Gravel Conveyor Belt Build - Self Reliance Beast Mode!

I salvage and rebuild a conveyor belt from Facebook Marketplace in order to outfit my homestead and gravel rock crusher.
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Re-Building, Salvaging a FREE CONVEYOR BELT (for My Gravel Obsession!)
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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas. This channel will approach self reliance from a modern perspective. and will focus on various build projects using modern amenities, and tools to build a completely self reliant lifestyle.
Many people ask me where I am from and where I film my projects. I am from Northern Ontario, Canada, and live in an area where off-grinding is easy because I have lots of land to build on and experiment with different buildings and materials. Everything I do is to try to be more self reliant, and to depend less on others. But that doesn't mean I don't like working together with other people on projects. Knowing people who have skills is part of being self reliant, and trading skills is a great way to get more things done!

[@ArcherCC1599]

I just realized why I like your channel (and you) so much, you are a real life, slightly more competent, Red Green!

[@janhugo]

Quando Omni flunkus moriatati.

[@Catherine1151]

Yes! 😊❤

[@outdoorsforachange]

Way more competent than Red.

[@pmbramucci1056]

Wouldn't be surprised if Red was one of Kevin's influences.

[@private15]

Just as fun as Red Green!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@jefreykoenig6774]

Modern Self Conveyance

[@rockaholictom]

I love the attitude of "does anyone know how this works? I don't!" That's the best starting position to learn and make something great.

[@royrush288]

It's great to see Don getting back in the swing of things.

[@kevinharding2099]

Wow - that was a lot of work. It is clear that you actually do have fun making things work - no matter how much time and effort it takes. Your determination is to be admired.

[@ModernSelfReliance]

Solid 2 weeks worth of fabrication on that bad boy.

[@Mr1Anvil1]

Slick, much better conveyor than I expected. Loading hopper is going to be the biggest challenge.

[@jimgriffiths9071]

Frankie is clearly the brains of the outfit.

[@desert-walker]

Good to see Don getting in there and getting his hands dirty again😎🌵

[@jamesellsworth9673]

This was great fun. We also got to see Don doing vigorous work again!

[@BH-rx3ue]

woohoo! been waiting for a new episode. Your videos fall under my "something interesting yet relaxing" list, right next to diesel creek

[@ModernSelfReliance]

Glad you like them!

[@olyman63]

Great show guys thank you for sharing this with us. Good seeing you and Don at it again. Have a great weekend.

[@Dav3Campb3ll]

Wow you two were in beast mode to get that convayor out & rebuild stairs! Very cool find. Theres a massive old rock tumbling drum thing by me, left for years by Royal paving. I think a farmer took a gravel vein out of his land

[@uk-hon5769]

Kevin's motto 'it ain't rocket surgery'!

[@russellwatters5891]

Awesome job with the conveyor modification, I mean, after you got it right...lol 😂😅 Im sure it'll come in real handy, especially for firewood! Love what ya'll are doing 😊

[@chandrasutton4669]

Great project, guys!!!😊🎉❤

[@uk-hon5769]

Good to see a proper electrical plug!

[@RollingwiththeRoss]

I would like to convey my thanks for this conveyor video. Although I was a little bowled over by the ending, it looks like you made a clean sweep of things. Rock on!

[@MakewithMatt]

We had one of these setups at the grocery store to haul heavy stuff upstairs and it also worked in reverse. Mostly just sat there and had junk piled on it though haha. Super nice addition to the graveller!

[@sheilam4964]

Great addition to the gravel and wood projects.

[@Gmango10]

Keep this series going because it is awesome. I think im obsessed with gravel now to.

[@brycee123]

Those dishes had it coming...

[@taurota1554]

I like the variety of content on the channel.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

[@sueyates3555]

With all that you and Don are doing, I sure hope you get it figured out and it all works out for you, Kevin. Love watching your channel. Take care.

[@kozicottage]

Geezus Kevin, I applaud your dedication to making this conveyor work!! The multiple attempts (time and effort!) to make it function are true testament that you love what you do! :) Looking forward to the next vid! Cheers

[@bigdsperformance]

I'm so impressed to see Don doing work like this already, he is a beast!

[@jennifertucker107]

Nothing better than a Don job approval!

[@gene_takovic57]

The next step should be a machine that spreads the rock out for you. Great build!

[@johnnyharperscoutstable5386]

Dude. Don is straight wwe on this thing 🐸

[@selfretired3025]

Go Live sometime while building and talking out the process. Then you'll get all kinds of help. LOL but... seriously. It's great for ratings. :)

[@cmosphoto1]

I was seriously considering it.

