Pollen sieves

[DabberDog]

Been considering trying something with sifting up my kief come next harvest.
I probably can't beat the 220-micron bag for initial bud rubbing but the rest of the bags are awkward to work with. I'm talking dry sift, here. Have any of you good people tried something like this, and what do you think versus bags? Whatever micron.

[JonnyBoy]

Would like to know too.
since my first harvest is coming.
just want be prepared well =)

[Pyrokill]

I have a set. Goes down to 75 micron. I over worked it and it seemed to get gooey and clogged the final screen. I'm going to rig up a vibrating table in the future when I get time to put it together. I just worked the grades by hand and got a good yield. I'd say freeze the green and use a tool vs a warm hand to move it around.

Surprising how fine you can separate the green matter and the trichomes. I think 73 gets just the heads of them if I remember right.

I got the pans for free so was work it for me. I use the dust to spice up some Js randomly.

[DabberDog]

My dispensary has a hash brand that calls the gooey 'blue pressed hash' and charges $39 for 1.2 grams. Sits in a jar like a drop of oil. Makes my mouth water, that does! But it kills me that hash is so expensive when I have always associated it with a waste product. What trichomes fall during trimming and washed from trim. Live resin goes on sale for $10.50. I can't pay $39, no matter the quality. Damnit.
A thing about those sifters is the variation in the sets I see. Like the random picture I showed, a set of a few does not have the smaller micron and I would only use half of the ones in larger sets.
These stacks seem oodles easier to use for dry sifting than working bags.

[ductwizard]

i've been thinking about this and i have a cpl. q.'s for guys. 1- are you saying i can just freeze my green matter and not use dry or wet ice? i ask this 'cause dry ice is tuff to get around here and wet ice sounds like a mess. 2-instead of buying these sieves or bags ( i'm poor and retired ) can't i just use a reg. wire kitchen strainer? as for a vibrating table, why couldn't i hook my strainer up to my sawzall and use that for the sifting motion? any thoughts or answers would help my little brain, thanks

[ductwizard]

back to the lab

[Smallgrow]

Don’t freeze it , dry and cure it like your buds then sift it . Kitchen sieve is too large a mesh, and will allow plant matter through, not what you want.

[ductwizard]

hey, whats up smallgrow, will doing it the way you suggest seperate the green from the trichs? and another thing is kitchen seives come in diff. mesh sizes, how big is 2 big in microns

[golfnrl]

I have not seen those stackable screens. I have some bubble hash in the freezer and I want/need to sift it and let it unthaw and dry out. I tried to sift it in a regular tea strainer. Didn't work. My fingers thawed the hash out too quick and that clogged the screen. I need to use a tool to work the hash instead of my mitts, check. ductwizard I want to know the answer to your first question as well. Instead of a sawsall maybe an oscillating tool? That may be too much, IDK.

[ductwizard]

everything i own is ghetto-fab, i don't have anything new as most new shit is crap. fortunatly i have a lifetime of tools and knowledge that comes from making something out of nothing

[golfnrl]

I have learned that with the right tools one can do almost anything. That always helped with honey do's and was a way for me to buy the stuff I wanted. There's a bit of satisfaction making something out of nothing. I despise with a white hot passion paying someone to do something I can do myself.

[ductwizard]

i refuse to pay anyone to do something i can do. the last 3 diy projects b-4 i got hurt were 1-all new roof. 2-new furnace and central air. 3 curtain drain. all together saved about 50 grand

[DabberDog]

I never understood freezing weed for prep. Like you said golfnrl, it thaws out about as soon as it hits non-freezer'd air.
Here's a thing I've done. This is for manufacturing your dope, not for storage.
Dope goes in a bubble bag, in a bucket in the freezer until my gingey senses tell me it is frozen. It's dry leaf matter dope. Dry leaf matter dope doesn't take days to freeze. While the dope bag is still in the bucket in the freezer, work it between your hands like you're fluffing a pillow. This is not for a complete de-kiefing, just a good place to start.

[golfnrl]

DabberDog When ya win the big one could ya help a brother out?

[DabberDog]

There's a reason, I'm sure. Unless freezing is just for long term storage reasons, I don't get it.
If I had access to an industrial walk-in freezer where I could work the product while frozen and in a desiccating environment, yeah, I get that.

[DabberDog]

I got you, G! Imma be hookin' all y'all up. Most all y'all, anyway. Some y'all... well...

[Gator]

I used silk screens before I bought the bubble bags,I would save all of the trim and sift it in January or February when it's freezing cold out, my back porch is great for it, but the cold would mess my back up

[ductwizard]

i hear ya' on the cold and back thing, but the 1st hard freeze i'll be out there tryin' it. then i'll sit in front of the woodstove and nurse my back with the proceeds

[Gator]

No woodstove freezing cold

[ductwizard]

screw that brother, nothing better than parking my ass in front of that stove with my homemade ketchup bottle and high-liter bong and watching the snow fall

[DabberDog]

Turkey baster and V-8 can.

[Pyrokill]

I have access to powder coating industry parts. I saved a vibrating assembly in parts from the base of a powder coating dolly. The vib table shakes the powder so you don't have to add air to fluidize it... Make it flow easy.

It's on my build list but I have a big build list. I have to find out what capacitor or thing I need to turn the motor into a straight wall plug. Now the start sequence is in the controller of the powder system and needs to do a soft start or it will pop breakers from the draw.

I have vibrating isolators and everything else needed. Hoping it turns out but it will be some time before I get there. One or two more grows should prompt it. I'll have a decent collection of trim I can run through then.

The pans I have go from like 1.5 inches down to 75uM. I worked at a place that sold slag and these were screens from the lab. I used acid to clean them and then an ultrasonic cleaner for a while. I have the big screens to my kid for his dirt pile.

[DabberDog]

That jewelry cleaner worked?

[Allenpro]

This is the rig I use to grind weed & sifting to fill my cones. I use the same shaker with dry ice for kief with much a finer screen, it works great, I turned a couple of pounds of autoflowers into kief in a few hours

[Pyrokill]

DabberDog yup. We have a large heated one at work I was able to get them in. Got almost every cell on the screen clean. I let it sit in acid for a while first to break the slag down more first.

[DabberDog]

Sweet.

[Smallgrow]

Here’s a deep dive on dry sift. These guys are a great source of info for most solvent-less extraction

[DabberDog]

Lots of folks turn to those folks. Good information.
Something I got out of it was temperature. The article says to keep things cool, including the environment. When kiefing time comes, my apartment will be 75°. Nice and tropical like but still might make for sticky trichomes.
But I got to thinking. I'm fair tight with the liquor store people even though I don't go there much anymore because their prices are 3-4 times grocery store, and I told them. Lee's cool with dope so I might ask if I can use one of their coolers when kiefing time comes.