709-218-7927 The Landfall Garden House 60 Canon Bayley Road Bonavista, Newfoundland CANADA A0C 1B0 |
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Hand Rack
A rack is usually a rectangular or circular wooden frame with a sheet of mesh (a “mat”) attached to the frame.
In my first year here (2019) I made three hand racks, each with a different size of mesh. The hand rack shown above appears t have one-centimetre mesh.
The frame is made from scraps of used timber which a neighbour gave to me.
Me, and some sort of batten holds the mesh sandwiched to the frame.
I appear to have sewn two small pieces of mesh together with a snaking thread of electrical wire.
This rack works well, is compact, portable, but serves only small amounts of material, and is not really useful for mixing materials. Soil, grass clippings and sawdust could be more easily mixed by shoveling them into a wheel barrow and then just tipping it out.
Watch out for back-pain, since you will be bending over to shovel material, bending over to lift the loaded rack, then shaking from side to side until you feel that the fine material has passed through the mesh.
For quantities of soil over a barrow full, a hand-held rack is not the answer.
Nonetheless this does demonstrate a rack.
This hand-held rack is about twelve inches by fifteen inches.
An interchangeable rack would be about three feet long and about two feet wide. It should be able to serve as a propped rack (with very accurate shoveling) or a table-mounted rack (Dropped, Vibrating, or Cammed)
In the foreground are three hand-racks. The sides are about eight-inches, but I used these with only one shovel of soil at a time; the high walls prevent soil bouncing over the edge of the rack.
A hand rack should be ideal for locating dropped jewelry