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

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!

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

I built one of these from your idea. Works great and my mixer is still available for duty.

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.

Made a slight variation with my build based on your video: Instead of the Anchor Points, I replaced the 6 bolts holding the top and bottom halves of the cement mixer together with 1/4 in.-20 x 3 in. Eye Bolts and used longer M10 Hook & Hook Turnbuckles to go from the Eye bolts to the Waste Receptacle. That way I avoided drilling all the holes in the cement mixer as shown in your video.

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!!!!!

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.

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

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

Sir!!!!! Super informative video!!! I seriously love the options here. I need a soil mixing option AND a sifter. This is perfect! And thank you for being specific about the parts needed. I also appreciate the trouble shooting! OUTSTANDING and super helpful video. Many thanks!!!😊😊

Every once in a while you run past the video that's like takes your breath away and this is definitely one this this this this this this this helps me out so much on two fronts I thank you for your time😮😮😮😊

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.

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!

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

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!!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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. ❤

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

This is the best design I have seen so far

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

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

I actually bought the cement mixer today. I will make the screener, the trash can is too expensive. You can use the mixer alone to mix small blends of soil too. Can’t wait!

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.

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!

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.

to support the trommel I used a small 18x18 inch furniture dolly with 4 casters turned upside down and bolted to a board. Harbor freight sells them for $5

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.

Well I just finished my my version I use the the galvanized waste receptacle much more durable than paint also added aluminum angle two 24 in 180 deg. Opposed to flip the dirt inside the trommel.... I went to Northern tools and and got there strongaway 1200 pound plastic bed towable cart with rail sides that keeps the dirt in the cart and the steady wheels are on the front railside of the cart...i had to rase the mixer using 6x6 it made it more stable had to do it because it gives the cart room ,,,,wish I could show, pictures...works great...

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!

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😁

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the best version of a composter I have seen yet,

That was an amazing idea... Excellent work 👍

LOL love the mixer. When the motor burns out I have a video up for like 5 years now how to put a bigger stronger more reliable motor in it from tractor supply. That mixer comes with a terrible weak 1/3hp motor that will over heat and die eventually. Maybe 12 uses before mine died. I keep it inside to. If you never load it heavy maybe it will last. The 1/2hp motor from tractor supply has held up to so much abuse and still continues to work strong. Take the cover off and relocate the switch that will help it dissipate heat better perhaps last a long time.

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.

What an ingenious compost sifter!

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!

I would avoid bolting any anchors to the bucket. Since the bucket is bolted at the back I'd just attach some o-rings to the existing bolts and ratchet strap the red basket to the bucket. For mixing concrete the bucket needs to be smooth or you'd never be able to clean it properly.

Wow. Nice idea. But. Current May 2020 prices on your mixer and waste basket exceed $400 alone. Add the other items and you're well over $500.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Buy half double eye and half double hook. Change half the eyes for hooks

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

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

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.

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

serious sifter envy here

Brilliant. Engeneering at its simplest expression.

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

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

GREAT JOB SOLDIER 🪖, HARBOR FREIGHT HERE I COME.

Nice job!!! Just wish the cement mixer alone didn't cost $168. Imma gonna start saving up!

Crikeys mate I'd never thought of taking the bigger uncooked material from the garden mix. I'll be putting the larger stuff in a separate corrugated iron bin and over time that too will break down to.

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.

Black gold

Excellent stuff! If anybody has a source for a similar waste bin in the UK, that would be great! We don't have a cement mixer, but with a bit extra parts and modifications, this could be converted into a manual rotating drum sieve, which would still be way faster and easier than hand-held sieves.

Brilliant. I have no other words...

I think this is amazing and would love to have something like this. I know this was 3 years ago but in todays prices to get the parts and make this is almost $1000.00. I hope you got a better deal on things when you built it.

awesome build and design... I've already got the mixer on hand; noticed that Global Industrial has essentially the same mesh container for about $90 less than the Witt you used... Thank You!

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

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

Best diy I've seen

You are brilliant. I really want to make this! Hope I can find the components here in the U.K.! I make a lot of compost.

This is freaking genus

Loved that first shovel!!!!

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

Yep im gonna make one of these. Thank you for sharing this video. The only helpful addition to your video would be what the estimated total cost was? Thanks again!!

Excellent explanation. Thank you.

Отличная идея!!! Спасибо за видео. Будем воплощать в жизнь в России!)

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

Yours is a closest so far after three videos to what I'm trying to get to what I work at a steel Warehouse 24 years ago. I do not just want a static screen over a static box requiring human labor to do the screening even if it's with an end loader. I want a mechanical way such as you have devised.

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

Love it.....wish someone would make one for me😀. Too bad hubby is NOT crafty

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

I love watching the ingenuity of your videos! (Big Thanks to Greg Smith) This is why I never throw anything away. What seems like junk today, with imagination, becomes absolute valuable utility tomorrow.

Great innovation. Though currently the cheapest waste bin costs more than the cement mixer, I'll look for something to replace it with.

Lovely idea. I look toward build one in near future. Cheer

Pure genius