Thanks for the kind compliments ! Glad you enjoyed it. Please visit my channel and check my three part tutorial series "Trommel Build" to make your own. While you're there, also check out "Latest Upgrades 2018" video for up to date versions. Best of luck to you !
Thank you ! Sold it a few years ago. Now I've developed something far superior called the Gold Rattler. Check it out when you have a chance. I will be scheduling Gold Rattler camps this fall at the claim.
Thanks for the nice compliments ! Please check out the other trommel videos on my channel. BTW, do you know there's a movie "Gods Army ?" Good luck prospecting !
I'd say you have done everything right. Recovery using water is much more efficient than dry washing. Electric motors are more efficient and reliable than gas engines. The tailings is where the gold is at because over the years the oversize that went through the old timers dry washers has been broken down by weathering. Nice design of equipment. My guess is that you had years of experience prior to this project or you did a lot of research. I have run a larger battery/solar trammel for over ten years, it is the only way to go. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the kind compliments Steve ! It takes more effort to set up, but "going wet" is definitely the way to go. You are correct regarding the tailings. Most of the good gold is on the surface and easy diggings. I have a theory that the bedrock material was the last thing they processed, which naturally would be on top of the pile. They also never had the convenience of a gas powered shop vac to suck up the bedrock crevasse. Finding lots of good "pickers" down there ! I've been a lode and placer miner for over 35 years as a hobby. I also build model airplanes and telescopes. Hope you've been successful with your wash plant over the years, and wish you good luck in your prospecting adventures !
Wow that is really cool it looks like it works You should let everyone know that when recirculating material you will lose about 35 gallons per yard. If it is hot or windy that number will increase. Looks like a simple quality product. Mark
Mark, I'm flattered to hear from a popular mining manufacturing company. Thank you for the kind compliments and comments. As you can tell, I'm using one of your A52 Sluices. I really like the fine ribbed matting on the head of the sluice. Traps a lot pickers ! Your comments regarding water usage is correct. I've also noticed if the material contains considerable moisture (substantial rain this past month) the water replenishment is reduced. Bone dry summer material will definitely be a different story. Thanks again. Best wishes in your prospecting adventures !
this is a kick-butt setup .. cleans the material and gives screening - I'll bet you could even do something with the 'waste' --- I'm not sure what that is but i'm sure it has value/purpose to somebody for something ....
Het thanks for the kind compliments Robert ! That's the video that got me started ! Didn't think I would get even a hundred views, let alone 600K ! Was totally floored ! That's why a produced the trommel build series. Hundreds of folks have built it. Kinda fun. 👍 Yeah, some folks thing I should sell the clay for pottery, while others, as a beauty facial treatment. Lol ! Thanks for watching, and good luck prospecting. 🤠⛏⚒👍
@@allansgoldmining That's amazing, it is a good and cost effective design, no wonder why it would be so popular. There prob. are alot of pottery needs for clay, just that shipping might get in the way. On the other hand, bentonite clay has alot of antitox properties - so as health remedy use, there is benefit. Not sure how much refining would be needed or if bentonite clay only comes from certain areas. I see here it says volcanic ash clay ... no volcanos in the area I take it ?
No volcanos in the area. Just extrusive or intrusive granite and ryholite. Most of gravel containing gold are metamorphic. My spoof on the cosmetic value would be it contained particles of gold to preserve beauty. 😆 !
Thanks Jeff. Much appreciated ! Check out my Trommel Build series. Step by step construction ideas. Best to you on your build, and good luck prospecting !! 👍👍👍
Your setup reminds me of a handyman who rides around here in a well kept old panel truck with 'Damn Foolish Notion' painted on the sides. He does pretty well and is proud to tell you his wife came up with his company's name.
Oh, no doubt ! Actually, it's forsake here in US. $350 US. Check out my latest invention called the Gold Rattler. ruclips.net/video/3xLrOrDDbgc/видео.html
Thanks Mike ! When I embarked on this project a couple years ago, I was surprised to find a multitude of DIY variations. Awesome to think there are many folks out there enjoying the same. Best wishes on your gold prospecting adventures !
Genius design , to wash 1,000 pounds of material with 100 gallons of water is amazing , great design , thanks for sharing here . Happy digging and good luck .
Thanks for the great compliments ! Glad you enjoyed the video. Currently designing a new trailer mounted wash plant that will use less than 100 gallons to process a cubic yard (2,200 lbs.). Best of luck to you prospecting !
Thanks for the kind comments Jay. Amazing to see this video over 650k views. Who would have thought ? Thanks for being a dedicated subscriber. Will be posting another video this Wednesday about the Pima Air & Space Museum....
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I love watching the adaptations of this type trommel. I know I will use this process in the future when I make it out west to do some prospecting. I'm looking forward to digging in something other than red clay ! Alan I wish you the best of luck out in the gold fields and thanks for sharing the details of your wash plant. I wish I had seen this video before I built my small trommel, I just have to build one of these along with the water filtering portion. We have been under drought conditions on our club's claims for several years now. Thanks again
Thank you for your kind compliments. Wish you good luck in your prospecting adventures ! In one of the washes on my property, I have found good gold in red clay. Very difficult to extract with a dry washer. Wash plant definitely makes a difference ! Due to high silt content in that clay, the feed rate needs to be reduced to give time for the dewatering trommel to catch up.
I don't plan on manufacturing this trommel. However, I invite you to visit my channel where you'll find a three-part series on how to build one. Video's 2 & 3 has a parts list at the end. Also watch my latest Gold Rattler wash plant videos. That's the machine I plan to manufacture. Best of luck prospecting !
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Thanks for your nice compliments ! Glad you enjoyed the video. Please check out my channel for more wash plant videos as well as the latest Upgrades. Best of luck to you prospecting!
@@allansgoldmining Your very welcome Allan. Yes, we are part of a rather large community. Gold prospecting is very much alive again. Looking forward to your videos.
Cost approx. $600, including two deep cycle batteries. The pump is a 12 volt SeaFlo at 3700gph. Since this video was produced, I have made a few improvements. Hope to have a new video in a couple months. Stay tuned !
nice I made one kind of like that good idea with the wiper motor. I got mine hook up to my jobe sluice and a gold cube and a hand crank. Great for packing in to thouse places way out there.load the dolly and go.
