You worked for 4-5 hours with 2 men. You got about $136 USD worth of unprocessed gold. That's about $13.5 USD per hour. Congratulations, you made a little better than minimum wage where I live. Considering how nice a day it was and you were outside with no annoying boss or customers, I'd say you've got a great thing going.
$200 to try out a new piece of equipment in hydraulically worked over ground. Minimum wage.. Okay, you can believe that 😂 Awesome designed Sluice.. Great brains into that one. All the very best gents. 🍻
please do not tell people a "powered sluice" is illegal in california, it is not. this has been heavily debated. "highbanking" that is, specifically the practice of digging above the high water mark, IS illegal. however, you can get a permit from the DWR to do so. the equipment itself that has been nicknamed the highbanker, was never banned. it is not illegal to pump water from a water way so long as the water is returned in the same condition as it was taken. with the exception of, if the material came from within the waterway below the high water line. no you do not need a permit from the DWR, nor do you need a POO or any of that to use water from a public water way. the only thing that was banned by the moratorium was specifically, mechanically powered "suction" or "vacuum". nothing else. it has been misinterpreted by people who don't understand legalese. the mining community literally gaslit itself by not understanding the english language.
It's an attempt to keep people from getting one so HE doesnt have competition doing the same as him in the same location. He knows it's legal to do it so why tell the true about it cause adults lie all the time.
@@DarkAttack14suction dredge equipment is ban banned. This type can be used with permits. All navigable waterways in the US are public and not private. If you had ponds (supply, settling) On private land this coild be perfectly legal.... if the ponds are legal. Making a pond could be illegal and cause massive fines or loss of land use. Our EPA is out of control. It is just layer and layers of laws.
Same in California. After the gold rush began in 1848, environmental damage from hydraulic mining and silt happened so fast that they'd banned it in most places within a generation.
You can actually use a highbanker in all of the United States, you just cannot discharge directly into the stream river or lake, you have to provide a catchment for sediment settling.
So, it has nothing to do with productivity, and as long as you aren't screwing up the stream ecosystem, they're OK? Sounds like the laws actually are doing what they say they're doing, no hidden agenda.
See, I'm a biologist by training, and my instinct would be to set up an inflatable kiddie pool, fill it with water from the creek, then run the banker in the pool while recirculating the existing water. Or even better, and more practical, would be to set up in a shallow hole and drop in a tarp. That way, all that silt and mud stays in the pool, rather than flowing downstream and smothering all the invertebrates. It won't do much to the fish, but it does kill their food and especially their eggs. The silt generated by taking shovelfuls of of dirt does still have an effect? But nowhere near as bad as running the banker *in* the stream. Mind you, this only really applies to SMALL streams, like the one you're working. A bigger stream, with more flow, would mean more dilution of the silt and far less impact, meaning a recirc setup would be excessive. But on a small one like this, from a biological perspective, it would be better to recirc.
hes australian. its about attention and getting americans to like his "crazy" personality. hes not a thinker or a carer. just a me person. your words mean nothing to a country of men with very little spine or morals. i see it here everyday. weak fearful people pretending to be "easy going" covid showed us how many of them are spineless and turn to water when it comes to human rights and big daddy govt. just me people. everyone out for themself. just like the oppressors like it.
Highbankers are very popular in Alberta, Canada. While designs vary, they typically follow the zig-zag design like the one you are using. The shovel-in box is a bit different, though. The upper end is flat bottom box where the rocks are washed and then roll down to hit the grizzly (bar classifier/screen) section. This allows a very thorough wash, especially in designs that have the shovel in section able to tilt differently than the grizzly because the water is kept around the material to be washed and does not simply fall through the bars too early, making it necessary to use way more water to get material washed properly.. That way, you can hold material in the box for better washing, but once it flows out, it has a steeper grizzly to allow the rocks to roll down and off with less time spent scraping rocks off the grizzly. It also has less rock wedging of the grizzly bars if using the type of grizzly you have. The gold is fine- typically minus 50 mesh with a significant amount less than 100 mesh. Riffles are usually low profile, and various permutations of expanded metal are popular. Carpet is the user's choice with NOMAD "rubber" spaghetti mat popular as is low- profile indoor/outdoor carpet. Of course, prospectors being what they are, we are constantly tinkering and buying new gimmicks to get every last flake. Part of the fun.
