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How To Build An Automatic Compost Sifter / Trommel Using A Cement Mixer & Trash Can

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This homemade compost sifting machine can be built at a fraction of the cost vs store bought turn key models using readily available materials and just a few basic tools. Save time, money and your back as you sift through tons of compost, soil, woodchips etc. The end product is a beautiful finely processed compost perfect for planters, seedlings, amending new garden beds, making compost tea, re-filling raised beds.
Here is a complete materials list for this build:
(1) Harbor Freight 3-1/2 Cubic Ft. Cement Mixer: www.harborfreight.com/search?...
(1) Witt Industries EXP-52RD Steel 48-Gallon Outdoor Waste Receptacle: amzn.to/2SYgzha
(Currently $169.00. Check all colors for best price)
(1) 1/4-In. Galvanized Mesh Hardware Cloth: amzn.to/2T3cKrm
(1) 6 ft. 2 X 4
(6) 1-1/2 in. Anchor Points
(6) 1/4 in. X 7-3/4 in. Turnbuckle Hook/ Hook or Eye/Hook
(2) Rubber Caster Wheel with Rigid Non-Swivel Top Plate - 3-Inch
(2) 3/4 in. x 48 in. Round Steel Stake
(2) Blue Hawk 4-cu ft Steel Wheelbarrow (Purchased from Lowes)
(2) 3/8 in. X 4 in. Eye Hook
(12) 1/4 in. X 1/2 in. Hex Bolts
(8) 1/4 in. X 2 in. HexBolts
(20) 1/4 in. Nylon Lock Nuts
(20) 1/4 in. Flat Washers
(1) Bag of Zip Ties
(1) Drain Cover for Waste Container
And Here The The Tools Needed:
Drill
Phillips Head Screwdriver or Drill Attachment
7/32 Metal Drill Bit
5/16 Metal Drill Bit
3/8 Metal Drill Bit
1 in. Wood Drill Bit
11 mm Socket & Wrench
11 mm Metric Combination Wrench
Circular or Hand Saw
Greg Smith KZhead Channel:
• Trommel cement mixer
• Trommel attachment for...

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  • Videos like this are the reason I don't go to sleep until 3am. Love watching them

    @tee2899@tee28993 жыл бұрын

    • Haha isnt it the truth!!! 😂

      @dawn6954@dawn69543 жыл бұрын

    • I love doing them !

      @ERMAV@ERMAV3 жыл бұрын

    • Currently 340

      @LetsReviewThisS@LetsReviewThisS2 жыл бұрын

    • So addicting and then you find yourself shopping for the materials

      @javier0304@javier03042 жыл бұрын

    • Yep!

      @cheritait8116@cheritait81162 жыл бұрын

  • As a 70 year old handicapped grandma this is absolutely the answer to my prayers! I have been screening my compost by hand and it takes hours of backbreaking effort. I already have the cement mixer so this is going to the top of my husband's honey do list! I can't wait and neither can my back!

    @gabbygertie8709@gabbygertie87092 жыл бұрын

  • Only a brave man films the first try out. Great job and good project.

    @ussweeneyd@ussweeneyd4 жыл бұрын

    • He's not only brave, he's confident and aware there are always minor and sometimes major adjustments

      @MichaelSmith-hs5iu@MichaelSmith-hs5iu2 жыл бұрын

  • I clicked the like button right after I heard “you can also use it as a soil mixer”. Thanks nice video

    @JasonEyestone@JasonEyestone Жыл бұрын

  • I can hardly wait to show my "non-gardening" husband your invention. I think he'll make it for me because you did a great job of demonstrating how to do it. Thanks.

    @bethatz252@bethatz2524 жыл бұрын

  • That sifted compost at the end is brown gold. Beautiful.

    @WaddedBliss@WaddedBliss5 жыл бұрын

  • I love this idea, especially using a mesh trash can.. I already have a cement mixer and you have given me the idea to trundle that out to my compost yard and use it for sifting and combining materials. Thanks much!

    @IowaKim@IowaKim4 жыл бұрын

  • What a fantastic way to harvest compost. I have to say I really enjoyed sitting back watching you do all the work shovelling the compost in, I was quite mesmerized by watching it turn and sift. Great job.

    @downundervlogs@downundervlogs3 жыл бұрын

  • I bought the same concrete mixer when it went on sale for Christmas specifically to mix soil and make aircrete. I use vermiculture, compost, humus, goat, rabbit, duck, chicken and quail manure to make my own soil and needed an easy way to mix it all for different uses. Your idea is an awesome implement for me, def will make it! Planting season is in full mode now and I can’t seem to mix soil fast enough to plant and mulch all my gardens. Thank you for the video!!

