That actually looks like a fun way to spend a weekend or two.. the only problem I have is it would take two weeks to get to any place that had gold and I would spend a thousand dollars to maybe find A hundred dollars worth of gold... maybe ... but it’s fun watching you guy do it.
I saw several 2.5 cubic yard buckets of very high grade gold that I was mucking with a remote diesel powered scoop tram (front-end mining loader) about 4 years ago in Timmins ON, the most Gold that I ever saw in one place at one time in 43 years of underground mining! And that is a FACT!
GREAT family. Careful with the GOLD.It might shine MORE than it should. You already have good good BLESSINGS. take care stay SAFE. I follow you guys from the Philippines.
Got a dream mat myself, it's very good for the fine stuff. The water is too fast, slow it down, maybe just a bit less flow, then you'll be good. look at some you tube video's about setting up a highbanker. I got a lot of good info that way!! Cheers
Its just amazing how to watch your family! Dont think we have any gold on manitoulin island but it would be fun to look after I'm done building the house. Another great video!
left gold comment on other video, then i see this...yup, im moving into a truck this year, and getting off grid in bc...too cold here in mb...cheers...
There are approximately 202 five gallon buckets to a cubic yard of material... your buckets are 3/4 full... 6 x .75 = 4.5 bucket per your 300# of material. You cleanout looks great! With a snuffer bottle, or a wheel, (guessing) you have 3 grams or more of gold in that pan. There are 31.105 grams per Troy oz. $2,000/31.105x3=$193 in that pan. All dependent on the pay streak, I think it’s a rich bar of gravel... with proper equipment, it could pay quite well.
Glad to see you had fun and found some gold. My late husband died while gold panning in the Bear River 17 years ago. We were just learning how to do it.
There is a way to let the water do the work for you, buckets are your best workers, don't forget rakes! Classify, Classify, Classify. Your definitely on some good color might want to think about building your own blast oven, to smelt! Lots of fun.
Classify with a smaller classifier if your golds small because the bigger pebbles can clog up your holding cells in the dream mat also find the richer gold lines to produce the most amounts.test with a magnet to find where the most black sand is and test pan those spots until you find a good pay streak.Child labor😂
I think that the high banker should be at 10 degree I'm sure someone else will say if I'm correct anyways it's a great video for the best parents in this section of youtube extremely Proud of ya'll thumbs up my friends
Looked like an AUsome weekend on the Fraser 😎 I’ll have to have you all to my claims. Us Northerners gotta stick together. Love the enthusiasm keep it up y’all ✨⛏
This channel have waaaaay tooo few subs! TH-cam is not big enough for you guys. You need you own tv-show! @netflix you have to make the deal! we need more of this guy and his bro´. Pay him and make the show NOW!
Water flow needs to be adjusted abit slower. If you make your run tilt steep you need to attach another run with carpet matting or rubber ribs If you are finding gold at the end of the run it's tilted to high Gold is found where u find it but Its at all levels in the ground remember the river bank changes every year and more gravels and material travels an covers older gold deposits as years progress. Maybe a rotating wheel sluice can pick up gold quicker and separate the black sand from the gold
Jeff in my opinion best gold recovery comes from greatest surface area of sluice mat, this year I tripled my gold recovery from using an 8 foot long sluice and switched back to miners moss and expanded metal, it’s a lot of cons to deal with but if you get a cleanup sluice with gold hog washer mat it will burn through the cleanup in no time with 98% recovery. Maybe try your sluice with one or two extensions with a possible flare and experiment with miners moss and expanded metal or gold hog mats and guarantee you’ll recover 2x more, cheers
Really, I was saying to slow it down a bit and get a finer matt. Most of the gold I have found close to the house was all fine too but when I went several miles away we had a few hot spots that had a lot of clinkers. Clinkers are big enough to go clink when you drop it in the bottle!. In our small town we used to have a couple of shops that only sold items for panning and mining, we could sell our gold there too. All of those places are now gone as panning as a hobby is no longer popular? I still have my small bottle of gold from days gone by. Loved the excitement I heard from the girls!! Ours did the same thing!
Yummy gold... we don't have that much in NW Wyoming but one of these fine days I'd love to come up to BC and get on some real gold. Ya know, like what you guys were digging. I can only dream about 4.2g
Ok, this is obviously an older video or your girls are digressing in size 😂. Love your videos & looking forward to you posting more & more frequently. Big 👍.
