The Ultimate Home-Built Thread

[Caminochaos]

Post all your homemade stuff here!

 

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[Caminochaos]

I'll Start!

The box was built at my father-in-laws woodshop in about 1/2 hour.

The Hungarian riffles are made from a couple bookshelves my mom gave to me to hang in our kids room. They were uglier than $#!% so they went to a better cause.

The "expanded plastic" is from the base of those 2 liter soda bottle carriers you see in stores. I got like 4 of them for free from the gas station down the road.

The carpeting is some miners moss given too me by a guy at work because there was a 3 inch tear in it. The nugget catcher is the plastic sides from a window AC unit.

Here some more pics.

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[strickman]

super sucker,crevice tool.

 

[Jack Hamilton]

Home made sheet metal brake. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,317017.0.html

 

[Astrobouncer]

Home sluices:

This one started off as a drop riffle design, kinda evolved into some kind of hybrid. I like this one for sampling now because cleanups are so fast and easy. It also catches very fine gold. Think of this sluice like a series of cracks in the bedrock, and that's basically how it works.



More homemade sluices of mine, the 2nd one from the left is my main sluice. It catches really fine gold and doesn't let it go. I used to use the carpet sluice behind it, but since I have switched to running home depot's blue grooved carpet in my main sluice, the 2nd sluice cleanups never have any gold.



Another angle of them, the small sluice on the far bottom right is a black sand separator that has magnets from harbor freight below a Plexiglas tray for easy black sand removal.



Here's a close up of the small sluice, this goes in front of another sluice and you feed the material into the tray to catch the black sands before it loads up the main sluice. The Plexiglas has steel glued to it with gorilla glue, so the magnets hold the tray down.



Here's my two bucket classifier with 2 and 4 mesh screens. This thing sits under water in the river while I shovel pay dirt into it. The two buckets are locked in place with a bar underneath so they cant move. When the buckets are full you just pull out the bar and the buckets release.



I'm sure I have more DIY stuff but that's all for now.

 

[golddust77]

the start of home built headder bow for sluice,with grizzleyto class ify off large stuff, my own home built bolens ht20 one of a kind tractor with all hand fabbed loader system . and some indiana dust that i got last week end i ran about 20 gallons of creek materal thru sluice had to quit the gnats here are something of there own. hope you enjoy

 

[jog]

My first attempt at a highbanker.

 

[Sierra Sam]

Like the home made brake. Most cool.

Added hopper and sluice extension to my Keene sluice. Has both mesh and grizzly for hopper.

 

[Sierra Sam]

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

WOW

Sure do have a lot of talent here on Tnet!!

Beth

 

[jog]

Recirculating sluice

 

[jog]

Trommel build

 

[Gravel Hog]

That is really nice, Jog! All of the project here are real nice.

Here is my "Winch Build 2010"

I am hoping that I can use them someday whilst dredging on my claims here, not looking so good at the moment here in Cal for this.
Building another winch as we speak. I am not sure why as I read the proposed regulations.

Not sure what is wrong with the pictures or the camera, might be the fluorescent lighting, the winch is actually a OD Huey Green

 

[jog]

Gravel Hog
MAN... that is very nice. What I like about that is that it is very clean, what I mean is there isn't any added clutter. Straight forward and right to the point. Sweet!!!!!

 

[GrayCloud]

Gravel Hog, What is your total gear reduction there. Looks like enough to move some pretty good size rocks.

 

[Gravel Hog]

A Torquey 750:1 and Yep It Moves Those Biggons'.

 

[GrayCloud]

Plenty of Torque. Better have it mounted, chained, etc to something big and solid.

 

[jog]

Plenty of Torque. Better have it mounted, chained, etc to something big and solid.

Are you talking to me?

 

[Gravel Hog]

Plenty of Torque. Better have it mounted, chained, etc to something big and solid.

Got it all covered! Been doing it for over 30 years and learned from a master, good ol' dad.

 

[GrayCloud]

Gravel Hog, Consider yourself very fortunate. It must have been great to have grownup with your feet in the creek and your Dad as your mentor.
Jog, we all know you have plenty of torque and your rear is planted solid.