Angus classifier

[blynch35]

wow that is a good price i have to place a few calls monday to see i can find any here myself thanks for the info.

 

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[Caminochaos]

Usually ill fill buckets with unclassified material and the scoop it in. If im shoveling directly into it i set it on the grizzly. Jarring isn't an issue.

As far as my taillings i usually build up a platform in a deeper part of the creek to set the sluice on that way the tailings fall into a hole in front of the sluice.

Removing the classifying step saves some time and more importantly your back.

 

[ChrisinCO]

All this classifying talk had my brain running and kept me up until almost 1am this morning. Here are my thoughts on the subject. I have an A.M. Alaskan flair sluice and am now thinking of building a frame out of 3/4-1" angle aluminum, bolt it together, line the frame with 1/4-3/8" hardware cloth and hinge it at the front of the flair for dumping the big stuff in front of the sluice. It would angle up from the front of the sluice to the end of the flair over about 9" with a rise of 2.5". Any thoughts? Yes I am copying and pasting this response...lol

 

[vaquero44]

chrisin I just bought the same exact sluice you have and similar mods are going in place but I have a mackirk bucket grizzly too and almost fits so I'm going to use a cut bucket to det the grizzly in and use a bracket to hold the bucket just above the top of sluice to dump material in and use pins to secure it

 

[ezrider2]

If you set your Mac Kirk up right you don't need to classify. You can shovel straight in from the bank or wherever you want! I run the boss and a recon and never classify. Waste of time.
And I have plenty of micro gold to prove it

 

[KevinInColorado]

chrisin I just bought the same exact sluice you have and similar mods are going in place but I have a mackirk bucket grizzly too and almost fits so I'm going to use a cut bucket to det the grizzly in and use a bracket to hold the bucket just above the top of sluice to dump material in and use pins to secure it

I'd be concerned about losing gold as you'll be subjecting the sluice to a lot of movement from the impact of material hitting the grizzly. Doesn't take much vibration/movement to kick gold out of a riffle.

 

[vaquero44]

ezrider I tried 3 runs unclassified in this Alaskan flair unit I have did not get anything and my gold is ultra fine my first run I did was using my hand trammel with a water bar bilge pump set up and got 2 to 3 specs of fly poop gold so I decided to try unclassified and 3 test holes and clean outs later nothing so I decided to mod my bucket grizzly on to it so at least i'll feel better about it now but my tests conclude or for me that in my am sluice you got to classify if you know how to get away unclassifying even better my prob is I have 6" to 8" round rocks on average to wash off then as I get deeper there not so many and get to the better material....................... Even A/M says classify to at least 1/2" on all there sluices and my trammel I have the screen size at 1/4" which I have the most success with but with a/m's I prefer to classify and its not all that more time consuming the way will be set up.......all I say is to each there own I wish you very full pans of gold!

 

[CO2]

I've been wondering if it would be possible to put an AM sluice behind a BGT to catch the micros the BGT might blow out. But I slide huge rocks across the top of the BGT so I dunno.

 

[ezrider2]

ezrider I tried 3 runs unclassified in this Alaskan flair unit I have did not get anything and my gold is ultra fine my first run I did was using my hand trammel with a water bar bilge pump set up and got 2 to 3 specs of fly poop gold so I decided to try unclassified and 3 test holes and clean outs later nothing so I decided to mod my bucket grizzly on to it so at least i'll feel better about it now but my tests conclude or for me that in my am sluice you got to classify if you know how to get away unclassifying even better my prob is I have 6" to 8" round rocks on average to wash off then as I get deeper there not so many and get to the better material....................... Even A/M says classify to at least 1/2" on all there sluices and my trammel I have the screen size at 1/4" which I have the most success with but with a/m's I prefer to classify and its not all that more time consuming the way will be set up.......all I say is to each there own I wish you very full pans of gold!

I will shoot a video for this weekend when I go out as long as the rain stays away. Heavy pans

 

[CO2]

Here's something interesting, Angus MacKirk sells a sluice with a grizzly for $400:

Stream Banker - Angus MacKirk

 

[johnedoe]

A little pricy for what it is ..... But I like it....

 

[KevinInColorado]

I've been wondering if it would be possible to put an AM sluice behind a BGT to catch the micros the BGT might blow out. But I slide huge rocks across the top of the BGT so I dunno.

You could. Just build a ramp to carry the rocks from the top off to one side. I doubt you'd catch much of anything though.

 

[vaquero44]

well when I get a chance i'll show my modded set up I think it will work pretty good now I just got to find a darn memory card for the camera!!!!!!