Old video bit I like the idea. I am building one right now out of the diamond plate tailgate cover off of my old dodge. I am custom molding my riffles out of silicone and then some miners moss. Crazy what you can make with a little bit of stuff you find kicking around.
I have to agree with a lot of the comments here, but don't see all you experts offering solid advice.Although some do hve good suggestions. Your on the right track but I would suggest you watch a good number of videos on home made and pro made sluice boxes. If you're only running cons this could be made to work. I will also tell you from experence it is far cheaper and easier to make a small sluice out of plywood. Then play with water flow. mat's and riffles. So that once you hit on what works for you, build one from metal or just repair as needed. It last for years and I wish you success. Oh more water. Alot more water.
Google "Clarkson Riffle Study". You need expanded metal on top of miner's moss in that sluice. It's wide. Randy Clarkson was an engineer who figured out the riffles that people use today, angle iron and 4-6 lb per sq/ft expanded metal. Gold's gonna blow out of that thing with that carpet and rubber. Just break down, go online to metalsdepot, order some heavy expanded metal. Then order some miners moss from Keene. Put some damn water thru it and you'll blow out rocks and garbage and that gold will settle right behind the riffle after it passes over the riffle. Read up on that study. Then you can run all the dirt you can shovel thru that thing.
Holes in that ocillator wand are too small. A drilled piece of PVC pipe with bigger holes would be better. With that wide of a box you need a pump in the 2,000-3,000gpm range. For fines a wide gutter would work with a trash pump or fountain pump and filter screen I thought you had a car tire as the riffles at first.
You need a water flow great enough to have the flow going over those aluminum angles separating the three sections.You need at least triple the water flow you showed in this video.
should pull ya nozzles from the sprinkler. will increase its gph that can push. or a pvc pipe with slots cut :) great idea on the tool box. i have one i been debating to do similar. but was gonna cut and fold it to have sides like a high banker.
I ended up getting rid of the sprinkler end altogether. It now just dumps out a couple of the tubes at top with a significantly higher flow. This also lets me wash certain areas that might normally be out of the flow.
I thought that spider was huge until you put the lighter beside it for size reference. I'm Australian though, so 12 inch spiders are a thing here. :C Glad you didn't hurt him!
I hate spiders they are the most scariest critters out. I taught jujitsu fo 2 yrs and I see one like that I scream like a lil girl. They give me the hebe gebbies.
Prospectors, They would pan the mud out of a bums ass crack if they thought he was sitting on a gold mine. LOL...... I'm proud to call myself a prospector!!!
You literally washed most of your gold in with your tailings. You need riffles on top of you miners moss and you need greater water flow to hold down all the heavy stuff, as well as creating a vortex that separates the heavies from the stones, otherwise your just wasting your time and essentially giving your concentrates a bath. It is essential that you dont put dry paydirt through a sluice, or its a waste of time once again and your basically wathching your gold float on down the box. Lastly, dont put so much time into panning, if you go as slow as shown in your video you are once again going no where fast enough to be productive, the not gold will skim over the top of the heavy material and if the propper sequences of shaking, tapping washing at an angle and swirling. I do however like your idea making a sluice from an old truck bed tool chest lid. I hope this helps a little, i dont mean to sound negative or critical in any way. Good luck on your future prospects.
Hi.Hate to burst your bubble.There is noway that trickle of water could move gold down to the middle of your sluice.The min.amount of water required would be 40 gal per minute.You need at least1/2 inch of water across the width of the box.You could pour water from buckets.very poor way but I think the stuff you are calling gold would dissapear.Another thing unless you got the richest cons in the world you will not see gold sitting ontop of your material.Might want to have that stuff checked out.Luck Mcbain.
You are 100% correct about the water flow. What we ended up doing was throwing out that sprinkler head altogether and having a couple pumps throw water directly out of the tube into the sluice. As for the concentrates, they were very "cherry picked" and mostly panned out by the time I showed it here in the video. I was using those for nothing more than a test for the sluice. But thanks for pointing it out. I should have done so in the video.
Oh no, this guy says "acrossed" instead of across. I correct people on that speech impediment every day. There should be 3 inch side walls on that thing.