You should look up Alan Robertson. He'll sell you the mats you need or the molds so you can make them at home. It's easy, cheap, and most importantly will catch that flour gold.
Hello there Gridlessness. You are doing a good job getting out into it in your lives; To reduce loss / and increase your take... ( I have lived from gold mining (dredging) a large New Zealand river for about seven years. Before that I simply roamed the hills working high country rivers with a pan and shovel living in my tent.) Note: Stay away from rivers if you cannot swim and cannot negotiate rapids / survive a dunking. I found some of my best spots {thousands of dollars when the price was $40NZ a gram } while scrambling down rivers over rocks and swimming deep pools always being able to self rescue. I don't think you guys can dredge in BC so I think the trick is to look for old river channels and really get stuck in high banking. 1. Use spaghetti matting as your base. 2. Cover that with wire netting that has been folded many times and squashed flat 3. Secure it all with a screw and large washer with a wing nut from underneath. 4. Experiment with raising and lowering your sluice 5. Experiment with water flow. ( It looks too fast in the video) 6. Experiment with the speed of loading the sluice. 7. Once you have your concentrates you should (in my opinion) take them home to work on, on cold rainy days inside. This is what I do and it works a treat. Some friends of have spent lots of money on all sorts of fancy systems because they have little patience to work the concentrates. 7. In your present family system everyone gets the same (food,lodging, love, etc.) no matter how hard they work or how innovative they are. It is very much a communist system and works as long as everyone works exactly the same. In New Zealand Countless useless people get to eat, are housed, have smart phones, etc and never do a days work. Hard working smart people get taxed and beat-up (metaphorically) for making an effort. 8. Perhaps you could ask your girls if any of them want to earn their own money (not shared) and set them up with gear and prospect for your / their own claim or ask Dan Hurd to help with this.
Too much water Slick. Start with a wide open valve, run two buckets, test your tailings. Gold in the tailings, back 1/8 turn on the input, two more buckets, test tailings again. Still gold, back another 1/8. Keep adjusting till you tailings are clean, run 10 buckets then test the tailings again. If they are still clean start moving material. The starting adjustments are absolutely critical to effective high banker adjustment. I can not stress that enough. The machine can only be as good as the operator and it will take experience for you to get good at it. Haveing a magnetic protractor to adjust bed angle is a good suggestion. Your tilt should be right at about 11 degrees for the average high banker. Much more than that and your fine gold ends up in your tailings. Gold is heavey but volume overcomes mass if you are pushing too much water. I don't use matts. All my systems are based on suspension principles rather than sluice action. The gold I deal with in Arizona is fine, flour gold that does not take much fluid to blow it through a sluice.
Great job guys! I just thought i would mention, maybe try a little less water mate, i believe you want it slow enough to allow heavies to fall out of flow, but fast enough to keep the riffles exchanging material. I have an 8inch dream mat and im still learning, but it does look like alot of water is running over your mat 🙂👍
A drop riffle sluice at the end would of caught what you lost needs to be more of a long tom and slow the water down you guys will do amazing then . Great to see a family working together keep it up 😁
If you were to combine fishing with gold panning and a little hunting you would have the perfect outing. Are we going to see gold inlay in future store products? Thanks for sharing.
Another great video folks, thank you. I could be wrong but doesn’t Dans high banker have about a 6” or 8” rubber flap at the top of the Dream Mat above the water to flatten out the water before it runs down the mat?
Is that a kind of eco-prospecting, where you leave most of the gold in the river, just taking enough to make the family smile excitedly? =;-)) Lovely vid, as ever.
The real gold is... the time spent with family having that kind of fun!
Exactly 👍
100% agreed!
But ... But .... What about Gold ? Gold price per ounce Ttoday $1,941.40 +1.30
So true!
I concur!
I just want to say that i love you guys. You make an old guy happy to see a family as close as yours.
people may not know it but its hard work panning for gold even in a conveyor i honor you.
Nice to see all of you enjoying yourselves, you have great kids and you videos are a pleasure to watch.
You and your family are ALREADY wealthy!! Not $$$$ wealth, but wealth of life!! God bless you and family.
That was fun to watch! 😊
I concur!
