I have read in another post in this group that you can get such a thing
as a mechnical riddle or soil sieve. Does anyone know where you can
hire these from; had a look on HSS Hire website but nothing? Many
thanks.

"newbietothis" wrote in message
ups.com...
I have read in another post in this group that you can get such a thing
as a mechnical riddle or soil sieve. Does anyone know where you can
hire these from; had a look on HSS Hire website but nothing? Many
thanks.

I've seen one once. A geezer I bought a shed from a few years ago had one in
his garden, it was a rotary screen cylinder, about 4 ft long and 2ft dia,
turned by a big handle at one end. he was using it to screen his very stony
soil, and didn't want to part with it.

If you find a source I'd like a look at it too.

Steve

Coopers of Stortford have a rotary sieve for £39.99
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/

I've been thinking of getting one to sieve my compost but...

Trefor

"newbietothis" wrote in message
ups.com...
I have read in another post in this group that you can get such a thing
as a mechnical riddle or soil sieve. Does anyone know where you can
hire these from; had a look on HSS Hire website but nothing? Many
thanks.

"Trefor Jones" wrote in message
...
Coopers of Stortford have a rotary sieve for £39.99
https://coopersofstortford.co.uk/index.cfm

I've been thinking of getting one to sieve my compost but...

Trefor

I don't think much of that one. I think it would clog at the slightest
opportunity.

Steve

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Trefor Jones" wrote in message
...
Coopers of Stortford have a rotary sieve for £39.99
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/

I've been thinking of getting one to sieve my compost but...

Trefor


This is much more like the one I saw, but don't look at the price!!

http://www.powertooldirect.co.uk/sch...e-p-81574.html

Steve

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Trefor Jones" wrote in message
...
Coopers of Stortford have a rotary sieve for £39.99
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/

I've been thinking of getting one to sieve my compost but...

Trefor

I don't think much of that one. I think it would clog at the slightest
opportunity.

Steve

I have one of these. It's easier than a normal sieve but still hard work. No
real clog problems. You still need to invert the thing occasionally to get
rid of the big bits.

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Trefor Jones" wrote in message
...
Coopers of Stortford have a rotary sieve for £39.99
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/

I've been thinking of getting one to sieve my compost but...

Trefor


This is much more like the one I saw, but don't look at the price!!

http://www.powertooldirect.co.uk/sch...e-p-81574.html

Steve


The hand sieve was a bit too much like hard work so I got a Scheppach.
Excellent machine but, if as in my case you were planning to use it to
produce seed compost, then you need to buy a very big steriliser.
Any regulars in the group are welcome to borrow the thing (I use it twice a
year)

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message

What we want is something that would break up the soil, pick it up,
sieve
it, and replace it, all in one operation, throwing the waste
straight into a
barrow. I wonder if there is such an animal? I'm sure there would be
many
applications for such a machine not least new houses with gardens
full of
builders rubble covered over with turf, as they do.

This may be a dumb, way off the wall suggestion, but I think it would
work. It'd require effort on your part but still should be easier
than a standard garden sieve. You'd need to build it so may not want
to go there, and it certainly wouldn't do all the things you want but
it would sieve the waste out.

Have you seen the gold cradles that were used in the gold rushes in
the "newer" bits of the world? They were built like a babies rocking
cradle and the action of rocking the thing from side to side sorted
the dirt from the nuggets. They had a number of riffles in them to
catch the gold as it went through and it was used by tossing water
into the top of it, but if it was made with just a rectaungular sieve
of square metal wire of the size you wanted to sort (and perhaps a
variety of sizes?) and which was placed right at the top of the
rocker, then it should work (assuming your soil is neither set like
concrete or is like mud).

Here's a Yankee gold rush one which of course would work if the soil
dropped straight on the ground.:
http://www.goldcradle.com/history.html

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

Steve wrote after

"newbietothis"
I have read in another post in this group that you can get such a thing
as a mechnical riddle or soil sieve. Does anyone know where you can
hire these from; had a look on HSS Hire website but nothing? Many
thanks.

I've seen one once. A geezer I bought a shed from a few years ago had one
in his garden, it was a rotary screen cylinder, about 4 ft long and 2ft
dia, turned by a big handle at one end. he was using it to screen his
very stony soil, and didn't want to part with it.

If you find a source I'd like a look at it too.

You mean like this ...
http://www.ptdirect.co.uk/index.html...d=38716.013287

Looks good but what a price!

What we want is something that would break up the soil, pick it up, sieve
it, and replace it, all in one operation, throwing the waste straight into
a barrow. I wonder if there is such an animal? I'm sure there would be
many applications for such a machine not least new houses with gardens
full of builders rubble covered over with turf, as they do.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

A supermarket trolley makes a fantastic mobile sieve for getting rid of the
big bits. Not quite the device you want--but very cheap.

A supermarket trolley makes a fantastic mobile sieve for getting rid of
the big bits. Not quite the device you want--but very cheap.

Let me guess - they are available from most supermarkets and only cost £1?
;-)
--
David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk
.... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

"David (in Normandy)" wrote in message
...
A supermarket trolley makes a fantastic mobile sieve for getting rid of
the big bits. Not quite the device you want--but very cheap.

Let me guess - they are available from most supermarkets and only cost £1?
;-)
--
David


and if you have got one of the free ones, when you have finished with it,
you dump it in the river/canal/hedgerow?

:-((((((((((((((((((((

Mike


--
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Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association
www.rnshipmates.co.uk
www.nsrafa.com

At most supermarkets here they cost only 1 euro. Or at Super U they're
only 20 centimes!

Beat that!

David

One supermarket at Conde-sur-noireau are trialling plastic trolleys. I doubt
they will continue for long. By the time we were halfway round there was a
big "Bosh!" as a couple of jars fell out of a hole in the bottom smashing.
At this point we noticed that lots of our smaller items had disappeared too,
leaving a trail up and down the supermarket. I pointed out the problem to an
assistant and just got a "not my problem" type of "Gallic shrug". The
trolley ended up chained with the others outside ready for its next trail of
carnage. It seems the trolleys were just breaking as people were ramming
them back together in the trolley park. Expensive mistake for the
supermarket, both in trolleys and ongoing written off stock.
--
David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk
.... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

Hi

I'm new to this forum

I'd very much like to borrow a Scheppach if anyne can lend me one.

I live in York so the gentleman form West Yorkshire if he could get in touch with me I could collect and deliver back

I'm desperate to sive some mixed top and subsoil our builder left behind