Testing Gold Fluid Bed Nugget Bucket DIY - 1/8 Classification on the Creek
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Here is me testing out the homemade Nugget Bucket Fluid Bed classifying with 1/2", 1/4" and 1/8" classifiers. Shows the collection tray fluid bed in action as well as the pros and cons of this one vs the original one.
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I think you made a good video , informative and eye pleasing 🍺
Thanks Flour Gold, much appreciative. It is always good to hear that! :) Thanks for checking it out, and subscribing.🍺
Nice DIY nugget bucket! Welcome to YFRC!
Thanks appreciate it. Thanks for watching!
First welcome to the YFRC mate. Great demo of the nugget bucket. I have never used one but i don"t use pans either i either Snipe or high bank for gold but that looks like it gets the job done for what your allowed to do, Cheers Brad
Thanks Tazzie, glad to be aboard. Yea I like to switch it up. Sometimes sluice, use this and other things. I really just like making things and testing them to try and find better or different methods to keep from getting bored! :) Thanks for checking it out!
Welcome aboard as well to the club
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Great video!
Thanks, much appreciated.
@CDC Gold Prospecting , I built a 7 Gallon nugget bucket with 9 screens. Yes i did your ideas except the small funnel section. I have the ability to mix up the screen sizes. and with our collection bowl you can put a lid on it & replace it and carry on. Yes the water flow is the key to this system. Also think about an old military duffle bag to carry your bucket system. peace out.
Awesome Todd, great to hear you made one too. How did the 7 gallon design work out? I bet it helped with not having to bend over as far. Interesting deign with 9 screens. So I assume that is going pretty small with classification.
I made some bucket classifiers that worked fast and well, so started pre-classifying with 1/2" and 1/4" and started to only use 1/8" screen on the nugget bucket. I felt it was a little easier because you didn't have to fill it up as high with water, meaning less bending over to pick up buckets of water.
Good idea about the duffel bag, that would make it much easier to carry around. Thank for letting me know you built one Todd!
Looks like the 1/8" classification worked well. Impressive that your secondary collection tray didn't catch anything as it was all caught in the fluid bed! In the area I'm in we don't have much clay, so I dry classify using a 1/2 inch wire cooling rack over a 5 gallon bucket angled slightly to the side - sort of like a bucket grizzly where the biggest stuff just rolls off on its own. This is faster than using a standard classifier right above a bucket as I can use my hands to push material inward using the wire cooling rack. Seems like the water going through your funnel doesn't have pressure that is as even and strong as the original. Not sure why as you used the smaller funnel to concentrate the flow. Thanks for sharing, and would love to see more of these videos. Also - a quick note for improvement - would be great to hear the audio from the creek as I found the music a bit distracting and it doesn't really add anything to the presentation. Well done CDC!
Hey Dan, Thanks for checking it out. yea the 1/8" classified usually ketches the gold. My testing with just classifying down to a 1/4", is where the 2nd collection tray comes in handy. Some times those small pieces will blow out when you do it that way, but the 2nd one ketches them. I plan on putting up a vid of me testing that way too.
Wow that type of classifying seems like it would be a lot easier. I will probably try to make some better methods of pre classifying to allow me to move more material.
Yep I've gotten the funnel to have just enough pressure so it doesn't blow out too much stuff, about like the original. Since my little funnel is higher up the concentration might not be as consistent looking as the original. When I had a smaller size with a longer spout on the smaller funnel, it looked more like the original ones water flow. But I am not overly concerned with what the stream looks like from the funnel but more interested in that it is working.
My first testing I didn't use the little funnel to slow down the flow and it was just dumping water out the spout. by the end it blew out almost all of the material in the 1st collection tray except for maybe 1/8" of material in the container. That is why I added the smaller funnel, so I could reduce the pressure. I started smaller than it is now and slowly kept making it bigger until I got to a point where I thought it seemed about right. Took a little bit of testing to get it that way haha...
Yea about the music, I was wondering if people would get bored just having nothing going on in the background, especially if it is a long clip. However, with this video though, I used two cameras and one had a waterproof case on it, so it really did not have any audio. Also sometimes when you speed up a clip by 2x and 3x it ends up sounding a little funny after being sped up. But I will keep that suggestion in mind for the future. Thanks again for watching Dan!
I’d classify wet submerged in another bucket first then feed this like a sluice pouring water in as needed
That is actually a really great Idea. I started do something similar but only classified the 1/2" and 1/4" but still used the 1/8" classifier in the nugget bucket. Your way might be easier! Thanks for the tips!
Don't you have a battery operated pump to bring up the water for your classifying operation? Could always use a foot pump to pump up water.
Yea I do have an electric pump but they are not allowed there. No gas or electric pumps. I did think about using a foot pump, like they use for boats. But they didn't seem to flow much water when I was looking into getting one. I might be able to just build a small pvc type pump that attaches to the side, that you can use to pump water up with. I'll have to think on it. :)
Hey what kind of shovel is that. #yfrc
Hey Bj, good question. That is a Bully Tools Box Trenching shovel --> amzn.to/2BjmmpA . it is pretty cool. They make that narrow one like I was using and a little wider one. I kinda wish I would had gotten the wider one. But I still like it. I made a review video talking about it if you want to check it out. ruclips.net/video/kti4ioPrZEM/видео.html
Anybody willing to get out here and work like this gets a sub from me.
What I have been working on myself is a screening setup to really speed the classifying process up. The choke point is classifying and that sucks.
Thanks for watching it and subscribing, really appreciate it. Yea classifying can be the part that takes up some time. I also have been working on making that faster. Made some bucket classifiers that work pretty good recently. Cheers!
You spending far to much time washing your coarse material.
Volume will yield higher amounts.
Yea good point. I ended up kind of realizing that too. This was sort of the first time testing it out. Was also trying to come up with better ideas on getting a constant flow of water in the bucket with out having to keep filling up buckets of water to keep pouring in. Electric pump is the easiest, but where I was those are not allowed, so I thought about making a gravity hose using a bucket with a hose attached to it feeding the fast current water into the hose pushing it into the bucket at a constant flow.