Orange Bucket Sluice testing

I find myself on a new claim with a nice running stream. Wanting to put my 5 ft. self made highbanker to use, I spend some quality time testing spots with a pan and my Orange Bucky sluice system.

[@bkgold9968]

I love that little shut up you made that's pretty cool thanks for taking us along God-bless

[@GSProspecting]

What a blast fam. Cool setup indeed. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Gold Squad Out!!!

[@randydiver3076]

AWESOME! Great idea!!!

[@danhodgins4015]

Good start, you can improve it even more. Try putting a piece of thin plywood underneath, or 2 pieces of 1 x 2 going cross wise. Check the angle on the top of the bucket with a level or angle finding app. Also, you could try cutting a 2 inch slot on the back end of the collection cup (and/or raising the lip at the front end of the collection cup. This directs water and material to the back of the bucket, forcing it to go around the collection dish like an inside bend, and climb the higher lip at the front of the bucket. Get rid of the circular side holes, and make your front bucket outlet a but higher to make the gold do more work to get out. In technical terms type of fluid bed is called elutriation.
Do all of this with your existing system and I think your fine gold capture will go up. Again, it's a decent prototype, and with a few tweaks you can make it even better. Good stuff!

[@terrybirkholz2794]

Hey thanks for all that Dan! I already did block the front bowl exit by using the bowl lid, trimmed to block the front exit. Gotta get out and use it more though....

[@danhodgins4015]

@@terrybirkholz2794 - I hear you, it's about time for the days to get longer.

[@bjvoorhies]

It would be really fun to see how you made that deep bucket top classifier. You mentioned a 1/2 and a 1/4. Please!

[@michiganprospector8209]

Stream sluice box

[@richardstutler3058]

On your bowl try and incorporate a lip for in helping with maintaining the gold in your catch bowl. Should help

[@terrybirkholz2794]

What a great suggestion. Only thing I would have to watch for is that enough lighter material still exits. Maybe I could try just putting a lip on the front of the bowl at first. Any gold out the back would not make it out of the bucket

[@gr8northernpike]

You could cut another bucket, with the opening slightly higher.

[@terrybirkholz2794]

True enough. Next one, I will

[@avzamani.Turkey]

Good video bro 👍
I caught a big fish today.
I advise you to watch.