Ive been using the same thing for 20yrs up here in B.C. canada. People thought i was nuts but i have found lots of gold its easy to carry through the bush and best of all it works...
For the folks who think finding tiny flakes is a waste of time: Read a book. You clearly don't grasp the basic concept of prospecting or GRAVITY. Finding color in your pan tells you that somewhere upstream there is a source of gold. Keep panning upstream until you suddenly stop finding gold. Somewhere between your last productive pan and your first empty pan lies Mr. Pocket. Prospecting is all about finding Mr. Pocket. Each one of you who think Stooony is wasting his time mean one less idiot looking for Mr. Pocket, and that's just fine with us regular prospectors. What is the difference between a miner and a prospector? The miner has found Mr. Pocket while the prospector is following his trail.
Guessing you had a bunch of flakes smaller than that which were lost. Prob need to scuff it up with sandpaper, add some moss or Velcro right after the mouth, then maybe put a curve in the middle and add some more moss or Velcro again at that spot. Also, it looked like the water may have been moving a little aggressively. Still, I LOVE the idea! Especially if you can use a telescoping material, making it highly portable for hiking into the mountains. Thanks for sharing, hope you’ve continued the good work.
The beauty how it is you can have 10 of these sitting there in the Stream 10 Scoops in by the time you come back to the first one it will have finished. And you'll have 10 times as much gold produced the same amount of time plus well River does its work on the snail you can do the painting of the concentrated stuff. Your time by a factor of 10. And your income by a factor of 10
I LOVE your idea. I have been prospecting for gold for about 40 years. Great Ideas like this are what make prospecting so much fun. I read the comments over the years since you posted this. A bunch of haters sitting at home. You are the one breathing the fresh air. Its not about the gold I find, but the time I had looking for it. ( except the gold is realllly nice)I am planning on making one of these asap with a little tweeks. Keep prospecting its the only way you find it!!!!! P.S..> you need to come to Montana, we have great streams for this. ( guarantee more then one flake)
You're having fun and not hurting a soul and maybe getting a little gold too,, more power to ya,, years ago back in the 80's when my kids were little went panning and dredging with some family friends for the weekend got some very nice jewelers gold n a sore backs lol but had fun ,, !
I have used this little gem great idea and you know what it really does work. catches really fine gold to nuggets. The water flow must be as fast as posible. Thanks for the upload
Nice work man! Good thinking with the spikes too. For everyone commenting on how it's not a lot of gold - let's see you go get some free gold. If it was easy to get a bunch, gold would be cheap!
I've been looking into sluicing for fun. I'm a contractor, so I was thinking of building my own as a basic starter sluice that's easily portable. This is exactly how I was envisioning it with the corrugated drain pipe split in half.
I'm a maintenence worker also and have access to hose like this. I'm a noob haven't even panned yet but I think they might be in the works for xmas. I think if you had a less agressive water flow and maybe a way to add miners moss you might be on to something
South Africa says hello. Perfect. Thank you. I am going to build a snail for myself and then i have something to do when the fishing is a bit slow TGC Blessings in abundance:)
Good for you my friend. When God created this planet he put a finite amount of the element gold on it. The Bible clearly talks about a universal principal called reaping and sowing. When you do the work you get the reward. It’s good to see someone that enjoys doing work. My kids and I live on the Tittabawassee river in Michigan. They grew up watching Gold Rush. You’ve inspired me take up a new hobby.
hi nice vid i live in british columbia canada we are not allowed to use river sluices but i have used 6 inch big O pipe cut in half lengthwise for a high banker i reckon its great the sluice run off goes onto a letrap sluice just as a back up but very little gold gets that far ...cheap easy to make everyone should use one thanks mickey miner
i made a homemade sluice out of flat under ground gutter catches they are like corrigated pipe only flat its found me and my friends gold... they are about $8 at lowes in the gutter isle ... your cam was abit jerky made it hard to follow the epic hat cam is awesome for cutting that extra movement out, but over all nice vid
I just made 3 of those out of black piping. Too bad I gotta wait 2 - 3 months to try it out. I had this pipe all summer and didn't know what to do with it, til now. It took me 15 minutes for 1, cause I didn't cut the pipe in half, I made 4 X 20 inch holes to see what's going on. I got alot of dirt to move, now I know how without breaking your back.
