The Amazing Floating Gold Sluice Box!
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Add a keel and a weight and fold out outriggers. She will be a bit more stable.
Hi Chris cheers for the link very much appreciated 👍
Dude! Try going tubular! A couple of 4" (100mm?) PVC pipes, with the appropriate connectors and caps would give you a great platform and you could even hide batteries, pumps, etc inside maybe? You could even mount cameras, drink holders, dog treat containers... there would be no limit! Awesome stuff. Love it. Happy holidays all
Eureka you've just invented the high banker/rocker box combination 😂
That rocker idea really good😊
The high rockerbanx
Duct Tape can't fix stupid, but it sure can muffle it's sound.
I don't know why it is said silence is golden, when duct tape is silver.
I like that, going to steal it.
If it’s stupid and WORKS, it’s not stupid.
Hahahaha pure gold!
Buy a cheap boogie board (or use an old one laying around) to use as your "boat". You can bolt fixings directly into it, just make sure you use washers with any bolts or they may pull through when tightened. Will be heaps more stable than a plastic container.
3:20 glad to see you've leveled up enough that you've got a driver now since you're clearly getting out the passenger's side of the car.
You could have used the noodle to circle the tub, it would add more stability and you should be able to shovel as much as you can. Love the thinking outside the box! Keep up the good work kind sir.
Add a PVC frame for strength and use it for places to keep your pans, etc. handy.
I was thinking the same: attatching lengths of pool noodle along the two long edges should improve buoyancy and stability. An outrigger setup using pool noodle lengths could be added too, if necessary.
Love that sugar cane mulch! 👍 It's a bit flammable though... 😬
Or 3ven better, use the noodle like the pontoons on a catamaran . Better stability, especially with ballast 😮
We make pontoons here in the north of the USA to keep vehicles (ATV to full size Trucks) above the water when they go through when we are driving on the ice, this is required on some bodies of water. You can make the floats from 8" PVC pipe that is rated to be in the sun, UV exposure will ruin the pipe, fill with waterproof floatation foam and cap them. You cannot just trust the air inside as it can fill with water and then sink. Make a large overhead roof to keep the sun off you coated in solar panels to keep charging batteries and it will do more in a day than you will want to shovel.
goodtime!!! floating sluice is convenient!!!!!! be safe!!
Go to a boat shop and buy 2 small boat fenders and fix them to either side , or 2 litre soft drink bottles . Gaffer tape 2 x 2 litre bottles base to base and mount 2 each side and should give decent stability.
The caps would be at either end of the pontoon and could drill 2 small holes in very top of the bin at each end and loop wire or string round the cap ends to hold them in place
Excellent idea, Chris! I’d say work on your design a little more at home with some stabilizing outriggers and you’ve got yourself a proper floating DIY dredge! Fantastic! 🙂👍
For the battery issues, Try moving to a different outlet in your house. If that doesn't work, Try cleaning the contacts on the battery and on the charger. If that doesn't work, replace the charger. If that doesnt work, try duct tape?
Also, A pontoon recommendation: Get one more cleaning bucket. Stand your sluice between the two with a gap in the middle.
One brick in one bucket and the battery in the other bucket
Duct tape the legs to the inside walls of each bucket.
Balance as desired with rocks from the creek.
Happy Engineering!
Old video, but surfboard/bodyboard might be a good DIY starting point. Should be the right dimensions, easy base material to build off and lightweight. Cheers for your videos, going through the back catalogue now!
Chris, you hit the nail on the head with "Berring Sea Gold" - you need spuds on your rig. Two rings of PVC pipe pointing down, one on either side with a sharp stick into the mud to give stability. It will rise and fall on the water without tipping over.
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Regarding the battery charging problem, unplug the charging unit for 24 hours or so. Had a similar problem and this approach cleared it up. Don't understand why it worked but it did.
Here in Canada, duct tape is often referred to as the Handyman's Secret Weapon. Shout out to Red Green and the gang at Possum Lodge!
Also clean all the contacts on BOTH the batteries and the charger. The charger reads the battery's thermocouple for charge rate adjustments.
+1 for the “unplug and plug it back in” method of fixing electronics, works a treat with my Milwaukee chargers when they spaz out, even if only for 15-30 minutes so they can have a rest and a long hard think about themselves.
