Screen Table...

[Tejaas]

Had some down time and some leftover lumber from a previous project...

So I decided to throw together another sift table for this winters dig.

6' x 3' - 1/2" screen.

I usually prefer to weld up 3" steel tubing frames and use perforated steel for the sifting surface... But I got bored and had the spare materials.

Haha maybe I can set this one 50 yards from the others and keep the wife off MY table! Haha!

 

[Flea-bit Monkey]

It's going to be a long cold winter around here. Can't wait to see what you find.

 

[1320]

Great looking effort! One question, how do you get rid of the material once you're through searching it?

 

[Tejaas]

Great looking effort! One question, how do you get rid of the material once you're through searching it?

Just pick up the table with the lift arms on the tractor, then lay the dirt back out with a box blade.

That's the quick & easy way for us at our digs, so when laying out the sift table leg supports it doesn't matter to have an open side to shovel the dirt back down.

 

[monsterrack]

Real fine table. Good Luck HH

 

[bci101tractors]

Hey Tejaas,
Thats a nice sift, love the use of spare leftovers... I wish you great luck.
I use 1/4, hope 1/2 works for you. You did a nice job.

 

[Tejaas]

Hey Tejaas, Thats a nice sift, love the use of spare leftovers... I wish you great luck. I use 1/4, hope 1/2 works for you. You did a nice job.

Thanks much!

The 1/2" screen is perfect here. When we get into the droughts it still allows a lot of the clods to fall through and minimizes the amount of excess dirt ya still got to slowly comb through.

If I'm on one of my bird point sites, the 1/4" screen goes underneath on the support trusses to catch them.

 

[Tnmountains]

I like that method. I saw a nice screen that had the two sized screens the lower smaller screen was like 18 inches below and hinged to dump. That way you could run your hand over it to sift it through. Old brooms will sweep some material through them quick also. Those little stiff hand held ones.
Nice set up you have. Heavy equipment does it fast as does a pump and water. Go big go all the way.

 

[Tejaas]

I like that method. I saw a nice screen that had the two sized screens the lower smaller screen was like 18 inches below and hinged to dump. That way you could run your hand over it to sift it through. Old brooms will sweep some material through them quick also. Those little stiff hand held ones. Nice set up you have. Heavy equipment does it fast as does a pump and water. Go big go all the way.

Ya know, I never thought of using an old stiff bristle shop broom.

We use cut down garden hoes, or the best is a piece of 2x2 an inch narrower than the screen width... Lay it across the screen dirt and drag... Two passes and your good.

Great tip, and safer so as not to break points.

 

[Tnmountains]

Worked for me after rubbing my gloves all over the screen every time.I should have tried the 2x2. Small plastic dust pan will quickly scoop and chunk out the rocks and roots debri also. I used to be a digging fool. Now I hardly have the time. But I still have a stack of sifters. We would rope all our gear down from the top and same way back up. Of course we are in mountains haha.