Show me your homemade prospecting tools!

[oidium45]

Hello everyone!

Recently, due to funding issues I have resorted to making my own prospecting tools. Even some of my own camping gear! As it turns out.. It is a rather fun learning process and pretty damn fulfilling! I am curious to see what everyone here has created in their years of prospecting. Please, use this post to share your creativity with the rest of us!

 

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[Capt Nemo]

Model 1,2,3,4 recirculating fluid beds. (4 worked best)


Model 5 recirculating fluid bed highbanker.


Miller table.


Grease table.


Bucket Buddy


Bucket Buddy II fluid bed concentrator.

 

[okbasspro]

My 3” triple that’s homemade. Sits on a stand for shallow water not floats.

 

[ratled]

Cobbled a nice little powered sluice. Runs on a WX 10 or larger. Search "ratleds highbanker" for the full build

 

[winners58]

Laundry soap bucket for my power sluice header...
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*sluice stand/legs removed seat from an elder care bath chair.

 

[oidium45]

Model 1,2,3,4 recirculating fluid beds. (4 worked best)
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Model 5 recirculating fluid bed highbanker.
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Miller table.
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Grease table.
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Bucket Buddy
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Bucket Buddy II fluid bed concentrator.
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Nice! I do not think I have ever seen a grease table.

 

[oidium45]

Laundry soap bucket for my power sluice header...
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*sluice stand/legs removed seat from an elder care bath chair.

If you ever want to smooth out that water flow I leaned a nice trick watching vids. Make the area where the water spills in deeper than the rest of the sluice. It will fill up then spill over and create a much smoother flow.

 

[RTR]

Hello everyone!

Recently, due to funding issues I have resorted to making my own prospecting tools. Even some of my own camping gear! As it turns out.. It is a rather fun learning process and pretty damn fulfilling! I am curious to see what everyone here has created in their years of prospecting. Please, use this post to share your creativity with the rest of us!

Nothing wrong what-so-ever with DIY stuff.I love it ALL ! and yes I even drive it !
<<<< as pictured here

 

[DizzyDigger]

Made quite a bit of my own equipment. Always more gratifying
to catch gold using something you fabricated yourself.

Miller Table: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-prospecting/368781-building-miller-table.html

Mass Quantity Classifier: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-prospecting/404814-building-oversized-classifer.html

Where I prospect: (click on image for full size) http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/my-daily-snapshot/373680-valley-shadow.html

Classifier for a Gold Cube: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-prospecting/418737-punch-plate-template-stencil.html

Got a whole pile of home made crevasing tools.

 

[BillA]

hey DD, snap a photo of your crevassing tools

 

[russau]

I would EXCEPT being a F.O.G. and cant get out much anymore I ended up selling it for a song ! and I HATED doing so !

 

[BillA]

I would EXCEPT being a F.O.G. and cant get out much anymore I ended up selling it for a song ! and I HATED doing so !

seems a recurring theme, downsizing for us oldsters is a real bugger; I'm 74 and still buying/building "poop" (time structuring)

 

[DizzyDigger]

hey DD, snap a photo of your crevassing tools

Pretty basic stuff Bill. Long handled teaspoons, short-handled sledge hammer,
a few different rock chisels, various lengths of heavy wire for reaching way
down in the cracks.

I'm more of a bedrock buster than a crevasser, but I'll never pass up a
deep crack if I can fit anything in there to scoop out the material.