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  • Is This Illegal Gold Mining?
    Gold mining in parts of the world has been made completely illegal. And the local government is turning its sights on hobby gold miners here in Victoria Australia. Will they ban gold mining all together?
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Комментарии • 995

  • @VoGusProspecting
    @VoGusProspecting  10 месяцев назад +104

    My latest video copped a copy right for a song that has some seriously complex usage rights. Because of this I have removed it from viewing, re-edited it and now have re released it with updated music.
    It's probably going to absolutely destroy the views on it. Making this video cost more than it'll make back.
    If you could drop a comment and a like if you've already seen it. And a share to outside social media goes A LONG WAY. I'd really appreciate it! That will help increase its reach. Trying to salvage my days work here.

    • @goldpanningDutchmanjacco
      @goldpanningDutchmanjacco 10 месяцев назад +3

      Done bro

    • @1966garyh
      @1966garyh 10 месяцев назад +3

      have you thought about maybe trying to build a gravity high banker

    • @andyfunke9484
      @andyfunke9484 10 месяцев назад +2

      So that's what happened. The video disappeared from my history. I reposted my comment, and gave it another big old 👍.
      Cheers. 👋🇨🇦

    • @GoodForYou4504
      @GoodForYou4504 10 месяцев назад +2

      Ah yes, the life of a RUclipsr... 🙄

    • @chriswheeler9984
      @chriswheeler9984 10 месяцев назад +4

      Gravity system for the spray bars

  • @paddlesmcbean2366
    @paddlesmcbean2366 10 месяцев назад +25

    That is a most perverse interpretation of law. Typical, they want you to be able to do nothing.

    • @asya9493
      @asya9493 4 месяца назад

      They, ie the Victorian Socialist Government, want to stamp out anything that encourages personal independence and self sufficiency, because people who want this do not want a socialist government sticking its nose in to keep people dependent.

    • @gilbs-jb5hw
      @gilbs-jb5hw 2 месяца назад +1

      Just do it anyway lol 😂 words of wisdom

  • @666bbdoll
    @666bbdoll 10 месяцев назад +92

    Jason, at Flour Gold Wizard, had same problem. He put a hole in the bottom of one bucket (suspended over his sluice) and fill that one from another bucket to deliver a constant, equal water flow. Worked well for him.

    • @justinollis4979
      @justinollis4979 9 месяцев назад +1

      There a. Way to pump water without a motor

    • @calebkz
      @calebkz 9 месяцев назад +3

      nothing saying you can't fill your bucket with a pump... run a pump and use 2 buckets, one fills while you scoop and dump your 2nd bucket. And, use a bucket as a water hopper as said.

    • @justinollis4979
      @justinollis4979 9 месяцев назад

      @@calebkz why go through the trouble when you can just run a water line to i

    • @ste887
      @ste887 9 месяцев назад

      @@justinollis4979 ram pump, syphon, putting the end of a hose in moving water, theres a few off the top of my head,
      ram pump is just as staccato as using a bucket so that wouldn't be the best,
      syphon might be a bit slow, but a big enough tube should move enough water to make it not a problem
      taking advantage of a slow river (even better if its near a still pond youre panning) seems the easiest to me, stick a hose and funnel in the stream up river

    • @tomb816
      @tomb816 9 месяцев назад

      @@ste887 I'm with you. So many ways to use gravity or hydrostatic pressure to accomplish this. Another piece of equipment that seems to be legal would be a foot pump or type of bellows. You could easily use this under-foot, while dumping paydirt into the sluice. It could even be used to start a syphon or build pressure for a your ram pump, if you don't have enough elevation.

  • @richardoconnor7162
    @richardoconnor7162 10 месяцев назад +210

    Kris what if I tell you that a gravity water line can be made to supply that little unit. You just need for the drop of the water to be higher than the top of the unit. This is used by Moonshiners in the hills to supply running water to the Stil sites and power small water wheels. Natural drop in the Creek or making a small rock dam with a plastic liner to feed water to the top of a pipeline that will then gain water to feed your low banker set up. No Electric, no Petro pumps running just the power of gravity.

    • @FeatherHorseforge
      @FeatherHorseforge 10 месяцев назад +9

      Is that what they call a ram pump?

    • @mary-ruthflores4107
      @mary-ruthflores4107 10 месяцев назад +14

      That’s a good idea, weed growers also do this.

