Wow! Thanks for the great video! My recycling center closed down due to covid and I have been looking for something to do with all the glass bottles I have. This is perfect. I happen to have an old mixer sitting in my garage and about four trash cans of bottles.
Always wear lung protection (some dust mask) and/or preferably water the glass down under the whole procces. The silica dust can kill or permanently damage you, and your health.
thats what i heard. keeps the larval worms from crawling out of the ground to change into a gnat and it keeps adult gnats from being able to lay eggs in wet dirt...
Great stuff! The neighbours must of hated you craving it up! :P Very nice, never thought of using glass for mulch. We just cut the tree down when it gets too big.
Well Western Montana isn't in the tropics so sure. Just if you do larger pieces like we did people walking on them might break some. Those broken edges *could* be sharp so keep that in mind.
Your video was posted on Permies and I know it's supposed to be a educational and all, but I'm only posting to tell you that you are HILARIOUS. Fabulously funny.
amazing how tough it was to find this video. I could not type in the search without getting all the other videos. I'm going to use my mix around fire pits at my hipcamp. The campers seem to really like it. The stuff I have now was from a landscape job where the customer wanted it hauled away. I had a huge pile for 9 years till eureka I came up with a use. My question is this If I add dime sized pound pebbles or pea gravel hl affect the finished product. I do not care how small the glass pieces are as long as they are like 1/8-1/4 Very enjoyable production...you're a natural
Brilliant video. You're so comical, especially with the mother in laws medicine. It looks fab and I love it even more knowing it'll annoy the neighbours. 😁
Awesome, I’ve always wondered if we can use our cement mixer! I’ve been stockpiling mine for 5 years since Missoula stopped taking glass. I’ve wanted to make garden mulch. Thank you for the clear instructions!
Works great but hard on your mixer. So what right? We have found that doing all clear like we did has resulted in a high reflective heat that some plants struggle with. Sort of like flowers planted next to a white wall. I would love to see your final result someday.
@@acme663ryo our mixer is an old one, 10-15 yrs? Who knows! So what, right, as you said. 😝. I have a combo of clear, brown, green bottles (love that kombucha- tho haven’t figured how to make mine yet). Glass slumping artist friend in Salmon sent me your UA-cam vid. Not sure how to post a pic to you?
Bravo!! Entertaining, Educational, Environmental, recyclable, Hilarious..al, just an all around pleasant vid. So many are mundane, don't edit the um's and ahh's , or the brain farts or awkward silences, or going off subject, just Great! Now, my question if I may: I work in sheet metal industry and as luck would have it(for once) I am able to use a large tumbler, looks just like your C-mixer, except more durable, about 6inches larger all around and stronger, like half-inch solid steel walled drum, but there are no mixers or paddles in it, not sure what they call them. just curious on how that would affect it,, and your experienced opinion is welcomed. Of course I am going to go play, but maybe I might hear something beforehand. I think the weight and size may force me to keep a close eye on it, no 8-10 hours in between, but that's what first time DIY's are like. thanks again. Be Well, BE you, and Be happy!!
I've been cleaning and saving different color beer bottles for weeks now and this is EXACTLY the video lesson I needed! I live in the northeast -- is this something I can do in the winter in my garage? would the mulch I make be recommended for our weather conditions?
I was very surprised that you put glass bottles and stuff in whole. My question is what decides the final glass size ? The speed or length of time tumbling, size of the load? Was surprised at the small amount of sand grit you used. Made we wonder of the broken glass particles contributed greatly to the polishing versus just the silica sand ?
Great video! We just got a mixer! You started with 2 full 5 gal. buckets of glass, I may have missed your mentioning this but, how much glass mulch do you end up with?
I wonder why each community doesn't have a glass crusher to make "pebbles" that could be used for concrete and asphalt used in infrastructure (parking lots, roads, driveways, etc.) I bet stepping stones made with colored glass throughout would be really pretty.
How aren’t his hands cut to shreds when he’s handling it ? Broken glass is knife like ? Or does the tumbling somehow smooth all that out ? I don’t get it ?
But wouldn't a glass mulch trap a lot of heat and then overheat the roots of your plants? Many plants that need full sun, still need their roots to remain cool. I suppose this could work in a shaded garden but i don't see this being good for plants that need full sun.
