Zip Line Gold Mining: Ancient river bed material quickly drops to the highbanker down at the river
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Zip Line Gold Mining: Buckets Of Ancient River Bed Material Quickly Drops To The Highbanker Below
My buddy and I found some bench gravel 40 to 50 feet up the mountain from the river. We could see where some of the old miners tunneled into the side of the mountain to chase the placer gold.
What we saw was a pretty remarkable site. Rocks the size of small cars, just hanging in suspension in the hard pack ancient streambed.
It's always good to find virgin ground for prospecting. The old miners obviously dug tunnels to chase the placer, but it's really cool to see that untouched stream bed. We had a great time and look forward to returning.
This area belongs to a lifelong friend of mine, who has not only the private property to this land, but a patented mining claim without expiration. We are forever grateful for him.
We figured the best way to get the "buckets of gold" down the mountain and across the river was a zip line. Brilliant idea, (my friends, not mine). Worked incredibly well.
Twenty First Century bucket line mining.
Thanks for watching ☺
Thanks for the comments Reed! For those of you that don't know, Reed Lukens is a dredging legend! He was the first with so many ideas, that helped so many other miners work smarter not harder. Can't thank you enough Reed, for all the information you've provided myself and the community over the years!
Always good to share ideas with fellow miners... We've received so much valuable information from so many people; the ingenuity starts to wear off on you a bit. We love it. Thanks for the comments :)
Nice... yea, you can build your own sluice pretty cheap; doesn't have to be anything fancy. Cut a square piece of rigid plastic, put some matting or carpet on the bottom, set it in the stream, classify then feed it. Have a great time!
Good idea, I paint bridges and do all kinds of rigging. The two bucket thing isnt a bad idea all you need is two snatchblocks or pulleys and two ropes, tie the rope together making a loop leaving a tail on each end and that is where you attach the buckets. You could tighten the rope a little and gravity would do all the work. The guy on the lower end could control the speed buy using friction on the rope going up, probably better since he is catching it. I have been rigging for 22 yrs.
Hi Chad, as a rule of thumb, start prospecting where gold has been found before. There are several areas around the country that were heavily mined in the late 1800's and again in the 1930's. These areas still produce pretty well. This spot was on top of a granite bench above the river, we just followed in the footsteps of the old Chinese miners of the 1800's. Take care.
After this vid was shot, I made a four foot slick plate, and attached the header box to the top before it entered the first of two sluices. In essence, its now a 12' sluice. I like the "slick plate" as Reed had suggested, and like how the material makes a nice "slurry" before the riffle action. The benefit of the two sluices is watching the flow over each. I like the first one to have a bit more slope than the second one, allowing me to watch all of the riffles in action. Thanks for watching
The place looks nice with the view , even the zip pulley is great creativity
I love the system! Fishing line retrieval was brilliant!
Great video awesome day out it reminds me when I was little had a zip line down to the sluice box retrieval was by hand line . What you should do is have two zip lines about 3 feet apart and a pulley fixed at the digging side in between with a rope attached to both buckets . As the weighted bucket goes down it pulls the empty bucket up and perhaps have more buckets that can be unattached from the zip line so you can fill them at the digging face then if your genius enough you could have the buckets automatically dump in the hopper like the Aussie miners do at Cooper Pedy then both of you could work at digging and loading buckets you would get a lot more yardage through .
Better than watching Alaskan Gold Rush on discovery channel.
Do you make enough to cover the cost of equipment and labor?
Don't forget people its more than getting gold, you have to have some fun.
Hi There.Try putting your concentrates in a gass jar under the tap.Run the tap.The concentrates flow over the top of the jar and the yella stays behind.Very easy way to seperate.Dont run the water to fast.This way you dont have to mess around panning in the creek so much.Cheers
I use pulleys send one down full that way the empty comes back. Twice the rope less work Hmmmm Your Welcome Kim Ak Gold Mining Roxs
You just quadrupled their production with that suggestion
I thought when I first saw you reeling, that you were having a twofer day, cranking up a nice trout, and getting some high banking done...that would be an awesome day indeed!
Eric Mattinen Haha, yea that would have been just right
Yeah.. I live in Maine and just purchased a Garett pan set from Cabelas just after Christmas. Now all I have to do is wait til the snow melts in the spring n go pannin. Lol. I might even make my own sluice over the winter too. I dunno. I'll give it a shot though. Have a great new year guys.
You know also, you could flood that hole with water from one pump and then suck it out with a BOOM Box set up. I would put a 4" suction nozzle in the hole and then fill the hole and continue to wash the material into the nozzle at the same time with P180. You can use a highline to easily move everything across the river. This time of year with the brown water already flowing from the floods, the water that you will be putting back into the stream is not going to be any worse than it is already.
2 lines, 2 buckets, attach the fishing line to each bucket and around a pulley.
The full bucket going down will pull the empty back up.