Thank you !! Glad you enjoyed it !! Please visit my channel for more videos, including my Trommel Build tutorials on how to make one. Best of luck to you ! 🤠⛏⚒👍
Great video Allan. Very unique design the way you are filtering the water through the bottom trommel. !/2 gram per yard is fairly meager unless you're able to crank out the yardage. The part I wouldn't like about reprocessing tailings is that there is little likelihood of ever hitting a nice nug. The nice part about it is the digging is much easier than virgin material. Maybe you'll find a nice stretch of unworked bedrock full of big stuff. Nice work. Keep it up!
Thanks for the kind compliments Nick ! it's amazing what the old timers left behind. Can only imagine the nice nuggets they found. However, they did a poor job cleaning bedrock. My shop vac takes total advantage of this. Finding nice pickers in the cracks ! Eventually, I'll find virgin ground. Best wishes in your prospecting adventures !
Love your channel name ! I'm a pilot too. Would like to try flex wing or paramotor. Thanks for watching ! It was my first wash plant video I ever posted on RUclips. A lot has evolved over the years ! Best of luck to you prospecting. 🤠⚒⛏👍👍👍
Thanks for the compliments Steve. Many years ago (1980's ?) Action Mining came out with a Gravity Wave Table that was very effective for fine gold recovery. They wanted way too much $$$, so I copied the designed for my own purpose. Worked exceptionally well recovering fine gold from our lode mining adventure. Perhaps you can do the same ?
Genius! My only concern was that the water flow across the sluice box was not uniform and laminar...it seemed to all rush to the right side (when looking uphill)...which then created a turbulent ridge of water all the way down the sluice box. I have always had the highest recovery when the flow profile was the same from wall to wall in the box...and considering how long I take to tune the box to find the "sweet spot" between angle, flowrate and riffle/moss sizes...the last thing I want to introduce is a wildcard like crazy flow. I think it boils down to the effective flowrate of the feed hopper/scrubber/spray head is not the same as the effective flowrate across the sluice box...you almost need a short circuit for some of the water leaving the first trommel to go directy back to the hopper/scrubber...maybe a dewatering screen over the flare end of the box into a secondary pump feeding the hopper.. You won't lose any gold, not even flour gold...because the water and any suspended sediment never leaves the system...and eventually it will all travel down the sluice. I know when it comes to gold mining, everyone thinks they are an expert...and at the end of the day, the proof is in the pan...but since you too are a fan of Gold Rush, see Season 2, Episode 7 to see why I am so crazy about sluice box flow. May you hit the Mother Lode!
Thanks for the compliments and comments Chuck. Actually I've made several modifications to the wash plant sense that video was posted. I had the same concerns. I plan to post an update video soon. In the meantime, you can log onto Ask Jeff Williams channel and view his trommel video from a couple months ago. I explain some of the modifications.
Awesome stuff Allen! Love the wash plant, love and appreciate the hard work that you do, showing greenhorns like myself and others ways to get going with common hardware store items and the insight behind it
Nope. Wash all rocks up to 4 inches. Larger stones I manually throw out. Thanks for watching ! Check my channel and the evolution of the wash plant. Good luck prospecting !
Glad you liked the videos. Yeah, give Snake River a call. They make a complete insert for your A52. I have in mine too ! Makes a huge difference, especially on the fine gold.
@@allansgoldmining already looked them up.. The idea of being able to put a finer Matt without the water rushing under it . is awesome.. I scrapped the idea of using V matting because it was letting water and pay dirt under the matting
@@allansgoldmining hey Allan if you're every in the Phoenix are the GPAP holds their meetings on the first Thursday each month if you could be a guest speaker some time they would love it.
Thanks for the compliments ! Wish the best on your wash plant design. Post a video when you get it running. Also, check out my video on how to improve dry washer recovery.
Thanks Frederick ! Glad you like it. This was my first wash plant video. It's amazing how many viewers have watched it over the past three years. Seems to be a lot of interest out there. 🤠⛏⚒
Thanks for your kind compliments Mark ! Check out my 3 part "Trommel Build" series on my channel. It will help up you all the details. A complete parts list is at the end of series 2. Best of luck to you on your prospecting adventures !
Most parts can be found in hardware store or online. Please watch my trommel build series. On the 2nd and 3rd video, I have a supply list at the end. Perhaps some items might not be available in your country, however, you might be able to modify the design to suit your needs. Best of luck to you ! 🤠⚒️⛏️👍
I will forward the videos and reply to my cousin. We want to start washing tailings for gold alongside the buying and selling business. Thank you so much for the valuable information@@allansgoldmining
Awesome set up bro. All you need is a Renogy 100 watts 12 volts monocrystalline foldable solar suitcase hooked up to those batteries to keep them in good working order for endless run times. Best of luck to you.
Thanks Joe ! Yeah, I've been thinking about something like that. Also considering a wind generator. Currently, the two deep cycles give me about 7 hours of power. By then I'm tired shoveling ! LOL ! Good luck with your prospecting adventures too !
I'm just like all the rest, but I'm sure you like to hear it, that is a COOL MACHINE I will build one like it one day. That makes it so much easier to go after desert gold.
Hi Keith. Thanks for the kind compliments ! Glad you like the video. Hope can build one soon and find some gold ! Check out my tutorial videos on how to build a trommel. Lots of good pointers. I will be coming out with a new video soon, detailing a few modifications to the wash plant. Keep in touch by subscribing. Best wishes to you in your prospecting adventures !
I really like what you have made hear. I have a few questions. 1. How long have you been using this set up? Break downs? And 2. What % do you figure you are getting?
Thanks for your questions my Fellow Deplorable ! It has been used over 2 years. Had to replace drive motor when a huge rock jammed the trommel causing the mount to break. Other then that, its been running well. Check out my latest videos and up grades for more details. Best of luck prospecting !
Thanks for the compliments Marshall. It takes about 15 minutes to set up. You can see in the video, there are green fence posts driven into the ground. There are hooks attached for the trommel and sluice to rest on. These remain on site and pre set to the proper angles. Each time I arrive on site, I simply drop the equipment into place. Recovery rate is about 98%. Best wishes to you and your prospecting adventures.
