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I finally got the dirt to stop caving in on a dig by using a kitchen colander
We were working on a small site near Tucson, trying to sift through this super dry, crumbly soil that kept falling back into our test pit. After the third time it happened, I grabbed my old metal kitchen colander from my camp gear and started using it like a mini screen, shaking the dirt through it right at the edge. It actually worked way better than hauling buckets to the big screen, and we found two tiny shell beads in the first colander-load. Has anyone else used a totally wrong tool that somehow did the job?
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casey1457mo ago
My buddy once used a plastic berry basket to sift for arrowheads in a creek.
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spencer417mo ago
That's a great way to ruin a site for real hunters. Those plastic baskets let way too much small material through. You'd miss flakes and tiny points, and just churn up the gravel. A proper screen with smaller mesh is the only way to do it right without wrecking the spot.
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