The Ultimate Home-Built Thread

[Caminochaos]

Post all your homemade stuff here!

 

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[socalocmatt]

Modified the a51a into a little power sluice to take backpacking with me.

 

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[Aurabbit79er]

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Not the prettiest set up, but seems to work ok.

I like it. It has that great" I used whatever I had around" look. That's how I build too.
I expanded my original 2 tub design to 70 gal- 3 tub wash plant.
I have a spare empty tub to transfer the water to, to clean the sediments out of each tub to reuse the water.
I washed 3 buckets of classified desert dirt of my last dig 2x each and one more time just to double check.
So that was 9 buckets washed with the same water and the sediment was removed after 6 buckets washed.
the last 3 found about 6 pieces more of flour gold and the tubs trapped about 1" more sediment too.
All in All a good working test.
Can't wait to field test it in the desert.
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Now how to bring 100 gal of water in my coach.

 

[Gavin]

Here is the latest addition to my collection. I purchased a Bazooka about a month ago and wanted to make a high-banker for it. One of the areas that i work has a little stream that wont come close to running the Bazooka so i thought id give this a try. I "borrowed" ideas from several other styles and came up with this.

 

[Jimmydolittle]

 

[wa-au-nut]

My highbanker I've been working on. Keene A52 I built and extention for it. Keene leg set. CalSluice hopper I ordered bare and made my own spray bar plumbing. Made the brackets and such. Corners of the extention are rivitted and sealed with Oatey Plumbing Stick. Seals great if you rough up the metal(epoxy stick). Still have to add wheels. Have not tried it yet.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Here is the latest addition to my collection. I purchased a Bazooka about a month ago and wanted to make a high-banker for it. One of the areas that i work has a little stream that wont come close to running the Bazooka so i thought id give this a try. I "borrowed" ideas from several other styles and came up with this.

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjvbOQlzsQ0&feature=youtu.be

Nice work on the conversion and nice clear video too, thanks for sharing. What sort of pump did you use?

 

[Gavin]

Thanks Kevin,
Didn't use a pump. Just hooked it up to the spigot on the house. I figure it will work much better with a recirculating pump and a higher flow.

 

[Hoser John]

JD mini trommel mo' better by X 1,000,congrats-John

 

[Aurabbit79er]

I like it. It has that great" I used whatever I had around" look. That's how I build too.
I expanded my original 2 tub design to 70 gal- 3 tub wash plant.
I have a spare empty tub to transfer the water to, to clean the sediments out of each tub to reuse the water.
I washed 3 buckets of classified desert dirt of my last dig 2x each and one more time just to double check.
So that was 9 buckets washed with the same water and the sediment was removed after 6 buckets washed.
the last 3 found about 6 pieces more of flour gold and the tubs trapped about 1" more sediment too.
All in All a good working test.
Can't wait to field test it in the desert.
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Now how to bring 100 gal of water in my coach.

Okay now here's the video

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

That was awesome, now I have a new hobby, hunting invisible crow... but not eating it.

 

[Aurabbit79er]

That was awesome, now I have a new hobby, hunting invisible crow... but not eating it.

Did you hear the invisible crow in my video?
After I put the soundtrack on the video I could still hear the crow.

 

[AzViper]

Thought I would add my three home built gold trapping tools. The blue bowl has had the pump removed from the table and a submergible pump put in the barrel, its a recirculating system. The vac has great suction and used all the time when crevicing. My new edition is the 12" trommel that is in the building stages right now and will be a great tool in recovering gold from the clay. The trommel will also be used in a recirculating system.

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