Hi Allan, I really liked your set up. A few years ago I thought I would love to be doing what you are doing, it looks like fun work with a chance of a Jackpot. It beats setting at home on your butt. Your equipment is well designed and except for your water trailer it doesn't look like you have a lot invested. Although you would never see it, but being born under the sign of Aries I can be a very impatient person, so the panning would be work for me. LOL A few years ago I came across a built gold reclaim machine called "The Gold Lab". All the parts including the battery fit into a plastic tote. Once you classified the pay the machine did all the work. I did go back to their website and it looks like there hasn't been much activity in several months. I could see this machine going hand in hand with your machine. Plus 'The Gold Lab' doesn't use much water. If you haven't seen the video's on 'The Gold Lab', you might enjoy watching how they had designed the machine. They said it caught all the gold including the 'flower gold'. Take care and be well. The Best of Luck. Bill
Hi Bill. Thanks for the compliments and ideas. I checked out the Gold Lab videos. Quite an interesting set-up for feeding a Blue Bowl. Normally, I pan the sluice cons with a Fossicker Maverick Pan (sold by Snake River Products) which makes quick work of ridding the light stuff. From there, I classify the cons into 20, 40, 60 mesh, then feed into the Blue Bowl. So much easier than panning all those fines ! The panning in the video was for demonstration only. Wish you good luck in your prospecting adventures !
Hallo Allan, I can't take my eyes of your invention!.. I keep coming back here to see and to observe the simplicity of your work art!.. The gold is where is...but surely having the good equipment does prevent you from feeling disappointed most of the time. Set up is so good, it would probably pass our BC regulations where you can't dump the tailings near the running creeks, and this is mostly where there is lots of floating flakes and dust. I am wondering if this set up would allow to keep the flour gold as well?.. I using the pan, found areas where the flour makes the black sand almost yellow, but seperating it,....is another story!.. Thank you for sharing your invention, and explaining the whole process and materials used!.. This is very informative.
Hi Albin. Glad you're enjoying the video ! Thank you for your kind compliments. Yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't work for you in BC and dealing with regulations. I recently posted a video on how to build a trommel. It's a 3 part series. Parts 1 & 2 are posted. Part 3 should be up soon. Search Allan's Gold Mining Wash Plant - Trommel Build (part 1) or (part 2). Good luck with your prospecting adventures !
Oh, man you are busy!.. I am also, but removing the snow from the driveway, and the road connecting me to the rest of the world!. This is the reason I am so much on the internet, because at times there is no way out of here!..so much I got this winter. When it all is gone, I will try to find time to look at the grounds!.. Thank you for posting your inventions!.. Lovely work, and the mind behind it!..
Actually, the plastic buckets will rot faster in the sun. However, my unit stays in a shed when not in use. So, it should last a very long time. Thanks !
Very impressed. Question, do you run your tailings though once more or ? Just finished my first trommel build, working on the wash system now cant wait to find those old timer tailing piles! Thanks for your insight and painless viewing experience, actually enjoyed wathing very much. Michael T. Parma Idaho.
It looks amazing. Seriously! I am trying to get a recirculating set up build that fits on my trailer so I can take it around and prospect in san diego. My question to you is, how do you deal with the specific gravity of the water changing over time? I notice that my recovery rates start to go to junk very quick. I have been working on a cyclone separator in hopes of getting a better separation of water and material. Once the water collects enough material and the specific gravity goes up all the flour gold is lost and as we both know thats MOST of whats out there to recover. How much recovery do you get off air sifted tailings must be super nice to scoop right off the top with no over burden.
Thanks for your compliments and questions. I have a considerable amount of flower gold on my property too. Your concerns regarding water viscosity are very important. I generally purge the water (about 40 gallons) every half yard. This may vary depending on silt or clay content. For example, this past weekend I was working bedrock, which had low silt content, so I ran the plant most of the day without purging. I like your idea of a cyclone. Would certainly do a good job separating, especially if you could get it to work with a 200 mesh screen. Wish all the best in your prospecting adventures !
In this particular video I was using a 12 volt 3500 gph bilge pump. Currently use a 1 1/2" gas powered semi-trash pump. Please check out some of my latest wash plant videos. Thanks for watching !
When I complemented you on finding gold in tailings I should have clarified that more. In dry climates caliche often cements some of the gravels. Some of that caliche cemented gravels would have been oversize to the previous dry washers. After decades on the surface the oversize cemented gravels become weathered and easily release their gold when washed.
Hi Steve. I understood what you meant. I just got off track a bit. These piles were created back in the 1920's. So, your comment is very true. I have peeled off the top layer of the coarse tailings, down to the sedimentation level. By golly, I found gold there too !
I like the simplicity of your build and may have found a new project for this winter. I will disagree with your explanation of how the riffles work, though. They don't create a suction, if they did then all the light material would get sucked in first and just load up the riffles. What actually happens is, they create a "dead zone" or "drop zone" which drops out all the heavies and the light material keeps flowing through and off the end. But good video anyway.
OffGridBC Thank you for your comments. Actually my analysis is correct. It's simple property of fliud dynamics. As a fluid, including air, flow over a barrier, it creates a pocket of negative pressure. As velocity increases, so does this negative pressure (suction). What's happening within this zone is key. A vortex is created. For those of us who fly airplanes and gliders, we call it a "rotor". This rotor keeps the riffles from packing with black sand. Gold being heavier engages this vortex (rotor) between the boundary layer and is pulled into the riffles. Lighter material is expelled.
You did a great job designing your system for the location. Well done. Thx. P.S. I visited your site and subscribed because I saw you on Jeff Williams' channel.
Thanks Randy for compliments and subscribe. Glad you liked the video. Will post more soon. Isn't Jeff Williams videos fun to watch ?! Best wishes on your prospecting adventures !
Thanks for your questions. The black sand is mostly magnetite and other ferris oxides. Takes about 15 -25 hours to build wash plant, provided you have all the materials. Check out my Trommel Build series on my channel.
That's great ! Check out my 3 part Trommel Build series on how to make one. At the end of parts 2 & 3 I include a supply list. Best of luck to you ! 🤠⚒⛏👍
Outstanding alternative for desertplacer mining. Curious though, 100 gallons will wash a yard beore becoming too think with dissolved solids? I think thats what I heard and interpreted. So how many yards did you run for this video? Not challenging you at all, just trying to wrap my head around logistics. Very nice bit of engineering. Heavy pans
Hi Dan. It's amazing how much more gold I'm recovering "going wet" compared to my dry washer ! You are correct. There is a certain amount of silt that accumulates. Generally, I run approximately 1/2 ton before purging the primary and secondary tubs (approximately 40 gallons). Also use Jet Dry. This acts like flocculent, causing the silt to settle, significantly reducing any becoming recirculated. The gold panning at the end of this video is one of three (3) pans of sluice concentrates, after running about 500lbs. Let me know if you have any more questions. Best wishes on your prospecting ventures !
Thanks Allan, how long does it take you to run a half ton? Then do you just dump and refill? Looks like you have a serious water hauler in the background which has to make life easier.
