So you've got really rough soil what can you do about it well in today's episode
we are going to build a rotary soil sieve now. I built one of these a
few years ago but over the years the frame has rotted away and today we're
going to rebuild that soil sieve we're going to take a look how it works and
we're gonna see it in action and that's coming right up after this
welcome to another episode of UK Here We Grow if it's your first time here
consider hitting that subscribe button and the Bell notification to be informed
when we put up new videos so soil sieve's what are they what can they do
well soil Sieve can be in all sorts of things it can be a basic screen mesh on
it on a frame it can be a purchased one from a store but these are typically
quite hard and can imagine doing the whole bed that this size could take
quite a lot of work and give you some sore shoulders so a few years ago I
built a rotary soil sieve that works from an electric motor so it's
motorised and all you're literally got to do is shovel in the soil and good
clean soil falls at the bottom and all the rubbish comes up the end of it so as
you can see here guys I've got some 2x2 Timbers and this is
what we're gonna build a carcass the frame out I also have the drum that was
built from before now this drum is quite easy to make I've got an old video here
it is an old video and quality isn't the best but this video will show you the
basics of building this drum I don't need to build another one so there's no
point me doing that just for this video but you can see the basics from up there
we got a little motor that we need to operate and this is geared down to slow
the drum down and we'll explain more about that later on but for now let's
get on with building this trommel's frame and we're gonna do that by
starting to cut some up right posts and we're literally gonna build just a
square box that we can set the drum in and support the drum
well guys it's been a bit of a day but it's built there's a couple of little
bits we need to change on it like we need to round over these handles here
but I will take you through it all in a moment but first let's have a look at it
working
so a couple that couple of seconds guys this is all a crap it took out of that soil and that's
no good to anybody it's all stone now this doesn't stop all the stone coming
through but it what it does do it allows anything smaller than 13 mil to drop
back through so you still get drainage but it takes out all of this crap that you don't
need and that was just a few shovel fulls it really does speed it up and move the
barrow now to show you and this is the soil comes out there guys nice soft crumbly
soil but if you notice there's still small stones in it so it allows the
drainage but some organic matter in there now once it's all dug and that will do wonders
so I'm going to take you through this system alright guys so as you can see
we've got the drum don't forget that video will be up in the cards above
we've got a base which is just four posts and a couple of cross beams and these
wheels actually support the drum from you know from falling so that's what
makes the drum go round in circles this drum is then connected by a V belt to
the middle wheel and that comes up to a pulley system now this is a ten to two
pulley so we've got a two inch pulley on a 10 inch pulley there well that does it
gears down the motor so that this big drum the time you take this
circumference of the drum into consideration it's about 30 revolutions
a minute and that's ideally what you're looking
for 25 to 30 revs a minutes okay we've put a board on this side obviously
attach the handle here but the board is there to stop the soil just being tossed
everywhere as you can see I've just buried one of my mother hosta's
and we'll have to try and salvage that but that soil is lovely as we come
around the back we've got a shorter board here and this shorter board will
allow you to get underneath with a spade to shovel it out if you need to or you
could put a big bucket under there to catch it or whatever and the wheelbarrow
will take all of the rubbish away come in up to the motor to here this is just
a temporary platform that we used on the old one I haven't bothered changing it yet the
Motor is mounted to that with a shaft into a couple of bearings and that's all
that is but we will fix this motor up so on the back is open and we've got a
couple of pneumatic wheels as you saw I was putting on and that allows us to
lift it and wheel it around like a wheelbarrow so because otherwise trying
to move this would be heavy and hard work for one person but as it stands
it's much much easier so if I plug it in now I'll give you a close-up on it
so moving is very easy you just pick it up just like a wheelbarrow and literally
just move it around move it to your next stage off you go again well folks I hope
you really enjoyed this episode of how to build a soil sifter or a soil sieve
now like I said I built one of these about five years ago and it did a ton of
work and as you can see we've sifted or sieved loads of soil already so in a
couple of minutes it is it does make this job very very easy and the soil in
there afterwards once it's had some organic matter put into it will be
absolutely fantastic so if you're having really bad ground like my parents had
there and then you can build one of these a couple of hours in an afternoon
and you're a way to go and you'll always have it now the reason the soil was so
bad there was it came from a farm and it was supposed to have been top grade topsoil and
it was absolutely rubbish you've seen the amount of crap that's just come out
of it so well so build one of these soil sieve's guys they are really worth the
effort so got a question for you guys how many of you could do with one of
these put your answers down in the comment section below don't forget to
give this video a thumbs up and share it with all your friends I will be seeing
you in the next video bye-bye guys
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét