How to build a High Banker. (Gold Prospecting)
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Want to know how to build a high banker for gold prospecting?
In this video I show how I built my Highbanker. Building a high banker is not too difficult if you are a handyman and can use basic metal working tools. Finding gold with a high banker is much faster than panning for gold. Highbanking is at least 10 times faster than gold panning, when it comes to gold recovery. High banker setup and use is touched on but not really covered in this video. I also include pictures of gold I have recovered with this highbanker. How to build a highbanker sluice box.
Gold Owl Mats: / goldstreamplacer
This video is produced by Dan Hurd, Prospector, Miner, Teacher and RUclipsr, as part of his RUclips channel based on educational videos about gold mining, gold panning, prospecting, rock hounding, and mineral collecting.
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another great vid Dan....to much snow up there for me and Slim...like the design....we love using Doc's mat's too ....and a 2 inch pump.love the water feed with jets with that top feeder spray, we like using blue miners moss in the crash box with a 2 inch riser to act as a trap ....like to quick disconnect for the water line.... really good design Dan and great info... keep'em coming my friend.
Those are Gold Owl Mats in the top of the sluice Jeff. Id love you to get ahold of me about them, Dans has a link to my FB above. Thats not snow BTW, its just really hard water. :-)
Ask Jeff Williams when we going to see some content from you and slim?
i w2ould watch you again but . you have lost your mind to all the drugs / poison your eating.
@@theinternetisaseriesoftube5107 He who knows not of what he speaks, should not speak at all.
Yea, snow sucks. And, you might get a little cold! As for me, I'm looking forward to getting a little wet again! Keep up the great work Jeff.
You remind me of like a really cool substitute teacher thats really enthusiastic and hands on with teaching and outshines the regular teacher in every way.
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The longer the beard the more trustworthy a miner will be. Love your channel.
Good ideas here, very thorough explanations, and he's got a long beard so I can believe what he says.
^This comment is underrated 👏
beautiful home engineering! i love it.
i have used some ideas from this, and made a design of my own; a little larger and more robust for (shovel -> mini-excavator type use) so i was concerned about mobility. then after stepping outside this morning i saw my old dolly sitting there and thought to myself, "high banker frame on wheels!"
thank you Dan for the inspiration! earned my respect, like and subscription.
God bless!
I watch your videos a lot. This one is going to help me and my prospecting partner out a whole heap. We been trying to figure out a way to make one that works good and easy for somebody with a very bad back. We have made all our own equipment except for the pans and classifiers. With this video we can probably make us one now that we can handle and be happy with. Keep up the great work. So many kids are learning life by being in your classes and keeping their minds on learning and doing rather than drugs. THANK YOU.
The ring manifold to add strength, mass, inertia and balance without weight is an awesome design feature.
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Hey I know this is an old video. But in the last 5 10 years you've come a long way. I've even enjoyed your videos from when you were teaching your students a little bit about gold mining. I live in Humboldt County California probably one of the best gold mining areas except there's a million restrictions but I find myself watching more of your videos, then I do actually mining myself because it's just so hard to get away. I enjoy what you do thank you!
I completely agree my friend 😊, I know california HOLDS THE GOOD GOLD, lately in pennsylvania i've been looking for good quartz and their is ALOT of good stuff coming out of mountain near me, so i'm on the hunt for GOLD BABY!😊
I like what you've done with it. I think the use of the plastic wood really simplifies some of what I've been trying to deal with. I had originally discounted it as not durable enough to build prospecting equipment with, but you've definitely put it through enough abuse to disprove that! Thanks for the walk-through!
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Dan, you are the MAN. I've been asking for this and you delivered big time. Didn't even watch the video yet but I am going to go grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy this one. Awesome.
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I am here to learn and enjoy all your videos, Dan. Even the ones that find gold! LoL Thank you for your efforts to spread the love of prospecting.
thanks so much Dan i am working on my first highbanker i have only tested it the once but watching this i can see two vast improvements you have shown me to do to mine soon
I never would have thought that id like these style videos but I am absolutely loving it thank you and keep up the great work
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I have to say thanks for the amount of information you put in your videos.
Great detail on the high banker Dan.
Very similar to my Gold Hog
Raptor.
Good design and great pics of GOLD.
Greatings from Venezuela!!! Dan...with this explanation of your High Banker...I believe any one who knows use tools...can make its own...excelent!!! Even when I wont build one or use it here...for the purpose...I saw all the video and just can say...EXCELLENT.
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I think there is one thing missing, a name for your high banker. I have watched everyone of your videos, many twice. Never disappointed. This was a very informative video and it answered some questions for me as well for others, I hope. Beautiful gold. Gots to love it. Thanks Dan!
Thanks! A name hey...
@@Danhurddid you decide on one ?
