gold mining trommel action

some more gold mining

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Education

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• gold
• mining
• trommel

[IcechickenSr]

ROFLFAO How effing hillbilly can you get, it's so hillbilly that I actually love this machine. A Guy sometimes doesn't think about using the things he has access to in his junk pile such s the axle assemblys, brilliant use of stuff in my books, great job, hope it's working well for you. Cheers, IC

[oilpond]

Love it...

[billman2112]

cool.

[GreywolfMiner]

George, nice to see ya got the thing going, have got the pump you lent to Numnuts Chuck, he left it in the Fraser River, cleaned it up and got it running, but can;t say if it is any good any more, give me a shout if you want it back....Greywolf

[circusboy90210]

@gangesex why not have theh cutting /digging head connected to the trommel directly, so that as the earth is dug up by a rotary digging unit it deposits directly into the trommel . the trommel also being long enough to put your tailings wher you want them & also allow for inspection of tailings for waste

[gangesex]

dont fuck around buy a Derocker and a cheap old D7 or D8 from The prince george sale, and when your moving 200-300 yards a day in $10-$12 per yard paydirt you will understand what I exactly mean. Trommels are too slow, too many moving parts, and you have to lift your dirt into it. Derockers have none of that. bottom line, quit fucking around and get a derocker and move real volume and get your paycheck quicker. I would know. I mine gold in Northern BC. Time is short. Diesel is expensive.

[gangesex]

also a note : get your sluice oscillating with an eccentric cam and linkage moving off a gear reduction box, say 5:1. When gold is "tapped" to the bottom of the sluice, you get it settling out quicker, and this is very important in small sluices like yours. I prefer a huge wide sluice with mammoth surface area, A clean-up takes 3 times longer, but your recovery area is so much better, and you cant jerk around and blow your paycheck out into the pond again after all your hardwork.

[gangesex]

That trommel looks pretty well built for a home-built job. However your gonna be pushing to move 80 yards of dirt per hour on that, and in $10-$12/yard gold dirt, the economics dont offset the overhead costs. You have to step up the volume moved, like I said on your other video. However for proving gold content in dirt, this beats any highbanker sluice. Keep digging gold man, but remember to never get stuck with one machine and keep upgrading equipment to crank out more volume.

[hixonAu]

Awsome job.....can't wait to run something like that on my claim's.(one-day)