The Red Green Show is on TH-cam! It's basically like freebasing Canada. 🤪
Patrick McKenna should be more well known outside Canada. He was awesome in Traders and Stargate guest appearances. (Australian here 👋 )
Try a large inflated tire inner-tube as your floating base. Can be deflated for transport. Large truck tire should be stable enough to stack a feeder system or pre-classifier. Inflate tube over your base unit for a snug fit. 360 degree pontoon. Bring a bike tire patch kit. ;)
Clarkson would be proud of you for "doing a thing!"
Aside from the pontoon option, maybe put it on a body board. Anything that falls over the edge of the high banker could easily be washed off. Could carve in a battery holder too. Comes with tow strap already attached. If you needed more ballast, strap some weight underneath.
Good idea
Good on ya Mate! Your out-rigger is a solid idea. I would use the pool noodle doubled and on a frame held 50cm away from the tub and just out of reach from the discharge. Attach it by two pipes running back to and zip-tied to the tub. Hope this makes sense. On the charger, unplug it and tap it on the floor a couple times. Then plug it back in to test it. If that don't work, beat the living crap out of it and go get another from a second hand store. "Sluice Dog" Great name for it!
Nice Innovation .... Outriggers would def. help!! Heavy pans Chris!
The big soda/pop bottles make great pontoons. 2L
Yes they do ,,,,,,, strap 2- 2 liter bottles on each end with the 3/4 pvc as a go between pole and point of attachment to tubby,,, makes for good stabling the longer pvc
Great idea Chris! A small 2” dredge frame and floats and sluice would be the ticket. It would be light and portable and then you could use the gas pump to supply the water into the spray bars. Then you could shovel away until your arms or old man back gives out. I actually built a 2” dredge from a highbanker I made using the same concepts. The video is on my channel @ Ancells Adventures I’ll post a link below this comment. See if it gives you some ideas. Good stuff Chris keep the ideas coming!!
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May I suggest 'spuds' on each corner to raise it above the water and keep it super stable? PVC pipes would work no worries. Or a small Bunno's folding table with your stuff on top you just sit in the creek.
Definitely need to use a couple of outriggers instead of a tub. Although a half dozen pool noodles with conduit shoved up the guts for rigidity may be more convenient for transportation.
As for the batteries, I have found shoving them in the freezer for a few hours before sticking them on the charger can often rejuvenate them to some extent.
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I did sthing similar:, sluice, square bucket, alilulim profiles, board, epump, legs an option and wheels because I had to drag it to the creek. Basically it was, and still is, a kind of cart to drag or put behind your bike. Wheels are floats too. Build your thing, get the weight, calculate needed uplift, choose tire size/volume relative to needed uplift.
I think four dare bottles duct taped together and held out by the remaining pvc pipe on the sluice outflow side would fix most of the stability issue. You only need one outrigger, it just needs to be attached firmly (lots of tape in this case) and have enough weight or pressure to maintain stability.
I would suggest concept clearly proven. Now to make a ten inch version on a boogie board so you and mick can continuously feed it.
Thanks Chris!
Greenies don't really know 3/4 of the time what is good and what is bad. You still have to dig the bank and river bottom for gold, so what is a high banker doing that isn't any other way of gaining the yellow stuff. Love it.
Love the innovation! You could also try a body board for a pontoon like base. They are pretty cheap from Kmart. Have made one I use when fishing in knee deep water to hold tackle, bait and beers. Works like a dream and can just attach the wrist strap to stuff easily
chris,ive got an idea. the black box your useing can be stabilized easily with the pool noodle. cut th noodle in half and secure it with zip ties or duck tape, on each side of the box length wise. ( like a Catamaran boat) . then reset your mini sluice length wise and set your elevations in a kiddy pool at home first. then when your happy with your results at home in the pool . then when you go to the stream ,pound a piece of rebar into the stream bottom to keep it still when you shovel dirt . i will moke up a drawing of my thoughts.Im pretty sure this will help.
Outriggers are an awesome idea also add some Downriggers/leggs mounted on the side you could adjust an level once you find a spot.