Beautiful! What glass do you use to get that nice light blue colored “sea glass?” Is it window glass? I need some for a DIY Id like to attempt so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Sold my cement mixer and now I want it back! I realize the glass once done is the color of the glass it was before, but how can you get colored glass? Yours looks blue ... I'd like Caribbean blue and white..
Reddish glass becomes deep red, whiteish glass would become white. Old ceramics would become white. You can check the edges of the glass, soda glass will have a slight green tint, silica glass has a blueish like you see in the thumbnail. You want the blue. You can also ask bars for blue bottles, a $20 in the manager's hand netted me a box of blue bottles about every other week or so. I could have those glass types reversed. Put the ugly stuff as the bottom layer and it takes surprisingly little of the good stuff on the top to get the effect. A white stone base would work too.
You can buy a 2 or 5 lb tumbler if you don’t have access to a mixer. Go to a stained glass shop, look online or Amazon. You’ll need grit too. It’s a slower process, smaller volume glass used, sea glass made. But how I’ve done it before.
Naa. A larger mixer means more glass at once but I think the scale would get out of hand quickly. Go with cheap. An old metal drum mixer from the classifies. This is going to be hard on it.
How about using this glass for a muddy driveway? Whenever it rains, I get muddy ruts in my driveway. I've also been using oyster shells for the driveway also.
+muttkat1 I mean it would work but it also seams like a lot of effort for stuff shoved into the mud. Maybe put down some gravel and then scatter some glass on top.
Thats sounds good. On part of the driveway, I've put a couple layers of oyster shell and its been holding pretty well. Rocks on the hand sink. My main part of my driveway is over a 100 feet long. I've seen a lot of landscaping glass videos but none with glass driveways and would like to see if anybody has tried that. I've been saving glass and have a cement mixer.
I noticed that after tumbling u just stick ur hands in it r all the sharp edges that a glass usually have gone, I would ike to use out in my backyard but I have dogs?
Margrett Chisholm The tumbling takes off all the sharp edges making the glass smooth. If your finished chunks are large enough when walked on they might continue to break like any glass that is stepped on and make new sharp edges. Seems to be only adults in boots, my dogs, a Great Dane and a Shepard have not proven to be heavy enough to break it, nor has my child unless he is trying to. Little stinker.
A few hours would do it but something as heavy as a car is going to start breaking it up leaving you with new sharp edges. I think you could do it but you will have to start with rather small pieces and even then they might still break as you drive over.
@@acme663ryo I never said you didn't like money. You most likely thought it was garbage and did not know. That its worth anything. I bought a glass horse from a grudge sale. The guy was so sure it was only worth anything but it was actually worth a lot. This is how my family makes a living because I'm incapable of working due to disability's. I find places on the Internet. We go I find & buy stuff for cheap when its worth more. Then sale it for the amount its worth.
Wow! Thanks for the great video! My recycling center closed down due to covid and I have been looking for something to do with all the glass bottles I have. This is perfect. I happen to have an old mixer sitting in my garage and about four trash cans of bottles.
Just a tip if you broke the glass up more before putting it in then, you would have smaller uniform pieces to work with
Always wear lung protection (some dust mask) and/or preferably water the glass down under the whole procces. The silica dust can kill or permanently damage you, and your health.
Looks Pretty Simple....Just Time Consuming,,, I think ill leave the blanket off...I don't like my neighbors....LOL
That white bowl you threw in was valuable!
+Helen C Naa, it was broken in several places.
Milk glass.
Ooh I like the sound. Weirdly relaxing.
Fantastic information, thanks for taking the time to put this video together :)
Thanks!
thats what i heard. keeps the larval worms from crawling out of the ground to change into a gnat and it keeps adult gnats from being able to lay eggs in wet dirt...
Really great idea! Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for making this video!!!
It was super informative, and the jokes were hilarious!
So power the mixer with an un muffled 2stroke and point it at my loud neighbors, got it.
They would remember you for sure. It can be heard for several blocks.
Fantastic video! Well done and funny!
Great stuff! The neighbours must of hated you craving it up! :P
Very nice, never thought of using glass for mulch. We just cut the tree down when it gets too big.
Wow. That's amazingly cool. If only I had a cement mixer. Sigh.