Yep some years are really bad with them yellow jackets (ground hornets) hate them! Got stung real bad 1 year when my doggo Bear was about 6 months old. Took Bear for a walk at the farm (he was city dog for most part) and we walked across my bridge at the creek. He sticks his face into the edge past the bridge & backed away with a face full of them. I'm in shorts & no shirt 😮😢😢 I take off 30 or 40 feet up creek & tey to get them off his face & head (swarm of 20 plus buggers.) I'm swatting him about the face & head where they are stinging him. Poor boy thinking these bugs are biting hard & daddy is whooping me for getting them riled up. Little did I know we stopped right by a 2nd nest & an entire swarm comes out of that nest & both of us getting stung bad as smashing them releases chemicals that make more come after you.. I run off dragging a yelping pup stop by what had to be a major nest now at the 2rd stopping point (100s are now out after us both. ) 😡 😡 I picked him up (he was covered in DOZENS of them) ran back towards house swarm followed us so I kept going. I got stung dozens of times him as more too. They go for the "bending bits & eyes" I had probably 15+ stings on my face. 5 plus per ankle; knees, elbows, sides/chest fromm carrying him who had dozens of em in his fur.😢😢😢 Only time a sting made me want to go to the ER, took a bunch of benadryl antihistamines. Pain killers & anti-inflammatory pills. Took me a good 3 weeks to get rid of the pain & itching. Bears face nose h ears all swelled up so bad poor boy. We gave him some of the same dissolved in his water he looked at me sideways for a while as I had to smash them to stop the stinging. Lost track of how many sstings I got on my hands😮😢. 3 days later the Brush Burner propane weed burner and I went hunting along the creek bank. I found 7 nests along that bank and killed 1000s of em with FIRE😊 got stung a couple more times but was worth it for the satisfaction 😂😂. Waited a week & went back to find 2 or 3 more nests. Was a bad year for them for sure. Best way to kill entire nest is a small half full plastic drink bottle drill a few small holes in lid squeeze it like squirter gun into the hole and stick it into the hole upside down let it drip in the heavy mix gas kills them all. 😊
@@markmatt9174 Another great alternative to glorious FIIIIIIRRREEEEEE is soapy water, no shit, soapy water fucks up bugs days so bad it's not even funny, plus it won't burn your property down! Soapy water in a knock-off Super Soaker is actually exactly how a buddy of mine and I cleared out a huge nest in a centennial home he was restoring.
I bought a powermower with a Honda engine 8 years ago, and it's never failed to start on the first pull unless I run the fuel dry. Then, it takes 2 pulls. It's also phenomenal on fuel consumption, and it only needs an oil change about every other year. I'm scheduled to do it this year, and when I checked, it's still full and dark amber colored. They're truly amazing engineers at Honda! After all winter in the shed, I take it out in the spring, and it starts first pull.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos Chris. Haven’t seen you posting much lately. I want a high banker for myself. Still too busy working to use one.
The problem is that fresh water clams and others are dependant on clear water and muddying water like that kills them down stream this happened recently in Finland when a forestry truck illegally crossed a marked stream crushing several endangered river pearl clams and killed even more of them by suffocation as the muddied water was then carried further down the stream.
Quick tip you might already know....when stung by a wasp, slap some wet mud on the sting asap and it will make it a LOT less painful. Wet tobacco or flour also works, but plain old mud works best. Been doing this my entire life and it really helps a lot.
It's cause as the mud dries it naturally pulls the venom or in the case of bees helps pull the whole stinger free. Leaving it less likely to inflame/react to the venom as long.
Ha! Imagine my surprise when my Dad did that when I was stung on the forehead by a bee as a kid. I was screaming and he ran over with a handful of mud from a puddle and slapped it on my head.
Sir i was walking in a field and got stung. I found a big ol pile of mud, a bug mound of it like some dig was digging and left it. I reached in for a handful and to my horror it was warm. I stuck my hand into fresh shit. Off in the distance i heard a damned donkey laugh at me, that fucker and the wasp teamed up for this moment.
Man there is something so satisfying about watching a perfectly designed gold catching machine in-action, also that high banker is pretty cool to. Big love Vo-Gus congrats on the new toy :P
Thats 1 sweet highbanker, very interesting. 1 thing you can also add a test mat to the derocker/hopper to catch even more gold before it reaches the Jarvis riffles and it gives you an opportunity to remove the premium stuff outta the box for safe keeping or visual testing indicators, love your work as usaul embraced the mould ages ago
It's worse than that. It's men and women working for these green companies that achieved their goals decades ago and look for something, anything else to have a campaign on. See, we did this. Send us money. Stupid people send money to greenpeace, sierra club, and others. They're also not above outright lying to legislatures. Such as save an animal and the area they looked at never had that animal because of the altitude. They did that in I think Arizona and were caught.
Usually, when it comes to the larger machines that can strip gold out of a stream/river - If they're illegal, the reason they're illegal is because of the damage they leave behind. Not because they don't want you getting gold.
Hey Chris, Tell Gadzee to ALWAYS check his waders, you too.. Where I used to live, i'd find bloody funnel webs in my boots regularly, I NEVER put shoes on without performing an exorcism first !!! 😁
Men in suits decided to ban these because they caused too much damage.. but you said they don't do as much damage as people without them then showed 4 days worth of tailings compared to a massive pile you did in 3 hours. Those men in suits seem to be right on that account?
