Very nice wording Beak!
Thats a lot of stuff I dont even need to say now
Thats the Truth
Smoking will get to you…must move to the vape!
And the vape is better!
Its a bit of a steep learning curve and the best for me is ultra-dry herb that sat on a screen in a wood box overnight…
dry herb is really dry it vapes up very well…get you high!
Ok @ifish challenge accepted, but I thought I’d show what the total is plus a bag of carbon. So we’ll see how long this can last for…hope it’s not 12 bucks to ship a 12 buck bag of specialized charcoal at reordering.
Love it , keep us informed , abuse that filter and charcoal @OriginalDankmaster96 and enjoy your toro again : )
Let us know any tricks or active carbon deals you find
@OriginalDankmaster96 have a play with the amount of carbon you put in filter , I like mine just over half full : )
I think if I bought a Toro my wife would have me sleeping on the couch 
Aside from that I would be sooo damn pissed if it broke.
My bong (and it’s lasted me for MANY years, in fact I think I’ve had it for over 10 years now) is a Boost Pro that cost me 40 bucks on sale at a headshop. And I shit you not, the current version of that same bong still can be found for 40 bucks online. Mine is an older version and had it’s bowl replaced a few times and the downstem once too, and the bong has had a few meetings with the floor, but aside from a bowl or stem replacement, nothing has ever broken (let’s hope I didn’t just jinx that).
It is, almost always, dirty as hell. I usually resort to cleaning the downstem and the connection part of the bowl for a few times before giving the bong an alcohol rinse.
Well I doubt you’d be sleeping on the couch ordering this, and let me tell you it HITS like that high priced piece. Only aficionados would tell from welding joints, other than that you aren’t going to be able to tell a major difference.
My piece is pic 2 on the right
https://www.dhgate.com/product/toro-recycler-bubbler-glass-bongs-with-diffuse/400812193.html
There’s just one problem with all those pieces.
They aren’t meant for people who don’t like to clean their bong.
I mean, just look at the one I have:
The bong on the left is my most used piece, the monkey bubbler on top has broken (was a very cheap piece which broke easily), the Ti swing (purchased separately, the last Ti swing I could find here in Europe so it’s VERY high on my “can’t break list”) is still alive and swinging but now on a Breit mini bubbler, the spoon on the bottom is still alive but rarely used (I prefer a cooler hit), and I’ll be damned but I don’t know what happened to the Marley piece. I think it’s probably still in a box somewhere since we moved from the place that pic was taken from, but I could imagine I broke it at some point.
Anyway, none of those pieces has percolators or other things, and aside from a recycler that I recently broke the mouthpiece off, there has never been a piece in my collection that was “hard to clean”. The recycler is in the pic below with the Ti swing on top and is probably about as hard to clean as I want any piece to ever be. The Mario brothers bomb is a grinder and the controller is an extract container.
I’m a bit of an oldschool fellow. I made myself an oil press and for that I needed to use a temp controller but other than that I’d rather dial my smoking oil in the old way: on a titanium plate that you can see glowing and count from there to reach the right temp for the extract. I started out with a Ti swing pipe I had made by a local glassblower, the titanium was harder to source than the glass blower I shit you not. And here in Europe, glassblowing isn’t as big a thing as it is in the US. You actually have to put work into finding a glassblower willing to make stuff for you if you don’t know one.
For people who don’t know HOW to clean or take the time…isopropyl alcohol, kosher rock salt and hot water, shake, rinse and repeat until it sparkles. I’ve had NO problems cleaning, my problem is too dirty too quick with how much I smoke in a sitting.
The filter removes most of the grim before it goes into the water , for a waaaaay cleaner water and bong : )
It’s a huge bonus
What I’m most interested is if the charred part of the bowl smokes clean to the end of the ash. That to me will be the true test to stand apart. Most times it’s the end of the bowl that’s 
I use salt and isopropyl alcohol too. I’ve got some stainless steel tiny balls (look like small ball bearing balls basically) to clean out my fermentation vessels with in my brewing hobbies, tried those out once too but rock salt works better on bong gunk.
I don’t use hot water a lot, only at the end with some vinegar in there to get the calcareous matter out the bottom.
