Found Perfect Shovel to Feed Coal to My Stove

coalrocks · Post by **coalrocks** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 1:21 am

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This is my fourth season of burning coal , One problem I always had was finding the right shovel to put coal in my hand fired stove. Every season I would go through 2 or 3 shovels, always seemed to bend and then break. This year I bought an 38 oz. Aluminum ice scoop..works great. Just wondering what kinda shovel others are using.

grumpy · Post by **grumpy** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 1:39 am

Yep, I use one just like it..

DennisH · Post by **DennisH** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 7:39 am

Me too. Got mine at GFS (Gordon Food Service) and it works great. Is basically indestructible! Had it for four years.

jjs777_fzr · Post by **jjs777_fzr** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 7:46 am

I think this is a grain shovel.

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Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 8:16 am

Eight heating seasons now, I've used one of these cheap, stamped sheet metal ones I bought at my local hardware store. Bent it once with too rough use trying to pry something loose. Straightened it by just bending it back over my knee.

What kind of shovels are you buying that you go through a few a year ? There're not the ones that come with a round plastic pail with pictures of fish and crabs on them are they ?

Paul

Vermonster · Post by **Vermonster** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 9:20 am

Same shovel I use sunny boy. Its an old ash shovel my pops gave to me .

michaelanthony · Post by **michaelanthony** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 9:33 am

[quote="Sunny Boy"]Eight heating seasons now, I've used one of these cheap, stamped sheet metal ones I bought at my local hardware store. Bent it once with too rough use trying to pry something loose. Straightened it by just bending it back over my knee.

What kind of shovels are you buying that you go through a few a year ? There're not the ones that come with a round plastic pail with pictures of fish and crabs on them are they ?

Paul[/quote]
[quote="Vermonster"]Same shovel I use sunny boy. Its an old ash shovel my pops gave to me .[/quote]

Ditto...same one, if I use it at all I just use the tipping mechanism on the coal hod!

Photog200 · Post by **Photog200** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 9:45 am

I have the grain scoop and the aluminum one as well. Bought the aluminum one at a restaurant supply store too. The grain scoop one was already starting to loosen up at the rivets so that is why I bought the aluminum one. I have two smaller ones in the house...the big one is out in the coal bin.
Randy

coalrocks · Post by **coalrocks** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 12:16 pm

Sunny Boy wrote:Eight heating seasons now, I've used one of these cheap, stamped sheet metal ones I bought at my local hardware store. Bent it once with too rough use trying to pry something loose. Straightened it by just bending it back over my knee.

What kind of shovels are you buying that you go through a few a year ? There're not the ones that come with a round plastic pail with pictures of fish and crabs on them are they ?

Paul

Yes had you know, no I used the same one you use. The cheap ones from the big home improvement stores.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 12:49 pm

I use a thick aluminum grain scoop similar to the scoop in Coalrock's photo only deeper & with a beefier handle. Our Tractor Supply coal hod came with one of the cheap sheetmetal shovels but it was useless for scooping coal out of the bags as the handle bent easily. It is however very handy for scooping out the stray ash in the ash pan area.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 12:53 pm

coalrocks wrote:
Sunny Boy wrote:Eight heating seasons now, I've used one of these cheap, stamped sheet metal ones I bought at my local hardware store. Bent it once with too rough use trying to pry something loose. Straightened it by just bending it back over my knee.

What kind of shovels are you buying that you go through a few a year ? There're not the ones that come with a round plastic pail with pictures of fish and crabs on them are they ?

Paul

Yes had you know, no I used the same one you use. The cheap ones from the big home improvement stores.

You got some tough coal down there in Jersey !

Paul

dlj · Post by **dlj** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 4:34 pm

I only use a shovel to clean ashes that fall outside my ash pan. I pour coal into the stove straight from my hod. Why do you have to use a shovel? Just wondering...

dj

Photog200 · Post by **Photog200** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 5:09 pm

dlj wrote:I only use a shovel to clean ashes that fall outside my ash pan. I pour coal into the stove straight from my hod. Why do you have to use a shovel? Just wondering...

dj

I have to use a scoop/shovel because my load door is only 8". If I load directly from the hod, it spills all over the floor.
Randy

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 5:42 pm

Photog200 wrote:
dlj wrote:I only use a shovel to clean ashes that fall outside my ash pan. I pour coal into the stove straight from my hod. Why do you have to use a shovel? Just wondering...

dj
I have to use a scoop/shovel because my load door is only 8". If I load directly from the hod, it spills all over the floor.
Randy

Ditto.

Only 8 inch diameter openings in my kitchen range.

And lifting a full coal hod up higher than a kitchen range stove top can be an adventure. As you all know, nut coal doesn't pore easily and uniformly like sand.

Tip it, the coal doesn't pour, tip more - still no pour. Tip a bit more ,. . . COAL AVALANCH, . . all over the hot stove top!

Then I have to quickly use the shovel to get all the coal off that very hot stove top before it starts to heat up and outgas. Phew !

Either way I have to use the shovel. One way, at least I'm not trying to carefully tip 30+ pounds of coal hod over a hot stove !

Paul

michaelanthony · Post by **michaelanthony** » Sun. Jan. 05, 2014 6:29 pm

[quote="Photog200"]
I have to use a scoop/shovel because my load door is only 8". If I load directly from the hod, it spills all over the floor.
Randy[/quote]

oh oh Randy don't you bring the coal hod with you when you go stove shopping? That deserves a spot on Chris Berman's Com'on Man

Time for a bigger stove!

Found Perfect Shovel to Feed Coal to My Stove

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