    • @Jake12220
      @Jake12220 10 месяцев назад +13

      Sadly this idea would be completely illegal anywhere in Australia. It's stupid, but it somehow counts as dredging or something ridiculous even though it isn't.

    • @scotthultin7769
      @scotthultin7769 10 месяцев назад +5

      Take a 5 ft section of 4in x it's amateur PVC put it in the 2 in pipe PVC and into your 5/8 garden hose to run up to your sluice box you should have enough pressure and maintain water flow as long as the creek is flowing water

    • @geoffszczypior644
      @geoffszczypior644 10 месяцев назад +22

      Bucket feed a header tank with valve use stored water when needed.

  • @danoconnell1833
    @danoconnell1833 10 месяцев назад +12

    It's been years since I wielded a gold pan. As a hobbyist like you, I valued getting out into the woods more than I did finding gold. I love your attitude and your experimental approaches!

  • @gypsyjustgypsy
    @gypsyjustgypsy 10 месяцев назад +8

    Love how informative and entertaining your channel is. Thanks for all the hard work!

  • @jamesburton8391
    @jamesburton8391 10 месяцев назад +51

    It would be interesting to see this modified to use a gravity feed system that you could fill using a hand pump or bucket before sluicing the gravel.
    This way you could control the flow of water still to try and make use of the spray bar/ a modified spray bar.
    This could allow you to sluice more gravel with less surging.

    • @jeffwilliam7500
      @jeffwilliam7500 10 месяцев назад +7

      100% I've seen what this guy had. with a stand over the top for 20L bucket with a tap.
      coulpe scoops of pay a bit of water to top up the bucket. works really well

    • @markbrown6236
      @markbrown6236 10 месяцев назад

      Exactly what I was thinking. Fill a tank and use that to power the spray bars.

    • @theshadowoftruth7561
      @theshadowoftruth7561 9 месяцев назад

      you guys stole what I just posted! You must have known in advance what I was going to write.

    • @the_omg3242
      @the_omg3242 9 месяцев назад +1

      The exact idea I was just about to suggest. I'm guessing if it's that simple a solution the government will probably make it illegal.

    • @4roryvt
      @4roryvt 9 месяцев назад

      My exact thoughts!! Could even be plugged into the same tubing the mechanical pump fed into

  • @a.b.c.adventures3484
    @a.b.c.adventures3484 10 месяцев назад +12

    I tried this myself and found a LOT of gold in the tailings. I feel like the water flow needs to be consistent to hold the gold in place.

  • @travismickelson9011
    @travismickelson9011 9 месяцев назад +8

    Ridiculous to even consider this in America. Our rights have been trampled on. Check out public lands for the people. Support them. This is the only way to go. They have miners rights and laws figured out!!

  • @vitor900000
    @vitor900000 9 месяцев назад +6

    You can channel the water from a higher elevation point using gutters.
    Or you could make/use a Hydraulic Ram Pump since its powered only by gravity.
    Let it run overnight to fill a water tank and use the stored water during the working hours.

  • @Free_Aussie
    @Free_Aussie 10 месяцев назад +6

    GoldRat Highbankers have a twin bilge pump set-up that is foot operated to supply constant flow as long as you pump it.
    My thought was to get two pump sets and make it into a "stepper machine"
    There would be no over weight miners for sure.

  • @C_Wood
    @C_Wood 10 месяцев назад +9

    I really enjoy you content chris. You are the reason I picked up this hobby. It’s the perfect hobby for relaxation and it clears your mind because it gives you something to focus on. So thank you Chris.

  • @TalRohan
    @TalRohan 10 месяцев назад +3

    I find these little experiments absolutely fascinating, great fun and cool to watch and wonder about what I can do.

  • @davidbeer
    @davidbeer 10 месяцев назад +13

    Use a water hopper to work the spray bar Chris.. (A bucket connecting straight to the pipe). Just fill the hopper with another bucket to continue the flow.

    • @digr810
      @digr810 10 месяцев назад +2

      This seems like a great idea. Same as flour gold wizards have done previously. Tempted to try it in Nz where using machinery is also illegal in public areas.

    • @jeffshackleford3152
      @jeffshackleford3152 2 месяца назад

      Or build a higher reservoir and pump water to that reservoir.

  • @markpashia7067
    @markpashia7067 10 месяцев назад +12

    Chris, thanks for the explanation. Since you did such a good job, I just let the whole thing run again without skipping the ads while I went outside for a smoke. Hope that helps and counts as a full view on this new version and a few cents for not skipping the ads. Best I can do for you mate.

