FRAM Stove - what happened to the ashes?


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Posted by Owen Roberts on January 24, 2007 at 00:00:41 from 195.92.67.75 user OwenRoberts.

In WH, the storage of used tins and rabbit skin pieces are described. But what happened to the ashes from the stove?
When the water was unfrozen, they would have gone straight over the side - just as the GA dumped the mine samples in PM. Usually this type of stove had a removable ashpan at the base.
I can remember having to sieve the ashes to retrieve any partly burnt or unburned piece of coke for recycling through the stove again. One always stood to windward! The sieved material went into the potholes on our unmade road.
I cannot imagine them retaining the ashes in FRAM. Perhaps they put them on the ice at the base of the ladder to form a less slippery base for climbing from the ice.
I wonder also why coal was used by CF? Coke usually burns better in these stoves and was freely available in the 1930's. Also coke produces less smoke and therefore less need to sweep the stovepipe.



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