Eric_Phillips
Platinum Member
Well I finally built a soil separator. I have attached a couple pictures. A couple of things I learned. The chain link fence doesn't work well with organic material, stuff sticks to it. I am going to see how much some expanded metal costs and try that, otherwise I will try some welded wire fence. When it is just rocks and dirt it works OK but the holes are too big to remove the smaller rocks. Using two layers of chain link doesn't help. I also built it just wide enough to get my bucket in to remove the good dirt. I should have made it at least 6" wider since I catch the bucket on the supports a lot. Also since it just slopes down to the ground when I go to get the dirt I tend to push the dirt farther forward and can't get it. If I had made it stop sooner and put a piece of ply that I could push against when scooping it would have helped.