    • @AndreaDingbatt
      @AndreaDingbatt 5 месяцев назад

      ❤I just did the same thing!!🙂👍

  • @fatwombat2611
    @fatwombat2611 10 месяцев назад

    Great video. I have been thinking about this problem for some time. Your video answered some things and raised more questions. Thanks for doing the experiment.

  • @danlowe
    @danlowe 9 месяцев назад +2

    Any small pump can do the work of a big pump if you use it to fill a reservoir uphill. I use a 12v aquarium pump to send water droplets up to a tank with a full size hose outlet. Still electric and not conducive to the field, but you could do the work of an aquarium pump with a handheld bicycle pump. Connect it to a basic aeroponic bivalve that allows water to leak into an air hose and you can use the air pressure to push that water where the pressure is lowest. Once you have some water uphill you can even use its weight to push air out of a second hose into the first one, reducing the amount of work you have to do with the hand pump. This method was originally popularized for aeroponic vertical gardens but the principles work for moving water anywhere. Once it's in a tank it's the same kind of gravity pressure in any water tower.

  • @davy9802
    @davy9802 10 месяцев назад +7

    if you take a garden watering can next time the holes might be perfect to wash the dirt better, been enjoying the experimenting and exploring other ways to find gold a lot great videos

  • @kayperret2417
    @kayperret2417 10 месяцев назад

    We love your content! I especially liked reading through some of the suggestions on this one. 😊

  • @stevecasvan5225
    @stevecasvan5225 10 месяцев назад +2

    Rig up a big bucket with a valve on it to constantly flow water into the box. You can alternate between refilling the bucket and feeding the material. Plus I'm pretty sure the constant Even flow would increase recovery. Thanks again! Hippie Steve from the motherlode in California.

  • @kyle-hx8qk
    @kyle-hx8qk 10 месяцев назад +3

    You have no idea how much this vid just helped me solve my latest gold dilemma.. I won't make to much public, I too am on reedy creek and my spot would get pillaged if I gave to much up.. but the inconsistent pulsy flow and distribution of black Sand vs gold in that situation just inadvertently cracked my latest creek dilemma.. I'll be out tomorrow to confirm, huge thanks mate. Love your vids and the stuff you and gadsy do.

    • @VoGusProspecting
      @VoGusProspecting  10 месяцев назад +4

      Can I come just watch. I don't care about the spot, I've got enough.

  • @cylonmk2
    @cylonmk2 10 месяцев назад +3

    Awesome vid. It makes me glad I can probably run my 6in highbanker like this if the laws change to stop the use of pumps. Have you looked at gravity water feed for the highbanker as an other option?

  • @thetechnopig2416
    @thetechnopig2416 9 месяцев назад +2

    On a river system you can use pip put under the current further upstream and have a reducer to create a higher pressure, the longer the pipe the higher the flowrate

  • @timobatana6705
    @timobatana6705 9 месяцев назад +2

    All you would have to do is set up a tiny water tower. So instead of dipping that bucket and dumping it directly into the sluice, what you should do is hook up a 5-liter reservoir directly to the sprayers but narrow in high so it has decent head pressure and keep filling up the bucket that's hooked to the sluice so it keeps a constant stream running through the sprayers

  • @foogod4237
    @foogod4237 9 месяцев назад +3

    I would wonder if you could get around the new restrictions by setting up your high-banker to drain into a large container (instead of into the river) and then set up a recirculating pump out of the container to feed water into the top (then fill up the container with water at the beginning of things using a bucket or a hand pump).
    That way, the motorized pump is not being used to take anything from anywhere (therefore cannot be called "excavation" in any sense), everything (both dirt and water) was removed and placed into the high-banker setup manually. The pump is purely moving the water around and around internally to the device.
    Arguably, might not be that much more convenient than what you're doing here, I suppose (though if you used a manual pump to pump the water up to a location higher up the bank, and then recirculated it all there, you also wouldn't have to walk as far from your excavation location to the high-banker setup...)

  • @andyfunke9484
    @andyfunke9484 10 месяцев назад +3

    Here in B.C. Canada it's illegal to use sluice boxes in creeks and rivers. That was brought a couple of years ago. High bankers are not allowed to discharge back into any body of water. Panning is still o.k.
    You may want to consider yourself fortunate...... for now.

    • @AndreaDingbatt
      @AndreaDingbatt 5 месяцев назад

      Bloody Governments are Fecking Criminals!!
      Turdue should be kicked out of office!!
      There again, ~ that goes for practically Every Politician
      Here in the UK people are being robbed by the government as well.... 70p in every £1:00 earned and then some!!