Well Western Montana isn't in the tropics so sure. Just if you do larger pieces like we did people walking on them might break some. Those broken edges *could* be sharp so keep that in mind.
Yes after it comes out all the edges are smooth.
Use Silicon Carbide grit (sold as blasting media), you can get 25 lbs of 70 grit from Harbor Freight for about 30 bucks. ;-)
Great tutorial, to the point, funny too! Appreciate!
Funny stuff. I will leave it up for a while but you are right... not for the Martha Stewart types.
Your video was posted on Permies and I know it's supposed to be a educational and all, but I'm only posting to tell you that you are HILARIOUS. Fabulously funny.
Had to give you a like for when you were filling it and am glad I already am subscribed.
The mixer and the glass get warm to the touch as they turn, not hot just warm. I think you could do this down to 0F as long as it didn't sit.
Nice idea! Thanks! And good luck!
amazing how tough it was to find this video. I could not type in the search without getting all the other videos. I'm going to use my mix around fire pits at my hipcamp. The campers seem to really like it. The stuff I have now was from a landscape job where the customer wanted it hauled away. I had a huge pile for 9 years till eureka I came up with a use. My question is this If I add dime sized pound pebbles or pea gravel hl affect the finished product. I do not care how small the glass pieces are as long as they are like 1/8-1/4 Very enjoyable production...you're a natural
Might speed grind but would be pain to separate later if you want just glass.
@@acme663ryo I'm actually looking to make the glass pebble mix for around the campfire pit so no separation. thanks again for your video
Brilliant video. You're so comical, especially with the mother in laws medicine. It looks fab and I love it even more knowing it'll annoy the neighbours. 😁
Awesome, I’ve always wondered if we can use our cement mixer! I’ve been stockpiling mine for 5 years since Missoula stopped taking glass. I’ve wanted to make garden mulch. Thank you for the clear instructions!
Works great but hard on your mixer. So what right? We have found that doing all clear like we did has resulted in a high reflective heat that some plants struggle with. Sort of like flowers planted next to a white wall. I would love to see your final result someday.
@@acme663ryo our mixer is an old one, 10-15 yrs? Who knows! So what, right, as you said. 😝. I have a combo of clear, brown, green bottles (love that kombucha- tho haven’t figured how to make mine yet). Glass slumping artist friend in Salmon sent me your UA-cam vid. Not sure how to post a pic to you?
@@susheela108 Oh my email is in the comments of most of our newer videos, don't worry about it, just know I think your idea is awesome.
@@acme663ryo thank you. I’ll def send u some pics!
@@acme663ryo we’re @ Panther Creek ID, FYI...
Great video and very interesting experiment.
I was thinking maybe you could cover the mixer and lid with spray on expanding foam insulation...that might help to further reduce the noise.
Looks like the white dish was a milk glass candy dish. It would be worth a lot if Martha Stewart publicized it...LOL.
ya it looks like milk glass to me. probably worth something. =/
pretty sure it was Fenton glass. Made in WV, depending on exact one, anywhere from $20-$100+ lol.
Bravo!! Entertaining, Educational, Environmental, recyclable, Hilarious..al, just an all around pleasant vid. So many are mundane, don't edit the um's and ahh's , or the brain farts or awkward silences, or going off subject, just Great! Now, my question if I may: I work in sheet metal industry and as luck would have it(for once) I am able to use a large tumbler, looks just like your C-mixer, except more durable, about 6inches larger all around and stronger, like half-inch solid steel walled drum, but there are no mixers or paddles in it, not sure what they call them. just curious on how that would affect it,, and your experienced opinion is welcomed. Of course I am going to go play, but maybe I might hear something beforehand. I think the weight and size may force me to keep a close eye on it, no 8-10 hours in between, but that's what first time DIY's are like. thanks again. Be Well, BE you, and Be happy!!
I've been cleaning and saving different color beer bottles for weeks now and this is EXACTLY the video lesson I needed! I live in the northeast -- is this something I can do in the winter in my garage? would the mulch I make be recommended for our weather conditions?
This is great! haha! hi five buddy! lol Thanks for the video!
you made a ground green house. the point of mulch is to stop the light from getting to the soil
I was very surprised that you put glass bottles and stuff in whole. My question is what decides the final glass size ? The speed or length of time tumbling, size of the load?
