Show off yer sluice

[Gelmac]

36" Fluid Bed Sluice

Thank you for the invitation to share. My Fluid Bed Sluice is a product resulting from hundreds of posts offered here and there. After a Dry-Washer my next contribution to prospecting was Mike's Trommel and now it's my fluid bed which is designed after the Bazooka. All of my tools have been of the DIY nature. Howard Schmidt's patent caught my attention and I had to have one in my ensemble. See my project by clicking here.
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That is a cool design and excellent fabrication skills !

 

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[Canuck]

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My DIY super fluid bed high banker 3" dredge sluice designed for high production fine glacial gold recovery..........................
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Also my DIY fluid bed combination highbanker/stream sluice with fold out wing dam......
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Almost left out my DIY concentrator sluice................
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Plus many more but these are my favorites.



Go for the gold,
GG~

I really like your fluid bed highbanker goodyguy. I was thinking of building a smaller version and adding it to the end of my highbanker. I was wondering what angle or slope do you normally run your set up at? Is it more or less the same as most traditional high bankers?

 

[Chaboznic]

Just made my first sluice. About 52"x 12"x 2 1/2". What do ya'll think?

 

[Bluefrontside]

Homemade



Used to separate gold from beach sand. Work just not much gold where I used it.

 

[Bluefrontside]

All 3 of our Sluices... 2 homemade & 1 store bought


Setup on the last day out last year. Fun Day.




I threw this together after dredging last summer with similar design to the dredge. Coarse screen, finer screen then under just matting at the bottom.
It work found my biggest piece yet.
Lots of room for improvement but it proved the concept!

 

[Skiddum]

Really cool fluid bed idea. I've thought about making 1. I've thought about using either abs or aluminum

 

[Chaboznic]

Does anybody have any advice on my design?

 

[goldog]

Does anybody have any advice on my design?

Looks like it will do the job You'll need a big bucket for that clean up. Have you gotten it wet?

 

[Goldhock]

Wow, GREAT photography at your site!! Amazing work.

Thank you!

 

[KevinInColorado]

Does anybody have any advice on my design?

Looks pretty classic, it'll work I'm sure. You could probably do just as well or better without the riffles. Expanded over carpet is all you need to catch fine gold and the riffles will reduce fine gold capture, especially in the upper portion of the box...so maybe only have riffles in the bottom half if you feel compelled to use them.

 

[wtetro]

Got a great deal deal on a highbanker combo and took it out last weekend. We had to engineer a dam and run it as a semi-recirc since I was drawing more water than what was being resupply. I ran it off of (2) 1100gph pumps, but feel I need to maybe double the flow. I'm planning on hog matting the whole sluice, all 5' of it. We only did about 6 unclassified buckets I'm guessing, but so far I've cleaned up maybe 1/4 gram. I can't wait to get it out again with more pressure and flow.

 

[wtetro]

Sorry, phone is being weird, here's the pic

 

[russau]

ive been making ABS sluices for sometime now. heres a 2 inch crashbox with Vortex matting that I made.

 

[russau]

this is what I get for using windows 8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Duckwalk]

this is what I get for using windows 8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yep... still no picture

 

[G-bone]

Here's my Royal folder upgraded with Gold Hog mat's.

 

[WesternMassGold]

Here's my Royal folder upgraded with Gold Hog mat's.

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Looks almost identical to mine. I see you are running Niagara falls thru it. lol. And it catches alot of fine gold even at that high speed. i love mine.

 

[kabah088]

New member here, thought I would add to the thread.

Here is my Royal folder all set up in the River and a black mat shot after about 15 gallons 1/4" classified material.

 

[IdahoJake]

I've built several highbankers. I have a 12" x 96" large highbanker that I affectionately call "The Beast". It is great for multi-person digs, but a little too much for just one dude who was casually digging. So, I built a lighter weight highbanker. Here it is...

 

[utah mason]

Heres my A51 slighty modified with hogmoss. And my new bgt 30" prospector i just recived today! cant wait to get it in water. View attachment 1212519 and by the way idaho jake thanks for videos on youtube i have enjoyed them