That's cool. Looks like a really nice time
Kenny Pierson Thanks Kenny! Take care
I like the way you think Reed.
Glad I found your videos!!! Reading some of the comments and there pretty harsh. Do what you guys wanna do plain and simple! Thanks for sharing
good video...you need a second bucket to fill while one is being processed...keep the motion going...
I like the fishing pole idea, but I think that just a thin cord would be able to pull the bucket up much faster. Then again that's alot of extra cord.
Yea Matthew, its just a hobby. Thanks for the comment
Looks like a fun hobby. I can't imagine that is really making much money.
I was fascinated by your gear and gold set-up. Why can't people/miners let you do it the way you want. I hope you find the Mother Lode and show them all. Nice Truck. Nice Gear!
Mr99Boxer because it’s inefficient
Looks like a good spot but that's alotta ground to dig. I would consider on getting a small backhoe and dig out a shelf down to the working area then use the machine to do the work instead of the shovel (and your back).
Thanks 68, we do prefer dredging, but will do about whatever we can in the "off season"
You don`t need the rod tip really just first loop ,We`ve done this works good
Yep, its all about having fun and this is one of the ways we do it. Thanks for the comment
Get another bucket to dump into inside that pit instead of shoveling into the tied-up bucket. You could Move a lot more material at a faster pace instead of one shovel at a time in and out of the pit
Not bad for mucking about but so many inefficiencies. Have another bucket with you where you are digging. When full, take that to your zip line bucket and dump it in. I like the suggestion of 2 zip lines where the full bucket going down pulls the empty one back up but if you only want 1 line, take the top half of your fishing pole off. A long pole doesn't help any and just hits trees and gets in the way. Another bucket to catch tailings would help clear them easier too.
Yea, Reed's going to bring up a bunch of tannerite so we can divert the river as it is now, back into this mountain, and then we can dredge it all up. "In this state" were the words you chose. Not sure if you meant Kalifornication in general, or your state of mind… but seriously; its ok, you can take it down a notch with the upper case period.
Hahaa Thanks gercolt... since the dredging season hadn't opened yet, we had to do something to alleviate the gold fever; this works. Heck, even a 1 pounder would do
Its about a half a mile hike just to get back there; of course very close on the sluice side, but the pole is the most effective for this project. Need a hard hat after you start giving the rocks above your head names such as, "widow maker", "dagger", etc...
That is a very nice operation, but certainly not portable by back
There is an even simpler way to do this than previously discussed, but I'm not telling. =)
Nice wash there -Don`t be telling close prospectors around there to much where it`s at . LOL
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the support Mike, take care.
Great movie my friend 8°) I haven't done any high-lining in years and it sure was nice to see you guys are doing well over there. Nice operation and I do like your double sluice set up the way that it is. The only thing is that as you know, all of that turbidity and those air bubbles in the water with the highbankers from what I have seen, an almost level slick plate in the front for a few feet really makes a difference in the amount of gold recovered. It's past time for some dynamite 8°)
Reed
You could of put up one pully on one side and another on the other bank then when the full bucket is sent the empty would return up to be refilled! That would also speed up the amount of dirt moved i have done it this way b4 but with the use of 4 buckets that way the person feeding never runs out of dirt! Also the buckets are tied in a set spot so one bucket is on one side every time!
The simplest solution would be the pause button; then you could look at it all day : )
Great spot an idea for you on your zip line put two pulleys one at each end and make a big loop. Attach the buckets on opposing sides at both ends . The loaded one goes down the empty comes up ready to go . Hope this helps good luck and may your pans be heavy !!!!!
Thanks Garnett, will remember that
This is an awesome set up man!
Don't worry about the haters... haters gonna hate.... potatoes gonna potate; boil em mash em stick em in a stew!
Just being out there is reward in itself innit?
Nice set-up!
ok cool, i'm thinkin of buyin one of those machines too, but $300+ is a bit out of my league for now, I could always pan for gold in the mean time. it must be an awesome experience to find a few flakes of gold after a few hours usein that machine, can't wait to buy one.
Cool video. Looks like you got some color too. Can't ask for much more. Thanks.
The double sluice (long tom) will recover more fine gold, The old timers used 100 foot long or more sluice boxes. I use a 20 foot long sluice in my backyard to recover gold dust.
am i the only one to see a ghost figure of a old 49er prospector in the background when he is working the high banker at all three times in the video. GHOST MINER!!!!!!!!!
seems like you need a better winch than a fishing reel, lol are you sure there's no golds going over the edge? run the sluice water into a tub before sending it over the edge so any golds coming over will catch in the tub
love the fishing for a water bottle scene lol
I thought he was going to reel in a diver in a wetsuit.
Great video and very creative way of mining with limited, budget minded equipment. I like it. I like it a lot!
No, we are taking water out of the river at about 150 gpm, and replacing it upstream with clean water. Not required, but we still have a "stream channel alteration permit". The language is so vague, we decided to just be on the safe side
Thought yous where taking the piss with the fishing rod lmao but great idea hope yous catch a few nice 3 pound nuggers there men, best of luck from the Irish...
