Screening buckets

[Gunners]

Alright guys, I'm looking at getting a screening bucket for the 8026. A customer has around 30+ loads of ex topsoil on a site that is a bit mixed in places with subsoil,. but generally underneath, seems of ok quality. Obviously its full of roots, few bricks etc and covered in weeds from being left in a heap for 2 years but I'm considering the possibility of screening it for him to save some money.
Yes I know a 3t screening bucket is like taking a teaspoon to it but my plan is to screen directly into a dumper as and when I need it so I'm not especially worried about production, more the quality of what it will produce. I already have a competitive price for a Gyrustar one from everyone's favourite attachment specialist - Dr Pecker. So my question is this;

Anyone have one, especially on a smaller machine?
How do you rate them?
Yes Shovelhands I know you made your own - show off but having discussed it, the main point seems to be belt or chain drive.
@Grahams I think you have one if I remember from a thread back on the old forum? Hows it performing a few years down the line?

I don't need advice about how I could ratchet strap a wacker plate to a heras panel and achieve the same effect. How Rory has made a screener out of his dumper, welded to a skip with some kind of unguarded concrete poker as a shaker deck. Nor how Takuchi make a better screening bucket and all others are s**t . And yes I know I'm crazy trying to pretend I have a 5t plus machine taking on bigger jobs with a 2.8t digger. Literally looking for you guys wisdom on how you've found your buckets performed.

 

[Grahams]

Mine has had very little use. The job I bought it for went well initially, but the customer decided he wanted a finer separation. We have reducers on the spacers but it still let too much oversize through for the customer's liking.
It is a Gyrustar, which is belt driven. As I have mentioned I have broken a belt, but it was probably user error, rocking it backwards and forwards when it had jammed.

 

[GazCro]

To be fair you may say it's like doing it with a teaspoon but at the end of the day how many jobs do you have where it would be handy to just screen 10 or 20 ton on site to dress over the top to tidy up. Its ok people saying it would only cost £150 to get it taken away and 200 for a load of screened back but that doesn't make you any money. I would think its between gyru star or lloyd rotastar but can't help advise on which as i haven't taken the plunge on buying one yet myself.

 

[GazCro]

On a related note the lloyd bucket claims to be able to alter screening size by adjusting rotor speed. Does anyone know how well this works? I know with the plastic stars they can let oversize through regardless and i wouldn't expect the variation to be much but out might be a useful feature if it works.

 

[Left hooker]

Landscaper friend has a llyod one on a 2 ton JCB for soil and his mulch waste and he's happy with it

 

[JD450A]

Just hire my Reed box screen

 

[GazCro]

Just hire my Reed box screen

Is it safe to get close enough to it to load it though Rory

 

[doobin]

To be fair you may say it's like doing it with a teaspoon but at the end of the day how many jobs do you have where it would be handy to just screen 10 or 20 ton on site to dress over the top to tidy up. Its ok people saying it would only cost £150 to get it taken away and 200 for a load of screened back but that doesn't make you any money. I would think its between gyru star or lloyd rotastar but can't help advise on which as i haven't taken the plunge on buying one yet myself.

I don't know anywhere around here you could get those rates so your own screening bucket makes even more sense to me.

 

[GazCro]

I don't know anywhere around here you could get those rates so your own screening bucket makes even more sense to me.

Were just example to be fair not totally accurate for here either. Main point i was trying to make was your making the money not handing it over to somebody else hence my interest in the thread as I'm looking into getting a screening bucket. Another plus for screening yourself is you know what your putting through it. Anywhere that recycles bulks soil and mixes crap in with it.

 

[JD450A]

Is it safe to get close enough to it to load it though Rory

Only if you have spare fingers

 

[doobin]

Were just example to be fair not totally accurate for here either. Main point i was trying to make was your making the money not handing it over to somebody else hence my interest in the thread as I'm looking into getting a screening bucket. Another plus for screening yourself is you know what your putting through it. Anywhere that recycles bulks soil and mixes crap in with it.

Yup, decent screened topsoil is a rarity, and often two or three loads will be good then they send a load of s**t for the final cap

 

[GazCro]

Yup, decent screened topsoil is a rarity, and often two or three loads will be good then they send a load of s**t for the final cap

Or contains lots of brick dust

 

[TiltyShaun]

Or you need one of these!!

 

[DaveDCB]

I know a lad how had one on his 2.5 kubota and I’m sure he ran it on his u17 too!
He Used it for pipe bedding a lot of the time, deffo something I’d like to look into oneday, got about 200ton of topsoil stacked up, would be handy just to take a nice screened load away to tidy jobs up with etc.

 

[CPS]

We sold this one last year to a customer. Works good, the only thing I would say about this and any screening bucket, it needs to be dry.... don't think you will do it on a wet day when there is nothing else on.

 

[Grahams]

The Rhino screeners are very nice. Three way split and self propelled tracks. Light enough to be towed by a pickup, but not cheap, even second hand.
2017 Red Rhino3 Way Screen, new 40mm & 15mm grids 419 hours

 

[GazCro]

Even big screeners don't like soil if it's wet to be fair. That's part three reason the bucket appeals to me its a lot easier to take to the job with the digger and screen the soil and stockpile it on site before it gets wet.

 

[GazCro]

The Rhino screeners are very nice. Three way split and self propelled tracks. Light enough to be towed by a pickup, but not cheap, even second hand.
2017 Red Rhino3 Way Screen, new 40mm & 15mm grids 419 hours
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No quite expensive. A lad near be had one for a while but sold it on. Here used to put it on top of a trailer when running it as they don't make a very big pile

 

[Antony Holmes]

6 weeks of fine weather in scotland and a screening bucket was looking like a good idea loads of good dry topsoil being dug out of different jobs and loaded away to the tip so made an enquire to get a price and what happens that's the end of the summer here

 

[fred]

rotastar works when wet according to the vid

Rotastar™

The Rotastar™ is a unique, high-output screening bucket that combines market-leading features. Material is constantly rotated, without any chopping or pinching, making screening of damp, fragile and special materials possible.

www.screeningbucket.co.uk