Cheap Portable Sifter & Collection Cart With Double Size Screen Trommel Compost or Woodchip 

I work with computers and nothing beats working in the garden to help me feel better. I am making one of these. My manual shaker screen is too much work. Thanks for sharing.

I'm so impressed with Gary's creativity, both with how he does his videos (I love it when he has 2 Garys and how seamless he does it as well as how informative they are.) and with his industriousness and resourcefulness.

Hey my friend I like your design. Glad there are people like you out there. I don't care for the hassle of mechanization if I can avoid it. This kind of design is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I have almost achieved compost sovereignty, lol, but I haven't gotten into the sifting game because I usually just top dress broadforked beds with coarse compost. That's worked great for me but I wanted to further my independence by making all my own potting soil for annual crop transplants and baby trees n shrubs. Thanks for the idea. I have two old Schwinn bike rims hanging in my garage and some half inch galvanized mesh left over from Fisher proofing my chicken coop door screens lol. Thanks again guys. This is perfect!

Very resourceful,well done.Thanks.

Good old Aussie ingenuity.... Got to love it. Needless to say, I'm Aussie as well.

You thought of a lot of things to keep it simple and functional. I particularly appreciate the casters fitting inside the rims without impeding the riveting. I have been looking for a design like yours. Thank you for sharing your ideas

You two are absolutely amazing! You should be awarded the Nobel peace prize for all that you do seriously!

Nice practical sifter, my husband is ready to make this for our rocky garden soil. I know you, Gary, know the difference between soil and compost , leaf mold and humus, but very often people refer to these soil amendments as soil which it is not. Soil takes hundreds and thousands of years to to be made in nature by erosion of stone sand and sedementary rock. Thats why it is so important to build it up and protect our top soil as you are doing so well, thanks again Gary

Everyone is seeking soft fluffy soil. I have accomplished that in one way and you have accomplished it in another. Keep up the good work excellent video

Bicycle wheel!!!!! Brilliant mate!! Simply brilliant

What a simple and useful device. Inexpensive as well. But works perfectly and does the job so well. Thanks for sharing.

Best DIY design I've seen so far. Thanks.

Projects like this keep your brain sharp and young ~ your invention is superb! Thanks for sharing your idea Gary!!

It looks so simple, but it's actually brilliant - you have thought of everything!

What a handyman! Good job Gary!

Great idea that works. Thanks for sparking my imagination!

Thank you so much Gary and Robbie for doing this video, I know I have been asking. I’ve got my containers and I’ve got some things growing but, I still want some of the Tree Collards. It’s took me a while to get the wood chips but, I’ve also got them now. Robbie, I even have some Walking Onions growing in one of the small swimming pools. Thanks again...

Thanks so much for the details that most of us dont think about.... harvesting wood chips and sifting them.

This is really practical thank you for sharing I think we're neighbors keep up the good work I'm glad I found your channel. I guess bye for now can I look forward to hear from you

I buried one part of my yard in 6” of woodchips about 1 1/2 years ago.....along with burying my sprinklers....I just tried to find the sprinklers and they were buried in 3” of new soil.....so excited over woodchips and what they do!!!! 💃❤️

Brilliant design. I was thinking of making a trommel but after seeing yours I'll use your design. Thanks for sharing.

robbie, your husband is so clever! i've been learing a lot from both of you. we appreciate how y'll show us how to grow food on the cheap. or should i say 'budget friendly'. everyone else makes things so complicated and expensive, you & gary though, make gardening seem doable to all of us average people.

So good to see you guys again. Missed you. Love from NZ.

Gary..I love this idea..you done a great job...i think I'm going to take this concept and run with it..Thank you !!

Very cool!