Hi Dan. Depending on how energitic I feel, it takes about 2 hours to process a half ton. I I muck the tubs with a shovel, then replenish with fresh water. That's a 500 gallon tank used to haul water to my remote ranch house. For processing, I generally only fill it half. Although this wet process requires considerably more equipment than dry washing, but results are impressive.
Allan Guthmiller hope you still monitor the comments. You throw out the muddy water? Do you not own the claim or at least rent it? I'd think you would want to put the water into a $10 kiddy pool to allow to act as a settling pond or something seems like a waste of a valuable resource
Love this thing have made first trommel outer cylinder but I'm having difficulty fitting the pillow block bearings to the conduit w/o alot of grinding . Was that your experience? Maybe manufactures vary some?
The inside diameter of the conduit is about 1" depending on manufacturer. In order to adapt with the 1" bearings, I purchased a 1" x 18" swamp cooler blower fan steel shaft from Home Depot. Cut off 4" and inserted about 2" of this shaft into the conduit. Then drilled a hole perpendicular to the conduit / shaft, and placed a 10/24 bolt to hold things together. This made it easier to use swamp cooler bearings, collars, etc. You can purchase bearing that will fit the conduit perfectly, but they much more expensive, plus you would need to machine you own collars. Hope this helps.
Allan Guthmiller Ah hah! The secret is revieled. Thank you Sir! Yay no more grinding! Your ingenious idea has me so inspired. Got a GM v/sat to check for nugs. We got most items ordered so by February hope to be golden. Thank you so much for connecting the dots will old timer tails.
Sorry I could squeeze a lot of fine details in the video. Would make it too boring. I'm thinking about creating videos on trommel build basics, and a few modifications I've made over the past year. Looks like you're almost done. Let me know if you have any further questions, and best of luck to you locating that shiny yellow metal !
Allan Guthmiller I disagree. Alot of folk watch RUclips for entertainment. I use it to learn. People need the information. Boring is just another term for I don't wanna learn. Imho.
Thats a bloody beauty , i might slow the water down a bit and possibly add a sideways vibration on the sluice .That will do sapphires etc as well as gold and not expensive ,good stuff .
Thanks Mark. Glad you like it ! I have a new video coming out soon demonstrating the latest upgrades, including a new sluice riffle system and guide channels to stabilize the material as it enters the sluice. Also decreased water volume to 2,000 gph. I don't have sapphires on my claim, but nice garnets. Best of luck to you and your prospecting adventures !
Just found this channel.
Hello from Rhode Island
Welcome to the channel. I have a good variety of mining videos. Enjoy ! 👍⛏️⚒️🤠
This is the best setup for 2 People that i have seen so far !
Thanks for the kind compliments ! Glad you enjoyed it. Please visit my channel and check my three part tutorial series "Trommel Build" to make your own. While you're there, also check out "Latest Upgrades 2018" video for up to date versions. Best of luck to you !
@@allansgoldmining Thank you sir Allan !
nicely done Allan, really like the de-watering screen.
Jeff and Slim
Thanks Jeff ! Hope to see you out there sometime. Good luck !
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Ask Jeff Williams do you plan on coming back to northern nevada? love your videos, thanks paul
@kimdaviscali You clearly have no clue what your talking about....
If you ever got the chance to meet Jeff Williams youd know hes a great guy. Youre just jealous hes living the dream because he knows what hes doing.
very clever on the water reclaimation
Thanks Steve. Please check out my videos over the years and watch the evolution up to 2021 !
Jeff Williams sent me here. What a nice guy. You have an excellent system there.
Thanks for the compliments ! Good luck to you in your gold prospecting adventures !
Awesome set up. Would love to watch this in person.
Thank you ! Sold it a few years ago. Now I've developed something far superior called the Gold Rattler. Check it out when you have a chance. I will be scheduling Gold Rattler camps this fall at the claim.
That is the most awesome homemade wash plant that I’ve seen yet! Good job bro💯🙌🏻
Thanks for the nice compliments ! Please check out the other trommel videos on my channel. BTW, do you know there's a movie "Gods Army ?" Good luck prospecting !
I'd say you have done everything right. Recovery using water is much more efficient than dry washing. Electric motors are more efficient and reliable than gas engines. The tailings is where the gold is at because over the years the oversize that went through the old timers dry washers has been broken down by weathering. Nice design of equipment. My guess is that you had years of experience prior to this project or you did a lot of research. I have run a larger battery/solar trammel for over ten years, it is the only way to go. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the kind compliments Steve ! It takes more effort to set up, but "going wet" is definitely the way to go. You are correct regarding the tailings. Most of the good gold is on the surface and easy diggings. I have a theory that the bedrock material was the last thing they processed, which naturally would be on top of the pile. They also never had the convenience of a gas powered shop vac to suck up the bedrock crevasse. Finding lots of good "pickers" down there ! I've been a lode and placer miner for over 35 years as a hobby. I also build model airplanes and telescopes. Hope you've been successful with your wash plant over the years, and wish you good luck in your prospecting adventures !
Very good description cool 😎
Thanks Larry. Be sure to check some my latest videos when you get a chance. Thanks for watching !
You sir are a true hacker, love your machine! Been thinking about getting into gold mining and this is almost exactly how I envisioned it.
Go for it Tyler ! Plenty of yellow metal still out here ! Good luck to you in your prospecting adventures.
Wow that is really cool it looks like it works You should let everyone know that when recirculating material you will lose about 35 gallons per yard. If it is hot or windy that number will increase. Looks like a simple quality product.
Mark
Mark, I'm flattered to hear from a popular mining manufacturing company. Thank you for the kind compliments and comments. As you can tell, I'm using one of your A52 Sluices. I really like the fine ribbed matting on the head of the sluice. Traps a lot pickers ! Your comments regarding water usage is correct. I've also noticed if the material contains considerable moisture (substantial rain this past month) the water replenishment is reduced. Bone dry summer material will definitely be a different story. Thanks again. Best wishes in your prospecting adventures !
That is quite a set up you got there, and that is a nice amount of gold.
Thanks ! Enjoyed watching some of your videos too. Good luck in your adventures !
That has got to be the coolest set up I've ever seen. My hat goes of to you.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Please check out my channel for more !
this is a kick-butt setup ..
cleans the material and gives screening - I'll bet you could even do something with the 'waste' ---
I'm not sure what that is but i'm sure it has value/purpose to somebody for something ....
Het thanks for the kind compliments Robert ! That's the video that got me started ! Didn't think I would get even a hundred views, let alone 600K ! Was totally floored ! That's why a produced the trommel build series. Hundreds of folks have built it. Kinda fun. 👍 Yeah, some folks thing I should sell the clay for pottery, while others, as a beauty facial treatment. Lol ! Thanks for watching, and good luck prospecting. 🤠⛏⚒👍
@@allansgoldmining That's amazing, it is a good and cost effective design, no wonder why it would be so popular.
