Comments on: How To Build Your Own Dirt and Stone Screen Sifter…with Wheels! http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/ DIY Home Improvement Tips and Tricks Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:43:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Casey http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-6948 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:47:34 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-6948 If you've got an extra $700 tp spend or if your screening project is large, take a look at the one I bought. http://www.soilscreener.com. It was well worth the money. I finished my projects and now rent it out to some locals. I do plan to use it again next spring for another garden project! If you’ve got an extra $700 tp spend or if your screening project is large, take a look at the one I bought. http://www.soilscreener.com. It was well worth the money. I finished my projects and now rent it out to some locals. I do plan to use it again next spring for another garden project!

]]> by: Top Summer Home Improvement Projects | Home Improvements Depot http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3748 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:46:36 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3748 [...] How To Build Your Own Dirt or Rock Sifter: I guess a lot of people are working on big lawn and gardening clean-out projects when they’re not watching TV. A dirt or stone sifter is actually a pretty handy tool to have around. I used it to remove most of the stone from a large pit in my backyard left over from an above ground pool. I’ve also used it recently for a little cleanup work in the flower beds where I had stone and mulch and all sort of debris in there. I simply put a few shovelfuls of stuff on the sifter and rolled it back and forth. My sifting made a nice fine mulch and allowed me to just dump the larger stones and sticks and twigs. Planting grass and dirt sifting for gardens are classic summer home improvement projects. For the record: I think planting sod is cheating! [...] […] How To Build Your Own Dirt or Rock Sifter: I guess a lot of people are working on big lawn and gardening clean-out projects when they’re not watching TV. A dirt or stone sifter is actually a pretty handy tool to have around. I used it to remove most of the stone from a large pit in my backyard left over from an above ground pool. I’ve also used it recently for a little cleanup work in the flower beds where I had stone and mulch and all sort of debris in there. I simply put a few shovelfuls of stuff on the sifter and rolled it back and forth. My sifting made a nice fine mulch and allowed me to just dump the larger stones and sticks and twigs. Planting grass and dirt sifting for gardens are classic summer home improvement projects. For the record: I think planting sod is cheating! […]

]]> by: Tom http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3144 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:32:43 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3144 Lynda: Wow! That's great to hear! I would love to post pictures of your home-made dirt sifter (or anyone else's for that matter!)... Send em' my way and if I get enough I might be able to put up a whole page of photos! Donna: if it's a baseball field for kids you could always use the kids as free labor. At least, that's what my dad always told me when I was ten years old :-) Honestly, I got my home improvement bug from constantly watching and helping him fix and make things around the house.. Lynda: Wow! That’s great to hear! I would love to post pictures of your home-made dirt sifter (or anyone else’s for that matter!)… Send em’ my way and if I get enough I might be able to put up a whole page of photos!

Donna: if it’s a baseball field for kids you could always use the kids as free labor. At least, that’s what my dad always told me when I was ten years old :-) Honestly, I got my home improvement bug from constantly watching and helping him fix and make things around the house..

]]> by: Donna http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3131 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:17:46 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3131 thanks. We are raking grass and dirt from a infield baseball field that has not been taken care of. I'm going to try this. Thanks for the idea. thanks. We are raking grass and dirt from a infield baseball field that has not been taken care of. I’m going to try this. Thanks for the idea.

]]> by: Lynda http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3028 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:56:07 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-3028 Thank you so very much for your design. We have a flooded basement and have started working on a portion of yard near our deck and house for some regrading and replanting of grass and discovered that the previous homeowner put down landscape fabric and tons of patio rock. I thought it would take me the entire summer to seperate the rock from the dirt but with your design I'm actually making progress. I built the screen portion but I haven't been able to figure how to build the portion of wood where the wheels would go back and forth and how they attach. Regardless I'm extremely grateful. Thank you so very much for your design. We have a flooded basement and have started working on a portion of yard near our deck and house for some regrading and replanting of grass and discovered that the previous homeowner put down landscape fabric and tons of patio rock. I thought it would take me the entire summer to seperate the rock from the dirt but with your design I’m actually making progress. I built the screen portion but I haven’t been able to figure how to build the portion of wood where the wheels would go back and forth and how they attach. Regardless I’m extremely grateful.

]]> by: Daddyo http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2463 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:24:42 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2463 Why waste $46 at originalwheelbarrowscreener.com when you can build one yourself? Why waste $46 at originalwheelbarrowscreener.com when you can build one yourself?

]]> by: Tom http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2439 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:20:27 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2439 Yeah, I would have loved to build the whole thing on a swing mechanism of some sort! That was my original idea but I quickly abandoned it because I figured wheels would be a much simpler way of building an initial dirt sifter. If I had to do it again I would either find some way to swing it or find some way to hook up a little motor or something to automatically vibrate the screen. Pushing back and forth wasn't too bad, but it was still a bit heavy when I got to the rockier soil... Yeah, I would have loved to build the whole thing on a swing mechanism of some sort! That was my original idea but I quickly abandoned it because I figured wheels would be a much simpler way of building an initial dirt sifter. If I had to do it again I would either find some way to swing it or find some way to hook up a little motor or something to automatically vibrate the screen. Pushing back and forth wasn’t too bad, but it was still a bit heavy when I got to the rockier soil…

]]> by: Norm http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2313 Sat, 17 May 2008 23:24:21 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2313 I built one today and utilized bedframe wheels, because I had them. It works great. I love my dirt. I have $5.50 into it. I already had some leftover screen material from something else I had done many years ago, and the wheels I saved from a bed frame I threw out. Thanks alot. Norm I built one today and utilized bedframe wheels, because I had them. It works great. I love my dirt.
I have $5.50 into it. I already had some leftover screen material from something else I had done many years ago, and the wheels I saved from a bed frame I threw out.
Thanks alot.
Norm

]]> by: Annette http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2244 Sun, 11 May 2008 16:38:45 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2244 Another idea is to suspend the sifter from a tripod so that it swings...this should save your back even more grief. Another idea is to suspend the sifter from a tripod so that it swings…this should save your back even more grief.

]]> by: Gary S. http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2235 Sat, 10 May 2008 22:53:12 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-build-your-own-dirt-and-stone-screen-sifterwith-wheels/#comment-2235 The reason "Kevin" didn't reply to any of the requests to defend his first comment is that he's the guy selling the "Screeners" for $45.00. Check out his site and you'll see his name in the contact info. Just thought you might like to know. P.S. I'm going to build Tom's version as it will suit my needs much better and I already have most of the materials. Thanks for sharing the great idea. The reason “Kevin” didn’t reply to any of the requests to defend his first comment is that he’s the guy selling the “Screeners” for $45.00. Check out his site and you’ll see his name in the contact info. Just thought you might like to know. P.S. I’m going to build Tom’s version as it will suit my needs much better and I already have most of the materials. Thanks for sharing the great idea.

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