Holy embers batman

[Medmech]

I was in my garage tonight having a smoke and put it out in a steel ash can for fireplace cleaning. When I put out I stirred the ashes a bit and when back inside, I returned to get some stuff out of the car and smelt something burning. What was it? The embers that I stirred are releasing their heat a few golf ball size rock elm embers are hot enough to heat a pan of water if I put one on them.

The wild part, those ashes are 1 week old!!!!!!!!!


Wow.

[Hatterasguy]

Damn they really hold heat!

I didn't know you smoked.

[Medmech]

Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Damn they really hold heat!

I didn't know you smoked.

On and off, I call them Xanax sticks.

[Hatterasguy]

I'm like that with cigars...every once in awhile.

[TheDon]

lol a few 4th of july's ago we had a fire put going over the course of the night. well at the end we all cleaned up and tossed the spent fireworks in embers to burn the paper off.Well I guess some of them were still live, about 8 hours later in the AM fireworks go off... it was insane lol...

[Matt L]

Time to store that can somewhere other than in the garage. I had one of those burn a few years ago. Insurance came through, but boy, nobody would go through that by choice.

[Medmech]

Originally Posted by Matt L

Time to store that can somewhere other than in the garage. I had one of those burn a few years ago. Insurance came through, but boy, nobody would go through that by choice.

How were they stored? We use steel buckets and keep them in an area with nothing combustible in the proximity, if they were filled will coal and ignited I don't think it would hit anything.

[Matt L]

Originally Posted by Howitzer

How were they stored? We use steel buckets and keep them in an area with nothing combustible in the proximity, if they were filled will coal and ignited I don't think it would hit anything.

I'm talking about the garage, not embers. My incident was electrical in origin, as far as anyone can tell.

[Medmech]

Originally Posted by Matt L

I'm talking about the garage, not embers. My incident was electrical in origin, as far as anyone can tell.

Yes, straight outside they go.

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by Howitzer

I was in my garage tonight having a smoke and put it out in a steel ash can for fireplace cleaning. When I put out I stirred the ashes a bit and when back inside, I returned to get some stuff out of the car and smelt something burning. What was it? The embers that I stirred are releasing their heat a few golf ball size rock elm embers are hot enough to heat a pan of water if I put one on them.

The wild part, those ashes are 1 week old!!!!!!!!!


Wow.

Howie, have you ever heard of the turn-of-the-century (can't recall exact dates) wildfires in WI & MI? There were entire towns FULL OF PEOPLE incinerated. Because it was mostly rural it never got much play in the big-east newspapers. Some significant portion of the current jackpine forest of the upper, lower peninsular of MI is STILL recovery from those fires over a century ago.

[Mistress]

Alternative heat source? Howie was ya smokin macanudo's or romeo and julietas, or partigas?

[Medmech]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Howie, have you ever heard of the turn-of-the-century (can't recall exact dates) wildfires in WI & MI? There were entire towns FULL OF PEOPLE incinerated. Because it was mostly rural it never got much play in the big-east newspapers. Some significant portion of the current jackpine forest of the upper, lower peninsular of MI is STILL recovery from those fires over a century ago.

No but I am going to read up on it, I think I recall something about it in a physical geography class.........yes I do know my state soil!!!

[Mike D]

It's not very often smoking prevents smoke damage but it seems to have worked in your case.