    @lillysimeoni5080@lillysimeoni50805 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you Dan, for sharing your projects. This is a good idea and to see your building process helps us all in doing our own. Good job, great video. Thank you.

    @markluke8447@markluke84475 жыл бұрын

  • This video is awesome. This has got to be one of the TOP KZhead / DIY type videos I’ve ever seen, and I watch a lot of KZhead. Great outlining and presentation. Hats off to you!! Keep ‘em coming! Thanks!

    @Bearclaws1234@Bearclaws1234 Жыл бұрын

  • I think you are a genius because you were able to simplify it to the point that I might take a shot at building it. Thank you for your generosity, clarity and for being able to teach. Namaste, Nelson

    @nelsonolivera8059@nelsonolivera80594 жыл бұрын

  • I am a big fan of multipurpose tools and have looked at a mixer for a while now but couldn't justify a single use tool. With your genius idea I now can justify a mixer. Thank you very much!!!!!

    @kevchard5214@kevchard52145 жыл бұрын

  • I love that you were not afraid to show you errors. Good job and what at great machine.

    @jacklong311@jacklong3114 жыл бұрын

  • researching ideas all day for my newly worm casting farm and harvesting project and this is EXACTLY what I am going to do if I can find someone to help me.

    @smokymountaingirl@smokymountaingirl Жыл бұрын

  • GREAT JOB SOLDIER 🪖, HARBOR FREIGHT HERE I COME.

    @solidsoldier9021@solidsoldier9021 Жыл бұрын

  • Thank you so much for sharing! We are going to make one ASAP. This is must have for all gardeners and small farms.

    @NatalyaBerezneva@NatalyaBerezneva3 жыл бұрын

  • Thank You! I am not mechanically inclined, so something with simple instructions and simple processes like this is invaluable. Thanks Again!

    @MarkBohland@MarkBohland3 жыл бұрын

  • I'm 10 seconds into the video and saying this is an excellent idea and project.

    @chri8067@chri80674 жыл бұрын

  • Wow you are the MacGyver of gardening. This is a most excellent project. Thank you for the instructions. 😄👍😄

    @mindy779@mindy7795 жыл бұрын

  • This is so genius! Wow. Looks like a pro tool one could buy! Thank you for sharing!

    @my_permaculture@my_permaculture5 жыл бұрын

  • Thoroughly liked this video. So informative, clear, concise and helpful. I especially enjoyed the professional grade production values and choice of music. As a beginning vermicomposter, I have struggled with the question of how I will create a trommel when the time comes and now I have an answer. Thanks.

    @bracebridgelionsclub5223@bracebridgelionsclub52235 жыл бұрын

  • Wow! What a clever idea and execution!!! You are a gifted teacher. Thank you!

    @t.barclay203@t.barclay2035 жыл бұрын

  • I brought my harbor Freight Concrete mixer to mix my ingredients for potting soil. I did see this idea before, but your setup with the metal mesh trash can is and wheel casters is better. Great Job!

    @sumerbreze46@sumerbreze463 жыл бұрын

  • as a new gardener, this vid is an inspiration. I just bought some dirt, peat moss, etc. and I was thinking how to mix it. I never thought of the cement mixer, which I also have an old harbor freight mixer. Thanks.

    @twinpalmsvideo2741@twinpalmsvideo27413 жыл бұрын

  • Absolutely love it! I've been kicking around ideas in my head for a while now and this NAILS IT! Already have so many ways to use this around the gardens! Now to convince the wife I need more garden tools!

    @davesims3471@davesims34715 жыл бұрын

    • See and here i am waiting for my husband to retire so he can build me one! 😆

      @that_auntceleste5848@that_auntceleste58482 жыл бұрын

    • ​@@that_auntceleste5848 and I need a wife to tell me that I can or can't make one! 😂

      @markjust86@markjust86 Жыл бұрын

  • Love it when a plan comes together! Great content, thank you sir!

    @Mityob67@Mityob674 жыл бұрын

  • I use one of these cement mixers as a livestock feed mixer. A setup like this could also serve as a grain cleaner. Food for thought

    @RustyCarnahan@RustyCarnahan4 жыл бұрын

  • You did an awesome job on your soil sifter sir. I wish to thank you for sharing your experience and video on KZhead. I can't wait to build incredible soul sifter. Adding the 1/4" mesh was an excellent idea. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

    @jamesc9327@jamesc9327 Жыл бұрын

  • I have made one 2 years ago i drilled no holes in the trommel and i have screwed a piece of wood at the mixer foot to improve the stability of the mixer . This is also a nice idea ! Happy sifting!

