I saw this set -up on another site and changed a couple things to fit my needs and here it is. I am using a 800GPH bilge right now but think I am going to step it up to a 1200GPH for a little more flow.The blue foam that is sealing the flare into the
Read more…Here is the trommel I was talking about building with some of the members in the chat room. Going to test it out Saturday. Hope to get some video of it then. For now, here are a couple pics in front of my tv in the living room. One pic is of it packe
Read more…Designed for highway,culvert and drainage applications, complete with sediment variables.
Use to understand fluid and sediment dynamics.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/software.cfm
Read more…Has anyone built their own adjustable legs for a sluice. I spent good money on a set for my Keene A52 sluice and had the best intention of installing them about six months ago. As I got around to doing it today before a trip next weekend I find that
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I've had this Keene RC1 rock crusher for ten years or so but did'ent get to use it
as much as I would have liked due to it's weight ( 80 # ) and it's bulk.
In June of this year I bought a nice 95 Jeep Wrangler and after a lo
Read more…I posted my Recirculating Sluice on my website:
http://www.bertaut.com/gold.html
You can see it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94tv6qnsgg&feature=youtu.be
It works great without clogging up the pumps!!
Read more…I built my on 2 1/2 " dredge on which i use a 2" clear water pump from harbour freight and it works great. I just got a T80 compressor and i would like to run it with the engine with the pump which is a 6.5 hp. I know i`ll have to seperate the pump
Read more…I have recently acquired some out dated medical devices, all still working perfectly fine just de-commissioned,
1/2 doz. Portable Oxygen tank equel in size to a 20Lb fire extinguisher and a few oxygen concentrators.
the concentrators have a 30 psi co
Read more…I wrote directions to build an inexpensive, compact, and light weight hand trommel. It is designed to classify quantity material for your dry-washer, high-banker, sluice, pan, and can also be used in garden composting an
Read more…Hey guys, does anyone have any good plans for beach boxes, that I could build for Oregons beaches?
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Heres an idea everyone can put to use.
Still new to this site so may not get the photos up, if not will try again.
Make a cloth bag just large enough f
Read more…I built this to handle the larger boulders on a streach of creek
a friend of mine owned. This was when dredging was still legal
in Calif. I used a 1 ton chain hoist from Harbor Freight Tools,
I bought the floats from Keene and had the local wel
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To calculate how many coils to cut for the trommel barrel:
Devide the barrel length by the spacing you want between
the coils plus the coil width ( 30/2.375" )= 12.6 number of coils.
12.6 x .375 = 4.7 " of tube min. needed. If you have enou
Read more…To anyone wanting to build there own trommel I made a 3" model
with step by step photo's how to do it. You would know they show
up in the reverse order but thats not a big problem, I'm ass back-
wards most of the time also. #1 wrap paper around what
Read more…Good evening all. I am starting the process to design my own sluice (figure I should design for a few days before I jump in and build). I am lucky enough to have access to the local schools for some of the fab parts. So today I talked to one of the m
Read more…Good day gold getters.
I am building a Miller table and in need of some advice. I will be using a piece of aluminum plate 1/8 thick, the piece is 24 x 30 inches and i can cut to any size. What size would you recommend? I found a craft strore that
Read more…Has anyone took the old box from their dredge and made it into a 3 stage? Any pics or links to a how to?
Read more…Here is a idea i tossed around for awhile then i saw a post on eastern us prospectors forum by Astroboucer so i desided to go ahead and try it. I took a 1x10 36" long marked off a 10" slick plate then spaced my drop riffles out. some were at 1 1
Read more…This is something I build a couple of years ago. It started out as a broken craftsman snow blower. We do not have much snow near San Francisco so I poked around in craigslist and found two near Reno, NV. It did not have an engine and it was too bi
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