Wow! Thanks for the great video! My recycling center closed down due to covid and I have been looking for something to do with all the glass bottles I have. This is perfect. I happen to have an old mixer sitting in my garage and about four trash cans of bottles.
Always wear lung protection (some dust mask) and/or preferably water the glass down under the whole procces. The silica dust can kill or permanently damage you, and your health.
Great stuff! The neighbours must of hated you craving it up! :P Very nice, never thought of using glass for mulch. We just cut the tree down when it gets too big.
thats what i heard. keeps the larval worms from crawling out of the ground to change into a gnat and it keeps adult gnats from being able to lay eggs in wet dirt...
Brilliant video. You're so comical, especially with the mother in laws medicine. It looks fab and I love it even more knowing it'll annoy the neighbours. 😁
Awesome, I’ve always wondered if we can use our cement mixer! I’ve been stockpiling mine for 5 years since Missoula stopped taking glass. I’ve wanted to make garden mulch. Thank you for the clear instructions!
Works great but hard on your mixer. So what right? We have found that doing all clear like we did has resulted in a high reflective heat that some plants struggle with. Sort of like flowers planted next to a white wall. I would love to see your final result someday.
@@acme663ryo our mixer is an old one, 10-15 yrs? Who knows! So what, right, as you said. 😝. I have a combo of clear, brown, green bottles (love that kombucha- tho haven’t figured how to make mine yet). Glass slumping artist friend in Salmon sent me your RU-vid vid. Not sure how to post a pic to you?
Your video was posted on Permies and I know it's supposed to be a educational and all, but I'm only posting to tell you that you are HILARIOUS. Fabulously funny.
amazing how tough it was to find this video. I could not type in the search without getting all the other videos. I'm going to use my mix around fire pits at my hipcamp. The campers seem to really like it. The stuff I have now was from a landscape job where the customer wanted it hauled away. I had a huge pile for 9 years till eureka I came up with a use. My question is this If I add dime sized pound pebbles or pea gravel hl affect the finished product. I do not care how small the glass pieces are as long as they are like 1/8-1/4 Very enjoyable production...you're a natural
Well Western Montana isn't in the tropics so sure. Just if you do larger pieces like we did people walking on them might break some. Those broken edges *could* be sharp so keep that in mind.
Bravo!! Entertaining, Educational, Environmental, recyclable, Hilarious..al, just an all around pleasant vid. So many are mundane, don't edit the um's and ahh's , or the brain farts or awkward silences, or going off subject, just Great! Now, my question if I may: I work in sheet metal industry and as luck would have it(for once) I am able to use a large tumbler, looks just like your C-mixer, except more durable, about 6inches larger all around and stronger, like half-inch solid steel walled drum, but there are no mixers or paddles in it, not sure what they call them. just curious on how that would affect it,, and your experienced opinion is welcomed. Of course I am going to go play, but maybe I might hear something beforehand. I think the weight and size may force me to keep a close eye on it, no 8-10 hours in between, but that's what first time DIY's are like. thanks again. Be Well, BE you, and Be happy!!
I've been cleaning and saving different color beer bottles for weeks now and this is EXACTLY the video lesson I needed! I live in the northeast -- is this something I can do in the winter in my garage? would the mulch I make be recommended for our weather conditions?
I was very surprised that you put glass bottles and stuff in whole. My question is what decides the final glass size ? The speed or length of time tumbling, size of the load? Was surprised at the small amount of sand grit you used. Made we wonder of the broken glass particles contributed greatly to the polishing versus just the silica sand ?
Great video! We just got a mixer! You started with 2 full 5 gal. buckets of glass, I may have missed your mentioning this but, how much glass mulch do you end up with?
I wonder why each community doesn't have a glass crusher to make "pebbles" that could be used for concrete and asphalt used in infrastructure (parking lots, roads, driveways, etc.) I bet stepping stones made with colored glass throughout would be really pretty.
How aren’t his hands cut to shreds when he’s handling it ? Broken glass is knife like ? Or does the tumbling somehow smooth all that out ? I don’t get it ?
Beautiful! What glass do you use to get that nice light blue colored “sea glass?” Is it window glass? I need some for a DIY Id like to attempt so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Sold my cement mixer and now I want it back! I realize the glass once done is the color of the glass it was before, but how can you get colored glass? Yours looks blue ... I'd like Caribbean blue and white..
Reddish glass becomes deep red, whiteish glass would become white. Old ceramics would become white. You can check the edges of the glass, soda glass will have a slight green tint, silica glass has a blueish like you see in the thumbnail. You want the blue. You can also ask bars for blue bottles, a $20 in the manager's hand netted me a box of blue bottles about every other week or so. I could have those glass types reversed. Put the ugly stuff as the bottom layer and it takes surprisingly little of the good stuff on the top to get the effect. A white stone base would work too.
But wouldn't a glass mulch trap a lot of heat and then overheat the roots of your plants? Many plants that need full sun, still need their roots to remain cool. I suppose this could work in a shaded garden but i don't see this being good for plants that need full sun.
You can buy a 2 or 5 lb tumbler if you don’t have access to a mixer. Go to a stained glass shop, look online or Amazon. You’ll need grit too. It’s a slower process, smaller volume glass used, sea glass made. But how I’ve done it before.
How about using this glass for a muddy driveway? Whenever it rains, I get muddy ruts in my driveway. I've also been using oyster shells for the driveway also.
+muttkat1 I mean it would work but it also seams like a lot of effort for stuff shoved into the mud. Maybe put down some gravel and then scatter some glass on top.
Thats sounds good. On part of the driveway, I've put a couple layers of oyster shell and its been holding pretty well. Rocks on the hand sink. My main part of my driveway is over a 100 feet long. I've seen a lot of landscaping glass videos but none with glass driveways and would like to see if anybody has tried that. I've been saving glass and have a cement mixer.
Naa. A larger mixer means more glass at once but I think the scale would get out of hand quickly. Go with cheap. An old metal drum mixer from the classifies. This is going to be hard on it.
I noticed that after tumbling u just stick ur hands in it r all the sharp edges that a glass usually have gone, I would ike to use out in my backyard but I have dogs?
Margrett Chisholm The tumbling takes off all the sharp edges making the glass smooth. If your finished chunks are large enough when walked on they might continue to break like any glass that is stepped on and make new sharp edges. Seems to be only adults in boots, my dogs, a Great Dane and a Shepard have not proven to be heavy enough to break it, nor has my child unless he is trying to. Little stinker.
A few hours would do it but something as heavy as a car is going to start breaking it up leaving you with new sharp edges. I think you could do it but you will have to start with rather small pieces and even then they might still break as you drive over.
@@acme663ryo I never said you didn't like money. You most likely thought it was garbage and did not know. That its worth anything. I bought a glass horse from a grudge sale. The guy was so sure it was only worth anything but it was actually worth a lot. This is how my family makes a living because I'm incapable of working due to disability's. I find places on the Internet. We go I find & buy stuff for cheap when its worth more. Then sale it for the amount its worth.