Love your videos. The spatula/ spoon is actually called a Spurtle. Scots for paddle.
Great video. Abby.. just diggin.. ha ha, Green indoor outdoor carpet or black felt, line the highbanker. perfect. ez peazy.
That actually looks like a fun way to spend a weekend or two.. the only problem I have is it would take two weeks to get to any place that had gold and I would spend a thousand dollars to maybe find A hundred dollars worth of gold... maybe ... but it’s fun watching you guy do it.
I saw several 2.5 cubic yard buckets of very high grade gold that I was mucking with a remote diesel powered scoop tram (front-end mining loader) about 4 years ago in Timmins ON, the most Gold that I ever saw in one place at one time in 43 years of underground mining! And that is a FACT!
GREAT family. Careful with the GOLD.It might shine MORE than it should. You already have good good BLESSINGS. take care stay SAFE. I follow you guys from the Philippines.
Great video! I get so excited when I get a notification that our favorite off grid family puts out a video!
Got a dream mat myself, it's very good for the fine stuff.
The water is too fast, slow it down, maybe just a bit less flow, then you'll be good. look at some you tube video's about setting up a highbanker. I got a lot of good info that way!! Cheers
Love the excitement in all the oohs and aahhs...family fun.
That's called team work,. awesome.
That looked like the best 4vdays fishing with the girls .i head fun just watching ha ha good times en storeis .awsome be safe you guys .en good eats
Wow great job very one
Its just amazing how to watch your family! Dont think we have any gold on manitoulin island but it would be fun to look after I'm done building the house.
Another great video!
Loving your channel from India.. Beautiful family Godbless..
golden moments in the life of a canuck family. this video is certified gold, eh!
i love your family alot....just found out the channel last week and i can't stop watching...love from manipur,india.
The smile of this kids is worth than any treasures out there....
Does anyone want to shout at the screen: “slow down the water!”?
@ Herman Wester - Yep. I was sayin' the same thing,
@@sheilam4964 Yup.. me too
Is the Dream Matt backwards?
Yes me to. Way to much water running downhill. L ol
...it was painful
What fun for your family and friends to share! More precious than silver, more value than gold!
Bless you and your family
left gold comment on other video, then i see this...yup, im moving into a truck this year, and getting off grid in bc...too cold here in mb...cheers...
Great take on the gold! Makes all the hard work kind of worth it don't cha think
Awesome family! Thanks for sharing! I love how your enthusiasm is so contagious amongst the girls.
Jeff, your lovely wife and daughters are so amazing. Just keep doing what you are doing. A great, happy family.
There are approximately 202 five gallon buckets to a cubic yard of material... your buckets are 3/4 full... 6 x .75 = 4.5 bucket per your 300# of material. You cleanout looks great! With a snuffer bottle, or a wheel, (guessing) you have 3 grams or more of gold in that pan. There are 31.105 grams per Troy oz. $2,000/31.105x3=$193 in that pan.
All dependent on the pay streak, I think it’s a rich bar of gravel... with proper equipment, it could pay quite well.
Hello Everyone! Lol. My face hurts from smiling throughout this entire awesome video,
same
What a great family !! Look at all the excitement ! Love it.
You need miners moss for that fine gold or slow down the water speed 😉
Wonderful man. Congrats on your success. Cheers to you all. We love you Dave.
I have said it before and will say it again, this is the most beautiful family ever.
we are watching from philippines guys..!!
So FUN! Amazing haul! Is that what you’d call prospected gold? So good to see the families out and enjoying nature and each other. Be blessed!💗
👍
Glad to see you had fun and found some gold. My late husband died while gold panning in the Bear River 17 years ago. We were just learning how to do it.
There is a way to let the water do the work for you, buckets are your best workers, don't forget rakes! Classify, Classify, Classify. Your definitely on some good color might want to think about building your own blast oven, to smelt! Lots of fun.
Carpet works very well, you always give some back. Every rock you move can be used for infrastructure. Let the water work for you. Aloha
Fun times on the river. Howdy Dave!
Great work👍
Nice JOB Gridlessness's family,,,,GOLDEN FAMILY🥇🏆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌🤙❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This was so much fun! Yall got some shiny too!
Thank you for taking me along.
I am happy to have found you all. Thank you for the content very well done, entertaining !!!