@@Ezzell_The finer, lighter particles in the tailings stay suspended in the water, reducing water quality and making it harder for fish to breathe and hunt. Not only that, when the silt eventually settles it can build up in nests and suffocate the fish eggs. By leaving the tailings on the bank or further away, it allows the particles to redistribute more slowly and evenly from natural erosion like wind and rain.
In public fissucking areas in New Zealand you are alliwed to use the highbanker,the oriblem comes with water supply-you are not allowed to use ANY form of motorized equipment. Therefore you must have a waterfall clise by to supply the highbanker
In the pacific northwest of north america it was found that equipment like this run in the stream would silt up the gravel that salmon spawn in. They were finding that salmon stocks collapsed wherever gold miners set up and stayed down for decades. That's a big deal for populations that survive mostly on salmon.
Men in suits v men in waders has been a problem for quite some time even outside the realm of prospecting.. We are of common kin my man and we will continue to fight the oppression of reward for effort ✊
I'm in construction and deal with the same problem in a slightly different form. We have investors/managers in cubicles creating a lot of busy work for us thinking it will make the construction easier & faster
The problem is, the men in suits are one bad break or conviction away from becoming the men in waders. The movement doesn't usually go the other way... because of genetics.
Wow, that was a beautiful Sapphire. Great speci, and great weigh up. That highbanker is neat as well. Love it fully opens and being able to clean grizzly bars. Awesome.
I've seen similar on Dan Hurds channel - I like how Canada handles it. Their main concern is stirring up sediment in the river. They can be used, but the discharge has to go into a separate body of water, which is usually dug next to the river, and they re-circulate the water that's already dirtied.
We use high bankers in America, most of California even. Gas motors are banned in some of California but high bankers can be run by bucket. Here in Arizona desert country we often bring water and reclaim it by working into a kid pool or livestock watering tank and pump it around again and again.
When I was staying at a youth hostel in a castle in Scotland, you had to leave your shoes outside. In the morning, I put on my hiking boots, found a hornet decided my boot would make a good new home. I got stung 4 or 5 times on my heel before I could get the boot and evict the nasty hornet. Made walking miserable for a couple days. Luckily I had some moleskin bandage tape. It was like the worst blister on my heel ever, but the moleskin helped keep more friction off the bites at least.
Loophole use a battery and twelve volt pump then it not exactly mechanical equipment. Where a petrol pump can be classed as mechanical. Also very quiet nobody can hear anything except you singing out Eureka.
I love Gus's videos because he gets technical. He talks about water speed and angle of the high banker. How you need to adjust by the quality of your materials. The high banker he is using. Is pretty cool.
One thing the tree huggers don't account for is it actually helps the wild life by having deeper holes in creeks. The fish will always migrate to the deeper holes and grow bigger.
Not a hugger but your logic doesn't compute. For every hole they dig, the sediment they re-introduce back into the water partially fills in low spots downstream. It's a wash! (cue rim shot)
@@shmaknapublar In the process of digging the hole you remove larger rocks. This leaves a void that the creek or river won't fill in for some time. The fish will eventually move to these deeper parts to spend a lot of time. Sure it will eventually fill back in over years unless you put the rocks back. Till it does though wild life will use that area.
Hey now, Elon musk is the worlds richest African American person. He literally is from South Africa. He moved a lot. If he was darker people would say he broke barriers and set new records but he’s got white privilege they say. I always point out to people Obama is half white so was he elected due to white privilege? Also some say Obama is cousins with bush.
Excellent piece of kit, Chris. Rightly proud it's locally made too. Minus the One Horse Honda, although likely it's made with Australian steel. How cute is that little motor?! Aww... Names: Harry Hi-Stumpy, High-Dansky, Lavington High-Banksy (Lavinia), Hi-Danker, Bumpy's-Stanker, Dug More-Banks Fairchild Junior. That's it! Doug More-Banks. The Scottish guy with a shovel in his head. Douglas is the one with no shovel in his head. Good luck with the wild weather, may it have restocked your local gold deposit bank branches of your local waterways.
CamLocks! Converted my brew system to cam locks. Instantly regretted not going for quick releases instead. Camlocks are a pain. They are meant to be deliberately hard to (accidentally) pop open for use with boiling fluids, but they are a fiddly pain the a.r.s.
First time viewer here I'm curious if you do this as your main source of income or as a side hustle? Ib think this could be a decent hobby to get into (if I had somewhere to go....) but looks like it might be a costly hobby to start
Everytime I come across your videos the song I come from a land down under starts playing in my head. Thanks to you I now know what a Vegemite sandwiche is . LoL 😂
Wasp stings don't hurt NEARLY as bad as bee stings! The problem with wasps is that they can sting you repeatedly and are SIGNIFICANTLY more aggressive (as stinging doesn't kill them). 🤷
When I watch Gold Rush with the larger wash plants they always say not to let your sluices run without material going through and always panic to shut the water off so not to wash away gold. Does this not happen with theses little sluice kits ?