    @Anvil-Blacksmith@Anvil-Blacksmith5 жыл бұрын

  • Well Done & Communicated. Minor important: Remove the TOP half of the mixing drum/tub & mount the sieving drum/tub onto the BOTTOM half.

    @tombouie@tombouie4 жыл бұрын

  • You Sir, are a genius, superb thinking outside of the box and you've still got a cement mixer to boot!

    @mobyindisguise@mobyindisguise5 жыл бұрын

  • Nice Dan ! ! ! Looks like you re-purposed a cement mixer. I made my own 10 years ago, it is 6ft long with 4 ea x 27" bicycle rims to support the 1/2" mesh heavy wire drum, swivel casters on a wood frame and an old washing machine motor for power, works great. I even lend it out to neighbors who have compost piles, they love it too.

    @bigdogbob845@bigdogbob8455 жыл бұрын

    • Thank YOU ‼️‼️‼️

      @corinneyeager@corinneyeager2 жыл бұрын

    • Howdy Neighbor! 😂

      @that_auntceleste5848@that_auntceleste58482 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you for sharing and all the information. I built this same unit this past summer with some slight modifications and it works perfectly. A Milwaukee m18 leaf blower keeps the 1/4” mesh free and clear of wet mulch during operation. Thanks again as you saved my back along with valuable time.

    @herbkronholm2781@herbkronholm27814 ай бұрын

  • That is another awesome invention,you thought of everything.✋[high five!👍 I can think of several ways to use the machine.💕💕love it!!💕🤗 I like my potting soil,and garden soil sifted,and free of twigs,rocks,etc. I don't have to sift by hand now! 😀 This creation is another stroke of genus!!! Fabulous!creation,well done.👍🤗🌹. Excited!! to save and get one put together.🤗🤗 Thank you for sharing Genus😁

    @debraarizona4809@debraarizona48095 жыл бұрын

  • Awesome job thinking outside the basket lol.Works great.A great multi use tool.God Bless

    @vlvtopcat@vlvtopcat5 жыл бұрын

  • This is genius!!! I wish I had this yesterday when I sifted my compost for my beds and pots. I like how you didnt edit out the mistake, made me lol and proves you're still human! Either way, freakin genius.

    @andrewehrmantraut4742@andrewehrmantraut47425 жыл бұрын

    • @@mrgallbladder what?

      @alexballstoyou6335@alexballstoyou63353 жыл бұрын

  • Great video I'm gonna start saving for a mixer, I see the value in a multi-use tool. Thanks for showing details and even little hangups or opportunities to make improvements to make it easy, Thanks.

    @patriciarussell8450@patriciarussell84505 жыл бұрын

  • the best version of a composter I have seen yet,

    @matsvineyard7564@matsvineyard75645 ай бұрын

  • one of the best i've seen. simple. easy.

    @Rec_it_Roop@Rec_it_Roop4 жыл бұрын

  • That's ingenious! I've got to put one of those together, thanks!

    @MikeKincaid79@MikeKincaid795 жыл бұрын

  • Nice job, The garbage can was delivered yesterday & I'm assembling the cement mixer today! Then off to hardware store to track down the hardware. Hope it comes out as nice as yours did.

    @adirondackjack@adirondackjack Жыл бұрын

  • Молодец!!! Просто и с запасом применения. Молодец!

    @user-dx3os1yf2v@user-dx3os1yf2v4 жыл бұрын

  • Best diy I've seen

    @shawn80j@shawn80j Жыл бұрын

    • Thank you kindly. Cheers!

      @plantabundance@plantabundance Жыл бұрын

  • I am making something very similar to this. Thanks for the video. I really appreciate it. I have an old steel drum I can repurpose and cut and fit some screen in it. I have all the supplies except the turnbuckles. It should turn out pretty good thanks to all your great tips.

    @eCitizen1@eCitizen13 жыл бұрын

  • 1 Minute in and this is brilliant needed this 8 years ago to do the soil thumbs up from me

    @grahamedwards9634@grahamedwards96342 жыл бұрын

  • Wow! Works great and appreciated letting us see the necessary modifications😄 you make it all look so easy! Very encouraging💕

    @DeeJayBee85@DeeJayBee855 жыл бұрын

  • What a great idea! Very nice way of using one machine to do 2 different task. Thanks.