[@leightondite870]

I look forward to your videos keep them coming much love from Cardiff

[@andychampoux463]

Great video Kevin! Thanks for sharing!

[@jaymeswheeler]

I love springtime at your house Something crazy's gonna happen, something beautiful is gonna be built.

[@c.a.g.1977]

make that: something crazy is going to be built, something beautiful is going to happen 😄

[@jaymeswheeler]

@@c.a.g.1977 you're right. strike that, reverse it. We have so much time and so little to do

[@jeronethompson1059]

Nicely done Kevin, thank you for sharing!!

[@07scsu]

Hi Kevin, the conveyor belt reminded me of visiting my dad when I was little. His locker plant for meat and groceries and the exact same style conveyor belt. Along with the staircase right next to it. I never thought of riding it. Thanks for the awesome video. You have a very creative, problem solving mind. I always love how you explain what you’re doing. I can’t wait to see what project is next. Thanks

[@pmbramucci1056]

"...riding it" That would have been my first idea as a kid, and I *would* have gotten hurt doing it, just like every other questionable idea I had.

[@lindysmith13]

Frankie is a very deep thinker.

[@johnnyharperscoutstable5386]

What a random thing to be free on marketplace. 🐸🍺🔪🔥

[@preachta]

Awaiting super awesome gravel building projects

[@1974UTuber]

I'm glad I waited to post my comments. I was yelling at the screen, saying, "Kevin!!... You can't push a wet noodle up a slope." But the experts said the same thing. I used to work at a conveyor factory so that's the reason I know that saying

[@richardwhite3711]

Love your videos / hope your wife and daughter are doing well !!

[@beckihuehn8225]

Missed you guys! Good to see you back on KZbin!

[@user-dh9us5ri6w]

Really good video, Kevin! Look like it was a bit of a hassle getting that conveyor out of that place where I was connected to, but you guys got it out of there. Good job by the way! Good to see Don there working with you see he’s a little bit more back in action. That’s cool! It’s a shame that conveyor didn’t work from the bottom because I think that would’ve been maybe a little bit better on taking the stuff up but as far as keeping the conveyor itself in line I get I get that! Really liked the video. Can’t wait to see the next one whenever you’re going to use the conveyor belt! Take care!

[@vipingel6999]

We had a conveyor belt at work and we rode it up all the time and other side of floor we had a slide to send package down of course we slid down…😂

[@kameljoe21]

My old neighbor has/had a old chain driven conveyor. It pretty much has 2 massive chains that run along gears. The chains are connected with wood or in many cases some angle iron now. He used this one to move firewood. He had another old one that I had tried for a long time to get yet he would never sell it. He had another super small one. It was around 12 feet long and was only a V shape with a single chain in it with welded spikes/wedges on it. I think it was homemade as it appeared to be. He used it to move firewood as well. It was kinda neat. I had thought about building one like that myself when I was cutting firewood.

[@richardwhite3711]

@ 21:44 as a DIY'er you are the BEST no doubt !!!

[@jonpomerance-trifts6113]

There we go...easy!

[@wfortuijn]

Great project again, maybe an idea to make a remote switch so if you are sitting on the tractor you can start it or shut it off. That with a shakertable to feed the rockcrusher should make it a one man operation, thanks for the great vids from the Netherlands.

[@TheStephencraig01]

Another great video. Full stop

[@TheColorMagic1986]

always good to see Don!

[@herrskeletal3994]

The trailer jacks are a good idea they will help you level the conveyor so the belt wont track to one side or the other. though there should be some adjustment either at your head or tail pulley. Tracking the belt is important to keep it from rubbing on your skirting and cutting through the metal and leaking precious, precious gravel off the other side (the leaks wont be a big deal for your application but on an industrial size plant it really upsets the ground guys)

[@yasterwelkin]

I'd suggest using the conveyor to move the crushed rock and not the oversized into the crusher. If the crusher jams and the conveyor keeps feeding large rocks, they will just be sitting at the end grinding the belt away. The vibratory feed is the way to go

[@therealchupa]

hey you could totally use that conveyor to load trout into the pond next year! 🤣

[@allenenabnit7078]

You should use it to pile your crushed rock away from your crusher better to use it to move crushed rock away then to move rock into crusher works great for stacking split firewood also

[@Jaysrealtalk]

Great video brother, truly a inspiration. Much love and respect

[@ModernSelfReliance]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@matthewmartin4422]

I live right down the road from the Flinchbaugh, in York PA. Love the videos. Keep them coming

[@davejackson5817]

Don....the Canadian Don Swanson!!!

