Ash storage and ash displosal, looking for recommendations

Title sort of states it but I'll expand.

What do you use to store the ash you clear out of your fireplace? Especially when you need to pull hot ash out. I was looking for a bucket of some sort with a securable lid.

Then the obvious, what do I do with the cold ash? I could always try filling the trunk of my car and doing a big Dukes of Hazard jump so I get a nice "poof" on landing... but I'm not sure others would appreciate it

 

Metal bucket with a lid works well.

I put most of the ash on the asparagus patch and a little around the apple and pear trees.

 

I use a small (5 gallon?) galvanised garbage can with a tight lid. I leave it filled outside on the gravel for 2 weeks until its time to empty my 2 fireplaces again. I take the 2 week old stone cold ashes & sprinkle them back in the woods. Kind of completes the cycle. Of course you must KNOW that there are no coals whatsoever. I prefer to spread the ashes on top of snow.
Grandparents used to make soap out of ashes & lard I think.

 

This helps the asparagus? I've got a patch or two.

To the OP, I put my ash into a galvanized trash can away from any combustible. The ash then goes to the burn pile. But if it will help grow more delicious asparagus.....

 

Best ash bucket, and best price at Lowe's $15.98 /http://www.lowes.com/pd_195272-63872-6106_0__?productId=3473839
Behrens 6-Gallon Silver Indoor/Outdoor Garbage Can
Features locking lid, and I will tell ya, it LOCKS if you drop the bucket on it's side it will not spill
I dump the ashes in the fire pit, when the snow flies I dump the ashes in the woods

 

Yeah they like high pH soil, I haven't tested the pH in a few years but they seem to be doing really well so I just keep dumping most ash there. It's a 8' x 40' area I have too.

 

Same here as most, it's like a 2 gallon metal pail with a locking lid, I have 2 of them. One sits on the hearth the second on the crushed stone under the porch. After about a month I fill a dog food bag with the ash and bring it to the recycle center. I don't have a garden or woods close enough.

 

does this thread mean your going to open an ash can here???????????

 

Will put hot ashes in a metal can with lid and place outside on concrete away from the house. Sometimes I will wrap some meat, potatoes, and onions in foil and place in can and cover with the ashes. Dinner in 1-2 hours. Easy Easy. When the can fills up I empty in a big mulch pile around a tree stump. Grew Canna bulbs there this year and they were double their normal size.

 

I use 2- 5 gal metal buckets with lids. Dump in the woods.

 

I live in the country and I take them back by my woods and I dig a hole and dump them in the hole and when the hole gets full I cover it over with dirt. Then dig another hole. One hole will last me for a while. If there is hot coals when I throw them in the hole I will shovel a little dirt over the hot coals.

 

Dump it outside and pour water on it.

 

Galvanized metal trash can. Set on the brick front porch - don't set anything on a deck, it can char the boards.
I use a regular ash pail and wide scoop to clean it out, be gentle and slide the ash off the shovel and it won't make such a huge mess in the house
When it fills up I sift it with a milk crate and keep the charcoal for the grill

 

Galvanized pail with tight lid as above. Two weeks later, I broadcast it on the gravel driveway on the snow and ice.
The Dukes of Hazard jump would be more fun.

 

+2

 

I've got the traditional looking ash bucket and keep the cleaned out ash/coals in that bucket until it's about half full on my hearth until I empty it out on the neighbors vacant, wooded lot!!!! He has told me to drop whatever "bio-degradables" I have there.........................so that's what I do!!

Dog poop, ash, bark, saw chips are what I dump there............................the owner is fine with it!!

 

I just take them out in a metal bucket and spread them on the garden, hot coals and all.