Totally great idea, thinking outside of the box you are. Try using 2 tubs, one for the battery and pump, and the other for the sluce. The sluce float, add 4 adjustable PVC pipes, one for each corner that you could lower onto the bottom of the creek. The sluce would be fairly stable and who cares if it gets a little water in the bottom, the battery is floating just a couple feet away, high and dry. The fact that you don't have to walk each shovel full to the edge of the creek is brilliant! Really like your videos.
How to train your sluice box! Prototype #1.
mate this is a brilliant idea, how hasn't anyone come out with something like this over here yet
Good job Chris , you are the Tony beets of Reidy creek with Nana's old tea towel on your head mate
Dredges usually have the sluice in the middle between 2 pontoons. Use 2 boxes. Mount the high banker in between and dump some gravels into the boxes for ballast, the lower in the water the better.
Made my comment before I read yours, I agree with you
I've seen small dredge setups built by prospectors in South Korea that are floated between a pair of those foam yoga rollers. Would probably work great for your application.
Absolutely brilliant idea....you're a genius...
Put it on a boogieboard that would be a super simple solution to get it to float. Love your work
Working around ships and barges, they rely on pipes on 4 corners driven in the sea bed for stabilization. Emt tubing driven in the creek and adjusting screws on 4 corners cures your stabilization problem reguardless of how much you shovel in the hopper.
I ordered all my stuff to try gold panning and metal detecting for the first time. I order a bag of Klesh beginner paydirt like three days later. The paydirt arrived today, my pans are still two days away. Lol… I’m dying to get started!!! 😩😂😂
Use a pot lid with the grab handle taken off. The hole will screen the small stuff into another container. Then reinstall the handleand pan the small size stuff like using a batea pan.
Pan with a pie plate. Works!
Get 2 pool noodles, fold in half and cut crossways. Cable tie 2 halves to each side of your tub for stability. It should work good.
Pontoons and an additional rope anchor stretching in the opposite direction might help
Thank you for making this video. It is a great concept for getting a highbanker in the creek
add two pool noodle pontoons for the rocking and add four wheels to the tub and no more carrying anything, fun vid 👍
Great concept. You will work it out. How no one steals your idea. I love the way your mind works. When you set on something you do it.✌❤❤
Ya know, if you were to make a yabby pump with a couple of check valves so it would suck up the dirt on the draw and pump it right to your sluice when you pressed it down, it would technically not be a dredge because it lacks the head that they outlawed.
Just thinking way outside the box.
I’m sure you’re going to perfect your design on the next try. Looking forward to seeing that video.
A couple pieces of 40mm PVC pipe with the ends capped and attached to the short sides of the tub should offer a suitable pontoon for that setup
Love the fun based tone this channel is taking. ❤
Me too, I can't be bothered being serious when I find two tenths of f all most of the time.
That's awesome! Wet Banker proof of concept ✅️. Your right... needs outrunners
Excellent proof of concept!! Great job!
A couple of pool noodles and two sticks clamped on should stabilize it. Have a great day
Mount it on a boogie board, should be wide enough to give you the stability you want
Need an inner tube from a tire and attach a round bucket in the middle to lower the center of gravity.
Well done Chris. Like the idea. Yep outriggers would be good. Couple of bit of capped off storm water pipe on some sticks and away you go 😁👍
PVC tubes with end caps for pontoons and build your platform in the middle.
Get a deeper tub like a bio filter that is used for pond filtration, they have a hole at the bottom and put a tap on it so you can use water as the ballast, they come with these filter mats that are very rigid you can set you battery n stuff on, also get the pvc and noodle idea into action for some lefty righty stability?
I love your ingenuity! Carry On!
Perhaps try a couple pieces of pvc with end caps on either end of your container possibly around the 3-4 inch diameter that should help it is similar to what I did with my sluice
I love it! Let me know if you want a hand with the pontoon, cause that's what it needs!
That's nothing some PVC tubing & plumbers glue won't fix.
As for the batteries, sometimes some cells discharge more than other's, and as a result, the charger see's that as an un-balanced fault, and won't charge.
You 'can' sometimes fix that by pulling the battery apart, & checking each individual cell with a multi-meter, and then use a fully charged cell to pump direct charge into the most depleted cells, so that all the cells then end up with a similar charge. After that, the charger will probably work on that battery again, but I have to admit, it's a fair bit of dicking around.
