Liberty, I'll shut the stove down and have it in the mail before the daze out.
Thank-YOU

PS- Not to offend anyone, but some of you guys really need to tighten up your houses if cats and dogs keep getting in.

 

[Jags]

The poker and shovel I use are some of the original equipment from a cook stove off of the farm from about 110 years ago. I think I am in pretty good shape as far as them being trustworthy. ;-)

Holy jumping fireballs Kenny, glad to hear that nothing was harmed in this. Dang Ebay anyhow.

 

[savageactor7]

Good save kenny.

 

[Hogwildz]

I want to know if you were actually using it as a bed warmer?

 

[kenny chaos]

I want to know if you were actually using it as a bed warmer?

Nit.