    @santiagomercado4523@santiagomercado4523 Жыл бұрын

  • This is a really great build and exactly what I was looking for to sift my compost! Thank you!

    @froissart1@froissart13 жыл бұрын

  • Everything about this video is simply perfect. Thank you so much for creating it, you have a new subscriber and huge fan….awesome job!

    @elizabethr7249@elizabethr72492 жыл бұрын

  • That was an amazing idea... Excellent work 👍

    @badeadrian@badeadrian4 күн бұрын

  • This is exactly my idea! Thank you for build + test!!

    @kimmokannala4576@kimmokannala45763 жыл бұрын

  • Mister, that was awesome !!!!! Ya gotta love compost !

    @robertevans8024@robertevans80245 жыл бұрын

  • i think i would make a stand alone end support just so i could move the coarse material wheelbarrow. also some wider or even dueled wheels would make it more stable. great build and so much simpler to make and use than many

    @frrapp2366@frrapp23664 жыл бұрын

  • Excellent! Except that I read a comment for a different mixer that cost around $170 where the person said he bought that one after reading comments about this mixer. I didn't even know there was a basket like this. Perfect!

    @dsbennett@dsbennett10 ай бұрын

  • Really good video! For me I would use my drill/driver to tighten all those nuts. Also turnbuckles are easily adjusted using a flat head screwdriver of at least 6 inch length so you don't risk skinning your knuckles. Gotta love the utility of concrete stakes or a length of #4 rebar.

    @AlvinMcManus@AlvinMcManus Жыл бұрын

  • Oh this is great! We have this cement mixer! Thanks for sharing. 🥳🙋🏼👍🏻

    @laurielehman915@laurielehman9155 жыл бұрын

  • What an ingenious compost sifter!

    @debmartindale6991@debmartindale69912 жыл бұрын

  • Hi, Dan, I’ve been gardening for many years here in zone 9A (Texas Gulf Coast), but I have to say I’m learning a lot from your channel. Keep up the good work!

    @director365@director3652 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you for this. You have given me some ideas for a stationary system that I want to put together.

    @stuffbywoody5497@stuffbywoody54974 жыл бұрын

    • Glad it was helpful!

      @plantabundance@plantabundance4 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah me 2. Esp startin a green house its gonna be such a big help. Much appreciated. 👍

      @susiedixon6835@susiedixon68353 жыл бұрын

  • Brilliance is in simplicity! Excellent idea.

    @doctoreden@doctoreden5 жыл бұрын

  • My partner has worked in concert finishing for almost 20 years. Last year we moved in together and he brought home a huge load of garden dirt that a client didn’t want anymore. The garden was removed to make room for more parking. He dumped it in a pile in our backyard. I used to work at a Hotel years ago and they changed out their furniture. Staff we’re allowed to take the old furniture home for free once they had sold what they could to the public. I took the Queen sized headboards home. They came with me wherever I went. So I used 8 to build two garden boxes and filled them with the same dirt he brought home. I have enough boards to build two more but not enough dirt. The pile that was leftover ended up growing grass & weeds. I covered it with a tarp & rocks to help kill them. I’m going to ask my partner to bring a cement mixer home so we can put something like this together. This will help shorten the waiting process and I can always build the two boxes & add dirt as I get it. The garden boxes are doing amazing and I have been outside all summer making improvements to the yard. I’m mostly fixing the stuff given to us. I can add the garden boxes, dirt & weed fabric to the list of things we have gotten for free. I call it free-cycling. ❤

    @veronamartin5285@veronamartin52858 ай бұрын

  • Great detailed description and great video! Thanks so much for saving me so much time.

    @franklord7804@franklord78043 жыл бұрын

  • Love the build. Hubby already watching the video again. 🤩

    @susanmyer1@susanmyer15 жыл бұрын

    • Made sure hubby was captive when I played it... Hint hint honey😍

      @PlantObsessed@PlantObsessed5 жыл бұрын

  • This is absolutely brilliant. I'm making one.

    @JohnVance@JohnVance4 жыл бұрын

  • Wow!! The effort to make this video is amazing!! Brilliant fun journey thanks

    @Kelsdoggy@Kelsdoggy Жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant! Perfect solution that I was looking for.

    @bootburner4544@bootburner45442 жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant. Engeneering at its simplest expression.

