MY NEW TROMMEL PROJECT FOR A FRIEND
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Exactly Viper! I've been using vibrators for years. I ain't paying that extra money just to get my tires rotated! Lol!
You put a double pulley on your engine. One for the trommel and one for the hopper. The hopper pulley you put a counterweight on then hope that it doesn't vibrate apart.
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Ok , good you found it. I couldn't remember where exactly it was. I'll have to watch that video. If you don't have the trommel made straight you may get some vibration anyways.
You didn't go all the way to Home Depot just to take that picture for me did you? Lol!
I agree! I didn't say I would, just trying to make a point. Any large rocks I will wash off in the hopper then throw out. I wouldn't use a wash tub. Just the hopper, less work the better.
That reminds me. I was looking at those tubs just the other day. I was watching Jeff Williams on YouTube. He does prospecting how to videos and he was showing his. He has a hole cut in his and put a sink drain in it. He uses that to pan out his concentrates. Would be good if you wanted to pan while your out there or use it at home to pan.
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Messed that up. Sent it to myself
That reminds me. I was looking at those tubs just the other day. I was watching Jeff Williams on YouTube. He does prospecting how to videos and he was showing his. He has a hole cut in his and put a sink drain in it. He uses that to pan out his concentrates. Would be good if you wanted to pan while your out there or use it at home to pan.
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I can think of an easier way to vibrate using the water pressure from a pump. Less hassles, cleaner design, etc. I am sorry you been using vibrator for years....
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Those tubs are great, have many uses, durable and cheap. 
Help me list their uses.....
Pan into
use at end of sluice as a catch
great for recirculating tubs
can attach a rope and use like a sled to haul misc equip.
wash your mats in
float alongside your dredge to hold drinks, etc
Cover your motor during rain (motor cool and not running of course)
These are a few, please add to the list.
Go for the gold
GG~
Help me list their uses.....
Pan into
use at end of sluice as a catch
great for recirculating tubs
can attach a rope and use like a sled to haul misc equip.
wash your mats in
float alongside your dredge to hold drinks, etc
Cover your motor during rain (motor cool and not running of course)
These are a few, please add to the list.
Go for the gold
GG~
I can think of an easier way to vibrate using the water pressure from a pump. Less hassles, cleaner design, etc. I am sorry you been using vibrator for years....
I do what I have to to get through the day. Lol!
Those tubs are great, have many uses, durable and cheap.
Help me list their uses.....
Pan into
use at end of sluice as a catch
great for recirculating tubs
can attach a rope and use like a sled to haul misc equip.
wash your mats in
float alongside your dredge to hold drinks, etc
Cover your motor during rain (motor cool and not running of course)
These are a few, please add to the list.
Go for the gold
GG~
A sled for the kids
A trap for that pesky mouse
A cat box
A drain pan for changing your oil
A planter for flowers
A tub for soaking your feet
What? Oh your talking about gold prospecting uses?
Never mind
Lol!
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Yes, I was considering them as a sled in one location. That same location is equipment free, but I figure I could get away with a classifier. So toss a shovelfull against a 2x4' classifier. Fines end up in a bucket and rocks/clods roll into the tub of water. A basket allows you to remove the large rocks after shaking them a bit in the water.Those tubs are great, have many uses, durable and cheap.
Help me list their uses.....
Pan into
use at end of sluice as a catch
great for recirculating tubs
can attach a rope and use like a sled to haul misc equip.
wash your mats in
float alongside your dredge to hold drinks, etc
Cover your motor during rain (motor cool and not running of course)
These are a few, please add to the list.
Go for the gold
GG~
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You guys can sit around all day and argue what works and what doesn't until the cows come home, here is what counts. Lots of free time to build it then fix everything that doesn't work right the first time or the second or the third or the fourth and so on. Then it comes down to how much money you have to repeat and keep fixing your csrew up's, who knows it could take years and thousands of dollars. then how long will it last when you start shoveling 3-5 yards or more rocky material through it day in and day out. I am going to be building a vibratory hopper box with a grizzly and conveyer that will go up to the hopper on my trommel, it will be fed with a mini track hoe all day long and I know from the way I built my trommel it will be able to handle it. Now, are you going to run a 5 gallon bucket or two a day or a 12 yard dump truck or more a day? it all comes down to two things in my opinion, will it stay together and how much money you have.
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Don't say it, just do it. At least you can only blame yourself if it doesn't work. Right? At least it will be built the way you want it and thats why mine is the way it is.....
True! I build it and screw something up its my fault. Even if I use somebody's idea and I screw it up or the idea didn't work its still my fault. No one else's.
Wait a minute Jog! Are you trying to clear yourself of any wrong doing when I start screwing up my trommel built from your design? Lol!
Wait a minute Jog! Are you trying to clear yourself of any wrong doing when I start screwing up my trommel built from your design? Lol!
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Sorry I had to take a shot at what you said. Sometimes we humans say things then we say, "OH SH*T"... LOL
Yep
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