I thoroughly enjoy your channel, even though I’m not a gold prospector. I’m a retired professional handyman who enjoys recreational metal detecting, but still find it fascinating to watch other forms of treasure hunting. I much prefer to make things if I can, rather than buying them whenever possible.
Keep enjoying what you do, and happy hunting to you and your family!👍👍
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Love this video, I like all aspects of mining. I love building my own tools and equipment. So when see your videos of builds it great.
Hello again Dan...you wanted any Ideas for your highbanker..Well I do have one..Take a 10 to 12 inch pipe and weld on two pieces of channel to the pipe that will fit through the leg slots of your highbanker near the folding portion where your grizzly is located...or use U-bolts and bolt to the channel...now the point is when the pipe is mounted under the body of the highbanker the bottom rests on the pipe and is held there by the 2 pieces of channel...the final portion is a pair of tires like say from a bike...bolted to a piece of rod being used as an axle which runs through the pipe..so now your highbanker is a wheelbarrow which you can push or pull by your self with all your hoses and pumps carried on top...and anything else you want to throw up there...when your afield..put on your lower legs, lift the highbanker off the axle and install your legs...It will save your back and allow you to move more gear at once...have a good day..👍
I don't go into many places where I could wheel anything in.
I always love your videos, Dan! Envious! We have so much hold here in the Willamette Valley mountainsides, and I'm stuck panning every flake by hand! Someday I'll get enough to buy or be able to afford the materials for a highbanker!!! I just use the old classifiers and pan method for now!
You can buy a decent highbanker for $280 and hook it up to a lawnmower battery. I recommend looking into them
Your students are so lucky.... I'm almost 40 and I wish I could of had you as a teacher in school. I've learned tons from you
Thankyou for posting this. I was wondering how to do this. Hope your week is off to a good start. Keep up the great work.
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Great video, have been wanting a high banker, and building it gives me a good project to work on with my son. Thanks!
Thank You Dan for this wonderfully informative video. Can't wait to see what else you'll teach us.
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I'm a new sub but have watched quit a few of your vids, your one of the best ones to watch. I am a prospector in Washington State and I love being able to see what you get in gold. Because it just makes me get up and go do some prospecting my self. But I for one love these videos as well because it gives me good ideas for my set up so thank you for that!!
Thanks for subscribing - glad you are enjoying the videos!
excellent video Dan, I really like that no welding involved and you did it all by hand, awesome work and keep them coming, cheers
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Thanks for putting the time into making this video, keep up the great work!
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Love your videos Dan. You're a great source of information and inspiration. Thank you.
Glad you are enjoying them!
I've looked a several highbankers and I like yours better than than any others I've looked at.
Great design Dan....thank you and your patreons. I enjoy watching.
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Very informative video Dan, love going back through the ones I missed
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Thank you so much for making this video.
I'm going to copy some of your ideas for the much smaller highbanker that I am making.
I like your high banker. Thank you for another very good video! Not to mention, I needed a good reason to buy a metal brake and a shear!
Keep at R Dan, great video as always, very educational. Great info for when I put together my own system. You've inspired me to get my Ontario Prospectors license this year, hope to put in claim #1 this summer. Thank you for all you post. D
Best of luck!
Thanks for the tour of your highbanker and the descriptions of what you did and how you made it. Also thanks for the pics of good for the good junkies.😁
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Love the design, great winter video. Ty
Great video Dan. They just made the dream mats, so I bet you would like to try them out possibly to see how well they work compared to the other mats. I had watched a video about feeding material through a high banker with bar magnets underneath to create black sand riffles. It looked like they created a hinge that bolted to the very top underneath the high banker. then at the bottom locked it in place. I bet an eyelet with a pin on each side would lock the magnetic plate in place. Else one long eyelet that goes all the way across. Then after run enough material, pull out the eyelet and all the black sand can be dropped into a bucket with a little bit of water feed. No black sand to deal with makes finding the gold a lot faster. You probably don't want all that black sand going into the crash box.
The dream mats have made me find a lot more gold that usually gets washed away from the miners moss sluice system with the plastic riffles as well. Having a flow rate I can control with a water pump has really helped compared to just throwing a sluice in the water and just using the current control the flow rate. My water powered sluice has levels built into it that helps me get it set correctly. It definitely helps to get set up. Where you want a nice even flow all the way across. Your system looks really professional. I like the metal fingers on your system. The jets facing up and the water jet going down is a great design that you have there. Those fingers are like classifiers. I could only imagine having various sets of those through a multiple stage system that places all the various sizes to their own section. Sometimes you lose gold by having bigger material crashing into smaller material. I could bee each area getting its own 5 gallon bucket. I usually end up only using 3 classification screens when I have to manually place them on top of a bucket and shaking them down each size till only the smallest screen size is what is in the bucket. I had recently used the water sluice over all of those classifiers to have a constant water flow and be able to shake the material through them a little faster. Looking through the bigger screens quickly and throwing out the bigger material that I didn't see gold. It all takes a lot of time to do all of that. But, way faster then pouring a small pot of water on top and shaking to get material to classify through. You tend to find a lot bigger pieces than I do. I haven't every found a piece in one of the classification screens. It is always found in the bucket. That's how small the gold we find here in Ohio. I am using the 3 biggest size classifier screens that are normally sold.
