SkunkWerX

Am in the process of finishing up the latest project, a small screening machine.
My use is mostly for Topsoil and Compost, and some occasional fill dirt and mixing of soils for gardening and landscaping.



It's powered by an "old school" 5hp Honda horizontal shaft motor.
The screening bed is 4 feet wide by 6 feet of length. My BX bucket is in the 48" width range, that's why I didn't make it wider.

Today I built a pair of temporary transport wheels that are removable, so it can be wheeled around.
Screened about 3 yards of moist clay filldirt, and it did a respectable job. I suspect that will be the worst stuff I will put through it.

Tomorrow will test it on a a few yards of compsot straight from the pile, to see how it does.

http://usera.imagecave.com/skunkwerx...erSideView.jpg

http://usera.imagecave.com/skunkwerx...erFlywheel.jpg

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PegAir

Very nice!!!

Mickey

Not familiar with this kind of machine. Exactly how does it work? How important is the angle on the screen and how fast does screen vib,shake, ect,?

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irwin

Looks good Skunkwerx, like a rock bucket that vibrates. I wish I had the time and talent to put something similar together. Thumbs up

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SkunkWerX

Thnaks for the nice comments everyone.

Mickey, the motor spins an off-center flywheel, creating vibration.
It vibrates a lot!!! it's loud as heck, would wake the dead.

The angle is adjustable, and is dependant on the material being screened. Too much of an angle and some good unsifted stuff goes off the "waterfall" with the coarser spoils, not enough angle and it would just sit like a blob, I suppose, or, it would take a long time to sift itself out.

In my mind, it needs to shake the stuff down and out before you get back with the next FEL bucket full, in order to get good production.


HAPPY 4th to all!!

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Ducati996

SkunkWerX-

You are an inspiration to others with projects like these - thats one heck of a nice unit, and very well thought out! real glad you were able to share your creativeness with us! Its something I could never make, but need desperately! anybody would have a use for it - its so common for sifting out soil to be re-used again. Huge money saver! real nice Job!

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gunmaker

Great job! Looks better than some of the commercial models I've seen offered.

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PaulChristenson

Yeah...I saw your first bucketful sitting on the floor (in your picture)...

You need to get a BIGGER FEL...


By the way...Nice Work...so are you going to go into business??...

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Chris2520

Skunk it looks very nice , i ant no Farmer. so i am
kinda lost.... I asume it screens out rocks and debree.
is this correct?
so you have nice smooth dirt to put in the garden.
does that about cover it.

Chris.....

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SkunkWerX

Thanks to ALL for the nice compliments!

Chris. you got it, sifts out unwanted debris including rocks, roots, sticks, clods, clumps, chunks, etc. Leaves behind "screened" topsoil or compost, or simply clean fill. Yesterday I mexed some clean fill dirt with some screened compost to make psuedo-"topsoil" , worked well.
I spread a few yards of this "psuedo-soil" in the back yard where I have some erosion, ruts, and hardpacked areas with no grass growing, levelled, seeded, rolled and covered with a straw.

Duc, very true, it is both a time and money saver. I can screen a couple yards of material in ten minutes. By the time I would hook up the trailer, drive, $PAY$, bring it home and unload I would be looking for the hour or two that was lost.

Gunmkaer, Thanks for the compliment, it's not quite on that level.
The commercial units can digest 1 to 2 yard buckets per gulp, I'm only dumping 1/4 Yard at a time, but, it's fine for my homesteader purpose. It has some minor quirks I am working through, but by-and-large it's doing the job. The up side is that the commercial units are $7500 and soar up to $20K!! If I was running a large landscape firm or a big nursery I could see having a large-high-throughput unit. Otherwise, that's a lot of $$$ to sift dirt!

Paul, I had my son acting as "human FEL" standing on a stool with a 5 gallon bucket of fill dirt, dumping it on the screen, to Beta test the vibrating action.
If i got a bigger FEL, then I would need a bigger tractor, bigger implements, and then need to build a bigger screener!!
Oh the humanity!!


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