As all of you know, I designed a ramp for a lady dying of cancer and Mom insisted that I pulled a tree stump before building the thing that will totally support her weight!
I just did not feel that I could shovel back gravel, cinders, and sterile worthless Arizona regolith, so I looked into making a sifter, but the designs called for far more cuts than I liked. I can't be cutting all kinds of boards!
I bought a 2-drawer wooden filing cabinet from Goodwill for $10, and aluminum window screen, 1/4" garden screen, and some 1x2s. I cut off the top of the top drawer--terribly, I couldn't find my jigsaw, so I used my sawzall, I tightened all of the fasteners, accepted that it would always be loose, removed the bottoms, and screwed in screens:
I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those pesky kids!
I think that it would have worked had I used 1/2" and 1/4" screens, but I wasn't redoing it!
Eventually the rain will cause the dirt to settle, right?
Right?!
