My Prospecting Adventure starts

[Diesel.k]

Hi everyone, starting this thread to document my prospecting from the beginning.

Here is a pic of the backpack highbanker I am putting together. It is 9x3x50. It is pieced together.


I am running gold hog mats. The order is UR - Talon,Talon - Motherload - Talon,Talon - Motherload. I built my own collapsible stand with 35 inch legs.

My Grandfather left me a nice Gold drum drywasher/wet. It is here is a pic.
It is 5 feet deep with a 3 foot mouth. He hand made the inner spiral and welded a 1 inch lip top stop gold loss. I have a nice axle to install under it or I may just put it on a small trailer I built, haven’t decided.

 

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[63bkpkr]

Way cool Diesel, can't wait to see pictures of it running! There have been many posts on TNET about the size of pumps needed for various sizes of sluices/high bankers, possibly you've already gone through many of them and have your system all specified. Looking forward to seeing it in action............63bkpkr

 

[Vance in AK]

Glad to see you start this thread!
I will be watching with interest!

 

[Diesel.k]

Here is a link to my first test run.

 

[Diesel.k]

I’m going to add a spray bar and grizzly for wet operation I have an ar30 diaphragm pump I salvaged

 

[Diesel.k]

Here is a look at the drive system.

 

[Johnnybravo300]

Awesome machine your GPA left ya!

 

[Diesel.k]

Here is the start of my sluice/highbanker stand

I salvaged 4 adjustable legs from a crushed frame

I am going to drill more holes so I will be able to fine tune my flow rate vs angle of decent.

 

[Diesel.k]

Here is a pic of my stand nearly done
The legs adjust height and swivel so I can fold it up

 

[Diesel.k]

Did a Little Rock hounding and test panning today. Couldn’t have been a more beautiful day!

 

[Diesel.k]

Here is a video of my backpack highbanker running some paydirt I wasn’t able to pan on my adventure today.

I have set it up small enough to fit in my Teton 5200. That leaves my enough room for roughly a weeks worth rations.