SkunkMan Sam's 99.9999999% pure DRY SIFT

[Bubbleman]

I was luckky enough this year to once again get to smoke and photograph this lovely h ash.
This year instead of skunk dry sift it was one of DNA's new strains SLEESTACK.
An incredible producer of resin... with a very uplifting high . I felt it hard to fall asleep after a nite of puffing this hash.

I would love to start a disucssion here on dry sift potency and quality vs water hash. We know that when we make hash using water we lose valuable water soluble terpenes... however these can be recouped via dry sift methods. and reconstituted back into the bubble in order to produce the full tastes without losing any of the potency. POtency is lost for the most part when people lose site of the purity issue of their hash. Dry sift is extremly difficult to clean up to the poiint of these photos. In fact minus sam's method i would say near impossible from what im tried and seen anyway ( which is by no means every method)
That being said... lets see your dry sift shots.. lets hear about your ideas....


anyway here are some of the photos i managed to snap in my haze.... hope they inspire

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5714B_418573.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5715B_24412.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5722B.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5736BB.jpg

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5740DesktopResolution.JPG

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5741DesktopResolution.JPG

http://www.fullmeltbubble.com/gallery/files/3///IMG_5741BDesktopResolution.jpg

Peace
Bubble man

[trichomefarmer]

Oh yum!
I cant wait till the future when more have learned the way.

[Hieronymus Bosch]

amazing, as always. one day....

[OnlyHighGrade]

I really wish Sam would just give up his knowledge/ method. However, I totally understand why he doesn't. He keeps talking about an affordable device he is designing so one day we can all have Sam the Skunkman quality dry sift, one can only hope.

Seriously SAM! How the hell you getting that sift so clean??????? Nuff respect everytime....

[ganjalicious]

lookin tasty! crazy crazy clean.

[777]

so so nice

[freakyfoot]

You never cease to amaze me with these pictures
I want some!

[Bubbleman]

So a few idea's from doing some research on google today as well as things i've learned and known for some years... methods that could be used to produce some nice isolated Trichome heads....


http://www.chitraengineers.com/chitra-vibro-sifter.html

could do something with one of those im sure ^^...

and oh man could one have fun with one of these.. with a few minor changes... adding 140u.. down to 3u... and i think we could have some real hash making seshions with this badboy...

Then we have the standard gyratory vibrating screens...

http://www.clevelandvibrator.com/equ...ndgyratory.php

as well as laboratory screeners http://www.clevelandvibrator.com/equ...bscreeners.php

which of course can both be used in conjuction with ultra sonics..

http://www.clevelandvibrator.com/equ...ultrasonic.php

and with all that said.. i can honestly say i doubt sam is using anything along these lines... but only he can say...

I am still in the dark as much as any of you... thus the discussion...

I am eager to see methods that people have tried... idea's are awesome... but someone has to run with them.. and TRY IT...

now lets see how much i have in my checking account.... for some of these clevelandvibrator toys

peace
Bubble man

[OnlyHighGrade]

^^^^^^ i couldn't get your cleveland links to work. i'm curious.

[dankocalypse]

my god that is quality dry sift

[Hatch]

I Was Wondering Where The New Wall Paper Came From !!!! You Have To Love It !!!! Great Job Bro..

[Concentrated]

lol, that is what i was thinkin hatch.

Such nice pics of such nice trich heads

[BigManNew]

What are some ideas behind how SkunkMan Sam makes his 99.9999% pure dry sift? And what does it have to be to be what it is (if that makes any sense)?

[Kudos]

Thanks to Bubbleman for taking such nice photos so I was able to use them to make such a nice background!! Been getting lots of compliments on it.

[Evergreen]

that looks amazing! can't wait for the method to be public or a product!!!!!!!!

[BigManNew]

^^ Why don't we discuss and try to figure it out through trial an error lol

[dfa]

great shots!

[doobiehuffer]

i have a feeling hes maybe bouncing whole buds off screens or something and only the cleanest biggest loosest trichs fall off so theres no plant matter to really clean out? *shrugs* i just know mine came pretty clean when i worked the plant matter the LEAST and ive even got dry sift half melt out of tumblers but you need whole super crisp dried plants BARELY broken up and tumble it for maybe 1-2 min max and that sift that first comes out should be semi melty :) ive also wondered... now this may sound funny to some since its so microscopic but hear me out... ok since trichome heads are spheres would they roll? and little contaminate not round so they lie flat? does he maybe use a super smooth ultra no stick surface and roll the trichs away from contaminate? haha just a thought

[sibannac]

When my buddy makes Dry sift he puts his box he made on top of the washer when its in spin cycle and that shakes it just enough to get some nice melty dry sift. After he shakes it himself alil more violently to get the rest but it ain't as good as the Spin hash as we call it.

