Build my own drege pump

[wolfthing2000]

I am new here, a skilled machinist with the gold fever. I have a 5hp wisconsin engine and I want to adapt a pump, Keene I guess. I want to build my own dredge pump.

Any advice or plans or links are greatly appreciated.
I will not be insulted by admitting I know nothing about the dredge principal or how it works. I just want to build one and use it for hobby purpose.

Thanks

 

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[Hoser John]

Briggs or honda will do the job much better. Otherwise your stuck with a love-joy connector from engine shaft to pump and must utilize a pedestal pump. Go to keeneengineering.com and look at pedestal vs direct drive as that a way air--which is mandatory--is 1/100th the hastle. FIRST though the EPA is unleashing their USA wide draconian dredge regs early next year so wait till ya spend a cent. Also educate as to your own states insane regs/rules/permits/plans/exclusions/NOI/POO to prevent any delusions---then proced educated. Lotza luck

 

[russau]

look at that handsome devil sitting there on that dredge! Hi John!

 

[Hoser John]

Say what?? Someone on the cliff side ? Took out my magnifying glass ol' Friend and still see nuttn' nowheres even hiding n' the bushes?? You must mean thisn' thang as found that day

 

[Fullpan]

Hoser - I like the older Triple Beam type scale with the balance weights! I think your pile there would overload most electronic scales and i don't know
if they have a "TILT" option. I'm guessing 3 to 4 pounds - close?

wolfthing - what John says about the bans on dredging is probably going to happen; the enviros have way too much power, and
the result being about 5,000 dredges going to rust and the scrap heap on the west coast.

 

[Hoser John]

Actually old chinese opium scale from 1684 and accurate to only 0.01 . I collect scales,tooo many, and newest one accurate to 0.0001 as under glass and sooooooo cool. Pharmacological and even uv protected colored glass also . John PS-luv poundage days of old when miners were bold