My neighbor dodged a big bullet doing something similar. The daughter cleaned out the Ben Franklin ashes into a paper sack. She set the paper sack out on the recessed front porch. In the morning the hot embers had a 1 foot diameter hole charred in the floor right where a bunch of floor joists...
Alcohol and fire are a dangerous combo.
Poor judgment and fire are a disaster waiting to happen.
I rented a room in my house one winter. She did Not use the wood stove.
A high end event space/restaurant had a fire in several of their guest room in December. One of the guests was worried about leaving the ashes in the fireplace before going to dinner, so she shoveled them into the wicker wastebasket.
Works good. Probably not great for indoors.
I heard about a guy sucking ashes out of his pellet stove with a shop vac. Tried to do it before waiting long enough. It was shooting sparks out of the exhaust. Whoopsie.
What I dislike with the hand bellows is the air flow in surges and nothing in-between. The generated heat is blown away and inconsistent. I prefer a slow but steady flow by the lungs. It's still interrupted but that gives more time for the small flame or embers to thaw a given area.
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