Fireplace tool setup

My cheap tool set for the wood burner is starting to show its age. What are you ladies and gentlemen using?
Right now I move the ash around with my shovel. The problem is the handle is too short and the gloves have started to melt. Also, the rivets are getting loose and the metal seems to have tempered as it more easily bends. All of the tools are screwed onto a threaded shaft and need constant tightening. I was thinking of:
An ash rake http://www.cuttingedgemetals.com/super-heavy-duty-fireplace-rake/
A set of tongs http://www.cuttingedgemetals.com/heavy-duty-fireplace-fire-pit-tongs/
A shovel http://www.woodlanddirect.com/Firep...on-Tool-Sets/Hooked-Black-Wrought-Iron-Shovel
Welding gloves
My woodburner is an Ideal Steel with the ash pan (love it). Once or twice daily I stir around the coals to get rid of the ash down the grate and to burn down coals. This is so much better than a shovel and a bucket!

Does anybody have suggestions for tools, or which company to purchase from?

 

I am hoping for that type of longevity from my tools!

 

I have some big tongs , never use em
The tools I use , barbecue tongs I use once in a great while to move things around and once in awhile I use it to fetch the big coal when they fall onto the tray, the poker, the coal rake the, little ash shovel and then the Big one.
I use the little ash shovel to move the coals to one side and ashes all to the other, then, usually one big scoop and straight out the back door and into the ash bucket and I'm done , this way I don't have ash dust flying around while putting them in a bucket inside.

 

You got those tools all down there and took that pic before your honey saw ya... dint ya HD...

 

The only thing I could use without burning my fingers (with gloves on) is the rake, maybe the poker.

 

Scotty,
What are those good for? Doesn't look to hold much of a log? Now blacksmithing tool would make sense.

 

I use welding gloves , they don't melt and I no get burned

 

Forgot about the tongs. Thing I will have to find some. Nice to use those instead of the glove when I need to adjust a split.

 

I made this up a couple of months ago. It's been indispensable. I take much less ash and coals out of the stove now. Along with a cheap shovel, it's all I use now.

I made it out of 3x3x1/4" angle and a piece of 3/8" rebar. I thought it was too heavy at first, and my wife still thinks so, but the extra weight helps when digging down into the belly of the beast. The 'M' has no meaning, just easy cuts to make with my chop saw. Unless you want to show your community pride I'll make you one if you want. I need too whip one up for my sister, so I'll be dragging the stuff out one of these days.

Looks like it might the a little more super heavy duty than the one you linked. And it would be free.
edit- Or not, I just looked a little closer. Eleven pounds and 45" long? Might be a little excessive.



I occasionally use the aluminum arrow shaft/blow tube, when I let the coals burn down a little too far.

 

Right now my shovel sits in the ash bucket and the other tools lean against the stone. By next winter I want to make a rack to hold them all with a metal box/tray that I can position at the bottom of it to catch ashes and debris that fall off the tools. I keep the end of the rake setting in a cookie tin lid, it works for now.

 

I might have to stop by and see it in use!!! I am still paying UofM on my wife's 3 semesters there....

 

The log tongs have been useful for loading the back of the stove without burning my arms - even with the welding gloves on!!! My tongs now are not very sturdy and don't work too well since the screw is stripped slightly.

 

I need to come see your fancy new stove.

Looks like I have some time. I just noticed the forecast in my sig line. Uggg, -6 tomorrow night? Again? I'm ready to be done.

 

I use to use these when I had my 8 cubic foot smoke dragon ,I could reach in there good the stove was 3 feet long, side load

 

I have something similar right now (same design) which I need to place logs in the rear. The screw is stripped and they don't work too well.