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Getting close to 1M subscribers! Way to go, Dan! I've enjoyed your videos for close to 3 years now, and they just keep getting better! I'm glad Gold Hog is having you test their equipment. Your honesty and integrity speak volumes, and I trust your opinion. Keep up the great work!
My father-in-law and I appreciate all the hard work you put into your videos. When we can’t be adventuring outdoors ourselves, we live vicariously through you! It was great to see the Gold Hog Boar Box in action!
Very nice to see the ongoing development of the Gold Hog and the first "consumer run." You really are a born educator. I love the enthusiasm and accessibility you bring to your teaching. And your videos are fun to watch, with beautiful BC scenery as a bonus! Take care.
Use a smaller bucket just for the pump inside the larger container nested down just below the water line to act as filter for sediment. Opposite of how you used the big bucket to capture sediment and repump the runoff, saves space and achieve the same result of not clogging the pump. This Boar box looks promising, I've been getting into backpacking again and prospecting intrigues me. A lithium Ion 12v battery would be a lightweight option to carry around, could run that pump for several hours. Good stuff! 👍🏻
Hello from Alaska! The Gold Hog looked like it was easier to use this time. The fact you were able to get almost a gram in an hour while one-handed is nice! Great job Dan!
Thank you, Dan. Well, I personally will never use a Gold Hog, but I live across from the Susquehanna River in Ulster, PA. I'm 76 and not walking very well. I could never walk on those rocks or do any of what you did. I love to watch people do things like this. I did a tiny bit of panning for gold in New Zealand. I was a physics and math major in college, and I love the outdoors. Thank you.
Hey Dan, I enjoyed this Gold Hog video almost as much as your testing of the original design they sent you. I find it very refreshing that a company still listens to its customers/product testers feed back, and makes recommended changes based on that. Thanks for the video.
Fashion some wire coathangers to hang your pump on the side. We had to fix up something like that to pump out our basement when it flooded. We put the sump down in a bucket (but the basement is unfinished concrete so there was always debris clogging the works.)
Great Gold Hog review Dan. impressive that no specks were lost in your tailings test. It was very nice of Gold Hog to sponsor the giveaway as well. As always, I love your video, and look forward to the next adventure. Heavy Pans! (Unless you are testing losses) :)
Hello Dan, I been watching your videos for years now. All of your videos are very entertaining and educational. That new "GOLD HOG" Boar Box looks like a great machine and watching you run it makes me want to buy one. Thank you for all the information you have given out in the past. I learn from all of your videos. Happy Prospecting Dan and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!!!!!
That GOLD HOG worked great! A thought, as for the water recycling issue, cut a hole in the primary capture container mid hight, have the water drain into a secondary container and pump from that container 😊 Love the videos Dan, they’re fun and informational.
Hi Dan great video, I do have a suggestion about the Boar Box. The wing nut bolts could be made to swivel out sideways and slots can be cut out of the front plate to make it easier to take off and put back on faster without taking off the wing nuts completely.
@@rogerolander458 lots of fine stuff on the front, I can see the swivel out ones binding up with sand etc. I think it would be an inconvenience if nothing else
@@dougmcmillan2483 Nuts and bolts bind up with sand too.... when apart. I think quick release latches might work well but are more expensive than screws. But screws are a simple solution and add rigidity when tightened up. The bolts could be shorter so that one spends less time undoing\tightening.
That new Gold Hog looks like it works great! Especially helpful for us old retired pensioners! We have to make xtra money, to survive! Great video Dan, keep em coming!
Hi Dan! This was a really well done video on the new Gold Hog Boar Box! I'm actually considering one of these for purchase and I've never been big into Gold Hog products. Now though... I'm very tempted!
I can't believe that you mentioned that your Gold Hog didn't produce that much gold! I was jumping out of my seat seeing all that gold!! Keep it up Dan Hurd:)
Man this Gold Hog machine looks great. Maybe an attachment with some kind of trimmer could help classify that overburden off faster. But $40 of gold for an hour is pretty good! Better than most 9-5s and you get to be in that beautiful country! Love it!
Hi Dan, Congrats for seeing the invisible gold! 😉 If you replace the end cap of the spray bar with a valve, you could flush the spray bar if it's clogged. Gold Hog may do some improvements after some feedback from users. If your pump did take sand, you should lift up the clean water bucket. This will help to blow out the sand out off the pump and the hose. Best regards from Germany!
Dan, we're small time prospectors and really enjoy watching your channel. We are always finding helpful ideas to use in our prospecting. The new Gold Hog is pretty interesting. We have a gold cube and it works good, but a Gold Hog is our future goal. Thanks for the fun videos.
Man it was really awesome to see the great people at GOLD HOG take your comments on being able to fit a bucket underneath and make the adjustments to the base in the final product 👍
Hey Dan, fellow Red Head here, if anyone gets how the sun hates us-I do! lol You are an inspiration to me and my boys, I hope some day we can venture out up north and get a GoldHog and give this a try. We are crazy about natural minerals and gems. On My bucket list is to get down and dirty and find some treasures. I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you!
Looks very interesting. The unit seems to stand up to the Gold Hog standards. I purchased the Gold Hog Multi Sluice, and it works very well. I usually check the tailings with maybe a microscopic piece or two, but it is another great piece of equipment.
Awesome video Dan. It is always exciting watching your videos. Tons of energy and passion, mixed with teaching, insight and fun. That Boar Box by Gold Hog is an amazing product and I am so glad they listened to your input and improvements. It is always great when a company listens to its customers who ultimately have to use the product and enjoy it. Great work! keep it up. thanks.