There prob. are alot of pottery needs for clay, just that shipping might get in the way.
On the other hand, bentonite clay has alot of antitox properties - so as health remedy use, there is benefit. Not sure how much refining would be needed or if bentonite clay only comes from certain areas. I see here it says volcanic ash clay ... no volcanos in the area I take it ?
No volcanos in the area. Just extrusive or intrusive granite and ryholite. Most of gravel containing gold are metamorphic. My spoof on the cosmetic value would be it contained particles of gold to preserve beauty. 😆 !
@@allansgoldmining and you wouldn't be wrong, ave of a few ppb for certain !
This is awesome!!! I have to build this!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, I really appreciate it!!
Thanks Jeff. Much appreciated ! Check out my Trommel Build series. Step by step construction ideas. Best to you on your build, and good luck prospecting !! 👍👍👍
that is class well done great build and vid thanks for showing us
Thanks for the compliments. Glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck in your prospecting adventures !
Your setup reminds me of a handyman who rides around here in a well kept old panel truck with 'Damn Foolish Notion' painted on the sides. He does pretty well and is proud to tell you his wife came up with his company's name.
Ha ha ! Great story ! He must be a gold miner too ! 🤠⚒⛏👍
I love DIY stuff and this is real a nice one.
Great unit and thankyou for showing it off. Could have used something like this last year.
Thanks Mark ! Good luck in your prospecting adventures !
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Oh, no doubt ! Actually, it's forsake here in US. $350 US. Check out my latest invention called the Gold Rattler.
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Beautiful adaptation of Mike's Trommel ......
Thanks Mike ! When I embarked on this project a couple years ago, I was surprised to find a multitude of DIY variations. Awesome to think there are many folks out there enjoying the same. Best wishes on your gold prospecting adventures !
Genius design , to wash 1,000 pounds of material with 100 gallons of water is amazing , great design , thanks for sharing here . Happy digging and good luck .
Thanks for the great compliments ! Glad you enjoyed the video. Currently designing a new trailer mounted wash plant that will use less than 100 gallons to process a cubic yard (2,200 lbs.). Best of luck to you prospecting !
This is brilliant!
Thanks !! Check out my trommel build series if you want to make one. 👍
Pure Genius! You Sir, "Rock"!! Thank you for sharing?
What a rad setup! Subscribed.
Thanks for watching and the Subscribe, Bro ! Best of luck to you !!
Wow, it seems like just yesterday that I found you. Thank you for your videos.
I hope to see your new videos soon.
Thanks for the kind comments Jay. Amazing to see this video over 650k views. Who would have thought ? Thanks for being a dedicated subscriber. Will be posting another video this Wednesday about the Pima Air & Space Museum....
sweet setup! looking to do some gold mining soon
thanks for all the videos
Thanks for watching. Enjoy your trommel build, and good luck prospecting !
Brilliant design! thanks for showing us mate best of luck!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Best to you gold prospecting !
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I love watching the adaptations of this type trommel. I know I will use this process in the future when I make it out west to do some prospecting.
I'm looking forward to digging in something other than red clay !
Alan I wish you the best of luck out in the gold fields and thanks for sharing the details of your wash plant.
I wish I had seen this video before I built my small trommel, I just have to build one of these along with the water filtering portion. We have been under drought conditions on our club's claims for several years now.
Thanks again
Thank you for your kind compliments. Wish you good luck in your prospecting adventures ! In one of the washes on my property, I have found good gold in red clay. Very difficult to extract with a dry washer. Wash plant definitely makes a difference ! Due to high silt content in that clay, the feed rate needs to be reduced to give time for the dewatering trommel to catch up.
What a very good idea Allen good job
Thanks John ! Hope you a chance to view my trommel build videos. Also have a mod for dry washer.
How much to have you build on an how long does it take you to build one ? Jest the first trommel.
I don't plan on manufacturing this trommel. However, I invite you to visit my channel where you'll find a three-part series on how to build one. Video's 2 & 3 has a parts list at the end. Also watch my latest Gold Rattler wash plant videos. That's the machine I plan to manufacture. Best of luck prospecting !
Love the ingenuity. Well done!
Thanks Mike ! Wish you best in your prospecting adventures !
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I'm very impressed with your trommel build. I think this is a great idea. Not to hard to build at all. Going to have to build one too!
Go for it Jimmy ! You'll have a good time finding gold with it ! Best of luck !
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Great job Allen. 😁🤙
Very nice set up. Thanks for the video
Excellent design! Looks like it works very well! Great job!
Thanks for your compliments ! Check out my new wash plant video with the latest upgrades. It's working very well, and recovering good gold !
That's quite an impressive machine.
Nice job! Great use of materials!!
Wow, nicely done! What a set-up- good work!
Thanks for your nice compliments ! Glad you enjoyed the video. Please check out my channel for more wash plant videos as well as the latest Upgrades. Best of luck to you prospecting!
Dude, you're a mechanical genius... Great project...
Thanks !! Glad you enjoyed it ! More stuff on my channel. Subscribe, to keep updated on new creations. 🤠
SWEET, I brought the view count to 2K!! Hello Allen! Joseph here from the YFRC. Allow me to say before your in, WELCOME TO THE CLUB.
Thanks for your kind words. Glad to be a part of this group. Amazing how many folks out there are interested in gold prospecting !
@@allansgoldmining Your very welcome Allan. Yes, we are part of a rather large community. Gold prospecting is very much alive again. Looking forward to your videos.
What was your cost on making this? Also, what pump are you using to move the water?
Cost approx. $600, including two deep cycle batteries. The pump is a 12 volt SeaFlo at 3700gph. Since this video was produced, I have made a few improvements. Hope to have a new video in a couple months. Stay tuned !
nice I made one kind of like that good idea with the wiper motor. I got mine hook up to my jobe sluice and a gold cube and a hand crank. Great for packing in to thouse places way out there.load the dolly and go.
Josh Fulton Thank you for sharing. Fun stuff, isn't it ? Good luck finding the big one !
Very good. Liked from Brazil. Exemple for word.
That’s a pretty awesome setup you built!!! Great job!!
