I feel your pain. My first 2 loads of "Sifted top soil" here in Chattanooga contained rock, glass and trash. I'd have sent it back if I could have. I built 2 screeners, a 1/2" one for the big stuff and a 1/4" one for the finer stuff. It was faster doing it twice than trying to get all of the clay thru the 1/4" screen. I'm a lot more selective with my suppliers now.
I just did this the other day! I had some rock piles with sand and soil from my backyard green project and I wanted to use the soil for other leveling.
Tip. If you are just doing it for soil its easier to angle the screen at a 45 and just use a shovel to drop the material on it with the 1/4 screen. The rocks fall away and saves you from shaking it to sift.
I made one like that for soil...your back after a while is going to kill you...if you can put the sifter at a 60 degree angle and catch the rocks with a basket or something at the bottom...that will make you life a lot easier. ....awesome though including the boy!!!
How can the Right Tool not have the Right Tool 🤔😂. Definitely a pain in the you know what. I had to do something similar when my curb was done and rocks and pieces of pavement end up in my soil 😢
Hey there great stuff. Love seeing the family time involved. Hey there I am over here in Norman Oklahoma and was thing about top dressing, should I do it now or wait until I green up and am growing strong? Bermuda of course. Thanks, God is good!
I had the same thing happen a couple of years ago with some soil, lots of Pitt rut mixed in. Built the same sifter as you did and it worked out. 💪 love the videos . This season will be a fun one again . ❤⛳⛳⛳
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Father son time is awesome! My son does the same dance at random moments in the day.
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Making Friday’s better when you upload Let’s go!!!!
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Nothing better than getting some work done and including the kids!
Yesirrr! Have a good vacation buddy?
I sift 1/8 inch then 1/16. It begins to look like a fine powder. Love it
Looks like a big house going up next door too. More folks to dominate!! Also Father son time is always awesome!!
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I feel your pain. My first 2 loads of "Sifted top soil" here in Chattanooga contained rock, glass and trash. I'd have sent it back if I could have. I built 2 screeners, a 1/2" one for the big stuff and a 1/4" one for the finer stuff. It was faster doing it twice than trying to get all of the clay thru the 1/4" screen. I'm a lot more selective with my suppliers now.
Oof. Yea I think that makes sense to get the big stuff out first. You got your money back though, right?
@@TheLawnTools yup
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Good deal
Metal detecting at beaches and looking for information - thank you for the friendly video! Cheers! 🥂
I made mine last year the same way with .25”. I doubled it and offset. Mainly for compost and soil.
Love that you pulled little tool along for the ride 😎 #intentionalmoments
Love the hashtag 🥰
Great job mate
I just did this the other day! I had some rock piles with sand and soil from my backyard green project and I wanted to use the soil for other leveling.
Nice!
Tip. If you are just doing it for soil its easier to angle the screen at a 45 and just use a shovel to drop the material on it with the 1/4 screen. The rocks fall away and saves you from shaking it to sift.
I made one like that for soil...your back after a while is going to kill you...if you can put the sifter at a 60 degree angle and catch the rocks with a basket or something at the bottom...that will make you life a lot easier. ....awesome though including the boy!!!
C clamp an orbital sander to the sifter to save your arms
metal window screen and even fiberglass window screen work great for this. It's even a finer mesh.
Use mining screen mesh, pricey but perfect and down to 1mm woven steel mesh
Looks like a lot of work to sift out - the better solution would be a spinning wire drum which is powered like Connor made
@Bradford Pear fair
Good job! Will be interesting to hear your comments on it after all the sand is sifted and if you would have made any other changes
How can the Right Tool not have the Right Tool 🤔😂. Definitely a pain in the you know what. I had to do something similar when my curb was done and rocks and pieces of pavement end up in my soil 😢
Ugh yea that’s so frustrating!
Hey there great stuff. Love seeing the family time involved. Hey there I am over here in Norman Oklahoma and was thing about top dressing, should I do it now or wait until I green up and am growing strong? Bermuda of course. Thanks, God is good!
Best bet is to do it once the grass is growing strong. In OK that will be a few more weeks at least.
What kind of sand did you order?
Masonry/mortar
@@TheLawnTools heck, I hope that doesn't happen to me haha. I've got masonry sand coming at the end of April
@@Orangeokie7
This is the only time out of 5 or 6 loads of sand that has ever had that for me
Is that Lefty's house being built back there?
Ha no he is moving a bit further away. Hope the new neighbor doesn’t mind golf balls in their back yard 😬
@@TheLawnTools Boy, could you imagine if that neighbor literally hates all the good lawn jazz you have going on back there, LOL. Sucks for him :)
@@jordannarlock7995 😂
That sure looks like a lot of work.
Never stopped me before
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I had the same thing happen a couple of years ago with some soil, lots of Pitt rut mixed in. Built the same sifter as you did and it worked out. 💪 love the videos . This season will be a fun one again . ❤⛳⛳⛳
Sifter? I hardly know ‘er.
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