Cement Mixer... Recovery?

[Golden_Crab]

Always wondered how a cement mixer would stack up to other drywashers / highbankers. I'm sure they dont have the volume capacity as more specific machines but they do seem quite versatile being able to work dry or wet material equally and you can use it as a super concentrator just slow things down and drop the angle till the heavies start separating.. how prone are they to breakdowns? Never used one myself. Seems like it'd be a good tool for a one or maybe two person operation? Anyone here ever try one?

 

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[No gold in NY]

I don't know exactly what your train of thought is here, but the answer is in the name...cement mixer. It's design is to mix things up. I know your heavies are very heavy and if you could keep your material liquid enough and turn slowly, you could drain off the lights. How about changing the paddles to more like riffles? Not so much to act like a riffle, but so the heavies are not carried so far up the barrel. I'm curious now.

 

[loco oro]

I have thought about using a c mixer platform to be reworked into a tromel,remove the aggregate drum,replace with tromel screen drum, then a sluice attached under it, using as is as a consentrater not sure if it is practical, but what do I know they call me loco,lol

 

[bobw53]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/drywashing/429187-gold-drum.html

 

[Goldwasher]

it works wet as a concentrator and material breakdown majigger.

we have plans to use one in a spot to break up clay, will then be running whats in it through a sluice.

 

[johnnysau]

Love the idea, thought about it too. It turns one way to let things settle, make it turn the other to force the light material OUT OF THE BARREL. However the setup is for the on the cement trucks to force the cement up and OUT. johnnysau