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OT: What do you do with your wood ashes?

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hillbillyOH

04-17-2007 06:00:08




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Any suggestions for disposing of the wood ashes produced by a woodstove? I've been putting some of it on the garden, but I know too much can be a bad thing.

Our stove produces about a gallon of ashes a day. I'm running out of garden and trees to dust!




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PJM/Z

04-18-2007 10:31:25




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
I burn wood 24hr a day all winter I never get a gallon of ash per day I burn hard wood. what are you burning look forward to your reply. My furnace takes a 24" log chears

PS put your ash in a land fill



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john hunt

04-18-2007 05:34:52




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
I had 3 cord of wood to burn this year. I be lucky if I get 5 gal of ash, I put them into my fall compost pile, I put household garbage newpaper rip up paper lime any thing that composted.. other thing were are you plant your potatoes at. that best place to put them ash at real thick. then till them in. at less keep potatoes bug of them potatoes patch too. as I found out years ago good luck happy garden

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MLD

04-18-2007 05:33:05




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
My father always dumps them on the garden, I've never seen them kill anything.



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dds-inc

04-17-2007 15:57:36




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
I, too, make quite a bit of ashes for my square footage. I just spread it all over my garden and then plow it under. Simple. Some people actually put it in their garbage cans but i think that is stupid as heck



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buickanddeere

04-17-2007 13:49:50




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
A gallon of ashes per day? What are you burning and how many blocks, sticks, chuncks etc go in the stove per day? The ashes get spread on slippery surfaces here or on the garden-lawn. I do get excited if the wife or kids burn trash with nails or staples.



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Buzzman72

04-17-2007 11:28:18




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
One old horseman I knew said that the way to get a wooly horse to shed down to his summer coat in the spring is to add some sifted wood ash to his feed...I'm thinking it was around 1/2 cup to a gallon of grain, but I don't exactly recall the proportion anymore.

If you can find the proportion...look for some folks with wooly-looking or half-shedded horses.



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mjbrown

04-17-2007 10:29:20




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
You could make soap the way the our ancesters did. They perculated water thruogh the ashes to make a lye solution and heated it up and added animal fat. I don't know the proportions but that is the basics I think.



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Glen in TX

04-17-2007 09:36:07




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
Been just spreading them on lawn too or in dirt drive way. Put some on concrete apron outside shop door and now it's going to pieces but it kept the ice off it in winter but maybe ruined the concrete? It's flaking bad now and other side where I never used ash isn't doing that.



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Mark - IN.

04-17-2007 20:02:57




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to Glen in TX, 04-17-2007 09:36:07  
Hmm? My job takes me into coal fired power plants plenty. The semis roll out of them non-stop carrying out the flyash from the burned coal. It ends up down the road where they make redi-mix. I"ve never asked what they use it for, and always guessed that they mixed it in as some sort of hardener. Listening to you, maybe they use it as a cleaning agent. I don"t know. I"ll tell you what, this other guy and I had to fish a cable down an 1.25" conduit out at one of them once that had years of flyash mixed in with pigeon poop down in it. There aint no fish tape strong enough, and we didn"t have a 4 story long drill bit. We finally gave up and cut the pipe out, and 4 stories worth of new pipe later, easy pulling (dropping). Flyash and pigeon poop makes for some strong stuff. No joke.

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Rickstir

04-17-2007 09:27:40




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
We put em in a shallow depression in the chicken yard. The girls love a good dusting.



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Dave Sherburne NY

04-17-2007 06:51:26




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
I keep a bucket of ashes in the garage to soak up
oil and grease spills, and then burn them again.
When I'm over loaded, I spread them on the lawn.



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RustyFarmall

04-17-2007 06:22:31




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to hillbillyOH, 04-17-2007 06:00:08  
Just scatter them across your lawn. It's a little late now, but I have found that they are also quite effective on an icy sidewalk or paved driveway.



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Ken Macfarlane

04-17-2007 07:33:47




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to RustyFarmall, 04-17-2007 06:22:31  
I spread em on the fields, our soils are acidic here. Also on the driveway if I'm outta sand. Just snowed/sleeted another few inches here this morning. About 6" of snow on the ground now after being bare a month ago.



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supergrumpy

04-17-2007 07:50:03




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to Ken Macfarlane, 04-17-2007 07:33:47  
I'm pretty sure the ashes are very alkaline, thinking I could use the ashes instead of lime on my punkin patch plus should be pretty fast adjustment of the PH

how much per acre would raise PH say 1 point??



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PhilcaseinWPa

04-17-2007 08:33:43




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to supergrumpy, 04-17-2007 07:50:03  
Depends on where your pH is now. pH is a logrithmic scale, ie. each is unit is 10Xs what the unit below it is. So if 100 lbs will raise it from 5 to 6 you would need 1000 lbs to go from 6 to 7. You also have to figure what the pH buffer of the soil is because other cations (Ca, Mg, & K) also influence how much the pH will change. At least that is how I understand it. I'm sure an agronomist could explain it better.
Phil

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Ken Macfarlane

04-17-2007 10:08:41




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 04-17-2007 08:33:43  
I think the short of that is, most any soils around my area can stand several tons per acre of lime if they haven't been done in a couple.

A few hundred pounds of wood ash isn't gonna to too far but it will help.



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huntingreen

04-17-2007 10:10:47




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 Re: OT: What do you do with your wood ashes? in reply to Ken Macfarlane, 04-17-2007 10:08:41  
Sell them on ebay. I know a guy who was selling chicken ???? as organic fertlizer there.



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