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Cinderfella  Every now & then this blond packratt finds another "treasure." Out at Grandpa & Grandma's farm behind a shed is a metal bucket used to take ashes from the wood burning cook-stove out to dispose of them safely.  I dumped the dirt & weeds out of the metal container leaving some roots embedded in the rusty tin. By cleaning the hot ashes from our fireplace into the ash-bin I burned them off  The good old wire brush knocked off a lot of the rust....  However, it is the diamond infused brush that gets IN to really clean the surface.  After cleaning the dust from the surface with a "strong solvent" I began painting with a deep penetrating metal based paint.  This paint is an old school product of grandpa's... ( Probably illegal in 29 of the 50 states) BUT it sinks into the cracks sealing them from any further corrosion.  I don't really know what the final color of this ash-bin will be... gold... silver, Harley Davidson metallic blue! This project is just unfolding here today. |
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In the second picture you see some traces of red paint. Way back ... another blog topic.. there was a company >> IDEAL<< used red paint in the company logo that ,made all kinds of galvanized metal products water tanks, feed bunks and maybe ash-bins. I read about the company's WWII military contributions with a rare Female CEO directing the war effort. DAMMMM Chemo has me sick here tonight or I'd try to look up on this Company. Seems to me it was Iowa based.
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Now just make sure you don't kick the bucket 😂😂
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Too cool!!!! Love it!!!!!
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Looks like something Str would have on the train
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Is it not too heavy to carry outside to clean? Preserve it for the next generation to see and ponder about, Darter!
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That ask bucket is a treasure. Not too many of them to be found anymore. There are reproductions, of course, but there is nothing like the old originals. In my youth, I used to carry out the ashes from the wood cookstove and wood heater in one of those buckets.
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We got 4" of snow here this morning, which I shoveled from my place and a neighbor's place. It took me a couple hours and I got very tired. At my age I shouldn't be doing that, but somebody had to do it. At 10 pm, it is +2F, clear, calm.
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Now just make sure you don't kick the bucket 😂😂
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Too cool!!!! Love it!!!!!
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Looks like something Str would have on the train
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Is it not too heavy to carry outside to clean? Preserve it for the next generation to see and ponder about, Darter!
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That ask bucket is a treasure. Not too many of them to be found anymore. There are reproductions, of course, but there is nothing like the old originals. In my youth, I used to carry out the ashes from the wood cookstove and wood heater in one of those buckets.
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We got 4" of snow here this morning, which I shoveled from my place and a neighbor's place. It took me a couple hours and I got very tired. At my age I shouldn't be doing that, but somebody had to do it. At 10 pm, it is +2F, clear, calm.
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You, sir are an artist.....Your ash bucket is very cool......I have a couple of old galvanized laundry tubs that I have turned into planters......I used one of them to hold firewood back when I was heating with wood-stove..........
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You, sir are an artist.....Your ash bucket is very cool......I have a couple of old galvanized laundry tubs that I have turned into planters......I used one of them to hold firewood back when I was heating with wood-stove..........
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Pretty darn cool. I haven't seen an ash bucket like that since being on my grandpa's farm. Looking good, can't wait to see the finished product!
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Pretty darn cool. I haven't seen an ash bucket like that since being on my grandpa's farm. Looking good, can't wait to see the finished product!
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