[Bubbleman]

I would love to add some of those ice packs... into the new tumbler we are designing... create a small thermocline of coldness inside the tumbler... aiding in the trichome head extraction process...


hmmmmm


Bubble man

[sibannac]

I would love to add some of those ice packs... into the new tumbler we are designing... create a small thermocline of coldness inside the tumbler... aiding in the trichome head extraction process...


hmmmmm


Bubble man

Make it like a miny fridge/freezer. I'll talk to my pop's too cause he's a licenced refridgeration mechanic and he knows his shit about makin stuff cold. He'll have some ideas

[doobiehuffer]

ive never used cold when dry sifting. (cept the low humidity naturally in the winter) i was wondering tho with ice packs would this not create immediate water in the area via condensation and evaporation thus upping the humidity?
i think maybe an EXTREMELY strong desiccant(thats safe) in the box with herb left in there may work good with or without ice? what do you think bubbleman on a desiccant inside a tumbler? the box would obviously have to have an air tight seal as well for this desiccant to even work :)

[mcbitsko]

So a few idea's from doing some research on google today as well as things i've learned and known for some years... methods that could be used to produce some nice isolated Trichome heads....


http://www.chitraengineers.com/chitra-vibro-sifter.html

could do something with one of those im sure ^^...

and oh man could one have fun with one of these.. with a few minor changes... adding 140u.. down to 3u... and i think we could have some real hash making seshions with this badboy...

Then we have the standard gyratory vibrating screens...

http://www.clevelandvibrator.com/equ...ndgyratory.php

as well as laboratory screeners http://www.clevelandvibrator.com/equ...bscreeners.php

which of course can both be used in conjuction with ultra sonics..

http://www.clevelandvibrator.com/equ...ultrasonic.php

and with all that said.. i can honestly say i doubt sam is using anything along these lines... but only he can say...

I am still in the dark as much as any of you... thus the discussion...

I am eager to see methods that people have tried... idea's are awesome... but someone has to run with them.. and TRY IT...

now lets see how much i have in my checking account.... for some of these clevelandvibrator toys

peace
Bubble man
get rid of your squirrel cage.
less movable parts to break
no dicking around with this.you can watch the resin glands rain down

one threaded rod with nuts running thru that round green container is all that holds it on.remove the green and replace with rectangular storage container with vynal screening. shake rattle and roll.
oh you have to screw it to the floor. or will walk all over.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?type=product&cmCat=Related_IPL_214213&id=0002953210556a&_requestid=97346
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[Kif it Kunta]

get rid of your squirrel cage.
less movable parts to break
no dicking around with this.you can watch the resin glands rain down




Using a vibrator with one screen or stacking 3 ~ 5 screen frames (for example 160, 125, 90, 70 & 30 micron meshes), placing plant material on top and agitating or vibrating the frames will not produce absolute purity...in theory it does, but in practice it doesn't.

The problem is two fold......contaminants (broken up plant matter) will sit on each of the meshes and are mixed in with the resin heads you are trying to separate)...the other problem is that when you get down to 80 ~ 25 micron meshes with vibration (or agitation or gyration) alone, the mix of trichomes and contaminant "dances" and pools on the mesh and won't completely pass through these fine meshes easily or completely unless there is a combination of vibration with scraping a card, mechanical screeding or other action to help break up the contaminant and force it through the mesh leaving the trichomes on top.

but that's not to say that industrial or laboratory vibrators with the right size sieves are useless, they will produce good quality dry sift with the right timing with a combination of (gentle) vibration and carding, good quality well handled starting material and the right technique..

I'd guess that the meshes would need to be concave or bowl shaped, rather than flat, this would help reduce the pooling effect.....also a mechanized curved blade (matched to the shape of the curved mesh) would need to scrape back and forth over the various meshes. The meshes would need to be very stiff and heavy duty and the scraping blades would need to make very firm contact with each of the meshes for this to work well....that would not be easy to produce a machine like this that worked well and was reliable...if the tension was not perfect, it would not work so well..and there's the problem of resin build up on the blades.