Carport GreenHouse 2011

Great idea with the rock tumbler doublejj. I was going to get one of those APE machines about 6 months ago (when they were in the $300 range) and passed on it. My friend got a different brand and the product that comes out of me shaking the bubble bag with dry ice is much better than his machine. The dry ice freezes and beats everything so fine that what doesn't come through the screen looks like it came out of the spice rack. When I'm done with it I just throw it in the compost pile to give some nitrogen back to the veggies next year.

This is the tumbler I built. Stainless 90 micron mesh. Works awesome. Super slow rotisserie motor for better product.

what do you have in the bottom to catch the good stuff?

I bought a mirror and cut it down. Made a trap door so none of the pollen could escape. Rubber balls from the party store to agitate the goods inside and knock off all the trichs. Beautiful golden keef!!!

doublejj dry ice sifter!

Put #5lbs dry ice chunks & about 1/2lb of dry trim & popcorn buds in a plastic bucket.
I cut the middle out of a bucket lid, then stretched my #100 bubble bag over the top of a bucket.
Snapped on the lid & shook for about 5 min!
Filled 2 jars with sweet smelling blonde keif!

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doublejj

Great post JJ!!! i'm gonna have to try this your a genius i swear

Would you suggest using ground up trimming and popcorn buds or just put them in there.

Just throw them in, the dry ice will make short work of them. The weed will be pulverized by the dry ice. It breaks is down into flakes, like it came from a spice rack!lol!

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doublejj

That's an awesome method JJ! Will def. be trying it!!! TY!

I am so excited to try this. Thanks DJJ!

You are the kief master. That picture of the 1lbs of kief is just unbelievable.

There was 1.5oz on the table top!

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doublejj

So you get about 3 ounces from a pound of shake/trimmings????thats pretty damn good.

I'll keep you posted when i start making some thankx for the idea

I didn't really weigh the trim, I guessed, so I can't say for sure.

But, I have lot's of trim left & I will weigh the next batch & tell you for sure. But it was about 8-9 oz, I think.

Good luck bro

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doublejj

Sir, I spend a few years as a soldier my self =)

Hurrrraaaaa!, fooster! Thank you

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doublejj

Great Job!!!!

Super nice job on the Kieffing there DJJ ! flippin nice ! So much fun and easy to do,smokes great too !

double
I would have sent you a private message but it says your full!

Im glad you went dry ice method!!!!!
We find a 5 to 1 ratio works out great!
for example 5 oz of trim and popcorn should make 1 oz of kief, so.....
we shake first, then scoop and weigh immmeadiatly, looking for 1 z of shake and then stop!

Heres the catch, you can over freeze the trim and buds (just use more ice than needed), and the dry ice chunks will literally smash, sand, and force ALL of the plant material thru the 110 mesh.
Believe me when I say this, if you have premium shake and buds, you can in fact grind it all up thru a 110 screen, until there is nothing left in the bubble bag, except evaporating dry ice chunks! Thats why I say be careful, because you can in fact over shake the mix! A dry 5 to 1 ratio has been working good for us, but you do what results you like.

Also, we no longer use the bubble bags, we found a silkscreen printing supply company here in Phoenix, they charge 14 dollars for a silk screen that is 60 inch x 30 inch and 110 micron! We have been cutting small squares out of that and using them as the shake bags. Works out great because the screen sides allow the resin thru, and not just the bottum.

Really Im honored you looked into it, just be careful that you dont overshake and "force" undesired plant material thru the screen!

Ps
We have chopped up and used the top bud from half of our garden allready, however, we allready have plants that are 6 foot tall that are just now going into flower outside also, so needless to say the heat killed us, many of our buds looked like shit in a bag because of August temps, this was a very good first season lesson thou, because we have the other 8 months out of the year in which we can grow outside with no problem! I figure our plants were out April 1 to Oct 31 (7 months) and over half of that time it was well over 100 degrees! Hard times not getting the flower weight we wanted, but learned a ton in knowledge, and we have over a pound of the best hash product I have ever tasted in my life!

I find the best lessons come by not knowing what conditions mj prefers and grows in, but the climate and factors that it wont grow in!

doublejj said:

doublejj dry ice sifter!

Put #5lbs dry ice chunks & about 1/2lb of dry trim & popcorn buds in a plastic bucket.
I cut the middle out of a bucket lid, then stretched my #100 bubble bag over the top of a bucket.
Snapped on the lid & shook for about 5 min!
Filled 2 jars with sweet smelling blonde keif!

peace
doublejj

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Ilove the ease of use with dry ice, Looks like you were sanding wood all day on that table

double jj
We take the kieff and carefully load it into a steel cylinder that is open on both ends and all the way thru, once the steel tube is packed full of kief, we put it in a bench vise where 2 steel pucks that fit perfectly (but slides easily thru with tight enough clearance) those pucks are inserted on either side of the tube. A bench vise squeezes the pucks and the kief together inside the tube. With pressure still on the apparatus we then heat the tube with a ordinary blow dryer, we have used a heat stripper gun and a torch, but you dont need so much heat. Warm the cylinder all the way thru and let iy sit in the vise under pressure for 10 minutes. Next remove the apparatus from the vise, but stand it up inside the vise so that you can lightly hammer out the metal puck from one end thru the other with a brass punch so it doesnt damage the inside of the cylinder press or the metal pucks! You will be left with a nice little chunk of goodnes, ready for shaving with a razor blade when ever you need meds. The press we have packed full of kiek, pumps out 14.2 gram chunks all day long!

Just be sure to have a set of hands at the bottum of the cylinder when you tap out the puck and the fresh hash, we did it once without a catch and spent a good amount of time looking for a puck of half ounce top pressed kieff from off the floor!