Trying To Screen Wet Topsoil

[@NotMyDad36]

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!

[@RangieNZ]

Also put less into the feeder. A big pile (in the feeder) will re-compact before the screens - put less in and keep it a bit more 'fluffy'.

[@NotMyDad36]

@@RangieNZ Yes definitely. Id usually feather it in like you said to keep it fluffy. Good point

[@notyou1877]

Black Gold! Hole mountain of it! You have a nice toy!

[@9seven9seven24]

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.

[@toad3048]

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:)

[@janwellington3532]

I could watch this all day. Very calming before heading out to work. Cornwall UK.

[@TonyGeneseo]

Even without a mustache friends like Charlie have some pretty cool equipment !!! Lol. That finish material looks like some sweet stuff. !!!

[@10us101]

Looks like black gold to me that end product is beautiful great for planting soil

[@ronaldclark1178]

Looks like the secondary really cleared up after securing that screen!! Great video as usual.

[@alanedwards6491]

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.

[@mikecoy7243]

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

[@CrazyEye75]

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

[@raypowell4804]

Tim put a 12 yrd load of blow sand or cheep run a bank sand next to the wet and mix it in a bit at a time. It will keep your final screen clean.

[@mischef18]

Just feeding the machine and you giving a commentary made for a great video bro. Stay safe

[@1013redoak]

Thanks for the video, Chris! That's one hell of a machine when it's working properly!

[@iainbrims3776]

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.

[@stonewallpi1]

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!

[@michaelmcclure8673]

Chris If you ran that at my place, it would be a few grains of dirt and tons of flintstones. 🤔

[@scott02464]

Mate you are by far the best channel on KZbin, thanks for the vids really enjoying watching what you do! 🇬🇧

[@DigginLife21]

🔥Always satisfying to watch some dirt process through. Keep it goin my brother

[@kb7722]

I feel like we're building up to a season on Gold Rush

[@SmallMartingale]

LoL

[@satan2133]

Lol just need Parker freaking out and Tony dropping F bombs

[@jodejekab]

good looking top soil

[@hvy1ton]

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.

[@jamessween]

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.

[@winsurfer123]

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.

[@leol1682]

Like the video , and very fine screening topsoil .

[@dieselfuel6006]

It appears Charlie is doing Very well and I’m happy for him. It’s awesome to have friends like that 😁. Good videos y’all be safe with this virus BS!!!

[@williamduchene1322]

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... :)

[@janvandenbos7085]

The end product looks very good Chris 👌👍⚠️

[@davidbrickey5925]

Cool Separator. I have seen this machine before. and the problem they had was big rocks small stuff they blow right through it. 👍☕️🍩🍀

[@TheUserid82]

Will be nice to see it run if the soil screens ever come in to see if it clogs as easily

[@00nutt]

Hey seems like when you fixed that bar back good and tight the rattle in the screener went away.

[@donelwood9484]

on rich black top soil it should have some corase sand added to it when your screening

[@gavinhirt6994]

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

[@haroldhawkins9370]

That machine is great, it's making some nice looking top soil. Don't know what too say about the screen getting stoped up.

[@cliffmorain7215]

Powerscreen has come a long ways, I think my first encounter with powerscreen was 1985ish a straight conveyor with a piano string screen.

[@SlowandLoud]

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.

[@Elldeeve]

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?

[@SlowandLoud]

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.

[@castnetman]

I sure don't want to be the one to pay for a load of that top soil!

[@chrisv4640]

If you had a small pile of clean gravel to run through there would it help the screens clean off?

[@blackshadows9950]

Chris V Only way to clean it is let it dry for a week and then run it empty for 10-15 minutes. Help a lot

[@jimbeck6093]

I love this!! I would love to be able to have an operation like this!!!

[@darraghbreen7993]

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

[@DanielCharnigo]

You need to bring the skid steer over and do some cleanup around the yard. That or get a 60" grading bucket for Betsy.

[@juniorraines1042]

Enjoyed watching Chris

[@oso9809]

Wonder if you should run a bucket of the gravel every third scoop or so the help knock the dirt of the screens?

[@landyandy7]

Trommels the better option for wetter soil

[@timkelley8775]

Good looking top soil

[@timhilton1271]

Love watching your videos keep up the good work

[@jerrystott7780]

Probably too late to matter, but raking a flex tine yard rake over the screen now and then will unplug it. Have a good one.

[@stephenjones4339]

It will compact well with the fines in it.

[@charlesdowdie121]

Hey chris, love the videos. watch them everytime you put out a new one.

[@jonpeak7153]

Right in the end of hopper works best same as crusher let the belt take what it needs

[@kevins5092]

Needed your dump truck under the good dirt conveyor

[@VIheavyequipment]

good light little scoops

[@DustinPryde1]

that looks like our jet black top soil up here in Illinois.

