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?? I'll be heading up to claim with gold tomorrow, I'll take the GGT up and "might" try it but what usually happens is my time is so limited with travel and just being old, tired, and wore out that dig time is precious so I don't like losing time messing with unknowns like setting up with a lot of usual cussing....lol I'm also not a fan of building dams, etc. which it appears this baby needs in a lot of situations?
I've had the GGT Motherlode for awhile now and haven't really messed with it but 3 times now. First two times trying to set it up all I did was cuss and quickly went back to my old ways. The whole setup process reminded me of trying to set up a sail in a wind storm! Cooled off after a few days to try something different so I took a sluice stand and jury rigged it onto the stand with bolts and wires (temporary) to keep box on the stand. Also packed along a 20" piece of railroad track to weight the whole thing down. Took the getup/setup up to "crappy creek" today for a couple hrs to see if I could get the box to work for me BEFORE I lose it and throw it in the river!!!! Well the jury rigged system worked but will need some fine tuning. That thing moves an INSANE amount of dirt and this old boy was impressed! I knew it would work if I could just calm down and spend some time warming up to it? Now I was looking forward to the cleanout......but remember, I'm at my local "crappy creek" and there's a reason I call it crappy creek. this is where I go when I want to try something new or just kill time without driving all the way up to claim. Cleanout very disappointing with very little black sand (gold is a big bonus on crappy creek...got 1 tiny pinpoint sized spec.....lol)? I bought this big box for the bigger trap hoping I could maybe shovel all day and do one cleanout at the end? The trap filled fast up to about 1/2" below exit hole. I kept shoveling for another hr and trap still held at 1/2" below exit level so I figured it was doing it's thing? I know I could have used just a bit more flow but I think I had it real close to working proper
I think I'm onto setting up but might wait till next season to really learn setting this beast up? It IS a beast too.....moves a LOT of material and I KNOW that if I can learn the beast that'll it'll definitely pay off in some situations.... Damn that thing moves the dirt....!!!!!!!
Any pointers....post em up?
Dennis....I've got a pretty good idea of how it's supposed to be setup. Watched your vids and many others (bazooka) over and over, etc.... Problem is DOING IT...lol I get impatient...especially with the short time I have up on the claim when time is so very limited. Tomorrow will also be my last day up there this season. Kinda a catch 22 thing......maybe waste time setting up (learning) to increase volume.....or quick setup with the AM and lose time classifying and running one scoop at a time?.....lol Damned if I do...damned if I don't. Gold isn't going anywhere so I "should" suck it up, set up GGT and just move some friggin dirt once set up properly? I was concerned about lack of black sand at crappy creek...especially with the amount of dirt I moved thru the GGT? Thanks for pointing out that the 1/2" from trap outlet seemed about right....I was concerned about that. If I do setup on the claim I KNOW the usual amounts of blacks that normally show up and that should reassure me the box is exchanging ok. I'm the weak link in my moving dirt.....but today without the classifying (that bending over) I moved more dirt thru that BEAST in 2 short hrs than I could have ever imagined.....!!!!!! I'll try and take some pics of the getup/setup should I use it tomorrow and also the results at the end of the day.....
Is your stream or river really slow? I'm not understanding how else it would be so hard to set it up. I don't have a g.g.t. yet but it can't be much different than the b.g.t. which is one of the easiest sluices to set up.I've had the GGT Motherlode for awhile now and haven't really messed with it but 3 times now. First two times trying to set it up all I did was cuss and quickly went back to my old ways. The whole setup process reminded me of trying to set up a sail in a wind storm! Cooled off after a few days to try something different so I took a sluice stand and jury rigged it onto the stand with bolts and wires (temporary) to keep box on the stand. Also packed along a 20" piece of railroad track to weight the whole thing down. Took the getup/setup up to "crappy creek" today for a couple hrs to see if I could get the box to work for me BEFORE I lose it and throw it in the river!!!! Well the jury rigged system worked but will need some fine tuning. That thing moves an INSANE amount of dirt and this old boy was impressed! I knew it would work if I could just calm down and spend some time warming up to it? Now I was looking forward to the cleanout......but remember, I'm at my local "crappy creek" and there's a reason I call it crappy creek. this is where I go when I want to try something new or just kill time without driving all the way up to claim. Cleanout very disappointing with very little black sand (gold is a big bonus on crappy creek...got 1 tiny pinpoint sized spec.....lol)? I bought this big box for the bigger trap hoping I could maybe shovel all day and do one cleanout at the end? The trap filled fast up to about 1/2" below exit hole. I kept shoveling for another hr and trap still held at 1/2" below exit level so I figured it was doing it's thing? I know I could have used just a bit more flow but I think I had it real close to working proper
I think I'm onto setting up but might wait till next season to really learn setting this beast up? It IS a beast too.....moves a LOT of material and I KNOW that if I can learn the beast that'll it'll definitely pay off in some situations.... Damn that thing moves the dirt....!!!!!!!
Any pointers....post em up?