You worked for 4-5 hours with 2 men. You got about $136 USD worth of unprocessed gold. That's about $13.5 USD per hour. Congratulations, you made a little better than minimum wage where I live. Considering how nice a day it was and you were outside with no annoying boss or customers, I'd say you've got a great thing going.
consider the carbon footprint, net loss at the end.
..and that unexpected bonus every so often
$200 to try out a new piece of equipment in hydraulically worked over ground. Minimum wage.. Okay, you can believe that 😂
Awesome designed Sluice.. Great brains into that one. All the very best gents. 🍻
they get much more given that they are selling the pay dirt for more than the value of the gold in it.
What about operating costs?
please do not tell people a "powered sluice" is illegal in california, it is not. this has been heavily debated. "highbanking" that is, specifically the practice of digging above the high water mark, IS illegal. however, you can get a permit from the DWR to do so. the equipment itself that has been nicknamed the highbanker, was never banned. it is not illegal to pump water from a water way so long as the water is returned in the same condition as it was taken. with the exception of, if the material came from within the waterway below the high water line. no you do not need a permit from the DWR, nor do you need a POO or any of that to use water from a public water way. the only thing that was banned by the moratorium was specifically, mechanically powered "suction" or "vacuum". nothing else. it has been misinterpreted by people who don't understand legalese. the mining community literally gaslit itself by not understanding the english language.
Everything's illegal
It's an attempt to keep people from getting one so HE doesnt have competition doing the same as him in the same location. He knows it's legal to do it so why tell the true about it cause adults lie all the time.
In what world would a powered sluice be illegal in California let alone anywhere
@@DarkAttack14suction dredge equipment is ban banned. This type can be used with permits.
All navigable waterways in the US are public and not private.
If you had ponds (supply, settling)
On private land this coild be perfectly legal.... if the ponds are legal. Making a pond could be illegal and cause massive fines or loss of land use. Our EPA is out of control.
It is just layer and layers of laws.
Here in Canada the high banker laws are more about silt, and environmental contamination rather that production and efficiency.
Same in California. After the gold rush began in 1848, environmental damage from hydraulic mining and silt happened so fast that they'd banned it in most places within a generation.
Dan herd… uses a high banker
@@tylerwestman5258 He does, but he explains how they must use settling ponds and the water must not directly dump into the river.
yea.. how dare you take some of the environment, and wash it through some environment, and keep the shiny environment. Youre killing the environment.
*Be glad that eurowasp didn't fly up your pant leg and sting you on the **_Weasel_** !*
You can actually use a highbanker in all of the United States, you just cannot discharge directly into the stream river or lake, you have to provide a catchment for sediment settling.
You can't use anything that is motorized in Washington state. The liberal cult that runs the state capitol says so.
Yup men I suits making laws for men in flannels
laws R made 2 B Broken lol
So, it has nothing to do with productivity, and as long as you aren't screwing up the stream ecosystem, they're OK? Sounds like the laws actually are doing what they say they're doing, no hidden agenda.
Can't use pumps in Cali. It's the suction pumps that's outlawed.
See, I'm a biologist by training, and my instinct would be to set up an inflatable kiddie pool, fill it with water from the creek, then run the banker in the pool while recirculating the existing water. Or even better, and more practical, would be to set up in a shallow hole and drop in a tarp. That way, all that silt and mud stays in the pool, rather than flowing downstream and smothering all the invertebrates. It won't do much to the fish, but it does kill their food and especially their eggs. The silt generated by taking shovelfuls of of dirt does still have an effect? But nowhere near as bad as running the banker *in* the stream. Mind you, this only really applies to SMALL streams, like the one you're working. A bigger stream, with more flow, would mean more dilution of the silt and far less impact, meaning a recirc setup would be excessive. But on a small one like this, from a biological perspective, it would be better to recirc.
hes australian. its about attention and getting americans to like his "crazy" personality.
hes not a thinker or a carer. just a me person.
your words mean nothing to a country of men with very little spine or morals.
i see it here everyday.
weak fearful people pretending to be "easy going"
covid showed us how many of them are spineless and turn to water when it comes to human rights and big daddy govt.
just me people. everyone out for themself. just like the oppressors like it.
WHAT A GREAT IDEA !!! Do you think the officer would be ok with that? Thanks for caring. Ronald from Humboldt Co., Ca.
You mean to tell me that the stuff that the fish and other wild life LIVES in is somehow bad for them? Make that make sense.
@@Apollo55_ its called science. its hard. i dont you would like it. just stick to beer and guns.
When it rains doesn't this occur naturally? The inundation of silt in the river that is.