[@josepimann7384]

We also use vibration conveyed things. They move material up hill without a belt

[@kingrafa3938]

Thanks for the video Kev!

[@MangledGuitars]

Toys! Love the toys! Remember your daughter will do stuff you do conveyer boy lol

[@charlesurrea1451]

Well you might be in for a bit of a surprise. The material used to stitch the two ends of the belt together is called cat gut. Because it's made out of cat gut. Good luck making your own binder ends. In the future you might want to make a piano hinge crimper

[@quakxy_dukx]

Real time comments? That’s called streaming

[@captrockh2055]

Kevin,there comes a time in everyone's life where they have to Adjust their belt .

[@jimmystuckey1412]

Little addition. Put some skirting on the sides to like 3" onto the belt to keep small pieces from getting under the belt and jamming the tail pully. Aggregate belts are usually troughed. Flat belts are not ideal however it should work just fine with tweaks

[@comedianmattrossey]

Hey Kevin, Been missin ya, where ya been? It's great to see Don back in the videos again! He definitely brings a certain jeu ne ce quois to the videos, that was missing. The conveyor belt is a great idea for feeding the rock crusher, but, have you thought it would be a great way to catch the crushed rock and move it upwards to make a pile of crushed gravel that you could move around. Maybe 2 conveyors, one to feed the rocks to the crusher, and one to take the gravel away from underneath the crusher? Moving firewood with it would be good to. Maybe making a 1/2 circle that the carry away belt is on wheels that move side to side on a concrete pad, that you could also use as a base to catch and pick up whatever you use the belt for. A concrete pad would be better suited to scooping with the bucket of the tractor for gravel, soil, chicken compost piles, what have you, that needs to be piled and left for a period of time. This conveyor belt could have a multiple of uses around the property. Building a free standing rock bucket that can be detachable from the metal sides of the conveyor belt would probably be a great idea. Maybe with the other section of conveyor frame and platform you could build a feeder that lifts rock up into a bucket that would hold and prevent the rocks from firing out and kill those 2 birds with a rock bucket. You might have to buy more conveyor belt and a connection kit to bring the ends together. If you were to do that build the conveyor with the rock bucket so it sits to the side of the crusher so it creates a safer distance away from any rocks that get tossed out of the bucket. But if you build a bucket that sits on top of the crusher I don't see that being a problem because you could load it with rocks, then rocks are less likely to be thrown out of it because of the weight of the rocks ontop of each other in the bucket. Does that all make sense? Hopefully some of these ideas might be of use for you Kevin. Cheers, Matt - Toronto

[@gabrielmatthews1671]

Classic

[@elainekaufman2264]

You're a genius

[@MiscMitz]

Way cool! Id possibly set it up for the processed material instead though (not done with the video if you did this).

[@brendag2891]

Given the first 7 minutes, you may need to rename your channel from "Kevin Builds" to "Kevin Takes Apart!" Just kidding, I loved the entire sequence, the struggles, the camera angles, the cuts. So great!!

[@christopherlenahan3906]

Great video, and good job on that staple splice! A very square cut and then parallel installation of the staples makes the tracking easy. As you learned the top and bottom rolls need to be dead parallel. Any adjustments needed are to correct the lack of parallel in the cut/splice. *Belts will also wonder left and right from areas of the belt being stretched or at the splice. They also wonder if loaded unevenly(not in the center), especially if material is on the belt and also riding a side-wall. You don't "NEED" a conveyor belt for a crusher. The reason for the conveyor belt is to move material from the vibratory hopper/feeder to the crusher. A vibrating feeder is what evenly & consistently loads the crusher. It's generally not practical to put a vibe feeder 6-25feet in the air and be able to load it :) As a Millwright, I maintain a crusher plant as part of my job. The biggest thing is having a high-level sensor to stop the conveyor/feeder when the crusher is choking on the material. You could get into this with a IR break beam sensor, like a garage door. An arduino as a Programmable Logic Controller, a relay to switch the arduino's 5volts and a big relay called a contractor in industrial to switch 120v would be the best bet. If you comment on this I will elaborate fully.

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I appreciate this comment. I'm probably going to end up making a vibrator deck that is loaded with the loader and using the conveyor to stack the crushed rock.

[@shawndonohoe2789]

You can join belts many ways, hinges work great,

[@richardwhite3711]

@ 30:57 hang in there you will have a Million viewers soon !!!!

