None of the ruffles in your sluice box are really at the right angles for catching gold... Rather than watching RU-vid videos and changing all the configurations your box because it doesn't work perhaps it would be better all around for you for the rest of the world who believes that what you say is some validity to read about how to build a sluice box prior to watching videos or making videos there are several well thought out and written papers in scientific information out there that talk about angles of sluice boxes the distance between riffles the ideal angle of riflesand the length the widths the work best for a sluice box RU-vid is a wealth of useless information for those people out there who would choose to watch a video build something and tell other people how to do it your perpetuating that problem that we have with our world do some reading do some scientific research and then build on you'll be more pleased with you the results
Glad to see your interest to build the best you can. Good video. The miner Mose should be at the top with a great over it. It if not feed to fast will grab a lot of the martial slow it down and let the gold drop out into the Mose. P.S Put thin carpet under the Mose so the gold won't wash down. I have run my dredge configured many ways. I have gold hog matts / Carpet and riffles and more. Avenge. Gold hog matts clean faster and less cons. Carpet and riffles. Little more gold BUT a lot to cons to clean out in the end. Most of the gold will be in the top 1/3 to 1/2 of almost any descent 48 '' long sluice. I have done test with 8' sluice and fine specks after half of the first sluice. Don't over think it. You can build one out of wood with just 1x2 boards as riffles and catch gold. Build what works for you and makes you fill best. Good luck.
That's all an good,spend alot of time on trinity and klamath rivers,best I've found is metal detector an pan the signals.real productive,out of eureka, heavy pans(lifetime GPAA member also)
That is just way too much work and project building when you can use a gold claw gold pan not have to classify anything and you can completely remove the black sand from your away from the gold
I don't often have time to make it out to the river. I agree that it is way too much work but I have as much fun building stuff as using it. For me, it is less about catching gold as the adventure of prospecting building hair brained ideas on how to catch gold. Either way, when I do get out, I always find a beautiful day on the river.
I have to confess that I made that video back in September. My spot on the river is west of Big Bar, a bit down stream from DC. The Trinity river has been picked over for a century and a half so we are left with scraps. I try not to compare what's in my pan to other RU-vid prospectors and just enjoy a beautiful day on the river.
