I have been looking for instructions on making a DIY pollen tumbler and came a cross a couple other very interesting designs. What i like is you can build a 3-in-1 unit cheap and easy at home with the right tools and drill. What you all think, this could save a serious amount of time?
Step 1 Wet Trim
Step 2 Dry Trim
Step 3 Make dry sift from your trim
Well thats cool! Thanks for ppsting that! 
With absolute pleasure, i am glad you think its cool and not just me. Hope this can help someone save a tonne of time.
This video is a better example of the dry sift tumbler, using the same or similar tools.
Ive got a sifter but its hand powered. I added a motor but its too slow. I havent messed with it for a while.
Haha that laugh at 2:36 makes me laugh out loud. Woody Woodpeckers little brother.
So the faster the better or a variable motor the best option? I have an old spare drill I was thinking of using.
Haha that laugh at 2:36 makes me laugh out loud.
Too good not to listen to again.
A friend of mine made a dry sift hash maker out of a used one like this picture. He removed the bowl and replaced it with a plastic bucket, then put in a removable plastic bucket with a lid. The lid of the removable bucket he placed a hook in the center of it to hang bubble hash bags. He uses 3 bubble hash bags of different microns with the main bag of 220 micron to hold the plant material and the other 2 bags over the 220 micron bag with some space between the bags to collect the kief sorted by micron, then runs it on a timer between 1 hour to 1.5 hours. He loves it. Low cost and easy to repair and use!
Hummm I might have to dig out the rock tumbler…forgot all about them, I have two of them and a viabrating lap.
Thanks nacho
Marty
The one he uses was mine that I used to polish brass with. I was going to throw it away and he said he needed it when I upgraded to a ultra sonic cleaner. Lol! I don’t know for sure, but if you used a drum style rock tumbler it probably could be used as a tumbler trimmer for small amounts of weed! Lol! I am guessing that you could do a large amount of weed with a drum type rock tumble if you could rig a bucket to sit on the rollers! I was just looking at a Frankfort Arsenal Brass tumbler and that would probably work as a weed tumbler trimmer for about 1/4 pound.
Here is a better video showing the vibratory dry sifter in action. It’s setup a little different than the one my friend did but his works just as good!
This was awesome to read. I’ve got an extra set of bubble bags that are about to be cut apart and repurposed now. 
I wish I had known what my friend was planning on using my old vibrating tumbler for it would have saved me time and money! Lol! I think if you try it you will be happy with what it does for the price and repurposing things is another one of my hobbies!
any new info on this subject ?
Hey @HawkMan
No updates from my side. We got a prototype working, but then it stopped, might look at again in the near future and think this topic does need a bump. Anyone using some of these techniques, or built a homemade machine?
I know this is old, Nacho…but I didn’t know you were into rockhounding. I have a complete jewelry bench with grinders diamond saw, and polisher…as well as a vibrating and roller tumblers. Use to have a Ultra Tech faceting machine but sold it with about a hundred laps. Made my ex’s wedding ring myself. 50c natural flawless royal blue Safire. It was stunning. My father spelunked the Safire in Australia on a vacation there, didn’t even know what he had. I tumbled it and it turned out to be an exquisite Safire. Still have a couple smaller pieces of it after I broke it on a fault line it had left me with one big piece (the ring) and two smaller pieces. I had a jeweler set it in a setting as I didn’t feel like lost wax casting the setting. He actually asked me to come to work for him lol. He valued the Safire at $6000.
Ah in actual fact i.do have a small update, that i did not post here. But on a cold winters day, after a joint, i had a brain fart and thought of using an old foot massager of mine for running some trim with screens, for the life of me i cant remember the micron bag i used, i just remember pulling quite alot of dry sift through a bubble bag, maybe 10 - 15 gram in 20-30 minutes… these foot machines only cost us about $20, so it was an absolute bargain.
interesting - have one of them myself - how to process ???