Thank you !! Glad you enjoyed it !! Please visit my channel for more videos, including my Trommel Build tutorials on how to make one. Best of luck to you ! 🤠⛏⚒👍
Great video Allan. Very unique design the way you are filtering the water through the bottom trommel. !/2 gram per yard is fairly meager unless you're able to crank out the yardage. The part I wouldn't like about reprocessing tailings is that there is little likelihood of ever hitting a nice nug. The nice part about it is the digging is much easier than virgin material.
Maybe you'll find a nice stretch of unworked bedrock full of big stuff. Nice work. Keep it up!
Thanks for the kind compliments Nick ! it's amazing what the old timers left behind. Can only imagine the nice nuggets they found. However, they did a poor job cleaning bedrock. My shop vac takes total advantage of this. Finding nice pickers in the cracks ! Eventually, I'll find virgin ground. Best wishes in your prospecting adventures !
Cool setup man! I like your finishing / clean-up pan. I’ve got two of those and they’re great! Happy prospecting!
Love your channel name ! I'm a pilot too. Would like to try flex wing or paramotor. Thanks for watching ! It was my first wash plant video I ever posted on RUclips. A lot has evolved over the years ! Best of luck to you prospecting. 🤠⚒⛏👍👍👍
Waou f.... Nice machine ❤❤😮
Thanks bro. I have a trommel build series if you want to make one. 👍
Good work. I watched this back when you first made it. You pay way more attention to detail than I do. =)
Thanks for the kind compliments ! Good luck in your prospecting adventures !
Two thumbs way up! I need to get something like this set up!
Go for it, Dean ! Not hard to build. Good luck finding yellow metal !
Impressive! Thank you for sharing.
Now please just invent a gold recovery table for final processing of fine gold.
Thanks for the compliments Steve. Many years ago (1980's ?) Action Mining came out with a Gravity Wave Table that was very effective for fine gold recovery. They wanted way too much $$$, so I copied the designed for my own purpose. Worked exceptionally well recovering fine gold from our lode mining adventure. Perhaps you can do the same ?
Genius!
My only concern was that the water flow across the sluice box was not uniform and laminar...it seemed to all rush to the right side (when looking uphill)...which then created a turbulent ridge of water all the way down the sluice box.
I have always had the highest recovery when the flow profile was the same from wall to wall in the box...and considering how long I take to tune the box to find the "sweet spot" between angle, flowrate and riffle/moss sizes...the last thing I want to introduce is a wildcard like crazy flow.
I think it boils down to the effective flowrate of the feed hopper/scrubber/spray head is not the same as the effective flowrate across the sluice box...you almost need a short circuit for some of the water leaving the first trommel to go directy back to the hopper/scrubber...maybe a dewatering screen over the flare end of the box into a secondary pump feeding the hopper..
You won't lose any gold, not even flour gold...because the water and any suspended sediment never leaves the system...and eventually it will all travel down the sluice.
I know when it comes to gold mining, everyone thinks they are an expert...and at the end of the day, the proof is in the pan...but since you too are a fan of Gold Rush, see Season 2, Episode 7 to see why I am so crazy about sluice box flow.
May you hit the Mother Lode!
Thanks for the compliments and comments Chuck. Actually I've made several modifications to the wash plant sense that video was posted. I had the same concerns. I plan to post an update video soon. In the meantime, you can log onto Ask Jeff Williams channel and view his trommel video from a couple months ago. I explain some of the modifications.
Awesome stuff Allen! Love the wash plant, love and appreciate the hard work that you do, showing greenhorns like myself and others ways to get going with common hardware store items and the insight behind it
Thank you for your kind compliments. Glad help inspire folks to enjoy gold prospecting. Best of luck to you !
Do you classify all the material before you run it through that Trammell?
Nope. Wash all rocks up to 4 inches. Larger stones I manually throw out. Thanks for watching ! Check my channel and the evolution of the wash plant. Good luck prospecting !
awesome video thank you for sharing...
Thanks for sharing. You're a gem mate.
Thanks ! Glad you enjoyed the video. Please check out my channel for latest upgrades and other equipment. Best of luck to you prospecting !
thank you for showing that product from Snake River.. thats exactly what I have been looking for, for my A52...
Glad you liked the videos. Yeah, give Snake River a call. They make a complete insert for your A52. I have in mine too ! Makes a huge difference, especially on the fine gold.
@@allansgoldmining already looked them up.. The idea of being able to put a finer Matt without the water rushing under it . is awesome.. I scrapped the idea of using V matting because it was letting water and pay dirt under the matting
I agree. You really don't need the V mat. The staked double V does it all ! Good luck prospecting !
@@allansgoldmining hey Allan if you're every in the Phoenix are the GPAP holds their meetings on the first Thursday each month if you could be a guest speaker some time they would love it.
Be glad to. I'm speaking to Mojave Prospectors Association next week. Email me at: allan.goldmining@gmail.com
Wow nice on the Trommel one of the best Idea's I have seen. I have an invention in my head for dry & wet
Thanks for the compliments ! Wish the best on your wash plant design. Post a video when you get it running. Also, check out my video on how to improve dry washer recovery.
@@allansgoldmining I do that
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wow that looks nice good job , keep going.
Great concept and creativity
Nice video Sr. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Thanks Erwin. Glad you enjoyed it. Good luck prospecting !
WOW Allan wickid cool machine and video love it
Thanks Frederick ! Glad you like it. This was my first wash plant video. It's amazing how many viewers have watched it over the past three years. Seems to be a lot of interest out there. 🤠⛏⚒
I think this is a great design , i will build similar to wash for topaz / sapphire etc and a ripple board for fines and possible gold . EXCELLENT !!
Thanks for your kind compliments Mark ! Check out my 3 part "Trommel Build" series on my channel. It will help up you all the details. A complete parts list is at the end of series 2. Best of luck to you on your prospecting adventures !
Great engineering, just like the large sluices
Would be nice having this awesome plant in Ghana for small scale mining.
Most parts can be found in hardware store or online. Please watch my trommel build series. On the 2nd and 3rd video, I have a supply list at the end. Perhaps some items might not be available in your country, however, you might be able to modify the design to suit your needs. Best of luck to you ! 🤠⚒️⛏️👍
I will forward the videos and reply to my cousin. We want to start washing tailings for gold alongside the buying and selling business. Thank you so much for the valuable information@@allansgoldmining
Awesome set up bro. All you need is a Renogy 100 watts 12 volts monocrystalline foldable solar suitcase hooked up to those batteries to keep them in good working order for endless run times. Best of luck to you.
Thanks Joe ! Yeah, I've been thinking about something like that. Also considering a wind generator. Currently, the two deep cycles give me about 7 hours of power. By then I'm tired shoveling ! LOL ! Good luck with your prospecting adventures too !