Hey Dan, been watching your videos for about a year or two, like the content, and I like your presentation. You have good energy. I had a suggestion for the next time you run the Gold Hog .. if you wanted to get material up into the hopper with less rocks etc you could run a little shop-vac (2 or 3 gallon} with a large suction tube and put a piece of hardware cloth quarter inch size or so wire over the tip of the tube, that way nothing bigger will get sucked into the vac bucket, and then dump that into the hopper once it fills up each time. I'm sure you could find one that would work on the same 12 volt battery and some that I've seen have pretty good suction you could try with different size holes of hardware cloth wire if quarter inch was too small etc, don't know if that would take some of the fun out of the shoveling part of it for you though but I heard you once complain about your back in one of your videos, and that might save it quite a bit.. speaking from personal experience hehehe. Also if you take a piece of Styrofoam and duct tape it onto your recirculating pump about 6 in up the tube it should float right underneath the surface but you may have to adjust it. Just a couple ideas, I'm totally new myself to panning etc but watching the machine run I thought it would be worth testing maybe? I hope it helps you in some way or helps somebody who sees my comment, if it does leave me a shout or something hehe thanks again for the content, cheers!
Hello Dan, your impartial review of the Gold Hog rig was great and I really enjoy your videos. The fact that you're an educator really shines through and your students are very lucky. Your pal Steve.
Do usually turn a profit from panning for gold? In this instance you basically put in a few hours of labor for 30 bucks of gold. I have no experience with mining, panning or refining gold but it's really interesting and looks fun.
Well, in this case it's 30 bucks of gold and nearly $4k worth of views on YT. Plus getting to do what he loves in a landscape that's impossible to hate.
I'm pretty sure. . . Gold is higher price than BTC. . . And it actually adds up in 72 hours, like a week and a half is a lot of money they have a video for 60,000 dollars worth in about 78 hours
I looked it up, 0.65 grams at todays price would be roughly 39.15, and he said it took about an hour to do all this. So roughly 39/40 an hour, if it’s consistent during a full 8 hour run, close to $240 a day. I’d say that’s pretty good, especially if it’s something you love doing
Hi Dan, Thank you for your visual demo on the "Gold Hog" "Bore Box," I can see me using this machine in the applications of gold mining in my area. Thanks again for the extra suggestions to prepare for the first outing. Troy
As usual Dan, we appreciate your thoughtful and meticulous efforts and showing us the new Gold Hog. It would appear that Gold Hog has indeed produced a product that many of use can use and have fun as well.
Just an idea for you with your pump. Have a 5 gal pail with a side fitting 1 inch diameter. And it joins to your bin by same pipe. Water flows from bin into 5 gal pail through 2 fittings and piping. Then that allows you to buy time. Pump would be in 5 gal pail and your bin is just a silt collector
Excellent video and product review Dan! Your videos are always so educational, one can tell you have a teaching background! Love the Gold Hog Boar box and would wear it out if I won one for myself! Keep up the great work Dan and as always, from one Rockhound to another...Rock on my friend!
A Gold Hog is an awesome tool for sure! Now a hold hog as mentioned in the live sounds like a game of catching the greased up pig😅 which is as hard as getting lucky and finding that good shiny without tools like this 😁
I use heavy black plastic tubs from a farm supply store for panning and using my recirculating recovery sluice. A plasterer's tub works great for both when neither water nor discharge are problems...and a 15 gallon livestock feeding tub holds enough to recirculate, and would give enough room to set up a vertical unit like this and have enough room to use a tailings bucket you could access easily.
I’ve been watching Dan’s channel for a couple of years now really love the content he puts out Everything from gold prospecting to looking for gems he’s got me and the family out gem hunting where I live and traveling to other states to prospect for gold I love see other companies working with Dan like GOLD HOG his channel should be a lot bigger just because of His humility that shines through his videos
I have the Gold Hog sluice. I use a hunting frame backpack to carry my stuff to the riverbanks and it fits nicely on that. Really love the mats! They're better than the miner's wool and a helluva lot easier to clean out! You found more gold on the first mat than I do in an entire summer of panning in New Hampshire! At some point, I really need to get out west and try panning out there. :)
Looks good. When you get done, pull the mats, put a pan under, and rinse out the runs without the mats. If it's like every dredge or sluice I've used, you'll find a little gold that slipped under them or wedged into the sides.
Just got back from Boston bar.ran 3. 5gal pals through my boar box.works well.about a quarter of a gram.going out again soon to really give it a workout on the island.thanks Dan
Dan that's a nice piece of equipment ya have there. My Son Justin (who is a disabled Army Veteran) and I are in the first stages of learning about panning for Gold and we are both now hooked and a Gold Hog might just be what the Dr. ordered. Lol. And I'm glad to say that we are enjoying our time panning for Gold together and look forward to seeing more of your video's. Thanks for all that you do to help educate us on Prospecting.
Just a suggestion. You can not discharge into the river, but you could put your pump the river keeping good pressure and more clean feed water. Maybe, yes no.?
Gold hog looks really good. I like the way it seems you can take it even to dry places where there's no water and carry your water with your vehicle and probably do a really better job. Add it
Hey Dan 'GOLD HOG'!!! ! Just a quick note. Go ahead and start switching out to Lithium power/batteries. Can't beat the power to weight ratio and charge cycles. A pump screen made from window screen works perfect for a pump strainer basket. Hopper and tailing tray should be included. Swap out the wing nuts for thumb knobs.
I watch Dan Hurd and I was very impressed with the Gold Hog.The Gold Hog made me think that was a awesome way to get gold Dan made the Gold Hog look so easy to use Thank You Dan for sharing the Gold Hog with Us Michael
I am a Newbie of a few months to your Channel Dan and loving it. I hope your health is still doing good. I knew you mentioned having some issues after your heart surgery 2 years after. I went on to your shop and fell in love with your beautiful rocks and gems. Enjoying the videos find that 1 Oz. Nugget.. lol😊
Dan I have a suggestion for you. It would require two of the same electric bilge pump. Connect the outlet of the first pump into the inlet of the second pump. This will double your water pressure. If you run them side by side or in parallel you can keep the same pressure and double the volume. I've tested this theory with a dual 12v 3500gph bilge pump powered 1 1/2" dredge that had pretty good power.
The Gold Hog demonstration looks like the ultimate tool for the everyday prospector, I enjoyed your video and would enjoy using one myself here on the Kenai Peninsula in my search of gold bearing gravels. Thanks, happy trails.