Highbankers are very popular in Alberta, Canada. While designs vary, they typically follow the zig-zag design like the one you are using. The shovel-in box is a bit different, though. The upper end is flat bottom box where the rocks are washed and then roll down to hit the grizzly (bar classifier/screen) section. This allows a very thorough wash, especially in designs that have the shovel in section able to tilt differently than the grizzly because the water is kept around the material to be washed and does not simply fall through the bars too early, making it necessary to use way more water to get material washed properly.. That way, you can hold material in the box for better washing, but once it flows out, it has a steeper grizzly to allow the rocks to roll down and off with less time spent scraping rocks off the grizzly. It also has less rock wedging of the grizzly bars if using the type of grizzly you have. The gold is fine- typically minus 50 mesh with a significant amount less than 100 mesh. Riffles are usually low profile, and various permutations of expanded metal are popular. Carpet is the user's choice with NOMAD "rubber" spaghetti mat popular as is low- profile indoor/outdoor carpet. Of course, prospectors being what they are, we are constantly tinkering and buying new gimmicks to get every last flake. Part of the fun.
Fun fact: Every time Chris put the word "illegal" in the videos, he always have a higher number of visualizations.
We call those yellowjackets in the states. They are a pain in the where ever they sting you.
Gold is good anyway you look at it .but going out the way .away from civilization. Is even better
2 months later my 4 stings still itch from those things.
@@inadad8878 You might be allergic to them now. That's how I found out I am.
Yep some years are really bad with them yellow jackets (ground hornets) hate them! Got stung real bad 1 year when my doggo Bear was about 6 months old. Took Bear for a walk at the farm (he was city dog for most part) and we walked across my bridge at the creek. He sticks his face into the edge past the bridge & backed away with a face full of them. I'm in shorts & no shirt 😮😢😢 I take off 30 or 40 feet up creek & tey to get them off his face & head (swarm of 20 plus buggers.) I'm swatting him about the face & head where they are stinging him. Poor boy thinking these bugs are biting hard & daddy is whooping me for getting them riled up. Little did I know we stopped right by a 2nd nest & an entire swarm comes out of that nest & both of us getting stung bad as smashing them releases chemicals that make more come after you.. I run off dragging a yelping pup stop by what had to be a major nest now at the 2rd stopping point (100s are now out after us both. ) 😡 😡 I picked him up (he was covered in DOZENS of them) ran back towards house swarm followed us so I kept going. I got stung dozens of times him as more too.
They go for the "bending bits & eyes" I had probably 15+ stings on my face. 5 plus per ankle; knees, elbows, sides/chest fromm carrying him who had dozens of em in his fur.😢😢😢
Only time a sting made me want to go to the ER, took a bunch of benadryl antihistamines. Pain killers & anti-inflammatory pills. Took me a good 3 weeks to get rid of the pain & itching. Bears face nose h ears all swelled up so bad poor boy. We gave him some of the same dissolved in his water he looked at me sideways for a while as I had to smash them to stop the stinging. Lost track of how many sstings I got on my hands😮😢.
3 days later the Brush Burner propane weed burner and I went hunting along the creek bank. I found 7 nests along that bank and killed 1000s of em with FIRE😊 got stung a couple more times but was worth it for the satisfaction 😂😂. Waited a week & went back to find 2 or 3 more nests. Was a bad year for them for sure.
Best way to kill entire nest is a small half full plastic drink bottle drill a few small holes in lid squeeze it like squirter gun into the hole and stick it into the hole upside down let it drip in the heavy mix gas kills them all. 😊
@@markmatt9174 Another great alternative to glorious FIIIIIIRRREEEEEE is soapy water, no shit, soapy water fucks up bugs days so bad it's not even funny, plus it won't burn your property down! Soapy water in a knock-off Super Soaker is actually exactly how a buddy of mine and I cleared out a huge nest in a centennial home he was restoring.
"Honda, the producer of the Hi-Lux".
Well that's going to come as a surprise to Toyota.
Garrners comments though
@@VoGusProspecting But it's wank.
@@VoGusProspecting Looked up "garrners", no such word.
@@VoGusProspectingI guarantee the competitive Street Fighter community won't be offended.
@@ArthurTanner-d7s it roughly means: to accumulate.
I bought a powermower with a Honda engine 8 years ago, and it's never failed to start on the first pull unless I run the fuel dry. Then, it takes 2 pulls.
It's also phenomenal on fuel consumption, and it only needs an oil change about every other year.
I'm scheduled to do it this year, and when I checked, it's still full and dark amber colored.
They're truly amazing engineers at Honda!
After all winter in the shed, I take it out in the spring, and it starts first pull.
True! If a Honda doesn't start on the 1st pull, it has an issue.
15:14 "They go to heaven if they're good"😂😂 he's a different breed ❤
Always a pleasure to watch your videos Chris. Haven’t seen you posting much lately.
I want a high banker for myself. Still too busy working to use one.
