my friend came over to help trim. i handed him a brand new pair. within 5 mins he had snipped the webbing in between his fingers. blood everywhere.
How to make a DIY bud trimmer?
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Big P
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loool
its hard to find smart friends these days i think ima have to buy some safty scissors and helmets for my buddies before we trim
xceptional
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LOL seriously i started laughing when i read that because i have a friend that would do some dumb shit like that.
Danielsgb
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Dude I'm LMFAO I have a few of the same friends.loool
i think ima have to buy some safty scissors and helmets for my buddies before we trim
Daniels
personalgrowth4me
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Ok so I read three pages for nothing!!! WTF Anyway I guess Ill give it a shot. Hows this. Take a five gallon bucket. Get a skateboard wheel and place it in the bottom of the bucket. Get a long drill bit or metal rod that will fit in the chuck of a power drill. This rod should be slightly longer than the bucket is tall.now you nees a small piece of sheet metal, plastic, or if you have to wood. This piec should be at least the size of the buckets top you are using. You will need to cut this into a slightly smaller circle to fit inside of your bucket. After that you need to take a circular saw and cutt slotts in the inner piece you just sized. These slots will act as a grate for leaves toto poke through to be cut. The drill goes freely through the grate as to not turn when the drill is on. You can afix the grate to the side for better stability. Next you need to attach/weld/jbweld a fasion of blade to the drill bit below the grate. I would think you could atach some razor blades to pieces of wood trim and creat a typ of spoke, you might even use a spoke wheel to a childs bike if you can find one to fit. Above the grate you should create another free moving structure that can gently move your medicines around the top grate. This should consist of a ferris wheel structure that lays horizontal and is split in 4 portins by a curved flexible botome scraping skate board ramp shaped divider. right above that is a sprocet with a 3 to 1 ratio so the top spins slower than the blade on the bottom. A chain or belt is then atached to a pully that gets atached to a small rod afixwd to the side of the bucket. Then from your pully to the top med turning ferris wheel. I think that should do it. Let me know. I might try to make one. Not sure if this Idea will come to life. Seems simple and cheap in my mind, but it is not guarenteed. I just kinda rambled out what I think could work.
akgrown
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I use something similar to this when I trim. They are really precise and do not make your too hand sore.View attachment 955579
wonderblunder
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I like the one that is similar to a metal bladed box fan with heavy duty grate(blades sharpened?) over a large trash can or framework with bag system.
Has anyone seen that video with the two hicks trimming on their DIY Trimpro with their kids running around and what not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouojXIZUGRE&has_verified=1
Has anyone seen that video with the two hicks trimming on their DIY Trimpro with their kids running around and what not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouojXIZUGRE&has_verified=1
VWFringe
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i just made one- look for it on icmag under vwfringe or on youtube, mine only lasted an hour or so, but the idea holds and saved some time
i clamped a rotary tool to a piece of wood with a conduit clamp, and i used a thin stiff piece of steel instead of a thick wire (out of a windshield wiper refill)i tried a drill but it didn't go fast enough really
the "blade" tends to bend upwards but not quickly
i should have used:
a better quality motor,
denser bud - hehe,
a narrower-slotted "screen,"
two conduit clamps instead of only one (and rohs compliant bushing material instead of steel wool),
a wider plank of wood to separate the clamps and hold it in place better,
and something else i'm forgetting atm
[video=youtube;jn2H1ERRUsY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn2H1ERRUsY[/video]
NickNasty
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My friend just made one out of a fan, it was his first prototype, but we are going to improve upon it with the next one and we will make a DIY tutorial of it. But basically what he did was take a fan with metal blades and took 2 off, then sharpened the other 2 blades and bent them till they were the proper distance from the back grate then he mounted it to some wood face down and set it on a rubbermaid tub like the guy just above did and BAM you have a trimmer. He showed me how it worked on a real sativa type plant that was really foxtailing and it did a pretty dam good job on that airy bud. The only problem with it was because it was facing down the motor was in the way but with the next on we going to use a bigger fan and instead of using it from the back we are just going to do the same thing but remount the fan blade backwards so we can use the full grate on the front.