We call this a poopshoot in Oregon. They work great for cleaning up cons but if you are really looking for gold get yourself something that can handle more than a spoonful at a time.
Good job. Looks like a lot of fun. We call that type of sluice a "poop-sluice" cause some people make them out of flexible septic pipe. Thanks for the good vid.
Interesting....cool idea!! You might want to correct your credits, however, to "Starring", instead of "Staring"...Chris the Prospector...you do have an interesting 'stare', but you are definitely the Star of this show!! I want one!!
great video been using a poop tube for years for cleaning up concentrates and they work great. keep it up! I screw mine into plywood, build a 3sided box for it helps keep in in place without the stakes,
what is preventing the flake gold from being washed away...because airplane wings are heavier then air but they fly because of the surface resistance forces...there is no "calm" place for them to hide after they drop out...i like the idea but maybe you could put a bead or caulk or something for the gold to hide behind or maybe the same style with like virdee said with some velcro at the bottom of the riffles
the only REAL way to test is to put some actual gold into your gravel and have it run into a "safety" pan in case you lose some and weigh it before and after it should be the same
How did u cut ur snail? I've got one an I'm not sure how to go about cutting it. I have a Roto zip with a cutting wheel but I don't want to destroy my snail. My local department stores don't carry this style
I also don't want to offend anyone, because I agree, it seems to be a great idea, that possibly could be perfected in some way, to catch more gold. My only issue was the fact that it would take a life time to pay for the 10$ piece of corrugated pipe, if you can only catch one little spec after what, maybe an hours worth of time. Maybe it would work in an area that actually had some gold, so that's why i'm not knocking the idea at all. He just seemed to be really excited over the one little spec after all that time invested.
No offense taken HuntnGamecock as I have thick skin lol. In my defense when I made this video back in 2012 I had just started prospecting so yes I was excited to find even just a speck. Where I am at here in Ohio there is not much gold to speak of so you are correct in saying that it would take a lifetime to pay for that pipe. My only problem now is that I recently bought a small suction dredge and that's going to take 1000 lifetimes to pay for. I really need to move. Thanks for watching and the comment none the less.
stooony1380 If you enjoy gold hunting as a hobby, it don't matter how much you find....the enjoyment is in the hunt. Keep up the good work, a nugget could be just a scoop away.
***** Yeah, if he wanted money, he probably gets more money from the ads on youtube, than from the gold. Never mind building a waterwheel and selling off the electricity. But as a hobby, it makes much more sense.
Funny thing about gravity is it is a theory...Easy concept to grasp is a thing called bouancy..if it's lighter than air it floats, if it is heavier than air..u get the picture. But your snail sluce invention is amazing my friend.
Gravity is tremendously easy to grasp if you have even the slightest bit of knowledge about space time topology. Stretch a piece of fabric over a bucket so it’s as loose as possible but appears flat. Secure it with rope or bungee chords. Put a rock in the middle that’s heavy enough to make it sag but not fall through. Toss some bb’s or tiny rocks on it, and watch them “fall” towards the big rock. That’s basically how gravity works. You even used gravity to model gravity. a theory isn’t a hypothesis. One is an informed prediction, the other is proven by attacking it relentlessly with repeatably PREDICTABLE results. That’s why science works. It’s competitive, and everyone is literally trying to PROVE everyone else wrong. There is always another team somewhere in the world trying to prove you wrong for money, prizes, tenure, or recognition. There is never a team somewhere trying to prove you right, there’s no reward in that.
