I love screening soil and crushing concrete/blacktop! One thing I always did when topsoil was wet or damp is slowed down the feeder speed. Didn’t put as much on the screen deck. Love the content man!
That is so cool and the amount of trash was amazing. That soil looked so good before going into the screener, it was awesome to watch the finished piles...Tell Charlie he needs another screener and run them tandem:)
That is going to be some expensive top soil,a lot of expensive machines there and man hours for little product in the end. Good video though and interesting.
Hey Chris when I was screening topsoil we used to always keep tossing the pile while waiting for the hopper to empty to try and air it and dry it more. As someone said before when its wet turn the feeder down a bit too. We also used to mix sawdust in with the dirt at like 4 or 5 to 1 to try to fluff it up more
The way dirt was sticking in the bucket, I'm impressed the secondary didn't have any more fines than it did. I was expecting the whole pile to look like that one spot.
That screener is quite a machine friend! A lot of moving parts but you have 3 types of usable product out of each scoop! A man could drive themselves mad re-screening over and over again until you get that premium "Kobe beef" type topsoil! Looking forward to see what you do with all!
Thank you Charlie for getting this guy starting to think right. Chris is awesome but sometimes needs some direction. Reusing the normal stuff you get off a job is alright by me. I feel his wheels turning. Thanks for the video.
When we screen topsoil we look for some good weather about a week before , then spread the dirty soil out so it can dry then screen it works a treat for us.
Hope theres a market for the end products...with a soil rack, better weather and a little trial and error, it should get easier. Something therapeutic watching this, during these very odd times we live in.
I used to screen alot of topsoil with a powerscreen, if you could try to take a dozer and level out your unscreened and then hit it with a tractor and disc and get some air to it! In a few hours it will run through the plant so much better! I would do it and try to run 8"-10" at a time and then disc the next layer and run it! That was my trick in wet topsoil! If your plant has a shredder using it will help also! That's my 2 cent's of info
Put a plastic sheet over the top of your finished dirt pile so it don't keep getting wet. You would think that machine would grind that dirt for all the money it cost. Great video, I watch you every day.
There u go drew pissing money away. Awesome you bought one cause the east of the Piedmont sucks for good dirt. Hell west side we still got clay and sand plus rocks connected to mountains that are older than the Rockies. Move to Gaffney you could soil strip
You probably all ready know this, but if you keep your stockpile of soil to be screened pushed up high, it will shed water quicker and dry the pile out faster... :)
We have an older powerscreen cheiftain and topsoil has to be really dry or it doesn't work very good. Those newer warrior's must have a lot better screening efficiency than the older ones did.
Tha there is 1 hell of a machine , I couldn't afford a screener so I just made myself a stand with some 4 by 2s and put chicken wire and sheep wire across it , it worked good coz I was only doing a small bit with a mini ex
We had that exact screener in south eastern NC. We were screening dirt, street sweepings, and sediment from vac trucks. It was a nightmare. Our stuff was just too wet.
SlowandLoud there’s a company here in England that refines all the sludge from road sweepers once it’s been screened and reduced and get a load of precious metals, I think it gets spit out of catalytic converters on cars. Did you do anything like that?
No, a lot of the time the sweeping material is mixed with dirt and hauled to our landfill and used for cover. There are talks of screening out the junk and then making a compost pile with the organics from everything.
I think your problem is the moisture coming up from the ground underneath the pile. Notice how as you digging it goes almost all a sudden from gray to black.
The cuttybones up here where we get recycled products uses a trommel setup and he can screen the next day after it rains, it’s beautiful stuff! Chris is trying to clean up a little mess over there and make a few bucks, the cuttybones up here has a few million in just a crusher, screen decks, and conveyors, let alone the excavators and loaders, so I don’t think Chris is getting anymore serious then cleaning up.
I have seen guys attach chains where they lay on the bottom screen and as it works it knocks the screen off. I tought Cahrile was gonna bring you a screen for topsoil?
I hate to tell you Chris but with that tops all be in damp you’re going to be constantly crawling in between those two screens and beating that bottom screen out because that’s gonna plug it up all the time about every 30 minutes you’ll be crawling in our beating at screen out great video brother keep them coming on
Chris, would putting the rocks through again shake the dirt out of the screens? It's predictable that the hardware can shake loose. I imagine there is a Loctite product that will fix that, but if not you could drill and wire like they do on aircraft and race cars and bikes. I mean it could totally ruin your day if a couple of bolts came undone and fell out while flying a helicopter.
Late to the party but I have some questions none the less.. screening the dense pile your sitting on a first time wouldn't that aerate the gravel pile fluffing it up like that alowing (air) it to dry it at a faster rate? Maybe have to spend 1 extra day re-screening to satisfaction...(granted it stops raining long enough)...(no I dont do this shit for a living hence the questions)
that powerscreen has a way better set up than the one I used when I was still at a gravel pit. the feed belt was flat and dumped onto an inverted belt b4 material went to the screens.. and if stuff was wet it would bog down the belt and have to be shovled out b4 belt would spin again.. hated that thing... do miss running equipment you hiring rofl
Hey Chris, The business I retired from had a screener almost twice that big and we called the finished product brown gold.That was in NJ. During spring and summer it would run 6 days a week.
Yup. Considering topsoil is usually one of the most expensive products at a pit, and a lot of people cut theirs with sand to get more product. Plus you're only running one process instead of running stuff through a crusher or 2 and then a screen deck or two to separate out all your products
I run a screening operation and have the same screener. Trying to screen wet never works well. Try to spread your dirt out and let it dry on top and just peel the top few inches off at a time. I usually also run my feed belt a little faster but when I feed it I only let about 4 inches lay on the feed belt at a time
Well, when ya gonna bite the bullet Chris, and invest in one of your own ? I know ya got to be thinking about it....lolol.... That's a Great machine, it will pay for itself over a little time. But, I know they are expensive !! Anyway Man, Another Great one !! Thanks for sharing Chris ! Have a Great Evening Man !! Stay Safe...
If you are going to do topsoil, get a trommel, doent plug like a deck screen... If you use a screen deck, need a steeper slope on the screen, a 1/2 to 3/4 top deck and a harp screen on the second deck... I used to run an old Chieften (sp?) works great with the steeper angle on the deck and has a hammer mill on the discharge of the feeder to break up the large pieces of soil... but, they do plug with roots... A trommel though... thats the way to go...
A quarter million dollars was mentioned in the last video. You could two nearly new Volvo 250 excavators for that. It sounds like Charlie has a man who keeps the screener constantly running, and it feels unlikely Chris would want to do nothing but feed that screener for the rest of his life, and that pile of top soil he is working on won't last for ever.
@@TrevorDennis100 Charlie gets those juicy state and county contracts for sorted asphalt, it's done made him a stack of cash, best I remember him saying it's already paid for itself three times over.
