FB100-Backhoe
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Hi guys,
I´m looking for a clever method to separate a mixture of top soil, gravel and weed. I own some squaremeters of land here in spain, and for preventing wildfire I use a brushcutter from time to time to remove the weed/grass/undergrows. Sometimes I also use my backhoe with a cleaning bucket, resulting this faster but with a larger amount of debris.
The "problem" starts when I rake the cutten stuff, because there is a nice top layer of natural gravel on my land and with the rake and the cleaning bucket I recollect a large amount of this gravel I would like to conserve or to screen from the rest of the organic material.
Anybody can give me a hint on how to separate this stuff? The fastest and most effective would be burning down the mixture and then screen the ashes for the gravel, but I can´t use this option. I´m sure that a gravel-tolerant shredder with a cyclone separator would do the job, but this is too oversized.
I thought about excavating a type of pond, fill it with water and put the stuff in, maybe organic debris floats and gravel and earth can be removed from ground and the organic debris float on the top?
Any idea for me? Thank you in advance!
I´m looking for a clever method to separate a mixture of top soil, gravel and weed. I own some squaremeters of land here in spain, and for preventing wildfire I use a brushcutter from time to time to remove the weed/grass/undergrows. Sometimes I also use my backhoe with a cleaning bucket, resulting this faster but with a larger amount of debris.
The "problem" starts when I rake the cutten stuff, because there is a nice top layer of natural gravel on my land and with the rake and the cleaning bucket I recollect a large amount of this gravel I would like to conserve or to screen from the rest of the organic material.
Anybody can give me a hint on how to separate this stuff? The fastest and most effective would be burning down the mixture and then screen the ashes for the gravel, but I can´t use this option. I´m sure that a gravel-tolerant shredder with a cyclone separator would do the job, but this is too oversized.
I thought about excavating a type of pond, fill it with water and put the stuff in, maybe organic debris floats and gravel and earth can be removed from ground and the organic debris float on the top?
Any idea for me? Thank you in advance!