Classify with a smaller classifier if your golds small because the bigger pebbles can clog up your holding cells in the dream mat also find the richer gold lines to produce the most amounts.test with a magnet to find where the most black sand is and test pan those spots until you find a good pay streak.Child labor😂
That's very cool bud, you do better than I & yes having whole family out there having fun that rocks
Fraser river is a good place to practice panning 👍🏼
It's fun to see the shiny bits
Just think if you actually read the set up sheet that came with your sluice! LoL Great video, wonderful family. Hello to Dave!
Uh ohh, look like someone has got the gold bug! Heck, you're giving me the gold bug, and there isn't even any gold here. 🙂
Wow,, this is awesome guidelines work wi love guys ,❤️❤️❤️
I think that the high banker should be at 10 degree I'm sure someone else will say if I'm correct anyways it's a great video for the best parents in this section of youtube extremely Proud of ya'll thumbs up my friends
Looked like an AUsome weekend on the Fraser 😎 I’ll have to have you all to my claims. Us Northerners gotta stick together. Love the enthusiasm keep it up y’all ✨⛏
Gold for giggles awesome video keep up the good smiles
Thanks for this video :-) 👍
Any gold is great gold!!!
I just love your videos you guys are awesome
👍
Wow that's a lot of Gold😮
This channel have waaaaay tooo few subs! TH-cam is not big enough for you guys. You need you own tv-show! @netflix you have to make the deal! we need more of this guy and his bro´. Pay him and make the show NOW!
always fun watching you guys. and dave is really proud of you. hahaha
Water flow needs to be adjusted abit slower. If you make your run tilt steep you need to attach another run with carpet matting or rubber ribs If you are finding gold at the end of the run it's tilted to high Gold is found where u find it but Its at all levels in the ground remember the river bank changes every year and more gravels and material travels an covers older gold deposits as years progress. Maybe a rotating wheel sluice can pick up gold quicker and separate the black sand from the gold
Great time for family time
280 bucks or so I'm thinking in my head?!?!?!? The fun you had scratching around was worth the trip alone
Water to fast for that pad, should have ripple mat. Less water
Im a miner for almost 10 years you need to setup a ripple for that kind of gold. Base on my experience
Jeff in my opinion best gold recovery comes from greatest surface area of sluice mat, this year I tripled my gold recovery from using an 8 foot long sluice and switched back to miners moss and expanded metal, it’s a lot of cons to deal with but if you get a cleanup sluice with gold hog washer mat it will burn through the cleanup in no time with 98% recovery. Maybe try your sluice with one or two extensions with a possible flare and experiment with miners moss and expanded metal or gold hog mats and guarantee you’ll recover 2x more, cheers
My first pan I was 8 in Homer Alaska. That was such a great summer.
Really, I was saying to slow it down a bit and get a finer matt. Most of the gold I have found close to the house was all fine too but when I went several miles away we had a few hot spots that had a lot of clinkers. Clinkers are big enough to go clink when you drop it in the bottle!.
In our small town we used to have a couple of shops that only sold items for panning and mining, we could sell our gold there too. All of those places are now gone as panning as a hobby is no longer popular? I still have my small bottle of gold from days gone by.
Loved the excitement I heard from the girls!! Ours did the same thing!
Now thats great to see , the rocks are like a sluice bed , doing great guys and gals , work it 4 or 5 days a week , get plenty of gold
Yummy gold... we don't have that much in NW Wyoming but one of these fine days I'd love to come up to BC and get on some real gold. Ya know, like what you guys were digging. I can only dream about 4.2g
Good job
Ok, this is obviously an older video or your girls are digressing in size 😂. Love your videos & looking forward to you posting more & more frequently. Big 👍.
i want to be your neighbor and i don't like the cold. just watching the girls work would be worth it they put 100% in to everything they do.
I love this family... well done guys ✌️new subscriber here
Need an additional screen on your classifier on the high banker. Slow down that water too. Plenty of garnet and iron says you're really close.
I would love to go camping with this family!
Best Chanel
You should look up Alan Robertson. He'll sell you the mats you need or the molds so you can make them at home. It's easy, cheap, and most importantly will catch that flour gold.
Rose is worth more than her weight in gold
Fraser River?
We are at the New Westminster Fraser River
Leave us some
Take Dave with you next time. I want to see him get the ‘gold bug.’