very cool snail! I use a gutter sluice sometimes, I made a top tube classifier that I've been refining that uses a slit along the bottom of a tube and a spraybar to run non classified material. I'll go work on it a bit today and post a vid soon. Sub my channel! i do a lot of cheap gold projects
Jimi-ray grotenhuis i love gold prospecting, very fun! im doing a scale gold prospecting rig soon! i already made a few miniature sluices and gold pans.... i plan on doing a dredge trailer too, and all sorts of gold recovery on mini scale for our RC's! I've found a gram of gold so far in the hills near where i live in California
Hey bud dont even pay v that v guy any attention he bashes everyones videos, great little sluice, and it makes it even more exciting being that you made it yourself. It's a hobby not a get rich deal. People waste thousands a year on hobbies golf etc... and are not going to see a profit , atleast you have a chance to see and little return on your efforts if you hit a lil pay streak. Take care.
A pooptube sluice! Love it. Have you used a heat gun to straighten out the "mouth"? Best kind of color is the color that sits in your pan at the end of the day.
That's a nice idea, I've seen others similar made but yours should work good. Where do you live anyway? you don't seem to have much gold in your creeks so I'm just wondering. If you were to nail it to a thin board so it laid flatter it should work best and not add weight to it but it would no longer fit in the bag. Just my 2 cents
so what makes a man to take a down spout end piece and take it to a creek and play in the mud but you know it looks like fun think ill make some stuff too and try it out
think the best test you can do to see if one sluice is better then the other is running the sluice to be tested in front of a allready proven sluice (putting them so the offall runs from one sluice intoo the other) if theres colour in the proven sluice it means that the sluice youre testing doesnt catch all the cold being run through it the idea could work but i think the rifflepart needs to be flatter and wider , i think you still runing a lot of the gold out the end you can make a regulair sluice fit a dufflebag by making it from pvc gutter pieces fit one intoo the other and tape them together with gaffa tape then run a roll of miners moss over it and then some small sheets of corugated mesh same length as the pieces of gutter prolly could hold everything down with some copper wire run through holes in the pvc and twisted together prolly need to experiment a littje with angle and maibe riffles to controll the waterflow but i think it would work better than wat youre using now yes it works but think of the time you spend shoveling the dirt ontoo it and the worth of the speck of gold
Why not call it the Millipede trap? We have some black and yellow Millipede critters over here in Washington that when curled up, look just like your Green Weenie trap!
Where do you get that stuff? i wanna make one.Nevermind its a vinyl downspout thanks! Great Vid! put some miners moss in a few or those ridges as well. :)
Do you still use this sluice? It would be interesting to take the sand out of each quarter of the sluice, or each third of the sluice and pan them separately. I would think most of the gold would be in the first two-thirds to three-quarters of the sluice and not much at the end. if there is a lot of gold in the last quarter of the sluice, you may be losing gold as those ripples fill up. You're probably better off with a well designed sluice.
I seen a old timer in bc up in Canada backpack way back into this river he got the most gold out of three others with that very set the others was making many trips Bringing in there sluses
How about putting an ounce of gold in a bucket of material then mixing it up and then run it through your new sluice to see if it is catching all it can? Test it before you trust it. Just like you would a newly cut key. You have heard don't count your chickens before they hatch. Well, how about a review before you count your nuggets? I will watch that before considering to build or buy one of your snail. Don't mean to be a negative nelly. Just looking for a good sluice. Thanks for Posting.
I feel like maybe if you slow the flow a bit when you first dump in the dirt it would be more effective... everyone knows gold is heavy and sinks fast but not if there's clay and sand stuck to it... anyways awesome idea I'm gonna go make this myself
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Ive been using the same thing for 20yrs up here in B.C. canada. People thought i was nuts but i have found lots of gold its easy to carry through the bush and best of all it works...
