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Pollen sieves

DabberDog

DabberDog

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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.

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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
An inexpensive alternative that I have used is a piece of silk screen for the mesh. A sawzall would make a great vibrator.
 
here's a 1/2 a thought for a tool, depending on sieve size i was gonna use plastic taping and putty knives, first off because i have a bunch of them and if not there cheap A.F. and 2nd i could freeze those to not thaw anything out. 2- one of the sawzalls i have is old as hell and can be turned down to almost slo-mo. now i have another reason to wait for harvest.
 
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.
 
Ghetto that bitch! The only reason I'm looking at buying the screens is that I don't have enough stuff to ghetto something up. I diggity wish I had a shop or something with all sorts of random bits and pieces.
Imma'bout to win the lottery. The big one. Then I'm going to buy all sorts of random bits and pieces and never buy something made-for-the-job.
 
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
 
It's my first time freezing the bubble hash. I read a few places to freeze for 24 hours, then sift and dry. My $hit's been in the freezer longer than 24 hours by a few weeks. So there's that.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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