Gravity Dredging, The Hunt Continues

We come up with some new ways to increase the capacity of our 2.5" gravity dredge. We use a 5 gallon bucket with some strategic holes and a 1/2" classifier screen to sort the material going into our hose.
We try our approach on two areas and come away with some gold.

[@albertcab]

Hello friends, greetings from Girona, Catalonia. Here I practice gravity dredging with a hose 100 meters long, about 330 feet, and with an inside diameter of only 1 "1/4
The results are very good as long as you have more than 10% drop. Delighted with your videos. Keep going!!!

[@PartridgeFamilyProspecting]

i know we have the fever!! im enjoying the vids!

[@UtahProspector]

Nice progress. Have you considered using a Y joint? Place the y below you. Y facing up, then use one hose as your suction, and the other place higher up in the stream. It will be your main source of power and your suction power will triple since it will now be working like a true jet dredge. Enjoy your videos keep em coming.

[@supahighent8223]

Need a further explanaition. thx

[@carlbole2142]

I agree...You could have one guy on a dry, warm float upstream dredging hardpan, while another person shovels a nice looking deep pool into a powerful Y connection downstream, with fancy grizzly bars and such, to make it easier, and count the nuggets, farther down, at the end of the day...Would this be legal where there is good pay, but no machinery is allowed, I wonder??? Sure would work dandy...

[@e.fifield9034]

if you use 1/2 inch mesh wire and bullet shape it over the inlet of the suction hose the bigger stones will just roll off the sides of the mesh and not clog the inlet. nice idea with the Y

[@andyamysarizonaadventures5450]

Enjoyed 🙂

[@old_gregam8274]

thats a good video

[@skeets6060]

OK this was 4 years ago,,any new updates?

[@leodwinak]

How many feet drop does it take to get a good suction?

[@ricksharp9428]

We got pretty good suction when we had a 10 foot drop over 100 feet