Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener

   / Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener #11  
Skunk said:
For extra ease in transport, I'm now thinking about getting longer bolts and mounting some lawnmower-sized wheels at the top, where the Leg's pivot. That way it can be folded and picked up at the bottom end, and rolled around easily.

Using a small piece of chain, it could be hooked to the rear of the tractor and towed.
Like this idea.
 
   / Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener
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#13  
I move the screener out of the way to get to the soil.
That's another reason why it's "portable".

I am able to grab that same board, with the chain on it, and lift the unit upward with the teeth on the FEL.

Enough dirt piles up underneath, that it has to be moved anyway.

This one is really an example of what can be done at little or no cost.
I had some compost to sift for planting/gardening purposes and didn't want to spend an entire weekend or $100 dollars to build it.
 
   / Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener #14  
SkunkWerX said:
*I am able to grab that same board, with the chain on it, and lift the unit upward with the teeth on the FEL.
I really like your screener.>--------->> NICE JOB ! ! !

I took another look at your pictures of it.
When you go to lift and move it with your F E L what keeps it from wanting to fold up on you.
I don't have a tooth bar on my BX23 FEL so will have to come up with another way to lift and move it.
I think I will build one about like it; but first could you please tell me.
How long is the screened section?
How long are the supporting legs?
 
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#15  
When I pick it up, it does want to fold. I am just lifting it straight up, to get it out of the way. I suppose you could attach a rigid piece, isntead of the chain if you wanted to keep it from folding.

Originally the screening bed was about 8 feet long. And leg's were approx. 6 feet tall.
This was a wee bit too tall for the BX bucket lift height.

So, I hacked off the bed down to approx. 7 ft. long. The leg's are still about 6 feet long, give or take a few inches, But I moved the pivot point to also make the top of the screening bed lower.

Raise your bucket, then dump it, and take a measurement. You want to keep from whacking down onto the screener with your bucket edge when you dump.
 
   / Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener #16  
That looks like the ticket, I was just leveling off a large piece of ground behind my barn, I have good size piles of spoil, lots of topsoil, but lots of rock as well, I just paid 20 bucks a yd last week for nice topsoil, but I looked at my pile and said , I need to make something to sift that dirt,,

I would need to design a bigger one like the other one on thsi thread, my thought was how am I going to get iot to vibrate,, but I see you guys dont have anything like that, do you need to put it through a few times to get it to seperate,, or is all that nice dirt just from one pass through,,

I also have a stupid question, do you put the material in from the same side you remove the dirt from?? [the high open end?]
thanks pat
 
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#17  
Maplehill,

Design the width of the unit for your bucket width, at least.

I got my finished soil from one ride down the slope of the screen.
Admittedly, it doesn't sepearate everything and you still end up with some good stuff falling with the rocks and debris. The spoils could be re-screened a 2nd time, if you want to get all the good stuff out of it.

With mine, the height and width doesn't make it great for reaching underneath with the bucket, so, after I have a Yard or so of screened soil, I move it out of the way to scoop the good stuff. usually by this time I have piled up enough spoils that it needs to be moved anyway.

if you make it stationary, then build a vertical wall at the spoil end, so the spoils drop off the edge. Also make it beefy enough and wide enough that you can reach underneath from the same end you dump from, to grab the good stuff you have filtered.
 
   / Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener #18  
Like the screener, nice project. I too think I will build one, but a bit larger stationary one. Thanks for the idea.
 
   / Down and Dirty basic Soil Screener #19  
66” wide simple word for me
 

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