Was surprised at the small amount of sand grit you used. Made we wonder of the broken glass particles contributed greatly to the polishing versus just the silica sand ?
I think it is just banging around. Larger rocks will give you a smaller glass. Too big and they are prone to breaking when walked on.
You tell the kids to do your homework or you going to listen to this all night long
I felt bad for the neighbors but made it up to them.
Great video! We just got a mixer! You started with 2 full 5 gal. buckets of glass, I may have missed your mentioning this but, how much glass mulch do you end up with?
+Kathryn Brodnax from 2 buckets about 1/4 of a bucket of glass mulch. Depressing how much it settles but stick with it.
I always wondered if the mixer idea would suffice. Do you think a dryer would work possibly you'd need to take out the finns?
I don't see how you could keep water in it and tumbling dry is a bad idea because of sucking in fine glass dust.
+NelsonStudios perhaps you could Rhino line the inside I think it would last longer?
Can this be used to make a walking path? Will it heat up?
Good sound effects for movies
Sure.
Well a little bit of water to keep it a little wet
what a great idea!!
Omg some of the thing you tossed in the mixer I would've probably not done that.
I wonder why each community doesn't have a glass crusher to make "pebbles" that could be used for concrete and asphalt used in infrastructure (parking lots, roads, driveways, etc.) I bet stepping stones made with colored glass throughout would be really pretty.
R. Livingston uh, cost?
The glass can still shatter and cut you lol
In AK, ADOT was experimenting with crushed glass to sand, added into asphalt for paving roads, I don’t know what the outcome was. It has been done.
looks like the glass bong went in there too
Well done. Thanks.
Is it better to use pottery type glass separate from say beer bottle glass in the mixer or it doesn't matter?
Good idea!
Fantastic!
Lookin on Craigslist for a mixer right now!
How aren’t his hands cut to shreds when he’s handling it ? Broken glass is knife like ? Or does the tumbling somehow smooth all that out ? I don’t get it ?
Smooth like a river rock, that is sort of the idea.
will the edges still be smooth if i want smaller pieces?
But wouldn't a glass mulch trap a lot of heat and then overheat the roots of your plants? Many plants that need full sun, still need their roots to remain cool. I suppose this could work in a shaded garden but i don't see this being good for plants that need full sun.
I suppose. Ours are still alive after all these years if it helps.
Beautiful! What glass do you use to get that nice light blue colored “sea glass?”
Is it window glass? I need some for a DIY Id like to attempt so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Just window glass. If it looks green on the edge then it comes out a sickly snot color, if blueish on the edge comes out like this.
Does the water you pour off have a lot of glass in it? Small like sand? Pokey?
+Ruth Kaiser Yes a fair bit of glass sand even glass dust but none of it is sharp because all the edges have been worn off.
Does that process make it look frosted flakes Seaglass
Sold my cement mixer and now I want it back! I realize the glass once done is the color of the glass it was before, but how can you get colored glass? Yours looks blue ... I'd like Caribbean blue and white..
Reddish glass becomes deep red, whiteish glass would become white. Old ceramics would become white. You can check the edges of the glass, soda glass will have a slight green tint, silica glass has a blueish like you see in the thumbnail. You want the blue. You can also ask bars for blue bottles, a $20 in the manager's hand netted me a box of blue bottles about every other week or so. I could have those glass types reversed. Put the ugly stuff as the bottom layer and it takes surprisingly little of the good stuff on the top to get the effect. A white stone base would work too.
Thanks...
Love it
Had to add the vid response for some lulz (not really family friendly material) no sweat if you don't accept it...
It's milk glass!
+Helen C Broken.
Hi ! Yes it is, I died minute 1:59 D:
Great video but what about tumbling it with water ?
always
Steven Hawkins flower beds !!!!
Hi thanks for the basics but how do I get the frosted look?
Check it as it tumbles. It’ll get frostier as it tumbles.
plz tell how i can we make it at home? how can we crush the glass at home? plz reply
You can buy a 2 or 5 lb tumbler if you don’t have access to a mixer. Go to a stained glass shop, look online or Amazon. You’ll need grit too. It’s a slower process, smaller volume glass used, sea glass made. But how I’ve done it before.
