I spent the day sifting dirt through a self-made screen back in to the hole for the garden bed, to get rid of the rocks and weeds. My technique developed throughout the work, and by the end I had it down to an efficient system. In the morning, I would carry a shovel of dirt to the screen, sift it through, and shake the rocks down to one edge of the screen. After a few shovel-fulls, I would tilt the screen up, gently wobble it towards a Bobcat, and lightly press the screen over the bucket until the rocks had fallen in. But I modified my process throughout the day, to increase efficiency. At the end, my process included a wheelbarrow of dirt I would move back and forth from the pile, so that I didn't have to walk back and forth every time to fill the shovel. I kept the screen directly in front of the Bobcat, so it just needed to be pushed towards the bucket and tilted up. It was a productive day as far as thinking through and streamling productivity.
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