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Anyone have a useful tek for clearing out a long, packed column of material? With shorter columns (6"), I have enough leverage at each end to pry out the material, but that's not the case with anything bigger.
Tried jamming a coat hanger in there but it's not optimal.
if you do it right after the extraction when the matereial is still saturated it comes out a ton easier than if you let it sit around for a while.
There is a thing called a de-bowler, its an ashtray with a golf tee looking thing sticking out of it, its used to empty out the ashed bowl of a pipe.
i built one of those but basically on a large scale using a trashcan and a piece of pvc with notches/teeth cut in the end. The notches are for digging into the material.
i used a "floor flange" to attach the pvc to the trash can.
I find that flat and relatively thin materials work a bit easier than round.. I use a steel yardstick right up the center to loosen it up.. I put one end of the yardstick on top of something solid, and push the column down onto it..