The problem is that fresh water clams and others are dependant on clear water and muddying water like that kills them down stream this happened recently in Finland when a forestry truck illegally crossed a marked stream crushing several endangered river pearl clams and killed even more of them by suffocation as the muddied water was then carried further down the stream.
My grandpappy always said "who the heck are you and why are you in my house?"
@@garrettmillsap followed by a shotgun rack
lol
@@VoGusProspecting yeah, he always kept it loaded with homemade loads of rock salt so we didn't die, just learn a lesson lol
mine said " never fall in love at the glory hole"
but he was a different breed for sure
Why did your grand pappy even ask? Mine just shot people, the signs did all the talking for him.
Quick tip you might already know....when stung by a wasp, slap some wet mud on the sting asap and it will make it a LOT less painful. Wet tobacco or flour also works, but plain old mud works best. Been doing this my entire life and it really helps a lot.
It's cause as the mud dries it naturally pulls the venom or in the case of bees helps pull the whole stinger free. Leaving it less likely to inflame/react to the venom as long.
Ha! Imagine my surprise when my Dad did that when I was stung on the forehead by a bee as a kid. I was screaming and he ran over with a handful of mud from a puddle and slapped it on my head.
Sir i was walking in a field and got stung.
I found a big ol pile of mud, a bug mound of it like some dig was digging and left it.
I reached in for a handful and to my horror it was warm. I stuck my hand into fresh shit.
Off in the distance i heard a damned donkey laugh at me, that fucker and the wasp teamed up for this moment.
@@gamesareforfun A sting is hardly an open wound. But if you prefer pain, you do you.
@@gamesareforfun Okay. I've literally been doing this for about 50 years and never once had any sort of infection. Jeez. Lighten up.
Man there is something so satisfying about watching a perfectly designed gold catching machine in-action, also that high banker is pretty cool to. Big love Vo-Gus congrats on the new toy :P
Do you have a link to a video that shows that?
I really want to try one of these here in WA... we do have moisture, only at certain times of year though.
Glad to hear you're not all jerky
@@VoGusProspecting I don't identify as Western Australian... I was born in South Aus and grew up in NSW, QLD and Vic.
Thats 1 sweet highbanker, very interesting. 1 thing you can also add a test mat to the derocker/hopper to catch even more gold before it reaches the Jarvis riffles and it gives you an opportunity to remove the premium stuff outta the box for safe keeping or visual testing indicators, love your work as usaul embraced the mould ages ago
Poor Gadzee. 😕 At least the wasp didn't get him on the winky though. 😂
Nobody needs a wasp all on up in your Pato’s mate.
@@weedfreer Right? 👍😅
@@StaceNyourFace 😄😂
gtsy Stace 😁💕
But at least Mr. Wiggles would swell up twice his size!
"When men in suits make laws that affect men in flannel."
They forget they are our hired public servants. Making us their bosses.
Just wait till you see the clip boards.
It's worse than that. It's men and women working for these green companies that achieved their goals decades ago and look for something, anything else to have a campaign on. See, we did this. Send us money. Stupid people send money to greenpeace, sierra club, and others. They're also not above outright lying to legislatures. Such as save an animal and the area they looked at never had that animal because of the altitude. They did that in I think Arizona and were caught.
This is why all laws are made. When you figure that out, you will be against all regulations since they are not written to protect you but the rich.
@@kerrihansen2413 Get it right, we are the kings of this great nation.
Chris I've finally worked it out why I watch you digging holes in the river. You remind me of what real work looks like 😂
That's not work.....that's fun😂
Well done, sweet design rig. Oh the limp Bizkit line was good 😂
"If you know, you're dirty" 😂😅😂😂
Thanks to your tutorial videos I found some flakes and a mini nugget on first trip out! Love the content, appreciate it man!
Big fan, keep on making great content!
Usually, when it comes to the larger machines that can strip gold out of a stream/river - If they're illegal, the reason they're illegal is because of the damage they leave behind. Not because they don't want you getting gold.
meanwhile is perfectly legal to destroy nations worth of land cutting down trees :D make perfect sense..
Damn wasp gave me kankles
Wasples
@@VoGusProspectingwankles
an unexpected fatality by wasp 🤣
@@frackcenturion😅
Awww. Poor baby. 🤗
First time watching your channel.i was amazed of the beauty you extracted from the opal. Great job.
Also some form of rubber tie or clamp to hold the movable bars down, would keep them from shifting, but still allow for easy removal of jams
Bravo mate,well Said 🎉
Hey Chris, Tell Gadzee to ALWAYS check his waders, you too.. Where I used to live, i'd find bloody funnel webs in my boots regularly, I NEVER put shoes on without performing an exorcism first !!! 😁
I just discovered your channel and I'm hooked!!! Hello from Alaska!
Ooo fresh content, no more scrolling to find I watched videos
My first video from this channel. And man, these dudes are funy. Had to Sub.
