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A Practical Homeade Nursery Soil Sifter

A practical machine to sift fine soil for potting has been designed and built for a materials cost of under $100 at Stoneville, Miss. (fig. 1) . The base unit and parts were obtained from a junked combine. A hand shovel is used to load the machine, and particles not sifted are removed with the shovel. One man can sift about 1 cubic yard of soil per hour. A section of the combine containing the straw racks, rocker arms, and pulleys was removed and enclosed with an angle iron frame. Expanded metal was used in place of the straw racks as the support for the hardware cloth, which can be installed in different gages to sift soil to varying fineness.


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Author(s): Tom P. Bouler

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 19, Number 1 (1968)

Volume: 19

Number: 1