Massive hand job and a couple ounces of skuff

That's hash to you youngsters out there.

This is the trimmings from my last grow, 15 sweet cindy. In additon thee is about 3 ounces of buds I'm running through with the trim leaf and wispy lower buds I always seperate out for the hand shaker. I use a hand shakerbecuse I cant afford the outrageous prices for bubble bags and the like and I appreciate the non perfection of skuff with some bits of other plant material in there.I kind of liken bubble bags to everclear. When I want to get an alcohol buzz on, I dont go straight to the 200 proof stuff, I take my time and enjoy the ride and taste of my beer or CC getting there. Call it justification if you like, but this way makes better hash than Ive ever seen from the street before, though that isnt realy saying a whole lot.

Here is the lineup of supplies for this adventure. Thats two pounds of trim leaf and lower buds and three ounces of straight up buds. I would eventually spend over 12 hours at this this weekend. I loved every minute of it.



My best hand shaker, two 3 cup #7 tupperware, one with the bottom cut off. The intact shaker is the holding cup and the top 1/2 you can remove for easy changover. The screen is 100 mesh silkscreen. The ring over it is the tupperware top, with the inside portion cut away with a razor blade. Obviously you do it so it's attachment insert remains intact. Lay the scree over the mouth and cover like norma, making sure the screen is taut.




This is the trimmings



And the mixture of buds and trim I use in each container full



And some of the progression as seen on an 8 square foot glass table



Ikeep the bare streak through the middle to see how much crap is coming through and determine when to change material.

After round one comes round two, the secondary shaker.

This one is made out of a mason jar and a stainles steel coffee filter for your automatic drip coffeepot. It's available at any US grocery store for $5. It fits perfectly over the top of your mason jar. Screw the ring on, trim off the excess and off you go. This thing is heavy and provides quite the workout, but my hashmaking is not complete until I use it.



The screen gets very encrusted and nees to be tapped off frequently



You can see the ringtap in this pic, the semi circle of skuff above and left. It'll get more noticable



When I'm done, there is a very nice pile spread all over the glass to the very edges and beyond. I'm sure a gram or two goes beyond the edge in a fine dusting



Here. I'll show you. I've employed my long unemployed cocaine skills and scraped all the excess to the center pile I just shook out.



Scrape the middle of the cirle to it's own pile



and all the outide stuff to it's pile



and they are very nearly the same size



each container holds roughly 15-17 grams, lightly compressed so the heads dont rupture. I like my skuff in powder form for bowl toppings or joint additions.

Amazing !

Nice

Nice

Nice job of the hash makin there c, i love makin hash never get bored no mater how long it takes, gonna have to get my hash press finished and get them bags...

Thanks for the thread. As always, when I see someones inventions or adaptions to inventions, I get all warm and fuzzy and start building on the idea.....it looks like you're getting some pretty decent quality skuff there.

Unfortunately...everything I can think of right now costs $$ So . . . now I have all these plans.... and no way to do it.....damn you Caprichoso..... hehe

Seriously though, thanks 123p

Thanks Grower, DrD, 123P.

My arm is still a little sore a couple days later, but I got meds for that

123, here is an even cheaper version of the first shaker using standard pantyhose as the screen. You can adjust mesh size by pulling it more or less taut. replace requently since bud stems will poke holes in it before long.

damn Cap! I just been making ISO quickywash hash balls getting 3 grams of oil for every oz. and a half and that skuff of yours looks boombastic so much more than mine! gonna try that sometime soon! also you pulled an extraordinairy amount an there is no butane iso acetone or hexane in there. excellent

wonderful show

wonderful show

you've given me several ideas Cap ~ thank you

Nice, u know im gonna be doing this with all my trim. Ive a harvest in16 days, then another the same size roughly but different strain two weeks l8er, then another bigger harvest of another different strain a week after that, im gonna save all my mixed trim, and popcorn buds to give this a whirl, well, some is gonna be oiled with butane, but most of it will be done this way. thanks.
Would an old silk shirt be of any use???

I just purchased a stainless steel mesh screen from this website. They sell all kinds of stuff from hydro supplies to lab testing and fish culture equipment.

http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/listings.categories/ssid/223

Got 4sq ft for $23.89 with shipping. I'm going to use it for my masonsifter and in the kif box I'm making out of a cedar humidor I just got off Ebay. The box is stained green and has a high gloss finish, it's beautiful. I have enough screen to make a few kif boxes that I plan to sell for reasonable prices when I get a few more small humidor boxes. I know I'm building one for my younger brother either for xmas or his b-day in Jan.

That site also has nylon and polyester mesh for sale by the foot, and mesh filter bags. I'm getting my bags from filterbag.com because they sell a 5 gallon sample kit with bags ranging from 35 microns up to like 800, 10 bags total for $60. That's way more reasonable than bags sold for hash collection (those prices make me sick). Raplace them down the road for another $60 and you still spend less than half the cost of a complete set of bags marketed to stoners.

Way to go for making your own system. I used to use pantyhose to shake kif but I'm gonna try this steel mesh and see how it pans out.

wow .. im droolin!!

Now that is a great diy hash article.
Thanks for sharin' Caprichoso.

Farmer John said:

Very tasty looking skuff there C!!!!!
I love it!!!!

