KevGuy
Knows what a fatty is.
This may seem silly to talk about but there is a bit of a story to my ash bucket.
This bucket took me 1 month to acquire. I went to every hardware store and such trying to find a metal bucket. Due to this plague we have been dealing with, none were to be found. It is 6 gallons, galvanized and has a nice sealing lid. The aluminum Weber kettle plate fits just nicely inside the bucket lid to pour the ash into it.
I could of easily had a plastic bucket. Lots of those around and 99.999% of the time it would be ok to dump ashes in, but it just takes one time for a piece of hot/burning material to end up in the bucket and I could have a big problem...plastic bucket catches on fire, results in wooden deck on fire and finally the house going up in flames. I know this is taking it to the extreme, but I just wasn’t comfortable with plastic.
To acquire this bucket, I had to order it online from a vendor in the USA (I’m in Canada) that typically only sells to large contractors, companies and the such. However, they gladly sold it and shipped it to me. So I ended up paying a few extra dollars for my piece of mind. If anything hot/sparking/burning goes into this bucket it will either safely burn out or be smothered by the ash and the tight sealing lid depriving it of oxygen. Furthermore, the tight sealing lid keeps the rain and snow out so I don’t end up having to deal with an ash slurry that I can’t readily dump in the garbage bin.
This bucket took me 1 month to acquire. I went to every hardware store and such trying to find a metal bucket. Due to this plague we have been dealing with, none were to be found. It is 6 gallons, galvanized and has a nice sealing lid. The aluminum Weber kettle plate fits just nicely inside the bucket lid to pour the ash into it.
I could of easily had a plastic bucket. Lots of those around and 99.999% of the time it would be ok to dump ashes in, but it just takes one time for a piece of hot/burning material to end up in the bucket and I could have a big problem...plastic bucket catches on fire, results in wooden deck on fire and finally the house going up in flames. I know this is taking it to the extreme, but I just wasn’t comfortable with plastic.
To acquire this bucket, I had to order it online from a vendor in the USA (I’m in Canada) that typically only sells to large contractors, companies and the such. However, they gladly sold it and shipped it to me. So I ended up paying a few extra dollars for my piece of mind. If anything hot/sparking/burning goes into this bucket it will either safely burn out or be smothered by the ash and the tight sealing lid depriving it of oxygen. Furthermore, the tight sealing lid keeps the rain and snow out so I don’t end up having to deal with an ash slurry that I can’t readily dump in the garbage bin.
