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1. Chad Thummel

   

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   1/15/2015 4:01 PM

   I am curious if anyone has built their own screen for sand. I am located in an area that finding affordable sand without small rocks has become increasingly difficult. I have noticed a company makes a portable screener screenerhttp://www.omhproscreen.com/top ... ner/slg-78
   
   Has anyone used this model or any like it.
   Curious to know how it works with moist or wet sand.
   
   Thanks.
   Chad Thummel
   Ward county golf course
   Monahans, tx
   432-448-4686

   
   
   
   
2. Frank McQuiggan

   

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   1/16/2015 6:01 AM

   Chad,
   
   Once we did make a home made make shift sand screen. We went out and bought a screen for a door for the house and attached it to a wooden frame and used that, wasn't high tech worked good with dry sand but was very labor intensive. With the wet sand it worked just took a lot longer to sift the sand. Usually we would allow the sand to dry out a bit in the sun then sift it. did take care of all the small rocks, with very dry sand we could place it on top of the spreader and use the front loader to pour the sand into the spreader and that way it took a little less time but still had to get out and shake some sand through.

   
   
   
   
3. Daniel Stover

   

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   1/16/2015 12:01 PM

   We made our own on the islands. We had a bunch of extra steel laying around so we welded together a decent sized one mabye 8' wide x 4' deep. Had 4" tubular steel posts, top was slanted toward you with a solid plate front so the shells and rocks would be separate from the sieved sand. We welded a box to the top back of it so we could put our plate compactor in it and strap it down to create a vibration action. We could move it around with the forks on the skid steer. It worked but it wasn't going to win any design awards.
   
   Depends on how much money you wanna spend I guess.

   
   
   
   
4. Corey Eastwood

   

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   1/19/2015 1:01 PM

   Great idea on the tamper. Screen will need a shaker of some kind.

   
   Corey Eastwood CGCS, Stockton Golf & CC, Retired
   
   
5. Mark Novotny

   

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   4/5/2015 9:04 AM

   I made a screen for soil years ago out of wood and hardware cloth. I actually designed two, one for on the ground and one to fit the back of a Cushman. The trick for the screen to work well is to have enough room to store material and have room for the unwanted debris.
   
   Also you would want to understand the Angle of Repose of Wet Sand or your screen will clog up and not work properly. This is compounded by the mesh size opening. It can work with a little planning research. We used ours for years until it got run over with the skid steer.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose

   
   
   
   
6. Richard Lavine

   

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   4/5/2015 10:04 AM

   Mark Novotny, CGCS said: .
   
   Also you would want to understand the Angle of Repose of Wet Sand or your screen will clog up and not work properly. This is compounded by the mesh size opening. It can work with a little planning research. We used ours for years until it got run over with the skid steer.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose

   
   
   
   WOW, almost forty years in the business and this is the first time I have heard of 'angel of repose' worked into a conversation. I first learned of angle of repose many years in a landscape data manual. The chart showed angle of repose of many different materials. Great knowledge for showing off, but not a lot of real life use, until now. Great job Mark.

   
   
   
   
7. Kevin Fateley

   

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   4/7/2015 8:04 AM

   I chuckled on "angle of repose" too! Sounds like a bad dirty movie title.

   
   
   
   
8. Mark Novotny

   

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   4/12/2015 12:04 PM

   Richard Lavine, CGCS said:

   Mark Novotny, CGCS said: .
   
   Also you would want to understand the Angle of Repose of Wet Sand or your screen will clog up and not work properly. This is compounded by the mesh size opening. It can work with a little planning research. We used ours for years until it got run over with the skid steer.
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose

   
   
   
   WOW, almost forty years in the business and this is the first time I have heard of 'angel of repose' worked into a conversation. I first learned of angle of repose many years in a landscape data manual. The chart showed angle of repose of many different materials. Great knowledge for showing off, but not a lot of real life use, until now. Great job Mark.

   
   
   I had to learn it when I was in college "the first time". I actually had to re-investigate the same thing this year when we purchasing a dump trailer. We rented one and it wouldn't dump soil. I looked up and needed 42 degrees and the thing only raised 35 degrees. So for the rental we shoveled (a lot) . The one we purchased raises 45 degrees! No Shoveling at all