For the folks who think finding tiny flakes is a waste of time: Read a book. You clearly don't grasp the basic concept of prospecting or GRAVITY. Finding color in your pan tells you that somewhere upstream there is a source of gold. Keep panning upstream until you suddenly stop finding gold. Somewhere between your last productive pan and your first empty pan lies Mr. Pocket. Prospecting is all about finding Mr. Pocket. Each one of you who think Stooony is wasting his time mean one less idiot looking for Mr. Pocket, and that's just fine with us regular prospectors. What is the difference between a miner and a prospector? The miner has found Mr. Pocket while the prospector is following his trail.
If you say so
Master Of Zero
My "say so" has nothing to do with simple physics.
one question if your hunting for gold and you find none do you go up or down stream
A walk in nature go down
CrucifyRobinHood too true
Thanks! People like me on a really tight budget very much appreciate the cheap and easy equipment videos!
Simple and portable, what a great idea !...Good luck bro!
Guessing you had a bunch of flakes smaller than that which were lost.
Prob need to scuff it up with sandpaper, add some moss or Velcro right after the mouth, then maybe put a curve in the middle and add some more moss or Velcro again at that spot. Also, it looked like the water may have been moving a little aggressively.
Still, I LOVE the idea! Especially if you can use a telescoping material, making it highly portable for hiking into the mountains. Thanks for sharing, hope you’ve continued the good work.
Holy_Hand_Grenade-of-Antioch Something else to add during build. Thanks.
The beauty how it is you can have 10 of these sitting there in the Stream 10 Scoops in by the time you come back to the first one it will have finished. And you'll have 10 times as much gold produced the same amount of time plus well River does its work on the snail you can do the painting of the concentrated stuff. Your time by a factor of 10. And your income by a factor of 10
I LOVE your idea. I have been prospecting for gold for about 40 years. Great Ideas like this are what make prospecting so much fun. I read the comments over the years since you posted this. A bunch of haters sitting at home. You are the one breathing the fresh air. Its not about the gold I find, but the time I had looking for it. ( except the gold is realllly nice)I am planning on making one of these asap with a little tweeks. Keep prospecting its the only way you find it!!!!! P.S..> you need to come to Montana, we have great streams for this. ( guarantee more then one flake)
You're having fun and not hurting a soul and maybe getting a little gold too,, more power to ya,, years ago back in the 80's when my kids were little went panning and dredging with some family friends for the weekend got some very nice jewelers gold n a sore backs lol but had fun ,, !
Thank you for sharing an Awwwesome video!
I live in Butte county so I can't wait to try out the Snail! 💰
I have used this little gem great idea and you know what it really does work. catches really fine gold to nuggets. The water flow must be as fast as posible. Thanks for the upload
Nice work man! Good thinking with the spikes too. For everyone commenting on how it's not a lot of gold - let's see you go get some free gold. If it was easy to get a bunch, gold would be cheap!
Thank you for this great idea. How simple. Money saver.
I've been looking into sluicing for fun. I'm a contractor, so I was thinking of building my own as a basic starter sluice that's easily portable. This is exactly how I was envisioning it with the corrugated drain pipe split in half.
Looks like it started as a flexible downspout extension from the hardware store.
nice video.
I'm a maintenence worker also and have access to hose like this. I'm a noob haven't even panned yet but I think they might be in the works for xmas. I think if you had a less agressive water flow and maybe a way to add miners moss you might be on to something
South Africa says hello.
Perfect. Thank you. I am going to build a snail for myself and then i have something to do when the fishing is a bit slow
TGC
Blessings in abundance:)
your work just called.......they said "nice job, don't bother coming back Mr Snail Man!" LOL
Good for you my friend. When God created this planet he put a finite amount of the element gold on it. The Bible clearly talks about a universal principal called reaping and sowing. When you do the work you get the reward. It’s good to see someone that enjoys doing work. My kids and I live on the Tittabawassee river in Michigan. They grew up watching Gold Rush. You’ve inspired me take up a new hobby.
