2" Keene Dredge - SET UP my GOLD HOG (or ohter) mat system for me!

[goldgit'r]

Oh well, it's your money!!!!!!

Wes

 

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[Washington Gold]

After watching the videos, this is the right thing to try next, the GH mats like it fast and fairly deep - this is what I need

THX for the help all, report coming up in a week or so! Cheers,
Craig

 

[Prospector70]

After watching the videos, this is the right thing to try next, the GH mats like it fast and fairly deep - this is what I need

THX for the help all, report coming up in a week or so! Cheers,
Craig

Take some pics / video! <3
Good luck!

 

[Washington Gold]

Right on! They will be delivered Monday, ought to head out Wed/Thurs for about 5 hrs of dredging. I'll do a video, pictures of before/running/pre-cleanup.
Modifying the box to get some adjustable sluice slope - involves raising the engine so the plenum can rise as well with the box (which is attached)
Won't be hard at all.

 

[Washington Gold]

Went on Friday - it was 25 degrees, the GH mats worked very well. A little hard to bend for the cleanout - at 25 degrees - but not bad!

 

[AlaskaGold]

Lets see some photos of what ha found!

 

[Washington Gold]

Largest picker yet! Tried up high in a bush

 

[TheGoldProspector]

Congrats WG! Heavy Pans

 

[Washington Gold]

Going metal detecting tomorrow in the same area

 

[Jjhall68]

Craig,

Not sure how the GH matts worked for you after your test. I wonder if your tailings are as telling as you think if you are dropping them into the current, I'm not disagreeing just wondering?
I have the same dredge as you do and I traded my carpet out for miners moss over a flat bottom rib called "Nomark" other than that I didn't change a thing. I run mine pretty fast also, but once it gets wet it sits really flat in the water.
Anyway that's my setup, I get a lot of -50 recovery, which is a good thing since that's most of what I get, lol.

All the best,
John

 

[Washington Gold]

Just cleaned up after a Friday trip - man these things are THE ticket. Extremely easy to clean up, caught 2 larger pickers (rare) and about 10 fines. Good for the area!

I used Gorilla tape to hook them together; leaves the option to rearrange the mats (probably no need to) as well as this makes it a lot less permanent of a solution. You can beat these mats and they look like NEW after use; about 7 hours on them now. Amazing.
ALso, because of the exchange of material I get the strong sense they don't need a cleanout as often (not that the prior ones did). Easier to see what kind of material it is hanging on to that carpet/riffles - good for in-box analysis during operations!

 

[Prospector70]

Pics / Video?
Excited to see the pickers.

 

[AlaskaGold]

As they say, pictures or I didnt happen!

 

[Washington Gold]

 

[Washington Gold]

GOing dredging tomorrow again, wil report back - trying a different method and different area with different technique - was working edge, now will be IN the river

 

[Jjhall68]

How did your clean up go?

 

[Washington Gold]

Decent - medium amt of gold, but not much for the effort working deep. Gold is where ya find it!