With Diane's broken leg (it's a long story)...We had not had a chance to go gold prospecting or detecting. Cabin fever was setting in, so I decided to go ahead with a project I had been considering. I wanted to make a sluice that would easily show me the location of the paystreak with random samples from various likely locations. The obvious answer was to incorporate an extra long inspection mat with a short set of riffles. It took two days to make the box, waterproof it, and round up the hardware but the effort was well worth it.After making the sluice, I could not wait to test my creation so I got up early and headed for the creek. After an hour drive to the claim, I spent five hours working my new box and my old Keene sluice. My home-made sluice performed like a champ and I was very pleased.It was a warm but perfect day on the creek and the best part(of course) was the gold(see the pics in my photo album titled "Homemade sluice"
Good for you getting out Rick a guy can do this and keep it real simple if he does the research and keep it cheap too .
I wanted to get out yesterday but got called out to work $$ ching ching and today I decided that after 15 or so straight days of work I needed to just lay this body down and rest, sleep, eat, sleep some more and eat , think I almost went into a coma LOL.
I have been there Robert with boulders lurking on all sides, almost crushed my foot last year in a rock bound hole, wont happen again getting a gas powered winch soon and pulling them out from now on, cant get to bedrock here without a winch anyhow.
what in the heck were you doing up at 3:00 a.m.? Did I see a post that said you are retired? I retired after 30 years with UPS about two years ago and a couple of the things I've noticed...one, it's great to be able to get out during the week while most everybody else is working. It makes it noticably less crowded most places and two, it's hard to find someone to go do things with because everybody is working. Some places it's just not smart to be by yourself...last year I was dredging on my claim and a boulder rolled into my dredge hole and smashed my leg, pinning me in the hole, the rock was too big to move by myself and I flopped around like a fish out of water until my daughter (whom I had drafted to help me that weekend) saw my problem and brought me a 6' bar to move the rock. Even though my hole was only about 4' deep at the time I don't know how long I would have been there if she hadn't been around. The boulder did break my leg. I still sometimes dredge by myself if I can't find someone to go along and this really showed me to be much more careful.....bob
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I wanted to get out yesterday but got called out to work $$ ching ching and today I decided that after 15 or so straight days of work I needed to just lay this body down and rest, sleep, eat, sleep some more and eat , think I almost went into a coma LOL.
I have been there Robert with boulders lurking on all sides, almost crushed my foot last year in a rock bound hole, wont happen again getting a gas powered winch soon and pulling them out from now on, cant get to bedrock here without a winch anyhow.