hi nice vid i live in british columbia canada we are not allowed to use river sluices but i have used 6 inch big O pipe cut in half lengthwise for a high banker i reckon its great the sluice run off goes onto a letrap sluice just as a back up but very little gold gets that far ...cheap easy to make everyone should use one thanks mickey miner
I appreciate your enthusiasm. Take it to California and see what happens.
i made a homemade sluice out of flat under ground gutter catches they are like corrigated pipe only flat its found me and my friends gold... they are about $8 at lowes in the gutter isle ... your cam was abit jerky made it hard to follow the epic hat cam is awesome for cutting that extra movement out, but over all nice vid
I just made 3 of those out of black piping. Too bad I gotta wait 2 - 3 months to try it out. I had this pipe all summer and didn't know what to do with it, til now. It took me 15 minutes for 1, cause I didn't cut the pipe in half, I made 4 X 20 inch holes to see what's going on. I got alot of dirt to move, now I know how without breaking your back.
I really like your video, can I know what used pipe it is? Thank you in advance sir 🙏❤
Cool! Great way to keep the grandkids entertained! ;)
The Gold-Claw Production Pan is the best piece of equipment I've ever used and it will outperform any kind of Sluice Box on the Market.
Thats the best idea I've seen! Great stuff and thanks for sharing!
Sweet. Money for nothing and the sluice is green. Money for nothing...
Thanks for the upload.
I see what you did there......ha
Thanks :)
Oh,we pay!
Have you thought of putting bends in in it like a stream where the material would slow down going around the corners?
I do that very thing.
Douglas Deckner I thought the same thing maybe raise the center up a bit to slow down the stream or raise the entry a bit more and yeah curve it some
thats awesome, it actually has deeper grooves so it can hold more, AWESOME
An old timer showed me something like this years back! good stuff!!
We call this a poopshoot in Oregon. They work great for cleaning up cons but if you are really looking for gold get yourself something that can handle more than a spoonful at a time.
great idea, bashers probaly never did anything creative thats usually the kind of people that do that kudos to you.
Good job. Looks like a lot of fun. We call that type of sluice a "poop-sluice" cause some people make them out of flexible septic pipe. Thanks for the good vid.
I'd elevate the tail end a bit to slow the flow a tad bro. Looks awesome. Cant wait to make one!!
I made one of these and it worked remarkably well.
Interesting....cool idea!! You might want to correct your credits, however, to "Starring", instead of "Staring"...Chris the Prospector...you do have an interesting 'stare', but you are definitely the Star of this show!! I want one!!
Sir you rock, amazing Snail. Thank you for your upload.
Those devices are sold at any building supply as downspout extensions for about $12
great video been using a poop tube for years for cleaning up concentrates and they work great. keep it up! I screw mine into plywood, build a 3sided box for it helps keep in in place without the stakes,
How efficient would u say it is? Compared to an actual sluice
Very cool, especially for backpacking when you want to go light.
what is preventing the flake gold from being washed away...because airplane wings are heavier then air but they fly because of the surface resistance forces...there is no "calm" place for them to hide after they drop out...i like the idea but maybe you could put a bead or caulk or something for the gold to hide behind or maybe the same style with like virdee said with some velcro at the bottom of the riffles
the only REAL way to test is to put some actual gold into your gravel and have it run into a "safety" pan in case you lose some and weigh it before and after it should be the same
does gold come out of bedrock as well
got mine done all black and bro got so much color out of my back yard stream in nc
I live in North Carolina to I'm taking a 6 inch Advanced Drainage system pipe. If you ever want a prospecting pal let me know
What was the name of that types of plastic pipe?
How did u cut ur snail? I've got one an I'm not sure how to go about cutting it. I have a Roto zip with a cutting wheel but I don't want to destroy my snail. My local department stores don't carry this style
i made one of those when i first started gold mining . have since gotten better equipment that catches the gold.
