allenkeeton
Full Member
I feel like I finally got my plans settled out. I know what I want and I know i can make it myself.
After researching the fluid bed sluice. A.K.A. the "Bazooka" type sluice, i felt like it was a perfect fit. no riffles, mats, or moss to deal with. Quite possibly the laziest sluice ever conceived. Perfect.
I quickly jotted down some blue prints and ideas, none of which I bothered to use, and set off to Home Depot. It was pretty hot and swampy outside. Ridiculous weather that made me yearn to be knee deep in a creek.
I picked up some PVC pipe, caps, screws. Everything else I needed was tossed in random places around the yard in old forgotten junk piles. I even had the 1/4 hardware cloth tucked away in an old building which was good because I didn't want to buy a whole roll just for a foot of it.
I grabbed a sheet of plywood and some cutting tools. it was already cut into 24"x48" so I cut it in half and then half again. somehow i managed to cut a 24" inch cut into 11 1/2". That's a real head scratcher. Necessity dictates that I don't stop. I get a few blocks of 2x2 and try to drill those in as corner supports. No such luck. The wood cracks when I screw it in. Luckily there is a pile of pine 1x2s nearby and they don't crack. I (for the first time in my life I think) measured twice and cut once. I framed each box and then applied liberal amounts of caulking all over the inside edges and myself.
I fastened them together temporarily and went looking for my drill bit to bore the holes in the front for the pipe. It's missing. completely.
The operation to liberate the hills of it's gold has been put on hold.... because i couldn't find a drill bit. I'll keep working on it and try to finish tomorrow.
After researching the fluid bed sluice. A.K.A. the "Bazooka" type sluice, i felt like it was a perfect fit. no riffles, mats, or moss to deal with. Quite possibly the laziest sluice ever conceived. Perfect.
I quickly jotted down some blue prints and ideas, none of which I bothered to use, and set off to Home Depot. It was pretty hot and swampy outside. Ridiculous weather that made me yearn to be knee deep in a creek.
I picked up some PVC pipe, caps, screws. Everything else I needed was tossed in random places around the yard in old forgotten junk piles. I even had the 1/4 hardware cloth tucked away in an old building which was good because I didn't want to buy a whole roll just for a foot of it.
I grabbed a sheet of plywood and some cutting tools. it was already cut into 24"x48" so I cut it in half and then half again. somehow i managed to cut a 24" inch cut into 11 1/2". That's a real head scratcher. Necessity dictates that I don't stop. I get a few blocks of 2x2 and try to drill those in as corner supports. No such luck. The wood cracks when I screw it in. Luckily there is a pile of pine 1x2s nearby and they don't crack. I (for the first time in my life I think) measured twice and cut once. I framed each box and then applied liberal amounts of caulking all over the inside edges and myself.
I fastened them together temporarily and went looking for my drill bit to bore the holes in the front for the pipe. It's missing. completely.
The operation to liberate the hills of it's gold has been put on hold.... because i couldn't find a drill bit. I'll keep working on it and try to finish tomorrow.
