help with sluice choice

[mountainman22]

I only have two options due to money and need your opinion which to get as overall better of the two choices.
It's either the EZ sluice or

This one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261128655894

 

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[Oakview2]

You might want to hit the yard sales and craigslist

If you don't mind traveling, this looks like a good deal, I have no affiliation with this ad...
Keene A52 Sluice with optional frame

Here is another, on the west side of the central valley, this guy has a lot of stuff. You might be able to sell off what you don't need and have what you keep paid for

http://fresno.craigslist.org/spo/3348867429.html

Plenty have gotten the fever after the popularity of gold shows, and then have second thoughts when they actually get out on the end of a #2 shovel....

 

[mountainman22]

What gold shows ? Like a gun show type thing for gold?

 

[mountainman22]

Also thanks for that , but for the traveling money all the way from Colorado, I could buy the better sluices. I have sluices, I just want a cheap mini. MM

 

[Oakview2]

I'm sorry, I google Canyon City, and it showed down in the San Diego area

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[mountainman22]

Oh lol, I get it now. I was wondering... I can't find anything on Craigslist, and I tried building my own but I can't trust my own building. I just want a cheap, easy recovery mini-ish sluice.

 

[freddy williams]

there are gold shows all the time pick up a copy of prospectors magazine it will have a lists in the of the up coming gold shows in it. I would opt for the keene sluices but others are also good. Do a search on Hillbillysluice.com they are located in ohio I believe that is the last one I bought. HH and may all the sand in your sluices be golden...

 

[JohnGalt]

Sluice choices aside, .... thanks for the national craigslist search page. I never knew there was one. That has always been the biggest pain about CL. Thats awsome, .... my wife is gonna be .... annoyed!

 

[Aurabbit79er]

Tee Dee Co. in Santa Anna CA. the EZ Sluice.
Good for home and out in the field. I used this one in the field for years hiking.
I use it at home to prosses my cons.
Look.

 

[mountainman22]

So aurabbit ypu think it would do ok with like 10 buckets? My sluices all suck.

 

[walldo]

I have found a lot of good deals through contacts at my local GPAA group. I have the jobe sluice and the EZsluice. Both require classifying. Save a little longer and get the Bazooka gold trap. No classifying,hence no classifying screens and less equipment to pack in. Just a shovel , a pan and the bazooka gold trap.
I spent a lot for a rookie on prospecting equipment. This set up is not inexpensive but works.

 

[Aurabbit79er]

So aurabbit ypu think it would do ok with like 10 buckets? My sluices all suck.

I do classify what I dig to 3/8", but yes 10 buckets a day is about the max for the EZ Sluice
I have 2- Keene 52As 1 EZ Sluice. 1 Homemade Lexan 3' sluice, 1 Dredge Sluice, and 1 Keene Drywasher
Here's my Lexan Sluice.




Running Lexan through a table saw can be tricky.

 

[B H Prospector]

MountainMan22,
I have an EZ sluice that I usually use in low flow water but my grandson likes to use it and it works well in faster water. When in the faster flow it handles material classified at 1/2" pretty good. At a slower flow I classify to 1/4". It will handle 10 bucket quite well. I wouldn't go over that too much.

Good Luck!

B H Prospector

 

[mountainman22]

Wow AURabbit thats a nifty set up! It amazes me the things some of you guys build yourselves. That Lexan is awesome. good job and thanks for the input! Also B H Prospector thanks for that. I was hoping to get details like that. So I figure I will do a quick cleanout after every five buckets I suppose? Does that sound good?

 

[mountainman22]

Hey Waldo, does that Bazooka really do a good job? Where Im at it's usually 100 grain and smaller specks of gold. How does the Bazooka in your opinion do with fine gold?

 

[GoldHunter24k]

Hey Mountainman22! Check out my thread on choosing a good river sluice here

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/g...portable-river-sluice-box-do-you-use-why.html

I posted some links to the best sluices according to what people and research have told me

 

[walldo]

Here in Washington state all I have found is micro gold. The bazooka gold trap does a good job.

 

[walldo]

For running the black beach sands I have a four stack gold cube. I bought from a treasure net member that was somewhat local.

 

[B H Prospector]

Cleaning after every 5 buckets would be a good idea. Less chance of major build up and gold loss. Come to think about it when in low flow water I do clean after every 4 or 5 buckets. Fast flow usually keeps it pretty clear.

Good Luck!

B H Prospector

 

[KevinInColorado]

Walldo, I just bought a Bazooka Prospector used...what tips can you give me on running it?