How long do you run it to make the Landscaping glass
8-12 hours
save the glass powder for a top dressing on house plants. i hear it defeats fungus gnats...
Really?
Probably works similar to diatomaceous earth
lol. nonchalantly tosses $20-$100 Fenton bowl in mix. (depending on exactly what it was)
Bahaha!! followed by meth lab parts. Fentons made in WV so yeah, meth lab parts seems to be the proper chaser LOL
So, no need to take labels off jars and bottles?
Nope. Some plastic ones survive but not stuck to the glass, just toss after.
Do the labels come off when you tumble?
+Lisa Pohlmeyer most of them yes, some plastic labels no.
I wash and take all the labels off my glass.
Is there a size or kind of cement mixer you recommend?
Naa. A larger mixer means more glass at once but I think the scale would get out of hand quickly. Go with cheap. An old metal drum mixer from the classifies. This is going to be hard on it.
Thank you
How about using this glass for a muddy driveway? Whenever it rains, I get muddy ruts in my driveway. I've also been using oyster shells for the driveway also.
+muttkat1 I mean it would work but it also seams like a lot of effort for stuff shoved into the mud. Maybe put down some gravel and then scatter some glass on top.
Thats sounds good. On part of the driveway, I've put a couple layers of oyster shell and its been holding pretty well. Rocks on the hand sink. My main part of my driveway is over a 100 feet long. I've seen a lot of landscaping glass videos but none with glass driveways and would like to see if anybody has tried that. I've been saving glass and have a cement mixer.
Y does everyone want to put it in there driveway... Its glass it shatters then busts your tiers
what do you mean flush it after it had run 8 hours. can you show that?
Fill with water and dump until the water clears up.
Does the glass ruin the cement mixer?
Naa. Mixers lead a hard life regardless. The one you see here has gone on to mix mortar and cement for dozens of things.
How can you make different colors?
Different colour glass
duh
I noticed that after tumbling u just stick ur hands in it r all the sharp edges that a glass usually have gone, I would ike to use out in my backyard but I have dogs?
Margrett Chisholm The tumbling takes off all the sharp edges making the glass smooth. If your finished chunks are large enough when walked on they might continue to break like any glass that is stepped on and make new sharp edges. Seems to be only adults in boots, my dogs, a Great Dane and a Shepard have not proven to be heavy enough to break it, nor has my child unless he is trying to. Little stinker.
how did u cut the sharp edges????
They grind each other off as they turn in the drum.
you should sell it :)
oh, i love it.. but why it doesn{t cut your hand.. i mean... its glass !
+Joaquin Sarkisian Guerra Tumbling smooths all the sharp edges off.
He is hella funny hahhaha
How long would I have to tumble the glass to take the sharp edges off if I just wanted to use it on my driveway??
A few hours would do it but something as heavy as a car is going to start breaking it up leaving you with new sharp edges. I think you could do it but you will have to start with rather small pieces and even then they might still break as you drive over.
Hope you didnt do that. That glass will still breack lol
Biblical!!!!
Well... the noise is.
U had me at glass tumbled.. u lost me at 8 to 10 hours
Well you don't have to watch it the whole time. Still faster than dumping it on the beach and waiting 50 years.
Sea glass tumbles in the surf in about 3 weeks, keeping everyone away from your seeded beaches is impossible though, cement mixer for sure.
4 times less noisy than what my neighbor done to me 4 years long.... and why wonder i got mad.
Hobo Baggins
Did any one else notice. He through in some stuff what's worth alot of money?
Sigh. No. I like money, this is stuff culled because of damage or just garbage.
@@acme663ryo I never said you didn't like money. You most likely thought it was garbage and did not know. That its worth anything. I bought a glass horse from a grudge sale. The guy was so sure it was only worth anything but it was actually worth a lot. This is how my family makes a living because I'm incapable of working due to disability's. I find places on the Internet. We go I find & buy stuff for cheap when its worth more. Then sale it for the amount its worth.
hahah meth lab parts hahaha
ARE YOU HIGH ?
lol
ke pedo con este loko miradas lokas hahahahaha
you can reduce 10hr by putting some metallic (or rock) balls inside of mixture
A porcelain plate isn’t glass.
Yes, but a milk glass plate is...?
NelsonStudios glass? ☺️
gay.
Fake?