Bob's Quarry

I decided to build a plant that makes processing dirt, compost and gravel easier and quicker. I set the steel pan on a stack of bricks. The screen is much easier to work with it up high like this. I can slide the screen to the side on one of it's long handles and easily dump the screenings out of the way on the ground for later collection or into the wheelbarrow if I want to put it someplace specific. I place the wheelbarrow under the end where I can dump in the screened material from the pan. I no longer have to stoop to shovel out the material. Plus all the material goes out when the pan is dumped, so it is not like scraping out a bowl. Grading and separating material is simple. I can switch from one material and grade to another with no problem.
My first fall project is cutting down the grade of the sidewalk yard. I am half way through with my first execution of this plan and I have accumulated this pile of dirt from that work so far. Much of the work I have planned for the fall involves cleaning out and enlarging the existing beds, and building some new beds. All of that requires processing different types of organic materials in this manner. I also have a couple of construction projects in mind that require gravel. This means that I will mine the patio area to screen and separate the gravel and fine fill. I have an abundance of that material. It is like having money in the bank, or my own little gravel quarry.
When I was a child I liked to pretend I was the County Judge. I would play in the dirt outside the kitchen door with my matchbox cars, trucks and heavy equipment. I built roads and bridges. Eventually my imagination created a county with a city and the surrounding country side with lots of happy people driving in their cars and I was the big boss of it all.