Making a GOLD dredge frame

How to make a dredge frame. It's wasn't as cheap as I would have hoped ($400), but I made it exactly how I wanted it, and I have left over aluminum to modify if need be. This frame has enough buoyancy to run a 4" dredge if I decide to upgrade later.

Float Tubes:
http://www.valumotion.com/index.php/cPath/700_4442_790_43110

Hookah:
http://www.airlinebyjsink.com/the-hows/honda-gas-powered/rd2100xl.aspx

Corny Keg:
http://www.rcbequip.com/item5099.ctlg

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Gold prospecting
• dredging
• panning
• sluice
• crash box
• mining.

[captcrunch8181]

YOUR FLY IS DOWN! HAHA



[exanchorite]

@captcrunch8181

I was wondering when someone would spot that.

[buckyboy2000]

Ah! The old forgot the hose clamp trick. Love that one working the fingers on the lower Merced. Testing your equipment in the cold, priceless!

[exanchorite]

@buckyboy2000

Thanks for the comment. I saw your fine gold question and they were right all you need is some v-matting under your miners moss. That moss looked ok, and you might as well rerun all that material if you had nothing under the MM the first go. If you have only fine gold you could even get rid of your riffles IMO. In Nome (90% fine gold) the undercurrent boxes slow down the material enough for the fine gold to get trapped. Classification is key. A 1/4" screen should help. GL

[PowderSkier30]

Hey there, I just wanted to comment on all of your videos. I just watched most of them and you kick ass! I just created this account but will be uploading some gold videos soon. I live in Idaho and Alaska is a dream for me! Idaho has some good placer deposits though, not many nugs. I'm going to add you and I'll get some good videos up sometime. That dredge is just sick! Gotta love prospecting in the snow!

[exanchorite]

Look forward to your videos.

[Discokid715]

sweet dredge. =)

[oceanghost2006]

nice work



[RDLONG30]

YOU NEED A SNORKEL ON YOUR HOOKAH. THE EXHAUST CAN DO IN YOU IN BEFORE YOU REALIZE IT'S TOO LATE.

[seahonk2]

longer sluice also whould be better .

[sergeantsailorman]

Boy, the way that things blow water like a fire hose, that would work great to discourage those pesky jet skiers.

[sergeantsailorman]

Nice dredge. For kayaks they sell some strap on two wheel rigs for transporting kayaks to the water and back. I wonder if two of those, one on each side, on one end of your dredge would allow you to pick up the other end and walk the dredge like a wheel barrel from your truck to the water, then unstrap them to work the dredge. Might work, and help a lot when it's a long ways, and down hill to the water.