Pellet / Sawdust Bedding Sieve - Has saved my sanity

[maybedaisy]

I thought I would share my Bedding Sieve contraption in case anyone has the same problem as me. I switched from straw to wood pellets when the price of straw more than doubled earlier this year. My horse likes to mix her bedding and I was rapidly losing the will to live. After many hours on Google looking at American Bedding sieves and soil sieves I came up with the below. You can make it yourself and if you don't have electricity ( we don't ) its battery powered.

Before

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApDI_CgXUXKqlSzK4TEpWSpTXz4f

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApDI_CgXUXKqlS0AVv1WnGk4lvsj

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApDI_CgXUXKqlS6E1zfnMXe9LnHw

The Sieve - Mesh from Homebase ( also available at Wickes and B & Q ) Small massagers ( ebay around £5.00 each )

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApDI_CgXUXKqlSvaLzGps0GJ_cRZ

The sum total of all that mess

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApDI_CgXUXKqlSkqgwbSf37AAoRY

After

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApDI_CgXUXKqlSjEMhojuVKkjgcx

In action

https://youtu.be/zUS-a30L0fQ

 

[maybedaisy]

Worked out how to post the pics

 

[maybedaisy]

ahh can't get video to show

 

[maybedaisy]

[video=youtube_share;zUS-a30L0fQ]https://youtu.be/zUS-a30L0fQ[/video]

 

[Leo Walker]

Mine tramples it all into one big mushed up mess or I would definitely give this a go!

 

[meleeka]

This is a great idea! I may make one for the winter

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Well done!

My late father, who was always inventing something or other, had a go at trying to solve our shavings/muck problem but didn't manage to do it very effectively. We only have two horses now and one of those is very tidy and easy to muck out. The other is a messy mare but manages to mix any hay that she doesn't fancy, in with it all, so it's easier to just chuck the lot out.