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Originally Posted by skeet
What MT said..no shop vac..I use a coal scuttle for the ashes. Now the wood I use here has very little ash...except cottonwood....but the wood you wil use has quite a bit..good stove is necessary as is a good chimney. Be careful. Nothing like wood heat
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Yeah, figured I would dump the shop vac out immediately after sucking up the ash or at least pour a bunch of water in it. They both have a drain that would allow me to let the water, and most likely some of the ash, out later on. The plan is essentially to suck it up with the shop vac and then dump the stuff in a garden. Don't know if this is good, bad, or indifferent for the soil, so I will have to do some research on it. Otherwise, I'll just dig a pit to throw the crud in. Any other suggestions for getting rid of the ash other than the garden and/or a pit?
Yeah, I know I need to buy a good wood stove. That is why I started this thread. So far, I think I got one reply regarding what a good stove is and that was from Skinny. The title of the thread is "Wood Stove Recommendations". Next thread on this subject might be "What brand wood stove do you use and what are the pros/cons of that brand". I've got about a month until we are in the new house, maybe a little more since the bank/seller is dragging its feet on ratifying the counter-offer it made to us and that we agreed to in its entirety. If we don't get in there until mid February, I might be riding the rest of this winter out with the oil heat because I will be smack dab in the middle of tax season without much time to sleep, much less deal with buying a wood stove and getting wood for it. Decisions, decisions.