I used this same set up to clean hydroton. Works great.
Hydroton is still available. Last I see it had crazy amounts of salt in it and they discontinued making it.
Nice build Allan, thanks for sharing :)
I'm just like all the rest, but I'm sure you like to hear it, that is a COOL MACHINE I will build one like it one day. That makes it so much easier to go after desert gold.
Hi Keith. Thanks for the kind compliments ! Glad you like the video. Hope can build one soon and find some gold ! Check out my tutorial videos on how to build a trommel. Lots of good pointers. I will be coming out with a new video soon, detailing a few modifications to the wash plant. Keep in touch by subscribing. Best wishes to you in your prospecting adventures !
Perfect setup just keep lookin and postin ))
Thank you ! Check out more wash plant videos on my channel. Good luck prospecting !!
Very ingenious! Very impressive! Good Luck to you.
Thanks Egon ! Same to you in your prospecting adventures !
Smart engineering and conceptual approach....
very good! Like this system.
I really like what you have made hear. I have a few questions. 1. How long have you been using this set up? Break downs? And 2. What % do you figure you are getting?
Thanks for your questions my Fellow Deplorable ! It has been used over 2 years. Had to replace drive motor when a huge rock jammed the trommel causing the mount to break. Other then that, its been running well. Check out my latest videos and up grades for more details. Best of luck prospecting !
Simple is best.
How long does it take to set up and level?
What was your recovery rate per 5 gallon bucket of input material?
Thanks for the compliments Marshall. It takes about 15 minutes to set up. You can see in the video, there are green fence posts driven into the ground. There are hooks attached for the trommel and sluice to rest on. These remain on site and pre set to the proper angles. Each time I arrive on site, I simply drop the equipment into place. Recovery rate is about 98%. Best wishes to you and your prospecting adventures.
Hi Allan, I really liked your set up. A few years ago I thought I would love to be doing what you are doing, it looks like fun work with a chance of a Jackpot. It beats setting at home on your butt. Your equipment is well designed and except for your water trailer it doesn't look like you have a lot invested. Although you would never see it, but being born under the sign of Aries I can be a very impatient person, so the panning would be work for me. LOL A few years ago I came across a built gold reclaim machine called "The Gold Lab". All the parts including the battery fit into a plastic tote. Once you classified the pay the machine did all the work. I did go back to their website and it looks like there hasn't been much activity in several months. I could see this machine going hand in hand with your machine. Plus 'The Gold Lab' doesn't use much water. If you haven't seen the video's on 'The Gold Lab', you might enjoy watching how they had designed the machine. They said it caught all the gold including the 'flower gold'. Take care and be well. The Best of Luck. Bill
Hi Bill. Thanks for the compliments and ideas. I checked out the Gold Lab videos. Quite an interesting set-up for feeding a Blue Bowl. Normally, I pan the sluice cons with a Fossicker Maverick Pan (sold by Snake River Products) which makes quick work of ridding the light stuff. From there, I classify the cons into 20, 40, 60 mesh, then feed into the Blue Bowl. So much easier than panning all those fines ! The panning in the video was for demonstration only. Wish you good luck in your prospecting adventures !
Nice work love the video
Thanks for sharing life with enthusiasm,i likie
im gonna give you a new name after seeing your genius gold trommel. the gold nerd
Ha ha ! I like it Marko. Thanks for viewing. Enjoy !!
Hallo Allan, I can't take my eyes of your invention!.. I keep coming back here to see and to observe the simplicity of your work art!.. The gold is where is...but surely having the good equipment does prevent you from feeling disappointed most of the time. Set up is so good, it would probably pass our BC regulations where you can't dump the tailings near the running creeks, and this is mostly where there is lots of floating flakes and dust. I am wondering if this set up would allow to keep the flour gold as well?.. I using the pan, found areas where the flour makes the black sand almost yellow, but seperating it,....is another story!.. Thank you for sharing your invention, and explaining the whole process and materials used!.. This is very informative.
Hi Albin. Glad you're enjoying the video ! Thank you for your kind compliments. Yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't work for you in BC and dealing with regulations. I recently posted a video on how to build a trommel. It's a 3 part series. Parts 1 & 2 are posted. Part 3 should be up soon. Search Allan's Gold Mining Wash Plant - Trommel Build (part 1) or (part 2). Good luck with your prospecting adventures !
Oh, man you are busy!.. I am also, but removing the snow from the driveway, and the road connecting me to the rest of the world!. This is the reason I am so much on the internet, because at times there is no way out of here!..so much I got this winter. When it all is gone, I will try to find time to look at the grounds!.. Thank you for posting your inventions!.. Lovely work, and the mind behind it!..
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Ingenious. One suggestion. Paint that white PVC to keep the sun off of it. Over time, white PVC will turn brittle and break in ultraviolet light.
Actually, the plastic buckets will rot faster in the sun. However, my unit stays in a shed when not in use. So, it should last a very long time. Thanks !
@@allansgoldmining I was mainly talking about the structural part. The white pvc pipe
Very impressed.
Question, do you run your tailings though once more or ?
Just finished my first trommel build, working on the wash system now cant wait to find those old timer tailing piles!
Thanks for your insight and painless viewing experience, actually enjoyed wathing very much.
Michael T.
Parma Idaho.
Just once. Sluice does an excellent job. Good luck with your new trommel ! Find some gold !
thats brilliant thanks for sharing this
Thanks Karl. Good luck finding that "big one !"
It looks amazing. Seriously! I am trying to get a recirculating set up build that fits on my trailer so I can take it around and prospect in san diego. My question to you is, how do you deal with the specific gravity of the water changing over time? I notice that my recovery rates start to go to junk very quick. I have been working on a cyclone separator in hopes of getting a better separation of water and material. Once the water collects enough material and the specific gravity goes up all the flour gold is lost and as we both know thats MOST of whats out there to recover. How much recovery do you get off air sifted tailings must be super nice to scoop right off the top with no over burden.
Thanks for your compliments and questions. I have a considerable amount of flower gold on my property too. Your concerns regarding water viscosity are very important. I generally purge the water (about 40 gallons) every half yard. This may vary depending on silt or clay content. For example, this past weekend I was working bedrock, which had low silt content, so I ran the plant most of the day without purging. I like your idea of a cyclone. Would certainly do a good job separating, especially if you could get it to work with a 200 mesh screen. Wish all the best in your prospecting adventures !
Real nice way of utilizing water in a dry situation. How many yards of dirt did you run on this video for the amount of gold in your pan?