    • @KWAHU93
      @KWAHU93 3 месяца назад

      🇨🇦 = 🚽

  • @blakesolomon4286
    @blakesolomon4286 10 месяцев назад +2

    Where I live in the US it’s illegal to use pumps on the river, but this gives me inspiration to get around those rules.

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss 9 месяцев назад +1

      Where do you live? Has to be california. People need to break the rules and sue. Its dirty water its not arsenic water. Dumping it on the ground cleans the water as it rums.through the particles back into the river. There is no point in not allowing it. Its like getting mad at a man for combining water and dirt to make mud and dirty water and then dumping it back out. Nothing illegal happened you need to stop complying or we shpuld ship you bacl up with the redcoats where youll belong without your freedoms because you complied.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 10 месяцев назад

    I can see a system where you can "plug in" a yabby pump to a water system that can bring the river water to the sluice box. It might take awhile to work out the kinks but the mechanics can work.

  • @MrNigel1340
    @MrNigel1340 10 месяцев назад +6

    Hi Chris, this may not always be practical but if you have enough of a height drop in the water course a length of garden hose feeding from higher up may give enough flow to operate the high banker, could be worth experimenting with this, regards Doc Cox.

    • @Litruv
      @Litruv 9 месяцев назад

      kinda like syphoning a river ?

  • @19Philza87
    @19Philza87 10 месяцев назад +9

    Hey mate, great idea. Could be improvised/improved by using a waterfall/trickle set up. Using a valved spout in bottom of a larger bucket to give you a steady flow of water into your washer section. Idea being fill the bucket with water and should allow a few scoops through before having to top up the water in your bucket/tank. Just a thought.
    Awsome video as always amigo 👍🏻

  • @abrr2000
    @abrr2000 9 месяцев назад +1

    you could install a water tank at the top you bucket into, that feeds through a restricted nozzle and thus provides a more consistant flow of water to the top of the device.

  • @richieboy67
    @richieboy67 2 месяца назад

    Dude love the way you classify with your screen.also pan looks cool

  • @themikemason
    @themikemason 10 месяцев назад +8

    You could also rig a bucket on top of the hopper with some plumbing attachments to better control water flow. Just a thought. Sorry to hear they copyright slapped you. I have liked, shared to my Facebook, and here is my comment 😊

  • @kaznats1
    @kaznats1 9 месяцев назад

    You should consider using a Ram pump, I use one for my mountain cabin and it pumps water 300 ft uphill with a water flow rate from my pond at about 3 gallons a minute. That file of water in the river should be more than adequate to power a pump that only uses 2 one way valves and isn’t considered as a powered tool

  • @kevinroberts781
    @kevinroberts781 10 месяцев назад +1

    You could use a hand pump and a 20 gallon barrel at the top of the hill. Let the barrel feed the high banker by gravity

  • @lordhostile
    @lordhostile 4 месяца назад

    Love the vids man! cheers from Las Vegas!

  • @asjamuir5534
    @asjamuir5534 10 месяцев назад +2

    I am totally loving the new man playing style we are in atm seeing stuff made is and has gave me so much encouragement to give it ago myself next years season me and my son plan to build a sluice and make a pan or two

  • @danhodgins4015
    @danhodgins4015 8 месяцев назад

    I think this video is an indication of the future of small scale prospecting---technology for gold prospecting may starting to get simpler due to laws and environmental regulations. Things such as raised bucket reservoirs with a ball valve and hose coming off the end to regulate flow and prevent surging will become more commonplace. It might be a great opportunity for RUclips content for the creators willing to do the work. I like where you are going with this Chris, and can't wait to see what you come up with!

  • @maxwellt.v.5563
    @maxwellt.v.5563 10 месяцев назад

    Great video chris one of many ways to get around the rules top stuff

  • @caoryn
    @caoryn 10 месяцев назад +1

    I've seen a "bucket pump" setup for a highbanker where the bucket had holes in it and would be placed over the headerbox to trickle water into, and would be regularly refilled with another bucket.
    Provided you can get the holeage right in the bucket to still have enough flow for some reasonable amount of time to keep constant flow, it should allow you to get by the ecofreaks.