[@zundappwatercooler]

Please add a motor protector for when the belt somehow ends up stuck you dont fry the electric motor, Nice job though you learned alot🎉

[@cindyfinn4845]

Hi Kevin and Don GTSY

[@richardwhite3711]

@ 3:20 Yeah a "THE DON" episode LOL

[@truthymchurtsalot7188]

❤Don!❤️ All pro-jects are better when “Don’s here!”

[@mellane4608]

Ha, Red Green. 😊

[@huntdoghomestead4886]

How's the homeless hut doing. Sorry haven't watched a video since the homeless guy took total advantage of your nieve kindness.

[@mrMacGoover]

Im going to predict that for gravel you need to install angel iron ribs on the belt to keep the stone from rolling back down the belt as well as side skirts to stop gravel from rolling under the top belt between the two belt surfaces and getting jambed between the belt and the bottom roller.

[@fred-san]

cool

[@Craneman4100w]

The angle of repose for crushed stone is 35 to 45 degrees. Your wheels are to close to the end of the conveyor. The stone pile will either engulf the wheels making it hard to pull the stone out from under it or push the conveyor back. Look up crushed stone conveyor belt slope angle and learn about them.

[@luckyedwards4870]

The second u decided to try and "push" the belt with the motor at the bottom, I wondered how u thot u could do that? Come on Kevin, u know better than that. Lol All tho, I think that made for a better vid. Always a thumbs up.👍

[@ardianblakaj]

Yoh always pretend like you dont know anything but always make things work that's why i love watching your videos

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I don't know it's gonna work until it works... :-)

[@kendalcobb367]

May want too put some paddles spaced out because the rocks will roll backwards going uphill. Just a thought.

[@mimiso516]

Yes, Bob's my uncle, and so is Bill.

[@crafterofbeer]

Hello from New Zealand! Just come across the channel not so long ago while browsing log cabin builds and came across the original cabin build. Been binge watching ever since. So many awesome projects! Was wondering how you were getting on with "cloning" as you called it, the crab apple tree. This technique is called air layering and have had some pretty good success with it myself as I'm into doing bonsai trees and air layering is a good way to make new plants with parts of the bonsai that would otherwise be thrown away. Would reccomend you try again in early spring / summer and apply your rooting hormone ( I usually use a powdered one) above the cut on the branch as this is where the roots will form and give it at least 6 to 8 weeks before opening it up to check for root formation. Also if you can get it, try using damp spagnum moss to fill the plastic clip on thing. I just use a piece of clear plastic which allows you to see if roots are forming without opening it and some 1mm bonsai wire to secure the plastic around the top and bottom. For a more in depth look at air layering check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ_MqJ6sgLqjesk really good video showing how to do air layering. If you have maple trees you tap for sap with branches low enough you could do this to make new trees for free and make many new trees you could tap in the future.

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I'll have to give it another try.

[@richardwhite3711]

DON wisdom "the building could come down"

[@noiseosoutros]

thank you...

[@donaldburkhard7932]

Have more left? Use one you made for loading crushed rock to trailer, make second one to load rocks into crusher?

[@JonRiceBeard]

I think you conveyed your point! 😂😂😂

[@specials3607]

You should really make some shirts "just gonna start cutting" 😂

[@josepimann7384]

We use these at work. I had no idea hw much they sucked to install

[@c.a.g.1977]

Great, now I want a conveyor belt too. Thanks a lot, Kevin! 😄 Just an afterthought: would placing the motor down below be possible if you used a chain ( like the ones that go on bikes?) to go to the upper roller, so it would still pull the belt instead of pushing?

[@Melicoy]

Maybe you should manufacture and sell your own bent mesh I would add a polarity reverse switch like at the airport bag conveyor

[@bobbyk6585]

...building comes down. Yep, could happen. Two industrious Canadians to be sure.

[@georgerogers542]

Probably should change it from belt drive to chain drive! I was waiting to see how long it was going to take you to figure there is a reason the motor was on top . The belt will drift when you put weight on it!

[@richardwhite3711]

@ 13:20 that looks like a pretty fine weld to me

[@jimronaldson6699]

Long enough for you to use at your Cube Cabin.

[@ANoss13]

So will that go into the input or will it take crushed rock and move it out? Looks great!

[@joedukes9760]

Time to pick up a slide from a swing set and redirect the materials from the top end

[@richardwhite3711]

@24:56 WE LOVE DON

[@captrockh2055]

You & Don just made a downhill treadmill.