I know a different way to smoke some hash without the ways mentioned above...
Take a water ball and empty it or drink it (as long as you have an empty water bottle, doesn't matter if there's some drops on the bottom/sides).
burn a hole through the bottom side of it (a bit bigger then the width of a cigarrette, about enough for a marble to go through easily)
light a cigarette and have it burning good then put the hash on the burning tip, put it in the water bottle hole at the bottom, have the filter end sticking out so that you can smoke it that way..
Make sure the cap is on, and fill it up with smoke. then have someone else "drink" the smoke.
This is the fuckin' shiznit.

The question was supposed to address proper retrieval from the filter, storage, and maintenance. I got the how-to-smoke part covered =). Thanks.

another way is to put all your left overs after harvesting in a bucket of cold water add a load off ice stir for a while to agitate the thc crystals leave to stand for a while and repeat. again leave to stand for a while. take out what you can by hand giving it a good squeez as you do so.then using a sieve and another bucket slowly poor the rest out.by this time you should see all the resin at the bottom.slowly poor out the water being carfule not to loose the resin as at this stage its a thick gooey liquid.once most off the water has gone you should be able to scoop out the resin with your hands. keep rolling it around in your hands and it will soon stiffen up.mould it to the requied shap and put in the freezer for about an hour. then enjoy!!!
hopes that helps you out..
luke

i said no to drugs.....but the drugs didn't listen!!!