Men in suits decided to ban these because they caused too much damage.. but you said they don't do as much damage as people without them then showed 4 days worth of tailings compared to a massive pile you did in 3 hours. Those men in suits seem to be right on that account?
Yeah the way he doesn't deny the larger scale operation from 150 years ago already wrecked the place. The only difference is scale
Awesome Chris!!
- Your channel has really grown since I started subscribing . 💯👍💯
And thank you for sharing.
Hey Chris, you absolutely can highbank in california, you just can’t discharge where it can go directly back into the stream.
Why the law? You are moving dirt from the stream and putting it back in it. It seem they would want you to do it.
@@Ezzell_The finer, lighter particles in the tailings stay suspended in the water, reducing water quality and making it harder for fish to breathe and hunt. Not only that, when the silt eventually settles it can build up in nests and suffocate the fish eggs. By leaving the tailings on the bank or further away, it allows the particles to redistribute more slowly and evenly from natural erosion like wind and rain.
@@Argophobiac Thanks for the reply.
In public fissucking areas in New Zealand you are alliwed to use the highbanker,the oriblem comes with water supply-you are not allowed to use ANY form of motorized equipment.
Therefore you must have a waterfall clise by to supply the highbanker
Good Morning epic dudes! Hope you find your treasure today !
👏👏👏👏👍
Man I am jealous with being able to be outside like this in the winter. What a dream!
That's a nice get, for Harry the high banker first ever outting to the creek.
In the pacific northwest of north america it was found that equipment like this run in the stream would silt up the gravel that salmon spawn in. They were finding that salmon stocks collapsed wherever gold miners set up and stayed down for decades. That's a big deal for populations that survive mostly on salmon.
There a millions of salmon in the world, a few less impacts nothing.
Men in suits v men in waders has been a problem for quite some time even outside the realm of prospecting.. We are of common kin my man and we will continue to fight the oppression of reward for effort ✊
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i prefer to go wading in water without pants on, only in summer cause willy hates the cold
This is damn genious.
I'm in construction and deal with the same problem in a slightly different form. We have investors/managers in cubicles creating a lot of busy work for us thinking it will make the construction easier & faster
The problem is, the men in suits are one bad break or conviction away from becoming the men in waders. The movement doesn't usually go the other way... because of genetics.
Wow, that was a beautiful Sapphire. Great speci, and great weigh up. That highbanker is neat as well. Love it fully opens and being able to clean grizzly bars. Awesome.
Linus Tech Tips is really getting outside his usual videos lately. 1:09
Love that big specimen piece! The sapphire is amazing too. And the engineering behind that high banker looks really good! 🍺
Men with more money then you decided you can't try to make more money
21:11 Chris you know we love the clean up sir. I would have watched another 15 minutes man. 💪
I've seen similar on Dan Hurds channel - I like how Canada handles it. Their main concern is stirring up sediment in the river. They can be used, but the discharge has to go into a separate body of water, which is usually dug next to the river, and they re-circulate the water that's already dirtied.
We use high bankers in America, most of California even. Gas motors are banned in some of California but high bankers can be run by bucket. Here in Arizona desert country we often bring water and reclaim it by working into a kid pool or livestock watering tank and pump it around again and again.
When I was staying at a youth hostel in a castle in Scotland, you had to leave your shoes outside. In the morning, I put on my hiking boots, found a hornet decided my boot would make a good new home. I got stung 4 or 5 times on my heel before I could get the boot and evict the nasty hornet. Made walking miserable for a couple days. Luckily I had some moleskin bandage tape. It was like the worst blister on my heel ever, but the moleskin helped keep more friction off the bites at least.
Love this kind of stuff. I have a question. Have you tried to move up the path of the gold to try and find the source? Bigger gold. higher return.
Fatality at 0:18
Thanks! Enjoyed it!
Nice ! I am from Nepal.
Very entertaining and informative
Loophole use a battery and twelve volt pump then it not exactly mechanical equipment. Where a petrol pump can be classed as mechanical. Also very quiet nobody can hear anything except you singing out Eureka.
Still won’t work. Anything electrical and mechanical is banned.
@@MrBrenos so that means no detectors as well ?
@@MrBrenos you can on private property with the land owners permission.
@@aaronhopkins6697 no. I should have put an * on it. Detectors are the only electrical product that can be used.
@@aaronhopkins6697 well, it’s private property. Wouldn’t even need the twelve volt pump would you?
That is one awesome unit 👍 great job Dan and a fantastic episode “follow the big blue sausage back to the noise maker” 😂
Thanks 👍
The highbanker should be called Big Bite .... in honour of Gazbee's wasp friend 😅
@@Khey050 I like it. 👍😉
@@Khey050 heeeeyy
@@buckshotprospector 😆🤣
@@buckshotprospector 😆🤣
Great take on the creek with the new high banker. Works a treat.
Cousin Jack says hello 😁👍
I heard a guy arrested in Kern River here in California for playing with one of those
It's sad
California is a non freedom state...commies!
