rolloffhill
10-31-2007, 08:36 PM
Revived thread from another site.
I decided to try this out to wash my sand on a larger scale than a 5 gallon bucket and a hose.
Put together a little PVC piping and hose connections so I could get the water to flow from the bottom to actually float the crap out instead of using the hose to just stir it up. What do you think of it?
I was washing about 50 gallons at a time rinsed it about 4 times each and did 300#'s total. Worked pretty good, and really didn't lose to much sand either. Let it fill up to the top and run over for a minute or so, and then dumped it. Agitated it by sticking my hands in there and stirring it up manually, but a tee in the main hose would work better to have another hose on hand to agitate it a bit more.
I lost the most sand when I transfered it to 5 gal buckets to take it to the tank and give it one last rinse.
I have no money in the setup because I had all of the parts, but it could be easily put together for $5-10 for the pvc and brass adaptor.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00004.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00006.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00007.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00005.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00008.jpg
I decided to try this out to wash my sand on a larger scale than a 5 gallon bucket and a hose.
Put together a little PVC piping and hose connections so I could get the water to flow from the bottom to actually float the crap out instead of using the hose to just stir it up. What do you think of it?
I was washing about 50 gallons at a time rinsed it about 4 times each and did 300#'s total. Worked pretty good, and really didn't lose to much sand either. Let it fill up to the top and run over for a minute or so, and then dumped it. Agitated it by sticking my hands in there and stirring it up manually, but a tee in the main hose would work better to have another hose on hand to agitate it a bit more.
I lost the most sand when I transfered it to 5 gal buckets to take it to the tank and give it one last rinse.
I have no money in the setup because I had all of the parts, but it could be easily put together for $5-10 for the pvc and brass adaptor.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00004.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00006.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00007.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00005.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u195/rolloffhill/Sand%20wash/DSC00008.jpg