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[jksweld]

What kind of tools is everyone using or have for their wood boilers. Things like brushes, scrapers, small shovels....  Im going to make me a new scraper and a small shovel since Ive lost mine. Also gonna make me a rack or caddy to put them all on. Just wondered if there was anything else neat or usefull out there!!

Thanks
James

[slimjim]

On a conventional boiler you have your shovel, a poker to move the wood around, I like a rock pick or hoe to move the coal bed around, a metal ash can and broom to sweep off the pad

[SKAMPO]

I use a hoe and a flat scraper for moving ashes or rearranging wood, also have a metal trash can for ash removal. No rack required I just lean them up against the side of the burner.

[Trint]

I have the factory exchanger cleaning tool, a tine hoe(to rack to the coals and arrange stuff), and a fence post I use as a poker.

[hoardac]

I have a square shovel, small metal rake, and a pic-a-roon and a waterhose I can turn on from inside the cellar. I just shovel the ashes onto the cement pad next to the stove and dump them in the garden with the bobcat when it snows.

[baldwin racing]

What kind of tools is everyone using or have for their wood boilers. Things like brushes, scrapers, small shovels....  Im going to make me a new scraper and a small shovel since Ive lost mine. Also gonna make me a rack or caddy to put them all on. Just wondered if there was anything else neat or usefull out there!!

Thanks
James

I made my own flat scrapper to pull coals forward with t handle on end. I also took a old flat shovel welded on the right length steel handle with a t handle end as well....I then made a rack with 4 rods coming off the bracket to hold the scrapper and shovel by the t handles....so they sit next to my boiler hanging off bracket nice and neat and ready to be reached easily.
kelly

[slimjim]

Anybody have a fire extinguisher, I do on my show trailer, no real need for it but it makes the fire marshalls officer feel better when we burn them at the shows.

[tulenutn2o]

Now Slim jim........................why would you want to put out a nice warm fire? 

[slimjim]

Just for show but when it's 90 degrees outside and I'm dumping about 600,000 BTU's into the audience with the doors open on the chip boiler and the reaction chamber door on the 250 with dry grass nearby at a county fair, well sometimes the fire marshalls get a bit uppity

[hondaracer2oo4]

I use have a flat shovel that I use for ash removal, an old wheel barrow handle to use as poker to move logs around in the boiler(works awesome, been using for three years now and hardly burned any of the end off) I just picked up one of these http://www.harborfreight.com/propane-torch-with-push-button-igniter-91037.html for $22 with a 25% off coupon. This is by far my best purchase yet for the boiler. The thing rocks! If the fire goes out and I need to get it going again this thing will get a raging fire going in 2 minutes. I use to screw with waste oil and kindling etc. No more of that!

[Roger2561]

Those who own the Central Boiler OWB knows the importance and the pain in the arse it is to keep the primary air holes open and free of creosote.  After looking around online for something it finally struck me that I don't need anything fancy.  I simply took a coat hanger, cut 2 pieces from it at 10 inches long and twisted them together.  I place it in the chuck of my cordless drill and WALLA!, it works.  You should see the crap come out of those holes.  It took me 1/3 the time to clear all of the holes.   

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