For the video, we only ran about a 1/4 yard.
Nice setup! What size/model pump are you using?
In this particular video I was using a 12 volt 3500 gph bilge pump. Currently use a 1 1/2" gas powered semi-trash pump. Please check out some of my latest wash plant videos. Thanks for watching !
When I complemented you on finding gold in tailings I should have clarified that more. In dry climates caliche often cements some of the gravels. Some of that caliche cemented gravels would have been oversize to the previous dry washers. After decades on the surface the oversize cemented gravels become weathered and easily release their gold when washed.
Hi Steve. I understood what you meant. I just got off track a bit. These piles were created back in the 1920's. So, your comment is very true. I have peeled off the top layer of the coarse tailings, down to the sedimentation level. By golly, I found gold there too !
I like the simplicity of your build and may have found a new project for this winter. I will disagree with your explanation of how the riffles work, though. They don't create a suction, if they did then all the light material would get sucked in first and just load up the riffles. What actually happens is, they create a "dead zone" or "drop zone" which drops out all the heavies and the light material keeps flowing through and off the end. But good video anyway.
OffGridBC Thank you for your comments. Actually my analysis is correct. It's simple property of fliud dynamics. As a fluid, including air, flow over a barrier, it creates a pocket of negative pressure. As velocity increases, so does this negative pressure (suction). What's happening within this zone is key. A vortex is created. For those of us who fly airplanes and gliders, we call it a "rotor". This rotor keeps the riffles from packing with black sand. Gold being heavier engages this vortex (rotor) between the boundary layer and is pulled into the riffles. Lighter material is expelled.
oooh... offgridbc you got wrecked
Just a different explanation of the same process using different terminology.
You did a great job designing your system for the location. Well done. Thx.
P.S. I visited your site and subscribed because I saw you on Jeff Williams' channel.
Thanks Randy for compliments and subscribe. Glad you liked the video. Will post more soon. Isn't Jeff Williams videos fun to watch ?! Best wishes on your prospecting adventures !
DUDE! That's amazing!
Thank you 😊👍.
Great vid love the engineering , and explanation and of course the gold!!!!
Glad you liked the video ! Good luck with your prospecting adventures !
Hi Allan, what mineral is the black sand ? Also how long did you take to build your Trommel ? Cheers
Thanks for your questions. The black sand is mostly magnetite and other ferris oxides. Takes about 15 -25 hours to build wash plant, provided you have all the materials. Check out my Trommel Build series on my channel.
How many amps does this set up draw? Thanks for sharing it. It's a great looking build.
About 4 amp/hr per motor. A deep cycle lasts all day.
@@allansgoldmining Many thanks. I'm thinking of building something similar, to work a placer area with little water.
That's great ! Check out my 3 part Trommel Build series on how to make one. At the end of parts 2 & 3 I include a supply list. Best of luck to you ! 🤠⚒⛏👍
cool design i like the water recycle concept
Outstanding alternative for desertplacer mining. Curious though, 100 gallons will wash a yard beore becoming too think with dissolved solids? I think thats what I heard and interpreted. So how many yards did you run for this video? Not challenging you at all, just trying to wrap my head around logistics. Very nice bit of engineering. Heavy pans
Hi Dan. It's amazing how much more gold I'm recovering "going wet" compared to my dry washer ! You are correct. There is a certain amount of silt that accumulates. Generally, I run approximately 1/2 ton before purging the primary and secondary tubs (approximately 40 gallons). Also use Jet Dry. This acts like flocculent, causing the silt to settle, significantly reducing any becoming recirculated. The gold panning at the end of this video is one of three (3) pans of sluice concentrates, after running about 500lbs. Let me know if you have any more questions. Best wishes on your prospecting ventures !
Thanks Allan, how long does it take you to run a half ton? Then do you just dump and refill? Looks like you have a serious water hauler in the background which has to make life easier.
Hi Dan. Depending on how energitic I feel, it takes about 2 hours to process a half ton. I I muck the tubs with a shovel, then replenish with fresh water. That's a 500 gallon tank used to haul water to my remote ranch house. For processing, I generally only fill it half. Although this wet process requires considerably more equipment than dry washing, but results are impressive.
Allan Guthmiller hope you still monitor the comments. You throw out the muddy water? Do you not own the claim or at least rent it? I'd think you would want to put the water into a $10 kiddy pool to allow to act as a settling pond or something seems like a waste of a valuable resource
I have criticisms that I will keep to myself. But I enjoyed your video
Glad you enjoyed the video John. Please check some of the other wash plant videos on my channel. Maybe help relieve some of your concerns ?
👍👍👍👍Very creative.
Love this thing have made first trommel outer cylinder but I'm having difficulty fitting the pillow block bearings to the conduit w/o alot of grinding . Was that your experience? Maybe manufactures vary some?
The inside diameter of the conduit is about 1" depending on manufacturer. In order to adapt with the 1" bearings, I purchased a 1" x 18" swamp cooler blower fan steel shaft from Home Depot. Cut off 4" and inserted about 2" of this shaft into the conduit. Then drilled a hole perpendicular to the conduit / shaft, and placed a 10/24 bolt to hold things together. This made it easier to use swamp cooler bearings, collars, etc. You can purchase bearing that will fit the conduit perfectly, but they much more expensive, plus you would need to machine you own collars. Hope this helps.
Allan Guthmiller Ah hah! The secret is revieled. Thank you Sir! Yay no more grinding! Your ingenious idea has me so inspired. Got a GM v/sat to check for nugs. We got most items ordered so by February hope to be golden. Thank you so much for connecting the dots will old timer tails.
Sorry I could squeeze a lot of fine details in the video. Would make it too boring. I'm thinking about creating videos on trommel build basics, and a few modifications I've made over the past year. Looks like you're almost done. Let me know if you have any further questions, and best of luck to you locating that shiny yellow metal !
Allan Guthmiller I disagree. Alot of folk watch RUclips for entertainment. I use it to learn. People need the information. Boring is just another term for I don't wanna learn. Imho.
Agreed ! I had one viewer complain about the details, just wanted to see it run.
Thats a bloody beauty , i might slow the water down a bit and possibly add a sideways vibration on the sluice .That will do sapphires etc as well as gold and not expensive ,good stuff .
Thanks Mark. Glad you like it ! I have a new video coming out soon demonstrating the latest upgrades, including a new sluice riffle system and guide channels to stabilize the material as it enters the sluice. Also decreased water volume to 2,000 gph. I don't have sapphires on my claim, but nice garnets. Best of luck to you and your prospecting adventures !