    • @FlourgoldWizards
      @FlourgoldWizards 10 месяцев назад +1

      You don’t say ! 🤣✌️

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss 9 месяцев назад

      That is a solution people go with where pumps are banned. Another solution is the way much gold was recovered in the 1800s, with pans and you put the highbanker in the creek so the natural flowing water pumps itself. Thats how its been done for a long time. Luckily i live in a mostly free country so I can pump water with a battery or gasoline or propane whatever you want bro its about diversification around where i live there is low water sp what we do is we bring water and have to recover it to feed it back in or else you will run out because there isnt any. The problem here is you have a dirty supply.and the nice thing about pumping from a creek and back is that the water is clearer and you can sse what youre doing bettee. In places like britain they ban prospector grade mechanical equipment that isnt industrial mining equipment and i think its to keep their people poorer.

    • @caoryn
      @caoryn 9 месяцев назад

      @@TheAnnoyingBoss
      For sure. I don't think pumps are banned per se here, at least based on how many people use them, but there's enough waterflow to just river-sluice here.
      Got a sluicebanker hybrid - sluice with adjustable length legs, and that works reasonably well. 🙂

  • @bobbyhicks7972
    @bobbyhicks7972 10 месяцев назад

    Your ingenuity and diligence is inspiring!

  • @captain-hayward
    @captain-hayward 10 месяцев назад

    I would recommend a foot pump for a manual pump. Just like the kind we use on a boat for the sink. That will free up your hands to do the work you need to do. A foot pump will build enough pressure to you through your spray jets.

  • @KeefsCattys
    @KeefsCattys 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent video. Thoroughly enjoyed

  • @armata143
    @armata143 9 месяцев назад

    If you're looking for an effective pump that you can make yourself that requires no power, check out spiral pumps! Whether you put paddles to allow the flow of the stream to turn it or rig it up to turn it manually, you may be able to get an effective amount of water through without the need of an electrical/combustion pump

  • @rossgee2950
    @rossgee2950 10 месяцев назад

    That was a fun sidestep from the usual and useful, to boot!

  • @williamopry7967
    @williamopry7967 9 месяцев назад

    A large water blivet (rubber bag) uphill would allow for constant flow without any power. Fill with a bucket, run a hose down to high bank, go down and run till the water runs out.

  • @albertcab
    @albertcab 10 месяцев назад

    Hello, I tell you:
    I use a 25 liter bucket with a 1 inch hole in the bottom and made a stand for it to sit on top of the high bench.
    It works wonderfully and if there are two people or more, one can take care of filling the bucket and thus the stream of water is continuous.
    This support is 30cm above the high bench

  • @StonerSmurfin
    @StonerSmurfin 9 месяцев назад

    I could see this also being useful for areas without good flowing water for a sluice box.

  • @PhilipLeitch
    @PhilipLeitch 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for the update because i missed this at first.

  • @toddstarling5214
    @toddstarling5214 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for sharing Chris.

  • @johnfenwick8129
    @johnfenwick8129 10 месяцев назад

    good to know bucketing works, very keen to see if your hand operated bilge pump works to when you get it

  • @garyrogers6761
    @garyrogers6761 10 месяцев назад +1

    As I was going to say\type\comment on the video that I previously watched 😁earlier today, could you try a 'Stirrup' pump ? the type of pump that has a leg that hooks over the side of a bucket and has a 'D' handle to pull\push up and down to operate the pump. It operates on the Up and the Down strokes and the good ones were made of brass. Glad I was too lazy to comment 😁on the first go around ! Keep up the great work Chris and thanks for your effort, that's from an ' Ole 55 ' model Nth Queenslander.

  • @seanburke997
    @seanburke997 9 месяцев назад +1

    I know absolutely nothing about any of this, this just popped up in my timeline, but this is fascinating

  • @windryder76
    @windryder76 9 месяцев назад

    Howdy, great information and camera work. I look forward to your videos. Question do you happen to have a link or a material link to the driving riffles used in the top there?

  • @NoneStar
    @NoneStar 9 месяцев назад

    Cool looking system, would be interesting to see a hand powered pump setup or maybe something with a bike.

  • @ranchero50
    @ranchero50 10 месяцев назад +1

    Foot bilge pump would work a charm and placing an old bed sheet under the wire mesh would make it easier to capture the sized material vs. a bucket mouth. Cheers

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss 9 месяцев назад

      The king has his miners at the same level of technology as the amish bro

  • @alanbain5779
    @alanbain5779 10 месяцев назад

    Mechanical excavation and water pumps, does it state specifically gas and or electrical pumps?
    A ram pump doesn't use either. You could setup a ram pump, if you had the correct conditions, to fill a a large barrel or two. Then use that water to run the high banker. The barrels can be filled days ahead of when you would need it. Ram pumps are slow, but only require a short fall in water to work.
    The ram pump will have a 1:7 ratio of feet of head to lift.
    1 foot of fall at the inlet will lift the water 7 feet high.
    How high would you need a gravity tank of water to run the high banker? How much water would you need to run the high banker for an hour?
    Just a random thought.