Great video on the Gold Hog! I am very new to this, though I've had a love of geology my entire life, so I'm hungry for knowledge about it, and the how to's, and what to look for (when assessing the lay of the land), and what gear works, and what doesn't, etc.... Thanks for sharing your test run, brother! It seems like a pretty good product, for sure! And, lastly, under the heading of: "it takes one, to know one": those "dots" on your glasses?, that wasn't mud, bro, that was just you experiencing another "flashback" from the 70s, and while it's not exactly acid re-flux, it might be, acid redux! Ha-ha! Under that wide brimmed hat you can smile knowingly, without revealing too much.... God bless you and yours, brother! Hope the concert was an awesome one! Truly...
A few thoughts. Get rid of the wing nuts and replace them with spring latches on the front panel and on the mats. After a session, the generally cold water would make one’s fingers unable to easily manipulate those pesky wing nuts. Also minimises the risk of dropping the nuts somewhere, or just leaving them at home after cleaning the unit. Modify your water discharge so you have a large receptacle, with a mesh screen to the pick up for the pump to protect it. Silicone rubber nozzles that push into the water pipe. As you rub them, they will self clean in most situations (many domestic shower roses use this nowadays, to deal with water scale). Make the whole box from a plastic material, with the option to 3d print mats specific to the user’s local conditions.
I don't know if the Gold Hog has been given away yet, but I do see some things that someone could do to improve on the setup. As far as having a tub and bucket to put my first shovel of dirt in and wash the material and then pour the pan in to eliminate the big rocks going in. I would also have a two section tub to put my pump in with a screen to keep the pump out of the tailings.
Make a tray like the one you use to remove the big stuff, then put a big tub underneath the gold hog, put a notch in the big tub at the top edge for the water to spill over into a smaller tub where you put your pump.
I think i would classify it in the smaller bucket and make a pile to shovel in the hopper first. To avoid big rocks that way they are cleaned and removed first
Gold Hog! I would love to have one! Great video and I learned a lot! Thank you Dan for sharing your experience! Hope you enjoy the concert!🎶 So thinking about your pump. It looks small enough to fit in a milk bottle! That way it won’t let the pump sit in the mud add some holes. Hope it helps!
So, I'm living in the north east of the USA. (Don't hold it against me. ) after watch a few of your videos I figured "why not?" So I ordered a panning kit off one of those cheapo sites. I assumed since I'm a die hard fly fisherman in always on a creek or some body of water. So, I fished early morning and panned through the afternoon until the fishing got hot again. From March after the thaw until Novembers first freeze, i managed to not get skunked either fishing or panning. I went through my flakes and a couple small nuggets, the biggest being the size of a BB. In fact i thought it was a brass BB at first but no magnetism made me keep it. Which was good. Even though it till a long time I got 1/2 gram over an ounce. Yes it took time but I would have just been sitting there anyway. Thank you for the motivation and your constant upbeat attitude. It kept me positive when things got frustrating. Using any machinery is strickly forbidden here unless I own the land, which i don't. Removing sand and gravel is forbidden as well so panning with have to do it. As i got better at panning my my yields got better. My tip for anyone starting is to - never give up and go over the same spot a few times because you will miss some especially when you're just starting out. Thanks again Dan, it was a good Christmas thanks to you. Btw, i didn't part with it all. I made a pendant with flake in an epoxy micro jar.
I have a Gold Hog Rapture 2. It is the best machine I have used for gold recovery. But it takes about 6 workers to keep it fed consistantly. It has 3 Shutes and takes 2 3500 GPH Electric pumps to keep it flowing. But, not a good machine in the desert unless you have the water supply to run it. I like the boar box design, but I still feel like there could be more improvements for faster assembly and disassembly of the mats. For EXample: Imagine if you could pull all the mats at once, at the same time. I dont even know if the mats should be bolted down like that, but hey, if it gets the gold, Im happy for you. Show us more 😃
Dan…. I love fishing the Fraser and now love watching your videos too. Congrat on the success collaboration with the manufactures of the Gold Hog Boar Box. I thing in this video you mentioned other similar devices, can I ask you to link them in a future video too please?
Build yourself a Tupperware box or a cheap case to put the pump in and you could have dome filter media in there to pull out the big stuff that’s clogging your system.
the GOLD HOG dirty water issue can be cleaned up by putting the pump into a, let's call it a swamp cooler pump cage/netting, thus filtering out all the sticks and what not and leaving clean filtered water to recirculate back up to the water feed bar. I have other ideas for that Gold Hog's improvement as well. I enjoy watching your clips on RUclips also. Thanks
Drill some holes around the bucket at the height you need them which looks to be about halfway from this video, it will let the water back into your bigger pan easier and make it easier to dump the tailings.
I have watched your videos for a while and just watched one on the magnetic separator. Seems like the Gold Hog in conjunction with a magnetic separator would be the way to go for efficiency. I will have to check out your other videos on high-bankers as well but the Gold Hog does seem to fit my needs and seems pretty compact as well. Thanks for the great content!
Dan, Here's a way to fix the water pumping problem in your GOLD HOG rig: Try processing your tailings in the same way the GOLD HOG Boar does by running them through two or more basins which catch the tailings BEFORE the water gets to your pump in the LAST basin. Then, to further protect your pump, put a larger bulb of screening to keep sand out of it without choking it. And finally either some sort of floatation or a clamp rigged to prevent the pump from dropping down on any sand on the bottom of its basin. Again, the main idea is to process your tailing in the same way to remove sand just like you catch gold so what gets through is mostly muddy water which can be pumped back up through the GOLD HOG Boar rig. Finally, your could make it easier to remove, empty, and replace the upper two tailing basins perhaps while the setup is running. Perhaps using all same size basins and a spare to replace full ones would work best. Good Luck!
Drop the pump into an old winter sock, and use it as a pump filter (after you sew the holes closed). When the flow slows down, remove the pump and wash the fine silt out of the sock, in a bucket of clean water.
Just run two buckets in series, second bucket put your sump on a spacer like a raised screen or platform or tie to line hook so it doesn't touch bottom. Throw a magnet in bottom of this bucket to catch black sands that will build in the motor. Nice gold wish I was out on the Frasier freezing with you.