    @sweetbaboo2698@sweetbaboo26982 жыл бұрын

  • This is cool! its worth just for mixing potting mix, thanks for the great share!

    @littlesinman@littlesinman5 жыл бұрын

  • Love the cement mixer, never again will I have to mix my soil blends on a tarp or with a shovel.

    @RichardCMongler@RichardCMongler4 жыл бұрын

  • Loved that first shovel!!!!

    @adamneusbaum3749@adamneusbaum3749 Жыл бұрын

  • serious sifter envy here

    @dmwark@dmwark5 жыл бұрын

  • Good build Dan. Very nice. Best wishes Bob.

    @BobMelsimpleliving.@BobMelsimpleliving.5 жыл бұрын

  • Since you obviously visit Harbor Freight, I suggest you get their very inexpensive center punch to indent the center of the places on the metal where you intend to drill holes. That way the drill bits will be less likely to “walk” around the intended hole location.

    @stevebabiak6997@stevebabiak69974 жыл бұрын

  • That was awesome and looks like anyone could do that. So Genius!

    @deh773@deh7735 жыл бұрын

  • Very very good job!!!!....from spain thank's!!!!

    @girosmargara@girosmargara5 жыл бұрын

  • Been thinking of making a shaker table for years. But this is cool.

    @couldbelive@couldbelive5 жыл бұрын

  • You are really good Dan, very impressive!!...

    @titaminnie@titaminnie5 жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant. I have no other words...

    @75blackviking@75blackviking3 жыл бұрын

  • Man! That is so genius...

    @ScarletJannaStaAna@ScarletJannaStaAna3 жыл бұрын

  • Damn impressive! Thank you for taking the time to post this.

    @londonpickering8675@londonpickering86753 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you! :)

      @plantabundance@plantabundance3 жыл бұрын

  • you did an awesome job. I see only advantages to this being "no frame". Plus the large opening, it's easy to put the shovel in...

    @o00oZu1o00o@o00oZu1o00o5 жыл бұрын

  • Very nice! Love your genius mind! Thank you for sharing.

    @meltcat4@meltcat45 жыл бұрын

  • Excellent, I need it for sieving limestone for a finer powder, maybe I'll use it for compost afterwards!

    @mickleblade@mickleblade4 жыл бұрын

  • I really really love this. Genius!

    @roseannerainwatersmith12@roseannerainwatersmith125 жыл бұрын

  • Cool project. Thank you for your great videos.

    @heidiw8406@heidiw84065 жыл бұрын

  • i just really enjoyed the background music.

    @claudeirby1561@claudeirby15614 жыл бұрын

  • Unexpected. I’ve been wanting to scale up my composting. Might also be useful for my shredder. Separate out the oversized needing a second pass

    @LatinDanceVideos@LatinDanceVideos3 жыл бұрын

  • This is so satisfying to watch

    @koruki@koruki4 жыл бұрын

  • Hello from Texas. Good job sir,

    @MrsHeavencitizen@MrsHeavencitizen5 жыл бұрын

  • Excellent explanation. Thank you.

    @jeffbrown9060@jeffbrown9060Ай бұрын

  • Love this! A bit more expensive than scrounging up some old motor but this mechanical dummy has no clue how to rig a motor with belts and pulleys. I also have some concrete work to do so I like the dual purpose of the cement mixer. Thinking about running the soil through a second time, wrapping the barrel with 1/4" hardware cloth for potting soil.

    @curiouscat3384@curiouscat33843 жыл бұрын

  • Awesome job, thanks for sharing!

    @garybarnes3998@garybarnes39983 жыл бұрын

  • You are one smart man!

    @rodricksharpe3668@rodricksharpe3668 Жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant! Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber!

    @Lynda5876@Lynda58763 жыл бұрын

  • By the way I use insulated wire for so many things are on my farm. Love it

    @nickslingerland4155@nickslingerland41555 жыл бұрын

  • This was sooo cool I actually use mines for mixing my container mix but wow didnt know you could do this with it. Gonna have to have the husband look at this video

    @charliewilliams8794@charliewilliams87943 жыл бұрын

  • Awesome! Thanks for sharing this!👍

    @autumnspring6624@autumnspring66244 жыл бұрын

  • Thank You!!! Got me a use concrete mixer from cl for $75 and a metal can for $50 of fbm $150 total with hardware. "Professional" ones cost $500-600.

    @rumblindave6707@rumblindave67073 жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant as always!

    @dawn6954@dawn69543 жыл бұрын
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