On Sunday 30 June 2013 18:17 wrote in uk.d-i-y:

A relative has about 80m² of gravelled areas around their house. Over
the years, the gravel has become very muddy, and is now coverered with
weeds.

Is there a cost effective way of washing gravel? I've tried putting it
in a handheld steel sieve sloshing it around in wheelbarrow of water,
but that was very slow, and generated large quantities of muddy water.

I suppose I could just put a membrane on top of it, followed by more
gravel, but I'd like to re-use the existing stuff.

The railways have ballast washers - so it's not a totally alien idea. But I
have not heard of a protable machine for gravel.

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