Very beautifully explained Gary. I am going to make a similar one for my vermi compost filteration. Might get back if I have some questions

Yay! I'm glad that I saw this, Gary .. your trammel basket is a lot more lightweight and manageable than the monstrosity that I was contemplating .. and getting that cart for under $20 was quite fortunate. The hard rubber wheels aren't cheap, if they're purchased new, but well worth it, not having to deal with flat tires. Best yet, I believe that I already have everything needed to build this, after the insanity of spring planting has passed :)

Great. Thanks from Poland

Hello Robbie and Gary hope y'all are doing well. Great invention it is amazing well it works thank you for sharing. Big Tx hugs from South Tx.

You've got skills! Really enjoyed this video. At first I thought you had a twin.

Necessity is the Mother of invention...great job

Gonna make me one of these. Thanks for the vid

Just love you both. have a bless day

Nice thanks im researching to build both too, great job.

Thx for sharing!

just saw....brilliant....thank you from Hawai'i.... :)

So, GARY IT IS REALLY TRUE. NECCESITY REALLY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

Thanks for sharing 😊

Great sifter setup. An idea that came to me if the castors don't have the exact size to avoid the bumpy rivets, the inner channel sould be lined with some kind of tape or material to smooth it out.

Awesome sifter. Have a wounderful weekend, Andreas 🇸🇪

Hi Gary, I just bought 2.35ha (5.8a) property in Perth, Western Australia. It’s predominantly sand, and I can’t wait to amend and turn it into a beautiful soil. I’ve been looking at getting free wood chips from arborists and letting it break down to humus ongoing and this design of yours will help me tremendously!! I will subscribe to your channel and watch all your videos, thank you!

As a Dutch person, I was surprised to see the word "trommel" used in English. In Dutch, it means "drum," as in the drum of a washing machine, but also the musical instrument - I guess it's just a word for that drum shape. :)

We had a 3 acre garden when I was a kid. We found the stink bugs would 'fight' with tomato horn worms. We would put a worm in front of a beetle and the beetle won the fight...The beetles couldn't climb up the plants to get the worms, but they killed the worms if we put them together. Interesting find...

Inventor Gary. Good use of recycled material. Lizards and bugs oh my. Your invention looks like it makes work much easier than shaking with a pan.

I can't believe I am just now seeing this. I have everything I need to make this. I just need to figure out how to take things apart and then build it. May need to borrow a few power tools. Does Gary have a brother or a cousin that would come help me? 😉

Nice!

I need one for my worms. My daughter in law and personal carpenter passed away two weeks ago. My hubby is not a handy man. He is a chef.

Gary is amazing and inventive.. very knowledgeable too. I would love to hear all about his past illnesses that has been changed by changing his diet and eating what he grows please. If he doesn’t mind Love your videos

dope!

Good doing new things

Genius

Hi I'm you new here to your community thumbs-up and the Bell thanks for sharing God bless bye for now Jen I look forward to hear from you

Have you done any videos on both your gardens laterly? Maybe I missed them. Enjoyed watching about the trimmed must show my husband he would be into making things like that too

GENIAL .

Wow how did you combine the 2 videos where there was 2 of u?

Gary, How are you attaching the finer screen that is inside of the main screen (towards the end of the video)? I'm curious because I love your simplistic design, but would like the ability to sift at 1/8 inch when I wanted to. Thanks, and great video.

great design,,, what was that big thing crawling on the wall?

Ok... how did Gary with dog walk past Gary was talking about the gifter. 2 times. 3 times. Good trick Gary.

Inventive

so its important to keep wood chip piles wet or damp? I haven't been watering mine and the chips dried out and don't look like theres much activity happening in them - I think I just learnt something! thanks mate!

Ive been running a motorized setup w/ the same sized screen set on the front half of a hf cement mixer for the past eight yrs , gave up on the manual arrangements because it takes way to long to git'er done . Now if you put a motor on it ?

hello, do you know why my wheels get stuck to much inside the rim? .As I turn, they get inserted very deep been harder to spin the sifter

Do you use any particular type of tree for the wood chips??

I thought the man with the dog passing was another man

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Motorized them sir.

Are you guys Aussies.?

Sounds like you need a new soil supplier

Biomeiller...

If you had chickens you'd be able to make compost faster and it would already be loaded with nitrogen and you also would have eggs!