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Thanks John! It is quite tasty, just like the hash from the Bay Area in the 80s, if anyone else is familiar.

friendlyfriend said:

damn Cap! I just been making ISO quickywash hash balls getting 3 grams of oil for every oz. and a half and that skuff of yours looks boombastic so much more than mine! gonna try that sometime soon! also you pulled an extraordinairy amount an there is no butane iso acetone or hexane in there. excellent

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Hey ff, Interesting enough, i'm about to make some ISO oil myself using the remains o this skuff session. I'll pull out any last THC from this grow using that method. I dont smoke it however, I cook with it. Very easy to use and leaves almost no taste compared to nasty cannabutter. The lack of chemicals is my favorite part

zeppelindood said:

you've given me several ideas Cap ~ thank you

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Excellent, that makes my day. Gotta love expanding the knowledge base by stimulating brains not mine. I tend to get limited in my thinking.

Harry Gypsna said:

Nice, u know im gonna be doing this with all my trim. Ive a harvest in16 days, then another the same size roughly but different strain two weeks l8er, then another bigger harvest of another different strain a week after that, im gonna save all my mixed trim, and popcorn buds to give this a whirl, well, some is gonna be oiled with butane, but most of it will be done this way. thanks.
Would an old silk shirt be of any use???

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Cool Harry, I'll leave a few tips about this method in my next post. Sounds like you have uite the harvest schedule coming up, just like I like it in my peretual harvest, a little at a time. Those 15 plants were a killer in the processing dept with just me doing it. As I mentioned above, oil is very effective at scrubbing the remaining goodness from already skuffed leaf. Best of both worlds. I dont know about the shirt, but I dont see why not. If it's not working, just stretch it out as much as you can and see what that does. The panty hose is a really good short term option, you'll be shocked at how well it works and how fast you can change th screen out when you get good at it.

melvin said:

I just purchased a stainless steel mesh screen from this website. They sell all kinds of stuff from hydro supplies to lab testing and fish culture equipment.

http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/listings.categories/ssid/223

Got 4sq ft for $23.89 with shipping. I'm going to use it for my masonsifter and in the kif box I'm making out of a cedar humidor I just got off Ebay. The box is stained green and has a high gloss finish, it's beautiful. I have enough screen to make a few kif boxes that I plan to sell for reasonable prices when I get a few more small humidor boxes. I know I'm building one for my younger brother either for xmas or his b-day in Jan.

That site also has nylon and polyester mesh for sale by the foot, and mesh filter bags. I'm getting my bags from filterbag.com because they sell a 5 gallon sample kit with bags ranging from 35 microns up to like 800, 10 bags total for $60. That's way more reasonable than bags sold for hash collection (those prices make me sick). Raplace them down the road for another $60 and you still spend less than half the cost of a complete set of bags marketed to stoners.

Way to go for making your own system. I used to use pantyhose to shake kif but I'm gonna try this steel mesh and see how it pans out.

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Thanks for the link, that's a great price for 4 sqf. I could make 16 shakers from that much using 6" square pieces. I'm down with the kif box. I have a cigar box from before Castro's Cuba, complete with the dated tax sticker. always wanted to make a kif collector out of it. Those bag prices are excellent! Do they work? How durable are they? Any links to homemade versions? I would drop this method in a second for some decent bags that cheap.

fallenangel said:

wow .. im droolin!!

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Keep that spittle off the collection table! Here, do a few one hits and try not to drain down the tube

Leeroy&Co said:

Now that is a great diy hash article.
Thanks for sharin' Caprichoso.

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Thanks Leeroy, it's my pleasure getting the cheap and easy methods to the masses, since I'm a cheap and easy kind of guy

nattynattygurrl said:

*applaudes*

Very nicely dun, my friend!!! Beautiful!!!

I&I can't wait 'til we have sum trim, to try dis "tek" out!!!

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*bows deeply at the island gurrl*

Thank you ma'am, may it do you as well as it does me

wonderful........i lov kif

that table is just of the hook with white dust nad its not powder

My dads old silk shirt(yuk) is ready and watting. I was trying to explain about butane oil to a m8 today and he asked me about the strength, the only way i could desctribe it to him was to say that oil is to weed, what crack is to cocaine, any more interesting analogies???

classic thread

classic thread

HAD to bump it

yer 1 inspirational phella cap

hope yer still kickin mang

grow on

a much better choice than silk or panty hose is a fine mesh, shallow bowl shaped kitchen seive...(not a standard flour sifter, much finer)

and btw if you shake kif over an open glass table top then you are definitely losing trichomes to the carpet ...it's easy to rig a catchment bag or container under the mesh so zero is lost

another way to clean rough kif is to shake the kif with ice and freezing water in a leaving the last half inch of water and trichomes undisturbed...then pour this solution through a paper coffee filter to capture the trics..place the filter and trics on a warm surface and in a day or so should be ready to smoking.or let the water evaporate on a plate and collect the resin that's left

btw what is the micron size of holes in the metal coffee filter?

another alternative is to ghetto kiffing methods is to splash out and treat yourself to a Gypsy Nirvana's latest stash box....it has two mesh screen frames (120 and 145 mesh - ideal for dry sifting!)......the box has a big side storage compartment for your smoking tools, the mesh frames are held together by magnets, the box has a lock and the finish is excellent

http://www.seedboutique.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=973

I like to lightly grind up 2 or 3 grams of bud, card this over the top screen, then remove the top frame and set aside, card the kif that has fallen onto the bottom mesh and collect the kif from the catching plate and re-sift it again over the finer mesh, stopping when about 90% has fallen though, the 10% on top of the mesh will be mostly broken plant matter) ...this stashbox will produce a beautiful golden hash that presses together easily in a pliable putty...and the ground up buds on top of the first mesh can be rolled in joints if they have been kiffed lightly...or you can really work the material over and over again to strip all the trichomes off it

the difference in the quality of the hash between using single and dual mesh dry sifting is significant

wow, I really don't know what you did but it looks cool and I would def. hit that!

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