This has re inspired me to find gold were I live. All of the geologic maps in my earya suggest otherwise. But when I was young before I had social media I had found trace amounts I could only see under my dusty microscope. But now that I have social media I think it would be worth trying again. Especially sense I can take microscopic pictures now! Thanks Dan for igniting a spark and a passion I forgot about.
Was thinking of some way to have the larger basin pour into the smaller one with the pump. Could even cut a hole and place an outlet pipe for that to work. I imagine that's been mentioned in the comments.
Without reading through everything, just found this vid, if you haven't already, try Tidy Cat cat litter buckets (they have various sizes, larger/shorter). They are rectangular and look like they'd match almost exactly under this machine without having the problems of sticking out the sides so far that it causes problems in the catch bucket.
Seìng you struggle with your water operating the Gold Hog Boar Box, I refer to the system I built for my saltwater-aquarium. It has an overflow which doesn´t allow heavy objects to fall in, hence it´ll work for your operation too. When you work with 2 or even 3 different ´chambers´ with an overflow and if you like, use a spunge as a last filter around your pump, you´ll see there is no possibility for obstruction anymore. Greatings and good luck and fortune wishes for you from The Netherlands.
Quite a handy addition to a Gold Fossiker's collection, but with the manufacturer's idea of assembling it, it's way to finicky, and a right royal pain in the posterior in putting it together, fiddling with a heap of wing nuts, and then to disassemble the front to gain access to the lift out trays. My idea would be to have front, back, and sides to slide together, where the two side panels would have aluminum u-section channel on their vertical edges, and the front and back panels be aluminum box tube. In regard to the front panel, it would therefore provide easy access to the trays within, simply by sliding it up out of the way. The lift out trays, could also benefit of u-section channel riveted to the side panels, and the trays fitted with either aluminum, or heavy duty plastic tube runners, with an easy slide in/out operation. What do you reckon Dan? Perhaps you could pass that along to the Manufacturers. I daresay it would add to the cost somewhat, but I'd be more than willing to accept that for the convenience factor alone, Cheers Dan, and many thanks for sharing...
Hey Dan... I've got a placer claim up in Idaho on a creek where motorized equipment is not allowed for the collection or processing of material below the high water mark. Looks like this machine would allow me to get around that rule provided I'm pumping water from a large container or tub. Gonna look into it!!
Cool Gold Hog! Those tailings really need a pan of their own to clean the water, solve that and I think this is ideal for hunting spot in somewhat remote spots. Happy Holidays!
Hello Dan, I am watching you use the Gold Hog and I noticed that if the thought was a little bigger and the water spraying on the material ( rock ) move up a couple of inches, and then see how she runs. Lol talk to you later Dan have a good one.
One thing I like about it, takes up less of a foot print. What I don't like is the higher you have to life a shovel. Might be worth to pre-dig a pile into buckets and preclassiy for it
Hey Dan, I just ran across this vid so pardon me if I seem late on commenting. I see that ole Doc has come up with a new way to mine the minors. Dont get me wrong as I do like his matting (even tho its expensive as all get out), but it looks like all he did was make a metal gold cube. Oh well, if those that believe they need the newest gadgets let them spend their money. A small high banker with a few inches of minors moss and you get almost all the gold, and if you run it 3 meters long, you wil get all the gold. Nice review. But you can keep it.
I would love to try this gold hog to compare it to my gold cube. The guys at gold hog have surpassed all of the other gold equipment so I’m sure this one will too. Thanks for all of the videos Dan, I really enjoyed them and please keep them coming.
hi i would do that tub in a much bigger tub so u still get all the tailings out the bottom but the water spilling over in to the bigger tub will be alot cleaner
Also a 4 legged support system that will allow you to change out the big box under the Boar Box without a whole lot of fuss. That should reduce the shut down time.
Thank you for a great demo of the Gold Hog and especially your thoughts on how to use the Goldhog in a less stressful way (e.g. bigger bucket down below). Was wondering if you dug a big hole if authorities would allow discharge into that. Might be more work to dig than to just use recycling system.
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I got one! Thanks for the psa.
Wow, im sorry that happens, I was so excited I thought I had won too!
Thanks bro
I got one as well. I'm sure Dan will announce the winner himself in a video. Thanks Dan, take care.
I just got one also , thanks for the heads up about the scammers, they are everywhere
Getting close to 1M subscribers! Way to go, Dan! I've enjoyed your videos for close to 3 years now, and they just keep getting better! I'm glad Gold Hog is having you test their equipment. Your honesty and integrity speak volumes, and I trust your opinion. Keep up the great work!
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My father-in-law and I appreciate all the hard work you put into your videos. When we can’t be adventuring outdoors ourselves, we live vicariously through you! It was great to see the Gold Hog Boar Box in action!
Love the new “Gold Hog”. I can’t believe how much the Frasier River country looks like my Kootenai River country. Great show
You really ran that Gold Hog for all it was worth! Thank you Dan! Hope you had fun at the Elton John concert!
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Very nice to see the ongoing development of the Gold Hog and the first "consumer run." You really are a born educator. I love the enthusiasm and accessibility you bring to your teaching. And your videos are fun to watch, with beautiful BC scenery as a bonus! Take care.
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Use a smaller bucket just for the pump inside the larger container nested down just below the water line to act as filter for sediment. Opposite of how you used the big bucket to capture sediment and repump the runoff, saves space and achieve the same result of not clogging the pump. This Boar box looks promising, I've been getting into backpacking again and prospecting intrigues me. A lithium Ion 12v battery would be a lightweight option to carry around, could run that pump for several hours. Good stuff! 👍🏻
The review of the GOLD HOG Boar Box was absolutely great,
I enjoyed every minute of it!
Looking forward to the next video.
Hello from Alaska! The Gold Hog looked like it was easier to use this time. The fact you were able to get almost a gram in an hour while one-handed is nice! Great job Dan!
Have to love that Gold Hog. I was at the Fraser River the same day.
