Pellet Stove Ash Disposal Causes Fire

[Papelletman]

I have the utmost respect for fire so I use a metal ash can with a lid!

 

[Sinzitu]

I was dumping my ashes in my extended back yard, but was never comfortable with that, as I certainly had some pellets still in there and ended up coming back with a pitcher of water. So then I went and got one of these:
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Put it on my asphalt driveway a few feet from the house (brick siding) and just put the ashes in there. its almost half full by now! The plan is to dispose of it all (or use it as fertilizer) at the end of the season. So, is this is a good solution, or am I doing something wrong here?

This is exactly what I do. Spread the ashes in the yard/garden many weeks after they are created.

I don't have any fear of the can getting blown over. The lid fits very securely and it has a good amount of weight. Plus like yours, ours is in an area protected from the wind.

 

[3650]

Dump mine out in the middle of the road.

 

[bbfarm]

Metal trash can with a bungee on lid for us too. Ash vac gets immediately dumped in there after cleaning.

Dump in summer

Last year my better half wasted the ashes on the driveway. I want to spread them in the hay field

 

[Dr.Faustus]

I put my ashes in a metal bucket and promptly carry them over to the lake and dump them in. usually i can find a non frozen spot to dump them. I make it a strict point that the stove does not get relit after a cleaning until after the lake trip (and a double check to make sure i took the leaf blower off the vent)

anything from the shop vac goes right in the metal bucket too and gets dumped as well in the water. then the vac sits on clear pavement till the next day before it goes back in the garage.

 

[Pellet-King]

this is absurd, once my stove goes out after 15-20 mins fan stop's blowing there's nothing but cold ash, no unburnt pellet's, must be a pusher type stove, reminds me here in Ct lady was awarded 5 million because her BF dumped some ashes on christmas eve and left them on the porch of a old house, the builder restoring the house had to pay for a stupid mistake nothing to do with him

 

[Bioburner]

Enforcing stupidity. Gotta love the most litigious society in the world

 

[velvetfoot]

her BF dumped some ashes on christmas eve and left them on the porch of a old house, the builder restoring the house had to pay for a stupid mistake nothing to do with him

Wasn't her boyfriend the contractor? Her three kids and her father died. That's how I remember it.