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for the old salt

Posted by rickey b. floyd on July 29, 2013 at 12:30am in Newbie section

what angle degree should the sluice on a highbanker or dredge be set? next rate of rpm's on the motor to get the correct water flow to develope the correct vortex of the baffle? i have to often just ran the motor wide open and the same results flour gold. i'm in the alabama gold belt/no pickers nor nuggets yet/could it be that they are being blown out?i don't know. i need a good formula to live by. put some salt on me. rick

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  • rickey b. floyd August 29, 2014 at 12:40am
    to joshua/ i have a gold pro highbanker/when i first started working with this bad boy rule was dump a five gallon bucket of material in the boiler box and it will take care of this in a short period. my problem was the larger rocks would pile up and cause time down to get the rocks out of the way. so ok i decided to pre classify all of my diggings on a 1/2 screen to get rid of those large rocks. the frame of my classifier is 4'x4' so the material from this fine compared to what it was. so therefore i have been running only three gallons and not five gallon buckets which is probably why my riffles are over loaded . i'm washing everthing right out the end as you have shown me. i know now reducing material imput will prove positive results. thanks rick
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