Thank you, Dan. Well, I personally will never use a Gold Hog, but I live across from the Susquehanna River in Ulster, PA. I'm 76 and not walking very well. I could never walk on those rocks or do any of what you did. I love to watch people do things like this. I did a tiny bit of panning for gold in New Zealand. I was a physics and math major in college, and I love the outdoors. Thank you.
Sounds like it's time to teach the kids and grandkids the fun of panning. :)
Hi I'm in the North island New Zealand, west coast south island rivers are the most popular place for gold ,maybe you planned there ??
Hey Dan, I enjoyed this Gold Hog video almost as much as your testing of the original design they sent you. I find it very refreshing that a company still listens to its customers/product testers feed back, and makes recommended changes based on that. Thanks for the video.
Fashion some wire coathangers to hang your pump on the side. We had to fix up something like that to pump out our basement when it flooded. We put the sump down in a bucket (but the basement is unfinished concrete so there was always debris clogging the works.)
The Gold Hog looks like a nice compact sluice for backpacking into remote locations. Good work Dan!
The Gold Hog looks amazing and fairly simple to operate, and the list price seems very reasonable. Thanks Dan.
Great Gold Hog review Dan. impressive that no specks were lost in your tailings test. It was very nice of Gold Hog to sponsor the giveaway as well. As always, I love your video, and look forward to the next adventure. Heavy Pans! (Unless you are testing losses) :)
Hello Dan, I been watching your videos for years now. All of your videos are very entertaining and educational. That new "GOLD HOG" Boar Box looks like a great machine and watching you run it makes me want to buy one. Thank you for all the information you have given out in the past. I learn from all of your videos. Happy Prospecting Dan and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!!!!!
That GOLD HOG worked great! A thought, as for the water recycling issue, cut a hole in the primary capture container mid hight, have the water drain into a secondary container and pump from that container 😊 Love the videos Dan, they’re fun and informational.
Hi Dan great video, I do have a suggestion about the Boar Box. The wing nut bolts could be made to swivel out sideways and slots can be cut out of the front plate to make it easier to take off and put back on faster without taking off the wing nuts completely.
True but at what added cost? Isn't there always a trade-off between cost and convenience? Gold Hog could have done a lot of things differently.
@@rogerolander458 lots of fine stuff on the front, I can see the swivel out ones binding up with sand etc. I think it would be an inconvenience if nothing else
@@dougmcmillan2483 loose parts always get lost. I hate loosing my nuts❗️🤣🤣
@@dougmcmillan2483 Nuts and bolts bind up with sand too.... when apart. I think quick release latches might work well but are more expensive than screws. But screws are a simple solution and add rigidity when tightened up. The bolts could be shorter so that one spends less time undoing\tightening.
Why not wire the nuts somehow? Add a screw to the side for one end and tack the other or drill into one wing to fasten.
Doc and the team at Gold Hog are always developing something new to help push the boundaries on recovery and production.
That new Gold Hog looks like it works great! Especially helpful for us old retired pensioners! We have to make xtra money, to survive! Great video Dan, keep em coming!
Nice to see what a hobbyist could do with a Gold Hog and a bit of free time on the way to take the family to an event. Thanks Dan, Love your videos!
Hi Dan! This was a really well done video on the new Gold Hog Boar Box! I'm actually considering one of these for purchase and I've never been big into Gold Hog products. Now though... I'm very tempted!
I can't believe that you mentioned that your Gold Hog didn't produce that much gold! I was jumping out of my seat seeing all that gold!! Keep it up Dan Hurd:)
Man this Gold Hog machine looks great. Maybe an attachment with some kind of trimmer could help classify that overburden off faster. But $40 of gold for an hour is pretty good! Better than most 9-5s and you get to be in that beautiful country! Love it!
Hi Dan,
Congrats for seeing the invisible gold! 😉
If you replace the end cap of the spray bar with a valve, you could flush the spray bar if it's clogged. Gold Hog may do some improvements after some feedback from users.
If your pump did take sand, you should lift up the clean water bucket. This will help to blow out the sand out off the pump and the hose.
Best regards from Germany!
Dan, we're small time prospectors and really enjoy watching your channel. We are always finding helpful ideas to use in our prospecting. The new Gold Hog is pretty interesting. We have a gold cube and it works good, but a Gold Hog is our future goal. Thanks for the fun videos.
Man it was really awesome to see the great people at GOLD HOG take your comments on being able to fit a bucket underneath and make the adjustments to the base in the final product 👍
Hey Dan, fellow Red Head here, if anyone gets how the sun hates us-I do! lol You are an inspiration to me and my boys, I hope some day we can venture out up north and get a GoldHog and give this a try. We are crazy about natural minerals and gems. On My bucket list is to get down and dirty and find some treasures. I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you!
Looks very interesting. The unit seems to stand up to the Gold Hog standards. I purchased the Gold Hog Multi Sluice, and it works very well. I usually check the tailings with maybe a microscopic piece or two, but it is another great piece of equipment.
Awesome video Dan. It is always exciting watching your videos. Tons of energy and passion, mixed with teaching, insight and fun. That Boar Box by Gold Hog is an amazing product and I am so glad they listened to your input and improvements. It is always great when a company listens to its customers who ultimately have to use the product and enjoy it. Great work! keep it up. thanks.
Hey Dan, been watching your videos for about a year or two, like the content, and I like your presentation. You have good energy. I had a suggestion for the next time you run the Gold Hog .. if you wanted to get material up into the hopper with less rocks etc you could run a little shop-vac (2 or 3 gallon} with a large suction tube and put a piece of hardware cloth quarter inch size or so wire over the tip of the tube, that way nothing bigger will get sucked into the vac bucket, and then dump that into the hopper once it fills up each time. I'm sure you could find one that would work on the same 12 volt battery and some that I've seen have pretty good suction you could try with different size holes of hardware cloth wire if quarter inch was too small etc, don't know if that would take some of the fun out of the shoveling part of it for you though but I heard you once complain about your back in one of your videos, and that might save it quite a bit.. speaking from personal experience hehehe. Also if you take a piece of Styrofoam and duct tape it onto your recirculating pump about 6 in up the tube it should float right underneath the surface but you may have to adjust it. Just a couple ideas, I'm totally new myself to panning etc but watching the machine run I thought it would be worth testing maybe? I hope it helps you in some way or helps somebody who sees my comment, if it does leave me a shout or something hehe thanks again for the content, cheers!