Thanks a lot Mr.! Happy New Year!
getting off your ass and doing something = priceless
three buckets on your dig side at all times....fill fast to start then get the pace going and get one more guy..preferably a kid to just run the line
also might trying getting a lil kids bike to use as a hand crank with the rear wheel no tire or tube run line in and knot it on the stem hole. flip the sob over and away you go.
It's a start! Thanks for the comment, and have a great season : )
Thanks for sharing. You gave me some good ideas for the area we are working in.
Great video - Au for you!
It would be so much easier to use gravity to bring back the empty bucket. But then you'd need pulleys and twice as much rope...
life prospers when theres plenty of gold and money regardless of cynaide :)
Really cool way to get-r-done
That's a loooooot of work and equipment for a few flakes of gold. But, if that's what you want, more power to you....
John Richardson Thanks John, yes sir, it's exactly what I want :)
Sorry, didn't mean to come off as snarky as I sounded....
Well I never thought once about it. All good brother, take care
I don't if you guys knew that, if you let the water run on the machine with out putting any paydirt may cause you to loose some gold that was already in the filters.
This is a fun little vid to watch. I can see you have some experience.
You just might hit a pocket in that rathole diggins up on the bank, but otherwise, it's an awful lot of labor for what you might get.
Consider the 'prudent man' criteria after you have done some test runs.
...and that little hole is Very treacherous!
Glad you had fun with your fishing rod.
Step up to a powered capstan winch if you must play with that zipline.
A corrugated metal chute would be superior.
and Good Luck to you!
:-)
That's a good idea, try it out; post a vid of how it went.
At 13:04 I saw a nugget wash down stream!
Sounds good Brandon, give it a try
FYI, It was really hard to see if you got any gold as the camera was way too far from the pan. Good luck with all your gold searching pursuits.
Freek'n awesome setup , I wish you guys all the best!. Hate = Jealousy period. Peace!!.
paul E Thanks a lot Paul! Thumbs up
The methods you guys used was not for a long-stay.
Personally if i was staying there a week or two i would use jcadult101's 2lines, 2buckets idea & store the pay dirty to run at a later time. That sluice box is running 24/7. Also there are places you can go to have your fine sand assorted instead of panning it and possibly losing some. Its worth the head ache.
I like your idea of not to bad
Really nice set up!! but the guy on top has his hard hat on backwards
Good system
use a magnet to pull black sand out before panning makes a lot less time off it/when moving in small area,use a shorter handle shovel""
A magnet would make it easier to remove the black sand
Hi mindoza, can't suck from a stream with a highbanker, but I can with my 3" and 5" suction dredge. Take care
No, not in Kali Dave... wish they would get that overturned though
ow man this is so cool
That's pretty sick. Lol.. I would of never thought of that myself..
Veeerrry interesting guys. Great recovery.
that is way to cool
fishing and mining I like your style!!
Yea... its about all I can do on the sluice end to keep up with the shovel once he starts going. Fun though
Find gold, get Popeye forearms. Win-Win.
Just when i thought id seen everythingkts... no sirree bob .. fantastics ..😁
Clever; pumping up to the bench might be more productive, can use two pumps if it's too high for one, if there's enough pay up there to justify setting up for it. If, if... that's the story of gold, and it looks like you guys had a good time and a bit of yellow. May your pan be heavy.
keep up the good work I like your videos
Thanks a ton Mark!
I live in PA there's very little gold down here there's a glacier that went through our area
awesome thanks
Dude I thought you were fishin!!!!! lolololol I was gunna wait to see what you caught and head out lolol you aint fishin lolol.
A fishing pole huh? I would have used a power drill.. It goes both ways and variable speeds. You can charge extra batteries at the truck. Just trying to be helpful. Good luck.
Andrew Hallin Thanks Andrew, good options, take care
How do you establish the zip line? Do you swim it across the river, shoot it across with a sling shot?
do you have to have some type of permit to mine the way you're mining, with that stream of water goin down the slide of the machine? if so, how much does it cost for the permit?
I would have had that amount panned in less than 2 minutes!
Nice haul.
Hey, sounds good, give it a try
I noticed that your highbanker has been extended how is that working out for you on catching smaller gold. I have a 8ft box that I am getting ready to add to my highbanker to see if it improvies my catch due to the flower gold found in Texas and Oklahoma. I have posted some of my equipment for sale so I can upgrade to a shaker or wave table to get the fine gold with.
pretty slick
Interesting but way too long on each section for me. Are you using a Go Pro?
3.5 HP Briggs with a 150 GPM pump
hard hat is backwards..and what lb test line r u using? and ur panning not the best, pan into something at the river unless u want to put the gold back and what smoka said would make it go faster...less work...
cool video something i would do if there is good color up there.