Classifier system

My son, Dylan, and I just finished building a classifier system for him to use next week at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. This system consists of three sizes of screening and one large bucket with a screened hole in the bottom. We had to order stainless steel ($$$) screen to ensure that we would have screening that would not wear out over the years. The buckets were purchased at Home Depot.

 

Sections of three buckets were cut so that they would stack onto each other as well as secure the screen. We used pop-rivets to make sure the screen would stay in place.

 

Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only diamond hunting site in the U.S. that is open to the public. You get to keep what you find. The classifier system is used to separate the larger rocks from the smaller stuff and make it manageable to locate the diamonds.

 

Here is a link to the YouTube video we viewed to direct us in the construction of this classifier system:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ny7fhFkn8

 

He is a high school shop teacher somewhere in Canada. Watching this video saved us a lot of time and made the job much easier.

Done