Turning whole plants into dry sift?

[Thor’s hammer]

I'm in love with dry sift, does anyone else do this? Opinions on it?

 

[vostok]

so what you do with the plant material ...lol

 

[dirrtyd]

What is your technique ?

 

[Thor’s hammer]

I was gonna trim anything off that doesn’t have trichs, let it dry fully then break it up and run it across a 120 micron screen. I just wanna know if it’s worth it and any tips you might have?

 

[thecosmicgoat]

Throw it in the freezer before you rub. I always find it falls away easier and feels more like sand than oil.

 

[thecosmicgoat]

I've always used a 120micron bag pulled over a stainless steel bowl and rub it over that. Then use left over material for iso oil or water extraction.

 

[xtsho]

Dry ice

 

[Thor’s hammer]

Throw it in the freezer before you rub. I always find it falls away easier and feels more like sand than oil.

This helped a lot, a lot more trichs falling off

 

[thecosmicgoat]

This helped a lot, a lot more trichs falling off

Glad I could offer some advice.

 

[OPfarmer]

I use the pollenex 150 tumbler. Process whole plants.

Basically dry real well break up material and toss in freezer, then into my tumbler.

You could make one yourself. IMO hand carding volume sucks.

(I like to start with dry sift before ethonol extraction. )

 

[Renfro]

My buddy takes whole plants into keif for pressing rosin. He uses a tumbler and a deep freezer. Put the weed in the tumbler and set the whole thing in the freezer overnight. The next day you tumble frozen to get the trichomes.

 

[Hawaiifire420]

I use dry ice all the time with a tumbler throwing in 10 oz of bud at a time roughly. Then about 4-5 lb of dry ice . Gotta make sure bud is in freezer first and that you put. Enough dry ice .

I have used hash bags as well work great. Buy some 5 gal bucket hash bags, they fit perfect in a bucket and you put bud/dry ice in mesh bag and shake it for a while in bucket. Crazy how much you can get .

Good luck

 

[Blue back]

I use dry ice all the time with a tumbler throwing in 10 oz of bud at a time roughly. Then about 4-5 lb of dry ice . Gotta make sure bud is in freezer first and that you put. Enough dry ice .

I have used hash bags as well work great. Buy some 5 gal bucket hash bags, they fit perfect in a bucket and you put bud/dry ice in mesh bag and shake it for a while in bucket. Crazy how much you can get .

Good luck

Here's a better way to use that set up. Put the weed and the dry ice in the 5gal bucket the stretch the hash bag over the bucket hole. Shake out the kief on to a flat surface like a big salt shaker. Then scrape kief in to piles on the flat surface. That way you can separate the grades of hash. You will get the good stuff from the first few shakes then the quality drops off fast as you continue to shake. You only need to use the 120 bag

 

[Hawaiifire420]

Here's a better way to use that set up. Put the weed and the dry ice in the 5gal bucket the stretch the hash bag over the bucket hole. Shake out the kief on to a flat surface like a big salt shaker. Then scrape kief in to piles on the flat surface. That way you can separate the grades of hash. You will get the good stuff from the first few shakes then the quality drops off fast as you continue to shake. You only need to use the 120 bag

Yes could agree shaking it onto a flat surface would be easier for collection . A new paint brush and old credit card work great for collection tho.

I bought a toms tumbler for trimming/ making hash. It’s what I use for the bud /dry ice now. Wish I could figure a way for that to fall into a flat surface. I bet someone on here figured something out

 

[Nabbers]

I have used hash bags as well work great. Buy some 5 gal bucket hash bags, they fit perfect in a bucket and you put bud/dry ice in mesh bag and shake it for a while in bucket. Crazy how much you can get .
Good luck

This is my method. It really will surprise you how much it produces.

 

[xtsho]

This is my method. It really will surprise you how much it produces.

True

 

[Warpedpassage]

I have used dry ice with bags . The first time i did it i was shocked with how easy it was. The amounts it was dropping. Sure its not anywhere near 5 star, but sooooo easy.

Do you guys ever wonder about just how “clean” the dry ice is. By that i mean , they typically use some sort of stationary electric saw to cut your dry ice into pieces for you when you go into purchase it. If you happen to see the workstation where they cut it up, its pretty grimey. And they probably use some sort of lubricant on the blades?

 

[Nabbers]

Where I am, you can just go to the grocery store and buy brick-sized blocks of dry ice out of a cooler behind the first checkout lane. They come pre-cut and bagged by the manufacturer. I've never gone anywhere that cut it to order when you came in, so your experience as far as how they cut it and how clean they keep it may vary. But the people making large amounts of dry ice more than likely have dedicated equipment. Band saws seem to do the trick quite nicely with ice and dry ice, and no lubrication should be necessary as your enemy in this case is excessive cold, not heat and any heat generated by friction will cause the contacting surface to melt or sublimate away from contact at a much lower temperature than would damage the blade.

 

[Warpedpassage]

Where I am, you can just go to the grocery store and buy brick-sized blocks of dry ice out of a cooler behind the first checkout lane. They come pre-cut and bagged by the manufacturer. I've never gone anywhere that cut it to order when you came in, so your experience as far as how they cut it and how clean they keep it may vary. But the people making large amounts of dry ice more than likely have dedicated equipment. Band saws seem to do the trick quite nicely with ice and dry ice, and no lubrication should be necessary as your enemy in this case is excessive cold, not heat and any heat generated by friction will cause the contacting surface to melt or sublimate away from contact at a much lower temperature than would damage the blade.

I think you are right about the lubricant. The place i purchase from is actually a distributor providing dry ice and ice to surrounding areas. So they have equipment dedicated for the dry ice. Just very dusty and not particularly clean. I dont want to discourage folks from trying it. Just pay attention the to surface of the block of dry ice you purchase. Last time i chiseled off some surface area that seemed dirty.

 

[Gemtree]

Making dry ice hash this weekend then throwing it in some butter for edibles.