  • @christopherstaples6758
    @christopherstaples6758 10 месяцев назад

    @1:40 just use a Ram Pump its operated from water flow ... and you could use a funnel and spray bar to stop the surges (funnel to restrict the flow rate and bar to spread it out )

  • @johnmeneice
    @johnmeneice 10 месяцев назад

    uk has very similar rules Thanks for this video keep up the great work

  • @matthewhopkins7042
    @matthewhopkins7042 10 месяцев назад +1

    The stupidest part is a high banker into a settling pool is FAR better for the waterway than a river sluice. But the same law makers who want us to blow material down river also want us to smash rocks to bits rather than yabby pump under them.

  • @DiggerAlton
    @DiggerAlton 10 месяцев назад +1

    You're gonna figure it out Chris. Look into the water hopper idea, sounds plausible, two people should be able to keep it moving along and find lots of gold 😀

  • @petertseglakof4568
    @petertseglakof4568 10 месяцев назад

    Like others say - gravity water line or siphone from into high banker won't be high volume however not mechanical. Keep up the good work!

  • @seasonallyferal1439
    @seasonallyferal1439 10 месяцев назад

    I've always wondered if you could use a length of corrugated drainage pipe with a scoop on the front to use the rivers water flow to act as a dredge.

  • @tstellar4190
    @tstellar4190 9 месяцев назад

    set up a water reservoir above the sluice with a valve so that you can use the the proper flow to clean your material.

  • @jasonstatham5879
    @jasonstatham5879 9 месяцев назад

    I wonder if you set a larger bucket above it, with a pipe coming out and an adjustable valve to control the flow, and just kept filling the bucket (manually) so it's a more consistent flow and not splashing?

  • @EverDarkness147
    @EverDarkness147 9 месяцев назад

    could you connect the sprinklers with a bucket on top to manuelly fill with water. maybe put a sponge or something in the connection to slow the water down. the additional bucket then can be filled with a foot pump or a spiral to get the water up.

  • @james13914
    @james13914 10 месяцев назад +1

    Could always rig up a system where you pedal it and you can chuck a bucket of dirt in a hopper and water in a pump and water container all connected to chain drive where you just chill and pedal it or something. And also for the separation screen put a tarp under it so you don't miss as much dirt?

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss 9 месяцев назад

      I think a smarter idea is to not peddle or do and hand pumping and instead you get like a small plaform that when tou step on it it starts going down and pulling a suction from a river using your body weight and the. You save all tohr energy for the panning and digging bro. But i live in usa its very easy to just connect a cpuple.wires to a battery and a pump and now your water is running

  • @therealdoomsage
    @therealdoomsage 9 месяцев назад

    Put a small rain water tank on a stand above the sift thingy, use powered pump to fill rain water tank, turn on tap.
    Every holes a goal, my favourite is the loop hole.

  • @huntinfishin7214
    @huntinfishin7214 10 месяцев назад

    Love the content keep doing what you're doing 👍 👏 also could you utilise one of those solar camp shower bags as a water supply use the tap to control the water flow plus they roll up and weigh sweet bugger all

  • @jackass123455
    @jackass123455 9 месяцев назад

    think of the water as dirt the "pump" is excavating the water. but something to consider is nothing is stopping you from setting up a water reserve higher than your "highbanker" and using gravity to feed the water into the plumbing via a siphon or gravity fed tank

  • @lordhostile
    @lordhostile 4 месяца назад

    with sites that have streams/rivers you can use a coil of hose on a waterwheel to make a water pump using the streams power pump the water to a bucket above the highbanker

  • @gunnarrandersen9492
    @gunnarrandersen9492 4 месяца назад

    This is an awesome way to innovate the thought process and come up with new Ideas to solve the problems for Many

  • @greybushthegreat2391
    @greybushthegreat2391 10 месяцев назад +2

    I have a suggestion, try making a water hopper to gravity feed the water to your spray bars. Love your videos bro, keep up the good work

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss 9 месяцев назад

      I stopped feeling bad for the slaves in britain. Stuck always following orders and complying