I'm voting for the freedom party.
- a Texan
Rumer has it that they discovered gold at Sutters Mill California. Might be worth a trip to find out!
Call it Stinger.
I love Gus's videos because he gets technical. He talks about water speed and angle of the high banker. How you need to adjust by the quality of your materials. The high banker he is using. Is pretty cool.
Have to be honest, I don't watch your content for the gold, I watch for the laughs you give me, especially with Gadzy😂
"Two men one jar" that killed me 😂😂😂😂
GADZEE❤ that means that he is going to find a lot more gold than you are❤
Sadly it wasn't the case that day
What a beautiful machine. The high banker is nice too.
Yeah, she's a beaut.
One thing the tree huggers don't account for is it actually helps the wild life by having deeper holes in creeks. The fish will always migrate to the deeper holes and grow bigger.
@JamesYale1977 non tree huggers. It's a term for people that would ruin the world to save a tree.
Is a river without beavers even a river?
Not a hugger but your logic doesn't compute. For every hole they dig, the sediment they re-introduce back into the water partially fills in low spots downstream. It's a wash! (cue rim shot)
@@shmaknapublar In the process of digging the hole you remove larger rocks. This leaves a void that the creek or river won't fill in for some time. The fish will eventually move to these deeper parts to spend a lot of time. Sure it will eventually fill back in over years unless you put the rocks back. Till it does though wild life will use that area.
The issue isn’t moving a few rocks, it’s the massive sediment displacement from pump setups.
These videos are really well made and entertaining keep it up
Looks like a dredge and sluice box can mount one on an inflatable tyre using a Briggs and Stratton motor and take it anywhere in the river
Another great vid mate perfect thing for fathers day
They made it illegal because its good. If its good its illegal
Beautiful tool boys!👌🏻
Don't insult your mate by comparing him to Elon Musk lol
Hey now, Elon musk is the worlds richest African American person. He literally is from South Africa. He moved a lot. If he was darker people would say he broke barriers and set new records but he’s got white privilege they say. I always point out to people Obama is half white so was he elected due to white privilege? Also some say Obama is cousins with bush.
Maybe stumpy bought the design and claimed he made it himself? Lol
Elon is a patriot
@@jameshallahan4376 ok bro
Comparison to Elon Musk is no insult. He's pretty sharp and loves America.
Gadsy!! Good to see you mate!
Where is the link to this machine it looks fantastic
Excellent piece of kit, Chris. Rightly proud it's locally made too. Minus the One Horse Honda, although likely it's made with Australian steel. How cute is that little motor?! Aww...
Names: Harry Hi-Stumpy, High-Dansky, Lavington High-Banksy (Lavinia), Hi-Danker, Bumpy's-Stanker, Dug More-Banks Fairchild Junior. That's it! Doug More-Banks. The Scottish guy with a shovel in his head. Douglas is the one with no shovel in his head.
Good luck with the wild weather, may it have restocked your local gold deposit bank branches of your local waterways.
Well, what I really appreciate ( is or are?) the "nuggets" of humor!
God bless these good samaritans for picking up rocks and washing them before putting them back all clean and nice.
Very nice Chris!!!
Love that highbanker dude. Made great and looks to have awesome durability as well.
Can you give us a link or information on where to buy that highbanker
Random thought to make the setup easier to move; they have garden hose that flattens and rolls up. Very compact...
What a fantastic MACHINE he bee great vid and gold 👏
What angle do you set it up at?
It's very simple but the results are very satisfying 👍
That was a great video
Another great video Chris! Sorry about your kankles Gadzee! 😂
Thanks Chris!
Great vid
Sir I love your videos. They are great...🙂
CamLocks! Converted my brew system to cam locks. Instantly regretted not going for quick releases instead. Camlocks are a pain. They are meant to be deliberately hard to (accidentally) pop open for use with boiling fluids, but they are a fiddly pain the a.r.s.
First time viewer here
I'm curious if you do this as your main source of income or as a side hustle? Ib think this could be a decent hobby to get into (if I had somewhere to go....) but looks like it might be a costly hobby to start
Everytime I come across your videos the song I come from a land down under starts playing in my head. Thanks to you I now know what a Vegemite sandwiche is . LoL 😂
immediately opened the video with "throw a rock at your girlfriend or god will take them away" LMAO
Two man one jar was WILD 💀💀💀
Machine name...Ole' Faithful. First time to watch,had to subscribe. Enjoying from Texas 👍
Wasp stings don't hurt NEARLY as bad as bee stings! The problem with wasps is that they can sting you repeatedly and are SIGNIFICANTLY more aggressive (as stinging doesn't kill them). 🤷
When I watch Gold Rush with the larger wash plants they always say not to let your sluices run without material going through and always panic to shut the water off so not to wash away gold. Does this not happen with theses little sluice kits ?