If Jeff lets him talk :)
@@brianm1415 LMBO.
Hello there Gridlessness. You are doing a good job getting out into it in your lives; To reduce loss / and increase your take... ( I have lived from gold mining (dredging) a large New Zealand river for about seven years. Before that I simply roamed the hills working high country rivers with a pan and shovel living in my tent.) Note: Stay away from rivers if you cannot swim and cannot negotiate rapids / survive a dunking. I found some of my best spots {thousands of dollars when the price was $40NZ a gram } while scrambling down rivers over rocks and swimming deep pools always being able to self rescue. I don't think you guys can dredge in BC so I think the trick is to look for old river channels and really get stuck in high banking.
1. Use spaghetti matting as your base.
2. Cover that with wire netting that has been folded many times and squashed flat
3. Secure it all with a screw and large washer with a wing nut from underneath.
4. Experiment with raising and lowering your sluice
5. Experiment with water flow. ( It looks too fast in the video)
6. Experiment with the speed of loading the sluice.
7. Once you have your concentrates you should (in my opinion) take them home to work on, on cold rainy days inside. This is what I do and it works a treat. Some friends of have spent lots of money on all sorts of fancy systems because they have little patience to work the concentrates.
7. In your present family system everyone gets the same (food,lodging, love, etc.) no matter how hard they work or how innovative they are. It is very much a communist system and works as long as everyone works exactly the same. In New Zealand Countless useless people get to eat, are housed, have smart phones, etc and never do a days work. Hard working smart people get taxed and beat-up (metaphorically) for making an effort.
8. Perhaps you could ask your girls if any of them want to earn their own money (not shared) and set them up with gear and prospect for your / their own claim or ask Dan Hurd to help with this.
miss you guys,,,,
You can't buy memories like that !
greetings from denmark love your videos we will soon get some hunting videos
Too much water Slick. Start with a wide open valve, run two buckets, test your tailings. Gold in the tailings, back 1/8 turn on the input, two more buckets, test tailings again. Still gold, back another 1/8. Keep adjusting till you tailings are clean, run 10 buckets then test the tailings again. If they are still clean start moving material. The starting adjustments are absolutely critical to effective high banker adjustment. I can not stress that enough. The machine can only be as good as the operator and it will take experience for you to get good at it. Haveing a magnetic protractor to adjust bed angle is a good suggestion. Your tilt should be right at about 11 degrees for the average high banker. Much more than that and your fine gold ends up in your tailings. Gold is heavey but volume overcomes mass if you are pushing too much water. I don't use matts. All my systems are based on suspension principles rather than sluice action. The gold I deal with in Arizona is fine, flour gold that does not take much fluid to blow it through a sluice.
you said it your self SAND BAR!!! your digging in the wrong spot !!!! go for bed rock. time with family = priceless.
Great job guys! I just thought i would mention, maybe try a little less water mate, i believe you want it slow enough to allow heavies to fall out of flow, but fast enough to keep the riffles exchanging material. I have an 8inch dream mat and im still learning, but it does look like alot of water is running over your mat 🙂👍
A drop riffle sluice at the end would of caught what you lost needs to be more of a long tom and slow the water down you guys will do amazing then .
Great to see a family working together keep it up 😁
The family that pans together stands together, they sit together and stuff to but mostly they stand.
... mostly...
Nice job kids seamed to really enjoy it lookin like vacation money lol
If you were to combine fishing with gold panning and a little hunting you would have the perfect outing. Are we going to see gold inlay in future store products?
Thanks for sharing.
nice family bonding
Take a piece of plywood eight feet long use 1x6 for sides use stretch metal and miners moss on bottom you not loose any gold. Run it about 5 degrees
As a college teacher, I get U$S 292 per month in Argentina. I think I should be mining gold in Canada...
Another great video folks, thank you. I could be wrong but doesn’t Dans high banker have about a 6” or 8” rubber flap at the top of the Dream Mat above the water to flatten out the water before it runs down the mat?
You been broadcasting for years im sorry im so late to get hip to your channel.
Wonderful!
Looks like a great time with the fam! And what's with the Dan Hurd subliminal messages?😆
Is that a kind of eco-prospecting, where you leave most of the gold in the river, just taking enough to make the family smile excitedly? =;-)) Lovely vid, as ever.
😂👍
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