schoolsout
Greenie
Well, I've gone from the standard Keene set up with riffles/moss/carpet to Gold Hog and, now, wanting to try Dream Mat. Have done a little research and have a good idea of where to start. Reason for swapping is I think I'm losing a lot of the fine gold as others around me with different set ups seem to consistently do better. Maybe, I'm just not holding my mouth right, as my dad used to say.
Keene is 8' long. Pump is Honda GX (6hp, maybe) with P180 pump. Width of banker is 12" (well, 11.75", I think. Measured old mats I had in garage last night and vaguely remember that being the case when cutting the GH Mats). I've got the Keene grizzly bars (not used at moment) as well as their 1/2" square mesh set up as the grizzly bars were letting larger rocks though the non-welded bars.
Process is shoveling dirt with large to small rocks in hopper, but classified down to about 1/2". Gold is mostly -30 down to -100...do get a picker here and there, but they are small and fairly rare.
I'm currently trying to figure out setting up from crash box on down. Thinking the Jarvine riffles with moss/high v mat under that section then the transition to a 3' section of 12" Combo Mat. Is the 12" on the Dream Mat a true 12"? Would I need to shave the edges a bit to get it to fit in the 11.75" sluice run? After the combo mat, since my run is 8', what would you follow up with? The current sections of the GH mat are about 4' long so I might be able to just stick that in behind the Dream Mat.
I know I'll need to play with flowrate and whatnot, but any ideas on that? This damn pump will put out some water so I do tinker with throttle and valve at box. Not opposed to getting a HF trash pump that puts out less, but that would be last step.
Keene is 8' long. Pump is Honda GX (6hp, maybe) with P180 pump. Width of banker is 12" (well, 11.75", I think. Measured old mats I had in garage last night and vaguely remember that being the case when cutting the GH Mats). I've got the Keene grizzly bars (not used at moment) as well as their 1/2" square mesh set up as the grizzly bars were letting larger rocks though the non-welded bars.
Process is shoveling dirt with large to small rocks in hopper, but classified down to about 1/2". Gold is mostly -30 down to -100...do get a picker here and there, but they are small and fairly rare.
I'm currently trying to figure out setting up from crash box on down. Thinking the Jarvine riffles with moss/high v mat under that section then the transition to a 3' section of 12" Combo Mat. Is the 12" on the Dream Mat a true 12"? Would I need to shave the edges a bit to get it to fit in the 11.75" sluice run? After the combo mat, since my run is 8', what would you follow up with? The current sections of the GH mat are about 4' long so I might be able to just stick that in behind the Dream Mat.
I know I'll need to play with flowrate and whatnot, but any ideas on that? This damn pump will put out some water so I do tinker with throttle and valve at box. Not opposed to getting a HF trash pump that puts out less, but that would be last step.