[@barkleygentry2504]

You could share some of that moisture with western Kansas!

[@njonebale7889]

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.

[@timmyfrierson2684]

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

[@mattcrowell7945]

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.

[@petenolte4192]

I didn't know you could work that slow lol

[@briangardiner1015]

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?

[@roadrash90]

Yeah he ordered the screens but, with this pandemic lockdown they've haven't arrived yet.

[@farmcentralohio]

Can thank rona for the screen not arriving yet

[@copperheadmarine]

We talked about some chains.

[@SledgeHammer43]

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.

[@Forbidden303]

It's all fun and games until you're 10 ft inside some heavy equipment!

[@xtort1077777]

Um, that's what she said 😄

[@TrevorDennis100]

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.

[@Jodokus_Rendentanz]

So that it makes sense: Your source material must be dry. The screened material must fall on a clean surface. Ideally, reinforced concrete.

[@formhubfar]

14:00.., you should have a small pile of 10mm stones to run through the hopper every now and again to clean the hopper plates off.

[@MMORPG87]

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

[@MienTayTiVi]

Good driver

[@monoxidechild6161]

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)

[@davidbailey5006]

Bring that thing over to my shop on Trawick Rd. Gotta pile to screen. After the rain tho. Can’t screen mud. Don’t ask how I know

[@letsdig18]

haha thats really not too far away from me

[@davidbailey5006]

I’m next to Skate Ranch. Bailey’s Backyard

[@mikeseguin6443]

Black gold Chris

[@fsk50oclub]

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

[@letsdig18]

yeah I tried that this week I raked the pile out and then ran the top 12" a couple evening this week, worked so much better

[@arthurbolton8477]

you need to run a metal detector over the heaps there might be gold in them there hills,

[@SmallMartingale]

On this episode of Gold Rush....

[@roadrash90]

This is old broken down compost saw dust, douth there's any gold in it.

[@stevenmcgregor2219]

Lol I know a guy with a roto screen you should see how blocked up that gets when it's full of wet ground 😂😂

[@TrevorDennis100]

Is his first name Andrew, and does this roto screen fit on a skid steer?

[@MsRaidman]

Nice job. I like the screener myself too and it separates out the dirt nicely. What are the costs to rente one of those? Keep up the good work.😀.

[@ericbarnes9303]

I need some of that soil

[@jimp.4531]

very nice machine

[@ramtuff2007]

good video

[@benmiller5003]

You need one of these

[@prinzeugenvansovoyen732]

I wonder if you could run the screener wet with a big whater pump, you would get mud, clean gravel and clean rock out of it - and its probably way faster you would just need to let the topsoil dry out really good

[@keithdunlap2701]

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...

[@williamduchene1322]

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...

[@TrevorDennis100]

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.

[@xtort1077777]

@@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.

[@lyndencroker5257]

Anyone notice the top deck side clamp screws rattling loose?

[@davidnichols1363]

Is the fuel consumption worth the price of the finished top soil?

[@tinysworld1749]

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

[@majicmisi]

Screening wet soil very bad bad idea. Rock crusher is good investment too

[@hd1987hd]

Almost looks like u need a skid to move your secondary screenings closer to you

[@davischappell4664]

Chris what are you gonna do with the end products the topsoil you just screened for

[@satan2133]

You got a roller on that conveyer in front of you that needs some attention

[@julianshaw1775]

Poor Man’s Gold Rush

[@johnthomson9558]

Value adding,the only way to make money

[@rsp6549]

Is it really cheaper to rent the equipment and screen yourself rather than just buying the topsoil pre-screened?

[@jeffreygebhardt3447]

Chris, are you planning on selling that finished topsoil and if so, what are you charging?

[@garymaris9471]

$250.00 a yard?

[@ethanbowles5773]

Who makes the engine for that screener just wonder

[@TheSoloAsylum]

What are you going to do with all that finished top soil?

[@tdimccullough]

good thing the part didn't end up in the middle of a pile of stones

[@mikejayers]

This is going to be messy.

[@dennisward1361]

Are you screening for personel use or resale ?

[@kendrury9108]

It's amazing how much crap is in that normal looking dirt.

[@jodymitchell4020]

Did you leave a blinker on? Lol. Click click click....

[@rodneywroten2994]

Sorry Chris but can you say what this special dirt is for?

[@kennethhume8628]

Can anybody tell me how many hours of apprenticeship of watching Chris do I have to do in order to become a qualified armchair excavator operator ?

[@bearpump]

OMG. Chris got dirty!!!

[@laurelherbert2879]

When did Charlie say he was meant to be getting new screens