I noticed that the black sand carries a lot of gold hidden in it doing the backwash method. I ended up having to use a small brush to fan out some of the black sand and then using the long eye dropper to pick up the gold. Black sand isn't easy to deal with. Tapping the bowl and getting the gold up into the small riffles and sucking it up there has worked good for the very fine gold. It is when you have super tiny gold with bigger material that I tend to have some trouble. I can tell ya going through a bag of pay dirt take a very long time. So much micro gold just sticks to the pan everywhere and it is very hard to get it all to stay in one place. I have tried lots of methods. Backwash, tapping, and circular. That is when I found the brush method for the hidden gold. It definitely works. They said only a miller table can get to that fine gold. It can be done manually with a small brush and an eye dropper. Once it is separated and put into a bottle, it can always be gone through again with the eye dropper and clean all the junk from the gold. Sometimes I just suck up the non gold just to get rid of it so that I don't have to deal with it and put it into a small cup. Its time consuming, but I enjoy going through material. When you have a lot of material to go through, is when you really want to find a way to speed things up though. Especially when, you only got a few hours on a weekend before having to go back home. I built a water suction pump system that uses a water jet to create suction. It is battery powered. Found that a water transfer pump with only 35 PSI isn't really enough flow to create enough suction for a 1.5 inch PVC pipe. Normal water pressure for a house garden hose system is between 40 to 65 PSI. It makes a powerful stream many feet across the yard. But, not enough suction through a plumbers WYE to really pick up water. I bet the high PSI Power Washers that are gasoline powered would work really well. They get up to 3000 or higher PSI compared to electric versions which are more like 2100 PSI. I have a venturing curve in my design. As well as a brass garden hose set to steam mode to get the most PSI I can get. I did it this way so that I wouldn't clog up the pump and only use it to push water through the WYE to create the suction. At the end of it, you get the clean water combined with the material that is being sucked up through the other end of the WYE. A portable 18 Volt Milwakee battery and their M18 Water Transfer system would have been awesome. It is 35 PSI. So it can at least be a preamp module for a high pressure spray system that may need to be primed. The M18 self primes itself.
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Loving your videos Thanks for sharing. Keep it up 👍😊
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Thank you Dan. You never disappoint me with your great videos.
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Great video. Thanks for sharing. Trying to go back and catch all of your older videos. I would LOVE to pan for gold. Wish I was able. Oh well. At least I can watch your videos.
right on, nice video dan. again informative and nice seeing someones set ups and thoughts! hope youre doing well!
Thanks! Waiting for spring!
All of your videos are very informative. Watching them increases my belief that I can do this too. Nice that you do this in BC. Regards, Mark
Hi Dan , I really like your high banker it looks like you put a lot of time and work into this gold trap. I wrote down your verbl directions on paper and cant wait to start working on mine .
How'd it go?
A really welcome and timely video...Nice one Dan..good show..I got valuable ideas and images..
Love to see people shovelling big rocks in the crash box/hopper. I've nearly finished my stream sluice build, and can't wait till after Salmon spawning season to test!!! Great vid Dan
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Awesome info Dan! Thanks for your videos and knowledge! Stay well and HH, Aaron
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Another great video, thanks Dan. Perfect as always.
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Very nice Dan! It's a rough build in spots but, very well done indeed. Hey! as long as it serves the purpose which is keep the gold, it's awesome, and that's all their is to it! GREAT VIDEO.
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I was going to make a 12” wide high banker but in seeing that yours is 10” wide I’m starting to reconsider. Good point about the size making it easier to carry in.
Great video once again Dan!
I am also intresting the making the high banker . can you help me.
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I love your approach to this video, keep up the good work
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im 16 now and pretty interested in prospecting for gold and other minerals and ive got to say i really do like these vid you put out for us they are rich in knowledge and entertainment. also your beard is really great
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I'd like to design+build a Self-Sluicing Backpack Highbanker which can be comfortably carried into the scottish hills. It could involve repurposing a lightweight folding ironing board! & include a river-powered pump to pull water into it so no batteries/petrol/gas required. I might also try making a portable robust *inflatable gravel sluice. So, apart from building my large 3D XY Printer, that's my Give-It-a-Go Build Projects sorted for this year. Must find where you can buy that strong fake wood over here.. Keep making videos & smiling Dan.
Thanks! (Home depot is where I got the plastic wood)
Funny! I was talking about the same, a fold out system, also from Scotland. Did you ever complete the project ?