  • @trevdyer173
    @trevdyer173 10 месяцев назад

    What size hose runs between your pump and the highbanker? I have a good idea for a gravity feeder

  • @Bassbean777
    @Bassbean777 10 месяцев назад

    You should add a 5 gallon bucket with a spicket to control the flow, you shovel have a friend keep feeding the bucket water. Or even a 20 or 30 gallon pail or tub

  • @weedfreer
    @weedfreer 10 месяцев назад

    You could try fitting a pipe with sprayers and a large funnel with a wide discharge spout in place of the pump to feed into the sprayer tubes...so, at least you could control the rate of flow.
    You'd need someone feeding the large funnel and a way of supporting it in the right position though.
    Hmm, perhaps you could get one of the large silicon/rubber buckets from a garden centre, put a hole in the base, get yourself a bath plug-hole plumbing fitting and use a piece of thin plywood or a couple of squares of neoprene rubber with a hole cut into it to accept the bath plug-hole fitting and then use some silicone glue to secure the plug fitting + plywood or neoprene rubber squares to the hole in the base of the bucket.
    Then tighten up the fitting to apply pressure to it and attach an appropriate width of pipe to the drainage part of the plug-hole fitting.
    Then, build a frame which will allow you to suspend the the bucket beneath it and then use the plug fitting + drainage pipe to pull it down in the centre to make a funnel shape using your sprayer pipe to attach it into and maintain the stretch in the bucket created by pulling it downwars.
    If only you have some mug who'd be cool filling the bucket over and over as you shovelled dirt into the bottom.
    Hmmmm
    🤔

  • @KB-yn7up
    @KB-yn7up 10 месяцев назад

    ever thought of putting a tarp or some extra collection mat under your horizontal/ tilted screen classifier to help collect your sieved dirt, just so you don't have to scrape it off the ground that missed the bucket. meat scoops are good but work smarter not harder. ;)

  • @Grimfest14
    @Grimfest14 9 месяцев назад

    possible improvement. attach a portable water tank above that you can quickly dump 2-3, 5 gallon buckets full of water (with a spigot) that gravity feeds the high bank.

  • @watchvideos9104
    @watchvideos9104 10 месяцев назад

    You need a bucket water reserve (a bucket with a hole to control the water output and flow into the box, will speed up time and more efficient

  • @MasamuneX
    @MasamuneX 10 месяцев назад

    you could just use a very very long hose with high elevation to gravity feed water to the highbanker. will only work with areas with pretty good slopes though or just an even bigger hose

  • @unknownunknown7107
    @unknownunknown7107 9 месяцев назад

    Use the pump to fill the bucket with a manual valve out to turn the flow off and on. put the bucket higher so it's gravity fed.

  • @MrEddiecos
    @MrEddiecos 10 месяцев назад

    G'day mate, just as some of the previous commenters have mentioned place a bucket with a hose and valve to control water flow to the spray bar but use the bilge pump to fill the bucket instead, technically your suppling water to the high banker via a bucket not a mechanical pump. Cheers mate.

  • @haileydee9954
    @haileydee9954 10 месяцев назад +1

    it's really wild that they consider a little highbanker pump as some huge mechanical advantage. Next they won't let you drive your car to the spot because it has a motor!

    • @JasperKlijndijk
      @JasperKlijndijk 10 месяцев назад

      Prospecters are destroying the river banks, it's about the amount of material you prospect. With a pump you can proces more as Chris always says.

    • @ilouse
      @ilouse 10 месяцев назад

      @@JasperKlijndijkdo you know that annual floods reset all the workings of the modern day gold hunter.. all this talk about bank erosion from a shovel compared to a natural flood is just silly mate. Every year for the past 7 years I’ve been out on the creeks and rivers of nsw, they have changed naturally and all the modern workings are gone, reset… now talk about all the lead and mercury we all pull out from the waterways.. yeh nah we trash the place.. 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @paulwindholz2016
    @paulwindholz2016 9 месяцев назад

    Question that could be helpful if you were to put a hopper on the sprayers and fed a bucket into that you might be able to brake up the clay with the bucket method.

  • @haroldishoy2113
    @haroldishoy2113 10 месяцев назад

    In the mainland USA the restrictions are worsening by each edition of the fish and minerals guidebook. A member in my prospecting club uses a 1 liter stainless kitchen ladle for bailing water into his handmade rocker box. He switches between miners moss and burlap for authenticity.

