New forge V-shape

[Frank S]

I used to race on Friday nights we had a saying back then run with the one that brung ya meaning you ran with what you had or you went home if you did good you know what to expect the next time if not so good you went back and did what ever mods you thought you needed
My main question would be what have you thought of for the ash and clinker clean out?
Having lets call it your portcullis valve elevated above the bottom of the V allowing for ash and clinker to fall to either side to the bottom of the V with a belly door that could be rotated to either side of the open slot where the V would have come together would be my first choice but that would make for a much wider forge and have to be deeper over all
ash needs to have a place to fall out freely so you could slot the sides of the plates similar to how I drew the valve but making them longitudinal adding a matching slotted plate to cover them then you could open and close them having 1 on either side the opening and closing would serve to shear the clinker intl smaller chunks bringing the ash along with it.
But hey its just a thought and I am beginning to think that I might want to build one of my nest forges similar