Great solution. I've seen here on You tube where I guy made a simple check valve using a marble. A few inches above the marble was a small piece of pvc "toothpick" that prevents the marble from leaving its seat.
i'll change mine to accept this concept, I've seen clam chuckers that keep getting me thinking but I've decided to use gravity dredging and corrogated tube instead of using these delightful picker sticks. I've only found 1 very small peice of gold under a huge rock using a picker stick, but it makes me thing a gravity dredge would work much better consdiering the elevation drops in the area's I intend on going.
Awesome simple idea, good job, i was thinking about making a sniper, but the check valves were a issue, your idea resolves that problem, Thank you, Take care and good gold hunting :)
I have some sucker tubes of my own. I really liked your idea-it actually was a stroke of genius-while at at same time simplicity to use a ball for a seal---my only comment besides, would be to ask you to show how you connected the ball string to the plunger inside the tube while maintaining your vacuum. Thanks again for the great twist on the sucker tube idea!
the string to the ball is connected to the center of the piston. The piston is made of a piece of leather sandwiched between 2 plastic disks. Plastic disk/leather sandwich is affixed to the end of a piece of 1/2 PVC pipe with a 1/2" pipe screw plug. The screw plug has small hole in it through which the string is tied and sealed with a small amount of epoxy.
I wondered when someone would think to make some sort of trap to stop the gravel falling back out on the way to the bucket. I have a problem with the working 'bent over' so I designed my own pump
Great idea, but u have to be near a bucket to discharge into
lofreco 1 week ago
Good idea, I like it.
tdz61 1 month ago
Great solution. I've seen here on You tube where I guy made a simple check valve using a marble. A few inches above the marble was a small piece of pvc "toothpick" that prevents the marble from leaving its seat.
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sgbofav 3 months ago
i'll change mine to accept this concept, I've seen clam chuckers that keep getting me thinking but I've decided to use gravity dredging and corrogated tube instead of using these delightful picker sticks. I've only found 1 very small peice of gold under a huge rock using a picker stick, but it makes me thing a gravity dredge would work much better consdiering the elevation drops in the area's I intend on going.
PyR0Star 3 months ago
Awesome simple idea, good job, i was thinking about making a sniper, but the check valves were a issue, your idea resolves that problem, Thank you, Take care and good gold hunting :)
CHELLIE2408 5 months ago
Great idea! Thank you for sharing.
OMG3hairyboobs 8 months ago
Thank you for answering my question about that. I am building one of my own.I
thought your other idea about the mouth operated crevice suction tube was
inspiraional and simple. I will let you how my suction tube works and what i did
with it as I had an idea or two of my own. Dont know yet if they will work. Thanks again. Aurrelium
aurrelium 9 months ago
I have some sucker tubes of my own. I really liked your idea-it actually was a stroke of genius-while at at same time simplicity to use a ball for a seal---my only comment besides, would be to ask you to show how you connected the ball string to the plunger inside the tube while maintaining your vacuum. Thanks again for the great twist on the sucker tube idea!
aurrelium 9 months ago
@aurrelium
the string to the ball is connected to the center of the piston. The piston is made of a piece of leather sandwiched between 2 plastic disks. Plastic disk/leather sandwich is affixed to the end of a piece of 1/2 PVC pipe with a 1/2" pipe screw plug. The screw plug has small hole in it through which the string is tied and sealed with a small amount of epoxy.
jfirebaugh 9 months ago
I wondered when someone would think to make some sort of trap to stop the gravel falling back out on the way to the bucket. I have a problem with the working 'bent over' so I designed my own pump
patnewmanpics 9 months ago
Simple as light and just as brilliant.
Snephrew 10 months ago
You need to patent that ASAP. Nice work!
01plotus4 10 months ago
..Very nice. simple and yet very helpful. great vid.
brandywine68 11 months ago
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maxinpains 11 months ago
Do you have any plans? This seems like a great variation of this device and would prevent the loss of larger gold pieces.
dgreagin 1 year ago
Do you have any plans? This is a great variation of this device and would seem to prevent the loss of larger gold.
dgreagin 1 year ago
Quite ingenious! Nice job...
armageddonhades 1 year ago