Good Show Bud...!
Perhaps you can use the second bin as you water feed?
Fill up one tub with clean water and have the tailings go to the other?
I really like that the GOLD HOG is in a small form factor and works really well. High bankers tend to be larger and take up more space.
Hello Dan, your impartial review of the Gold Hog rig was great and I really enjoy your videos. The fact that you're an educator really shines through and your students are very lucky. Your pal Steve.
Do usually turn a profit from panning for gold? In this instance you basically put in a few hours of labor for 30 bucks of gold. I have no experience with mining, panning or refining gold but it's really interesting and looks fun.
Well, in this case it's 30 bucks of gold and nearly $4k worth of views on YT. Plus getting to do what he loves in a landscape that's impossible to hate.
I'm pretty sure. . . Gold is higher price than BTC. . . And it actually adds up in 72 hours, like a week and a half is a lot of money they have a video for 60,000 dollars worth in about 78 hours
I looked it up, 0.65 grams at todays price would be roughly 39.15, and he said it took about an hour to do all this. So roughly 39/40 an hour, if it’s consistent during a full 8 hour run, close to $240 a day. I’d say that’s pretty good, especially if it’s something you love doing
Hi Dan,
Thank you for your visual demo on the "Gold Hog" "Bore Box," I can see me using this machine in the applications of gold mining in my area. Thanks again for the extra suggestions to prepare for the first outing. Troy
Love your videos Dan. Gold Hog needs more people using their products
As usual Dan, we appreciate your thoughtful and meticulous efforts and showing us the new Gold Hog. It would appear that Gold Hog has indeed produced a product that many of use can use and have fun as well.
Just an idea for you with your pump.
Have a 5 gal pail with a side fitting 1 inch diameter. And it joins to your bin by same pipe. Water flows from bin into 5 gal pail through 2 fittings and piping. Then that allows you to buy time. Pump would be in 5 gal pail and your bin is just a silt collector
Excellent video and product review Dan! Your videos are always so educational, one can tell you have a teaching background! Love the Gold Hog Boar box and would wear it out if I won one for myself! Keep up the great work Dan and as always, from one Rockhound to another...Rock on my friend!
A Gold Hog is an awesome tool for sure! Now a hold hog as mentioned in the live sounds like a game of catching the greased up pig😅 which is as hard as getting lucky and finding that good shiny without tools like this 😁
I love all of your videos Dan! Thanks for helping people understand gold prospecting/panning! The Gold Hog seems to be a real time saver!
I use heavy black plastic tubs from a farm supply store for panning and using my recirculating recovery sluice.
A plasterer's tub works great for both when neither water nor discharge are problems...and a 15 gallon livestock feeding tub holds enough to recirculate, and would give enough room to set up a vertical unit like this and have enough room to use a tailings bucket you could access easily.
I’ve been watching Dan’s channel for a couple of years now really love the content he puts out Everything from gold prospecting to looking for gems he’s got me and the family out gem hunting where I live and traveling to other states to prospect for gold I love see other companies working with Dan like GOLD HOG his channel should be a lot bigger just because of His humility that shines through his videos
I have the Gold Hog sluice. I use a hunting frame backpack to carry my stuff to the riverbanks and it fits nicely on that. Really love the mats! They're better than the miner's wool and a helluva lot easier to clean out! You found more gold on the first mat than I do in an entire summer of panning in New Hampshire! At some point, I really need to get out west and try panning out there. :)
Thanks for all your hard work Dan! I like the upright design of this Gold Hog, especially love how it performed. Thank you for your videos!
GoldHog demo was awesome, thanks Dan for the vid on the Goldhog!
The Gold Hog looks like a nicely portable and simple system to use out in the wilds. ❤
Those Gold Hog Boar boxes look interesting and would love to try one eventually ;)
Let you know in a couple of weeks Reg Labbe after I put mine together... Cheers
Looks good. When you get done, pull the mats, put a pan under, and rinse out the runs without the mats. If it's like every dredge or sluice I've used, you'll find a little gold that slipped under them or wedged into the sides.
Thanks for sharing the new Gold Hog. Always love seeing what the river is willing to give up
Just got back from Boston bar.ran 3. 5gal pals through my boar box.works well.about a quarter of a gram.going out again soon to really give it a workout on the island.thanks Dan
New to the Gold Hog community.Was always interested in panning.I imagine there is an instructor or tour but watching your video Dan is a great start!
Dan that's a nice piece of equipment ya have there. My Son Justin (who is a disabled Army Veteran) and I are in the first stages of learning about panning for Gold and we are both now hooked and a Gold Hog might just be what the Dr. ordered. Lol. And I'm glad to say that we are enjoying our time panning for Gold together and look forward to seeing more of your video's. Thanks for all that you do to help educate us on Prospecting.
Just a suggestion. You can not discharge into the river, but you could put your pump the river keeping good pressure and more clean feed water. Maybe, yes no.?
I like how modestly he asks for subscriptions. What a nice man-so personable. You can just tell.
Yeah he's a great guy I don't know him personally but I can tell this like you and he's full of knowledge
Gold hog looks really good. I like the way it seems you can take it even to dry places where there's no water and carry your water with your vehicle and probably do a really better job. Add it
Hey Dan 'GOLD HOG'!!!
! Just a quick note. Go ahead and start switching out to Lithium power/batteries. Can't beat the power to weight ratio and charge cycles. A pump screen made from window screen works perfect for a pump strainer basket. Hopper and tailing tray should be included. Swap out the wing nuts for thumb knobs.