I also don't want to offend anyone, because I agree, it seems to be a great idea, that possibly could be perfected in some way, to catch more gold. My only issue was the fact that it would take a life time to pay for the 10$ piece of corrugated pipe, if you can only catch one little spec after what, maybe an hours worth of time. Maybe it would work in an area that actually had some gold, so that's why i'm not knocking the idea at all. He just seemed to be really excited over the one little spec after all that time invested.
No offense taken HuntnGamecock as I have thick skin lol. In my defense when I made this video back in 2012 I had just started prospecting so yes I was excited to find even just a speck. Where I am at here in Ohio there is not much gold to speak of so you are correct in saying that it would take a lifetime to pay for that pipe. My only problem now is that I recently bought a small suction dredge and that's going to take 1000 lifetimes to pay for. I really need to move. Thanks for watching and the comment none the less.
stooony1380 If you enjoy gold hunting as a hobby, it don't matter how much you find....the enjoyment is in the hunt. Keep up the good work, a nugget could be just a scoop away.
*****
Yeah, if he wanted money, he probably gets more money from the ads on youtube, than from the gold. Never mind building a waterwheel and selling off the electricity.
But as a hobby, it makes much more sense.
Ahem, his WHOLE point was doing it where the pickings are almost non-existent to show how well it works.
What type of hose is this? I work with drainage pipe at my work but usually bigger stuff
Virdee Rojas great idea with the Velcro. I like the 2 liter bottle idea also.
What a great idea, man
Doesn't that telescope back down for storage? Would a longer one be better?
Funny thing about gravity is it is a theory...Easy concept to grasp is a thing called bouancy..if it's lighter than air it floats, if it is heavier than air..u get the picture. But your snail sluce invention is amazing my friend.
You are an idiot. A scientific theory is as close to fact as possible, and more importantly, buoyancy doesn't exist without gravity.
Gravity is tremendously easy to grasp if you have even the slightest bit of knowledge about space time topology.
Stretch a piece of fabric over a bucket so it’s as loose as possible but appears flat. Secure it with rope or bungee chords. Put a rock in the middle that’s heavy enough to make it sag but not fall through. Toss some bb’s or tiny rocks on it, and watch them “fall” towards the big rock. That’s basically how gravity works. You even used gravity to model gravity.
a theory isn’t a hypothesis. One is an informed prediction, the other is proven by attacking it relentlessly with repeatably PREDICTABLE results. That’s why science works. It’s competitive, and everyone is literally trying to PROVE everyone else wrong. There is always another team somewhere in the world trying to prove you wrong for money, prizes, tenure, or recognition. There is never a team somewhere trying to prove you right, there’s no reward in that.
very cool snail! I use a gutter sluice sometimes, I made a top tube classifier that I've been refining that uses a slit along the bottom of a tube and a spraybar to run non classified material. I'll go work on it a bit today and post a vid soon. Sub my channel! i do a lot of cheap gold projects
weird to see you here :D
Jimi-ray grotenhuis i love gold prospecting, very fun! im doing a scale gold prospecting rig soon! i already made a few miniature sluices and gold pans.... i plan on doing a dredge trailer too, and all sorts of gold recovery on mini scale for our RC's! I've found a gram of gold so far in the hills near where i live in California
That’s actually pretty smart and cost effective.
Hey bud dont even pay v that v guy any attention he bashes everyones videos, great little sluice, and it makes it even more exciting being that you made it yourself. It's a hobby not a get rich deal. People waste thousands a year on hobbies golf etc... and are not going to see a profit , atleast you have a chance to see and little return on your efforts if you hit a lil pay streak. Take care.
would you still need a permit to use this ( where permits to use a sluice box ) are required?
A pooptube sluice! Love it. Have you used a heat gun to straighten out the "mouth"? Best kind of color is the color that sits in your pan at the end of the day.