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss 9 месяцев назад

      Here in usa we have a lot more freedom than both the canadians and brits when it comes to prospecting but yes the restrictions are growing luckily. In usa we have the power to revolt

  • @user-zk4sn4ji1t
    @user-zk4sn4ji1t 10 месяцев назад

    Hi Chris,
    I love your very informative videos! I live in Warrandyte and prospect, in legally, Parks Vic designated areas quite often. I have also recently purchased a sluice and highbanker that I can run on the same battery operated water pump, so for me, this really sucks, and it is the the first time I've heard about the banning of the use of such pumps in Warrandyte. Is this now in writing anywhere?
    Cheers.😀

  • @evapho2745
    @evapho2745 9 месяцев назад

    What if you could control the water flow by having a having a larger tank/ bucket elevated above the high banker and with a valve for on/off and to fine tune how much water is flowing through. Fill your tank and be able to control how fast your water flows.

  • @gameplaycast
    @gameplaycast 10 месяцев назад +1

    gravity high-bankers are a known thing... people use hard and flex pipes to feed water from up stream, they have been doing this sense the OG gold rushes...

  • @prospectpat
    @prospectpat 9 месяцев назад

    In British Columbia a sluice and a highbanker are both only allowed to be run on a placer claim. Now, I am still new to this I don’t have a claim… yet - I can’t wait to try highbanking after running a friends sluice box, good video bro.

  • @Whiffskie
    @Whiffskie 10 месяцев назад

    Dude! I love your work!

  • @ha7rpy
    @ha7rpy 9 месяцев назад

    Could you use a normal water hose using the technique we use to move water from one bucket to another? Like a fishtank?

  • @alexkitner5356
    @alexkitner5356 10 месяцев назад

    Guess I'm not the first but will also suggest rigging a bucket with ball valve and some vinyl hose. Youd be able to adjust the water flow to suit a consistent even flow so you eliminate the surging and can keep a good pattern from the spray bar. Depending on height above the sluice that you set up the water reservior you could manage the water pressure, half a pound per foot of elevation so you could again have an even flow and pressure to suit your needs in any given soil/gravel conditions.

  • @rabiehellan147
    @rabiehellan147 9 месяцев назад

    Use a reservoire (another bucket) on top of the Toy to feed water regularly and smoothly, connect the reservoir to where the pump used to be

  • @RalphlConant-he4ht
    @RalphlConant-he4ht 7 месяцев назад +2

    What if you had a long pipe upstream would that be considered mechanical cuz then you could make a suction dredge

  • @fatwombat2611
    @fatwombat2611 10 месяцев назад

    I think a vibrating feeding tray you could put a whole bucket in and a longer thinner sluice with a large flat reseviour that has baffles to prevent surges could be the answer. With such a thing you could unload the bucket of wash dirt then just concentrate in keeping water up to it.

    • @roosterqmoney
      @roosterqmoney 9 месяцев назад

      A vibrating tray is a machine. Ie mechanical

    • @fatwombat2611
      @fatwombat2611 9 месяцев назад

      @@roosterqmoney yes. So even if its not used for actually digging ? I thought thats what the main issue is Back to cradles I guess.

  • @jimmy_kirk
    @jimmy_kirk 10 месяцев назад

    What if you use a ram pump to fill the highbanker? It doesn't use an electric or diesel motor, only water pressure.

  • @shardj5151
    @shardj5151 9 месяцев назад

    You can make a wirtz pump water wheel combo out of a coiled hose pretty easily: carry that with you, plop it in the water with some height adjustment, feed the hose to your high banker (is that the spelling?).
    You might need a couple of them, but it should still work I think?

  • @crazypete3759
    @crazypete3759 9 месяцев назад

    Can you bring a 55 gallon drum and set it up at a higher elevation and use that as a gravity feed system? connect some hoses and a valve and you can run a lot more material in one go. I also wonder if this can be a loophole for the pump? use the pump to fill the reservoir... it would not be feeding the rig directly

  • @FollowMe2aMillion
    @FollowMe2aMillion 10 месяцев назад +1

    A couple ideas Chris. A stationary bucket above the hopper with holes drilled in it, then just fill the bucket. Or a pressure tank sort of using compressed air to push the water. That should hurt your brain for about 20 minutes. Thanks for the videos.

  • @wiskijack
    @wiskijack 10 месяцев назад

    Flour Gold Wizard in USA runs a pail above highbanker, with a hose, then fills bucket with a second bucket