I watch Dan Hurd and I was very impressed with the Gold Hog.The Gold Hog made me think that was a awesome way to get gold Dan made the Gold Hog look so easy to use Thank You Dan for sharing the Gold Hog with Us Michael
I am a Newbie of a few months to your Channel Dan and loving it. I hope your health is still doing good. I knew you mentioned having some issues after your heart surgery 2 years after. I went on to your shop and fell in love with your beautiful rocks and gems. Enjoying the videos find that 1 Oz. Nugget.. lol😊
Dan I have a suggestion for you. It would require two of the same electric bilge pump. Connect the outlet of the first pump into the inlet of the second pump. This will double your water pressure. If you run them side by side or in parallel you can keep the same pressure and double the volume. I've tested this theory with a dual 12v 3500gph bilge pump powered 1 1/2" dredge that had pretty good power.
The Gold Hog demonstration looks like the ultimate tool for the everyday prospector, I enjoyed your video and would enjoy using one myself here on the Kenai Peninsula in my search of gold bearing gravels. Thanks, happy trails.
Great video on the Gold Hog! I am very new to this, though I've had a love of geology my entire life, so I'm hungry for knowledge about it, and the how to's, and what to look for (when assessing the lay of the land), and what gear works, and what doesn't, etc.... Thanks for sharing your test run, brother! It seems like a pretty good product, for sure! And, lastly, under the heading of: "it takes one, to know one": those "dots" on your glasses?, that wasn't mud, bro, that was just you experiencing another "flashback" from the 70s, and while it's not exactly acid re-flux, it might be, acid redux! Ha-ha! Under that wide brimmed hat you can smile knowingly, without revealing too much.... God bless you and yours, brother! Hope the concert was an awesome one! Truly...
I have a couple of Gold Hog products, but this one is new to me. Thanks for the demo. I'm gonna have to check out their products.
A few thoughts.
Get rid of the wing nuts and replace them with spring latches on the front panel and on the mats. After a session, the generally cold water would make one’s fingers unable to easily manipulate those pesky wing nuts. Also minimises the risk of dropping the nuts somewhere, or just leaving them at home after cleaning the unit.
Modify your water discharge so you have a large receptacle, with a mesh screen to the pick up for the pump to protect it.
Silicone rubber nozzles that push into the water pipe. As you rub them, they will self clean in most situations (many domestic shower roses use this nowadays, to deal with water scale).
Make the whole box from a plastic material, with the option to 3d print mats specific to the user’s local conditions.
I don't know if the Gold Hog has been given away yet, but I do see some things that someone could do to improve on the setup. As far as having a tub and bucket to put my first shovel of dirt in and wash the material and then pour the pan in to eliminate the big rocks going in. I would also have a two section tub to put my pump in with a screen to keep the pump out of the tailings.
Make a tray like the one you use to remove the big stuff, then put a big tub underneath the gold hog, put a notch in the big tub at the top edge for the water to spill over into a smaller tub where you put your pump.
I think i would classify it in the smaller bucket and make a pile to shovel in the hopper first. To avoid big rocks that way they are cleaned and removed first
Gold hog! I want one. Love your show, thank you and your family for sharing your passion with us.
Gold Hog! I would love to have one! Great video and I learned a lot! Thank you Dan for sharing your experience! Hope you enjoy the concert!🎶
So thinking about your pump. It looks small enough to fit in a milk bottle! That way it won’t let the pump sit in the mud add some holes. Hope it helps!
So, I'm living in the north east of the USA. (Don't hold it against me. ) after watch a few of your videos I figured "why not?" So I ordered a panning kit off one of those cheapo sites. I assumed since I'm a die hard fly fisherman in always on a creek or some body of water. So, I fished early morning and panned through the afternoon until the fishing got hot again. From March after the thaw until Novembers first freeze, i managed to not get skunked either fishing or panning. I went through my flakes and a couple small nuggets, the biggest being the size of a BB. In fact i thought it was a brass BB at first but no magnetism made me keep it. Which was good. Even though it till a long time I got 1/2 gram over an ounce. Yes it took time but I would have just been sitting there anyway.
Thank you for the motivation and your constant upbeat attitude. It kept me positive when things got frustrating. Using any machinery is strickly forbidden here unless I own the land, which i don't. Removing sand and gravel is forbidden as well so panning with have to do it.
As i got better at panning my my yields got better.
My tip for anyone starting is to - never give up and go over the same spot a few times because you will miss some especially when you're just starting out.
Thanks again Dan, it was a good Christmas thanks to you. Btw, i didn't part with it all. I made a pendant with flake in an epoxy micro jar.
I have a Gold Hog Rapture 2. It is the best machine I have used for gold recovery. But it takes about 6 workers to keep it fed consistantly. It has 3 Shutes and takes 2 3500 GPH Electric pumps to keep it flowing. But, not a good machine in the desert unless you have the water supply to run it. I like the boar box design, but I still feel like there could be more improvements for faster assembly and disassembly of the mats. For EXample: Imagine if you could pull all the mats at once, at the same time. I dont even know if the mats should be bolted down like that, but hey, if it gets the gold, Im happy for you. Show us more 😃
Dan…. I love fishing the Fraser and now love watching your videos too. Congrat on the success collaboration with the manufactures of the Gold Hog Boar Box. I thing in this video you mentioned other similar devices, can I ask you to link them in a future video too please?
Build yourself a Tupperware box or a cheap case to put the pump in and you could have dome filter media in there to pull out the big stuff that’s clogging your system.
the GOLD HOG dirty water issue can be cleaned up by putting the pump into a, let's call it a swamp cooler pump cage/netting, thus filtering out all the sticks and what not and leaving clean filtered water to recirculate back up to the water feed bar. I have other ideas for that Gold Hog's improvement as well. I enjoy watching your clips on RUclips also. Thanks
Drill some holes around the bucket at the height you need them which looks to be about halfway from this video, it will let the water back into your bigger pan easier and make it easier to dump the tailings.
I have watched your videos for a while and just watched one on the magnetic separator. Seems like the Gold Hog in conjunction with a magnetic separator would be the way to go for efficiency. I will have to check out your other videos on high-bankers as well but the Gold Hog does seem to fit my needs and seems pretty compact as well. Thanks for the great content!