You should have tested with bbs or smashed pellets similar in weight to real gold to see if your thing really works or not
Great idea 😁👍👍
That's a nice idea, I've seen others similar made but yours should work good. Where do you live anyway? you don't seem to have much gold in your creeks so I'm just wondering. If you were to nail it to a thin board so it laid flatter it should work best and not add weight to it but it would no longer fit in the bag. Just my 2 cents
Awesome! I am so building one of these!
pretty cool idea
Nice! It reminds me a Rolly Polly bug
Cool I want to see how to make it! Hurry with making your next video!!:)
Awesome idea! I was going to buy one but this looks like an even better invention then I could’ve bought
How much does all that gold weigh?
very cool,i use big o drain pipe,4 inch.works great for me.
Is that murray park?
Wow, really neat, very clever!
so what makes a man to take a down spout end piece and take it to a creek and play in the mud but you know it looks like fun think ill make some stuff too and try it out
Fantastic build. I just don't understand why some people pay $100+ for prospecting gear that can be made for less than $20.
does it come in black.so you can see the gold easier
think the best test you can do to see if one sluice is better then the other is running the sluice to be tested in front of a allready proven sluice (putting them so the offall runs from one sluice intoo the other)
if theres colour in the proven sluice it means that the sluice youre testing doesnt catch all the cold being run through it
the idea could work but i think the rifflepart needs to be flatter and wider , i think you still runing a lot of the gold out the end
you can make a regulair sluice fit a dufflebag by making it from pvc gutter pieces fit one intoo the other and tape them together with gaffa tape then run a roll of miners moss over it and then some small sheets of corugated mesh same length as the pieces of gutter
prolly could hold everything down with some copper wire run through holes in the pvc and twisted together
prolly need to experiment a littje with angle and maibe riffles to controll the waterflow but i think it would work better than wat youre using now
yes it works but think of the time you spend shoveling the dirt ontoo it and the worth of the speck of gold
just wondering how long is the snail ?
Why not call it the Millipede trap? We have some black and yellow Millipede critters over here in Washington that when curled up, look just like your Green Weenie trap!
Snail is unusual idea for me, thanks
What did you make it out of
Where do you get that stuff? i wanna make one.Nevermind its a vinyl downspout thanks! Great Vid! put some miners moss in a few or those ridges as well. :)
Do you still use this sluice? It would be interesting to take the sand out of each quarter of the sluice, or each third of the sluice and pan them separately. I would think most of the gold would be in the first two-thirds to three-quarters of the sluice and not much at the end. if there is a lot of gold in the last quarter of the sluice, you may be losing gold as those ripples fill up.
You're probably better off with a well designed sluice.
That really is awesome. luv it! Achatina Pudica!
cool video , keep up the good work
You got it. Just keep scouping
so, what kind of corrugated duct is that?
What is the pipe called pls?
I seen a old timer in bc up in Canada backpack way back into this river he got the most gold out of three others with that very set the others was making many trips Bringing in there sluses
Enjoying this snail collecting slowly cann you do the rabbit,?
hey what is that tube normally for? i want one lol
Cmon admit it you searched for this but stayed to see the pup
Dose it work in clay dirt? Don
What kind of tubing is that?
How about putting an ounce of gold in a bucket of material then mixing it up and then run it through your new sluice to see if it is catching all it can? Test it before you trust it. Just like you would a newly cut key. You have heard don't count your chickens before they hatch. Well, how about a review before you count your nuggets? I will watch that before considering to build or buy one of your snail. Don't mean to be a negative nelly. Just looking for a good sluice. Thanks for Posting.
Most people don't have 1200 bucks to dump in the river....if it's getting anything out of the river its working.
I feel like maybe if you slow the flow a bit when you first dump in the dirt it would be more effective... everyone knows gold is heavy and sinks fast but not if there's clay and sand stuck to it... anyways awesome idea I'm gonna go make this myself
You got a nice system
After all of that work and you only got 1 speck?
Could also use RV Sewer hose.
Vermont is fuckin filled with gold! So im happy as hell.
What an invention, thanks
superb idea
Wow that was pretty smart.
Omg. How can I get one.