Main issue for me is when the bong has inside tubing and things like that there’s always a nook or cranny that is hard to get the last bit out. With the recycler I really hated that and so I strictly used it only for dabbing since dabbing devices clean out more easily IME.
Anyone else here use their dabbing reclaim to put into capsules?
A buddy once told me he always just puts his bong in the dishwasher together with the dishes. Says it comes out sparkly clean. Makes me think his dishwasher must stink though
Never thought of that, but I’ll try it next time. Thanks for sharing 
I started it shortly after I moved to my previous place. IDK why the water is different there cause it’s not too far from where I lived before or after, but somehow I always got a higher calcium load in my bongs to the point where it was clouding up the bottom. After a while I noticed that the calcium gunk in the bottom started to act as a nucleating agent for more calcium to drop out of the water so then I decided to give it a pure vinegar sitting and a hot water rinse after. Ever since moving again I haven’t seen it like that anymore luckily. Still rinse with vinegarwater but used to be that just didn’t cut it.
I only do the vinegar after the gunk has been removed cause it does virtually nothing on smoke residue.
Someone here in this thread said they don’t use the ice catcher feature of their bong cause it didn’t do much for them;
I have found ice catcher bongs to only become really effective when you put one or two whole ice cubes at the bottom only to fill it up further all the way to the top with smashed ice cubes (I just put them in a towel and smash it on the ground or the counter real hard). When I want things REALLY cool I fill the water portion with a mix of water and smashed ice. This way you definitely get a very cool smoke experience and less coughing.
Could you elaborate further on this?
Is it the shape of the bowl that makes it this way?
I usually smoke single hit bongs but some hits will be too large for my lungs so when I end up taking it in 2 hits, I can definitely tell the flavor is mostly gone, but that’s in part because it’s only leftovers. When I pack a bigger bowl it’ll still have flavor but it’ll be diminished A LOT.
Why I ask about bowl shape is cause I’ve noticed I seriously dislike my bowl shape and a lot of bowl shapes with that, and to remedy that my approach is to simply not clean the bowl, making the shape a smoother U at the bottom than the \_/ shape it is on it’s own. The most ideal bowl shape IME is a shallow rounded bowl, but the few bowls I’ve owned that featured that bowl shape were hollow walled round bowls instead of the thickwalled bowl I have now.
I have read shape can be the cause, but I have a custom bowl piece that is U is shaped, and once it’s burned to ash on top but charred center, it’s nasty to finish. No matter the size of packed bowl, use of ice/mouthwash. I’m hoping this carbon filter allows the entire bowl to smoke clean like rolling. Even resinated ends on rolls don’t smoke as nasty as the end of the bowl, especially once the resin gets ignited. Then the mouth needs be refreshed to get rid of burnt resin taste. IF the entire bowl smokes clean with this carbon filter down to it’s fine white ash, IT is a game changer and will have my full endorsement.
Thanks @herbgreen.
Another thing I like about dry herb vaping is that it makes it easy to sample my grow as I go along. I can take a cutting and place it in the equipment box of my grow rig which is where the filter and exhaust fan are, it’s always 50-60% Rh in there with tons of indirect airflow. In 24-48 hours the product is vapeable. It’s not the world’s best in terms of flavor (there’s still some chlorophyll aroma) but not bad, and you can definitely tell if the potency is there. Trying to do this with a bong or pipe is much less satisfactory.
Huh. Weird. I don’t get that at all. Never have with any bong for that matter. Regular spoon pipes have given me experiences like that but never with a bong 
Worse than resinated ends on a roll, good description of nasty.
I’ve grown this strain once, vanilla kush, that gave such oily bud that you couldn’t exactly roll one with it. I tried, but each time I rolled one I ended up throwing half a joint worth of resinated weed into a bowl. Joints would start closing up before reaching the middle. Strong weed but not my flavour. Didn’t remind me of vanilla either. Never again.
That’s actually my only bad experience with Barney’s Farm. Not that I’ve grown all their strains, but I did a few and it’s a breeder that I will return to.
@OriginalDankmaster96 nice man! I’ll be looking forward to your review. I’ve been on the fence for a while. I think I remember people in the other thread saying they were changing the carbon every couple bowls!
Not every couple of bowls lol
