NuggetN8
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- Joined
- Mar 13, 2012
- Messages
- 618
- Reaction score
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- Location
- Northern California
- Detector(s) used
- SDC 2300
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
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Sackett said:Great looking gold,,,I too made my own hand dredge out of PVC and it works great, and what, way less than $10.00...
mjarvis said:Where in Nor Cal?? I live in Sac. If you ever need another guy to go with I'm a hell of a worker!!
mjarvis said:Did you make yours that goes into a bucket or just into the tube??
N8Longly said:Just into the tube but there's a short tube that comes off of the side of it and that's where the material gets caught. I just set the bucket right next to me and put the material in as I go. I tried making one with a hose going to the bucket but it didn't work out too well.
mjarvis said:I wanted to make my own but I'm not quite sure I'll look at YouTube, that's what someone said. Do you belong to he GPAA??
N8Longly said:Nope
mjarvis said:I'm a member, I've plotted out where I want to go. There's a spot just up he hill in placerville it's called the Three R's. Ever heard of it??
N8Longly said:No I haven't been to placerville before.
mjarvis said:Do you prospect with anyone?? Are you in a club?? I'm new to the prospecting world but very interested in it
I was shoveling the overburden into a bucket and panning it out until I was on bedrock then I used a viewer and tweezers to scratch out the crevices then I used a hand dredge to suck up what I couldn't pick up with the tweezers.
Don't want to do they makes your finds look smaller!!
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Got this in a couple hours down at the creek. Panning and sniping. I didn't stay long because the water temp was in the 30s my hands and feet were really numb =P it was really worth it though!
LinkHylian said:Hell yeah nice work!!! Can you please tell us how much it all weighed out to be? I agree with not putting a coin next to it, makes it all look like big ol' chunkies. Keep it up and HH. Oh, and quit taking my gold please haha.