Dan, Here's a way to fix the water pumping problem in your GOLD HOG rig: Try processing your tailings in the same way the GOLD HOG Boar does by running them through two or more basins which catch the tailings BEFORE the water gets to your pump in the LAST basin. Then, to further protect your pump, put a larger bulb of screening to keep sand out of it without choking it. And finally either some sort of floatation or a clamp rigged to prevent the pump from dropping down on any sand on the bottom of its basin. Again, the main idea is to process your tailing in the same way to remove sand just like you catch gold so what gets through is mostly muddy water which can be pumped back up through the GOLD HOG Boar rig. Finally, your could make it easier to remove, empty, and replace the upper two tailing basins perhaps while the setup is running. Perhaps using all same size basins and a spare to replace full ones would work best. Good Luck!
Drop the pump into an old winter sock, and use it as a pump filter (after you sew the holes closed). When the flow slows down, remove the pump and wash the fine silt out of the sock, in a bucket of clean water.
Just run two buckets in series, second bucket put your sump on a spacer like a raised screen or platform or tie to line hook so it doesn't touch bottom. Throw a magnet in bottom of this bucket to catch black sands that will build in the motor. Nice gold wish I was out on the Frasier freezing with you.
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This has re inspired me to find gold were I live. All of the geologic maps in my earya suggest otherwise. But when I was young before I had social media I had found trace amounts I could only see under my dusty microscope. But now that I have social media I think it would be worth trying again. Especially sense I can take microscopic pictures now! Thanks Dan for igniting a spark and a passion I forgot about.
Was thinking of some way to have the larger basin pour into the smaller one with the pump. Could even cut a hole and place an outlet pipe for that to work. I imagine that's been mentioned in the comments.
Without reading through everything, just found this vid, if you haven't already, try Tidy Cat cat litter buckets (they have various sizes, larger/shorter). They are rectangular and look like they'd match almost exactly under this machine without having the problems of sticking out the sides so far that it causes problems in the catch bucket.
Seìng you struggle with your water operating the Gold Hog Boar Box, I refer to the system I built for my saltwater-aquarium. It has an overflow which doesn´t allow heavy objects to fall in, hence it´ll work for your operation too. When you work with 2 or even 3 different ´chambers´ with an overflow and if you like, use a spunge as a last filter around your pump, you´ll see there is no possibility for obstruction anymore. Greatings and good luck and fortune wishes for you from The Netherlands.
Quite a handy addition to a Gold Fossiker's collection, but with the manufacturer's idea of assembling it, it's way to finicky, and a right royal pain in the posterior in putting it together, fiddling with a heap of wing nuts, and then to disassemble the front to gain access to the lift out trays. My idea would be to have front, back, and sides to slide together, where the two side panels would have aluminum u-section channel on their vertical edges, and the front and back panels be aluminum box tube. In regard to the front panel, it would therefore provide easy access to the trays within, simply by sliding it up out of the way. The lift out trays, could also benefit of u-section channel riveted to the side panels, and the trays fitted with either aluminum, or heavy duty plastic tube runners, with an easy slide in/out operation. What do you reckon Dan? Perhaps you could pass that along to the Manufacturers. I daresay it would add to the cost somewhat, but I'd be more than willing to accept that for the convenience factor alone, Cheers Dan, and many thanks for sharing...
That gold hog seems to work well for many applications. Not just river applications. I can see it working well for back wood streams.
Hey Dan...
I've got a placer claim up in Idaho on a creek where motorized equipment is not allowed for the collection or processing of material below the high water mark. Looks like this machine would allow me to get around that rule provided I'm pumping water from a large container or tub. Gonna look into it!!
Cool Gold Hog! Those tailings really need a pan of their own to clean the water, solve that and I think this is ideal for hunting spot in somewhat remote spots. Happy Holidays!
Hello Dan, I am watching you use the Gold Hog and I noticed that if the thought was a little bigger and the water spraying on the material ( rock ) move up a couple of inches, and then see how she runs. Lol talk to you later Dan have a good one.
One thing I like about it, takes up less of a foot print.
What I don't like is the higher you have to life a shovel.
Might be worth to pre-dig a pile into buckets and preclassiy for it
Thanks for standing out in the rain and doing this excellent video Dan! I'm not a "Gold Hog" yet... more of a Piggly Wiggly. ;)
Gold Hog!!!
I want one so bad. Thank you for this demo, looks better than the gold cube
you can cover the pump intake with some cobbles and pebbles to increase the sand filtration time
Hey Dan, I just ran across this vid so pardon me if I seem late on commenting. I see that ole Doc has come up with a new way to mine the minors. Dont get me wrong as I do like his matting (even tho its expensive as all get out), but it looks like all he did was make a metal gold cube. Oh well, if those that believe they need the newest gadgets let them spend their money. A small high banker with a few inches of minors moss and you get almost all the gold, and if you run it 3 meters long, you wil get all the gold. Nice review. But you can keep it.
Gold hog looks very simple and straightforward to use and works 👍
I would love to try this gold hog to compare it to my gold cube. The guys at gold hog have surpassed all of the other gold equipment so I’m sure this one will too. Thanks for all of the videos Dan, I really enjoyed them and please keep them coming.
hi i would do that tub in a much bigger tub so u still get all the tailings out the bottom but the water spilling over in to the bigger tub will be alot cleaner
I like that Gold Hog system! It would be funny to get gold flakes on your glasses, then everywhere you look you see gold!!!
Also a 4 legged support system that will allow you to change out the big box under the Boar Box without a whole lot of fuss. That should reduce the shut down time.
Dan I enjoy watching, the Goldhog looks like a great portable machine. would love to try it sometime.
Check in the box has to be way easier there's got to be a way to put some Manuel fasteners on there
Thank you for a great demo of the Gold Hog and especially your thoughts on how to use the Goldhog in a less stressful way (e.g. bigger bucket down below). Was wondering if you dug a big hole if authorities would allow discharge into that. Might be more work to dig than to just use recycling system.