Whoa I almost missed an episode 😀 good thing I had another binge watching of all your episodes. Just make sure I didn't miss a like😁
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Thanks Dan - a great anatomy of a highbanker!
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Thanks for continuing your vids during winter .cant waight for. The snow to go so i can get some garnett
We got more snow last night...
Love it Dan!
Great Video Dan Hurd! I enjoyed it quite a lot, and I am a big fan of your BIG hopper!
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seeing gold is cool, you building catchment methods even cooler
great video.... so i am in the process of building a sluice box for home and am using the white board to build the box with. I have never built anything like this before so I am shooting from the hip so to speak. I also am making my own silicone mats just to see if I can. your video in detail has helped me with a few things on this project so thanks for that and hopefully this won't be a total fail....
"Everbody likes looking at gold!"..nuggets appear...Hilarious!!! Love it brother!!
Amazing design...love it!
You know it really took me a couple videos to warm up to you but I really love your videos I really love your input I think you're a great family guy and I love your enthusiasm keep up the good work I loved this video of you showing your high banker because I'm in Arizona and I have a dry wash that I could actually convert into a part time Hi banker if I wanted all I need to do is run different mats and water and I think I'd be OK
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Dan, your philosophy of feeding mass material vs. losing a little bit of gold is spot on!!! Secondly, the jets that shoot water UPHILL is absolutely perfect! One more compliment; the thin rubber dispersing mat on the sluice help insure an even spread of water and material. Darn fine job!!!
Great video as always. I enjoyed the way you assembled your high banker. I agree with you on finding more gold with a high banker but from your description I do not think I would find more gold with a high BAKER and I would definitely not eat any of his bake goods LOL. Keep the videos coming I enjoy and learn a lot from you.
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You did a great job. I consider myself a pretty good fabricated and I say you did a very good job.
I love it. Got to try this. Thank you so much.
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She’s a beauty,that hopper is a beast.I think I might have to ditch my spray bars for some jets like you run,I am over getting soaked from the constant mist from my spray bars.Great build Dan thanks for sharing
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Good job on the High Banker and the video !!!!
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Great idea for a vid. Cheers Dan!
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Awesome video Dan, what i would add is something to catch the thinest gold particles like an sponge or something like that.😀😀
Congratulation's, that looks like a very well thought out design.
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What in tarnation ya got there Hillbilly, a Highbanker? 😉Nice!.. Pictures of gold? It'll do! 😂👍Nice build Dan!🇺🇸⚒⛏
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Nice Build :) This Prospector approves
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Another great video
Thank you some of us do appreciate when you answer our questions and we appreciate the videos that are explaining what we're asking about thank you I do appreciate it as one of your fans and one of your Patriots please do not stop your videos like this we need more of them because no offense but there is a lot of dummies out there
I recently retired and am considering taking up gold and gem prospecting as a hobby and to travel to different parts of the USA. I would definitely add a couple of 4" wheels on one end to help with pulling it along trails to the water's edge.
Thanks Dan! I'm actually modifying my high banker for beach placer for Washington. Perfect timing.
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Great DIY-project !!! Thx for sharing !!!
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Ty Dan i really liked the idea's going to give it a try
another great idea and great video ain't it nice to be handy!
When i first saw thus sluce i thought it was a comerical built one. You did a very nice job making this one
Awesome video dude. I quite enjoyed the flashbacks! Well cut together as always. And hey! Dont worry about the haters, they're just jealous HAHA
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Just found your channel. enjoy watching your videos. some very informative stuff
Welcome to the channel!
Very Much appreciated you making this Video. Thanks!
Enjoyed the video very much!😀
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Thank you Dan for some more insight on sluiceing. But you only think you have snow
This is a cool video. I wish I lived in a state that let you keep the gold you find. Prospecting, would be a great hobby. Thank you for the videos.
Which commie state do you live?
@@dw4940 New York
Cool build !!
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New winter project! I'm going to build a high banker. TY
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It's good to know how to build your own box thanks for your support
Enjoy the lesson,thanks for sharing
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Very Cool Dan
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Love your channel keep uploading and making videos Mate.
We the opposite here no water at all so my highbanker dry but not Frozen.
Well a Big G'day from down here in Australia Mate.
(Still not enough Gold Mate haha)
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you ever find out what that gray nugget was from last year? was it platinum?
Finally Dan has to deal with some snow! :)
More last night
Great video!
I like it and have planned on building my own.I would have some footing on the legs for more stability and you could have made it shorter with a lip on the bottom with a second piece on underneath that slides out like a telescopic pole so it would collapse smaller for easy transport. But a little extra work for compact version. Love the videos!
Dan, it is YOUR channel. You make the content that YOU want to make. Viewers will either like it or not but that is THEIR problem, not yours. Love the information.
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Very well done!
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