Homemade dredge

[01 medicated]

Hi all,put this together over winter cant wait to try it out.Have easy acess to creek,only 10ft at widest part with plenty of room on the sides to sit pump,sluice strapped to innertube.

 

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[Vance in AK]

Nice job! Looks like it should work well.

 

[jog]

I like that, very nice. Do you mind if I use your idea for the pump cart, I was just looking at different ideas yesterday and that is the best one so far.

 

[01 medicated]

sure jog,its a deer cart.found the front axel and wheels at garage sale,they came off a lawn mower.welded 1/2 square tubing to frame inserted 1/2 copper tubing and the axel slide right in with a little grease.

 

[01 medicated]

Thought about making a drop sluice box,like the ones Astrobouncer makes,adding punch plate to the full length and mounting plate say 1/2 to 1 inch above riffels and adding it to the end of the Keene sluice to catch fines.

 

[63bkpkr]

01 medicated,
Your rig looks great and the cart looks good and sturdy, way to go! Pvillehunter stuck in a drop riffle McKirk sluice and put its output through a keene sluice and found very little gold in the keene so the drop riffle design works very well.

Good luck and keep us posted with more fine pictures and info..........63bkpkr

 

[Caminochaos]

01 medicated,
Your rig looks great and the cart looks good and sturdy, way to go! Pvillehunter stuck in a drop riffle McKirk sluice and put its output through a keene sluice and found very little gold in the keene so the drop riffle design works very well.

Good luck and keep us posted with more fine pictures and info..........63bkpkr

He is right. I've seen it first hand. We ran a lot of material through his drop riffle and very, very little was lost. It's a good box.

 

[LoneFrogman]

Nice rig, what size nozzle you using? What is the GPM on your pump?