Doood... brilliant!! 😅 just gotta figure out what color to make em! 😉 make it look like a goose and call it the Vogus Sluice Goose! 😊
Thanks for sharing Chris.
Loved this one great invention prototype.
Use the pool noddle to stabilize your tub cut and tape it to the sides
PVC tubing to build outriggers off of would be light weight and create more stability
I like the 2-pontoon idea. They could be linked by broomsticks & the HB set in the middle. Solves the rocking issue & the taking on water issue. You could also mount a lower tailings sluice between the sticks. The 2 pontoon boxes can carry supplies (as ballast). An additional small anchor on one or both ends could secure movement downstream.
Your pool noodle circles attached to the sides as outriggers and maybe a small yabby pump to bail the water from time to time???
Get a deeper tub so you can have a deeper ballast/rim level... sits deeper in the water so more stable.
Looks like the first of a few iterations of your great idea. Very cool that you made a thing. I'm looking forward to seeing what changes you make and the impact they have. Good to see you so happy.
I had thought of something very much like what you have come up with here. My idea was to put the noodles on a regular sluice box with stabilizers out the sides to put in a river. If you put a tarp on the front of the box and anchor the tarp to the river bed, you could shovel dirt into the tarp and it should flow up and into the sluice box. I haven't done it yet so I don't know if it will work. Your experiment here has given me hope and some motivation to go forward with my thoughts. If someone has an idea as how to anchor the tarp to the river bed, it might help.
hey just a thought ,why not use 2 of those black buckets together (stability and travels inside of each other) and connect them together with aluminium 20mm qubelok so its light and strong as to carry it into the bush . ..love your work
Keene does sell pontoons to use however you like.
Those rocks you had in your little boat thingy were serving as ballast, if you just took a bigish longish rock and used the stretchy thingos with the hooks on the end to hold the big rock to the bottom of your boat thingy (under and in the water ) that would serve as a more stabilizing ballast. Did you ever have one of those LEGO oil tanker ships in your bath as a kid ? If you put the boat in the water without the ballast it would tip/turn over. I think if you used two pool noddles and set them up like a catamaran it would even be more stable.
We built a duck house on noodles for our pond. The ducks and turtles have been using it for years, now.
You need two pontoons and make a bracket to mount the high banker right between so both big and small tailings fall off in between like a small dredge
Gday Ghris , perhaps a boogie board , always at least one in the garage 👍🏼
Alway think there, Chris. No box has been made to limit you.
2 star pickets at the back of the pontoon. And put the bilge pump in the pontoon to empty the extra water build up. Nice idea Chris.🤙💯😎
Get some abs tube from the hardware store and duct tape it to the sides of the box about where it sits in the water before you added the stone to weigh it down... Then put the rock in and it should be super stable
Nice Chris 🍻......more gold for jars🤞👍🤝
Brilliant! I love it.
Put some square section polystyrene around that tub and it'll work like a charm, good old PVA wood glue for gluing the polystyrene together..... Actually, just put the whole sluice on a block of polystyrene.. Cheap and light...
Chris, what an awesome idea! It certainly is achievable with a little balance change. I would lock down this idea quickly by getting a patent. I wonder why no one else thought of that? My idea would be to use the type of Hawian balance on their boats. I don't know what it's called, but they stick out on the sides so that waves don't roll it over. I wish I had a name, but maybe a quick search would show you.
Even though you only did 50 shovels, I was not thinking you would have that much gold and heaviest as a result. Plus, it was very hot but you managed to stay cooler by being in the creek and not having to fill a bucket, carry it, shovel into the sluice, etc. That wastes a lot of time and energy.
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Beleave they call it an outrigger. Polynesian name ama.
Mark where it sits in the water when the sluice is full and then tape noodles to the sides of the box just above
Stick the pump intake in the tub for a minute to get the water out!
Next iteration, get some telescoping legs for your sluice and set it on the bottom.
use the leg kit you have tucked in to attach pontoons along the long sides of the tub. that'll keep it from tipping back and forth.
also, if you keep your battery packs in the fridge before you charge them, it'll work better in that heat.
Hey Chris, you know the long Drop Bolts you use on gates to lock them into the ground? Imagine one of them on either side of the crate to A. Lock it into place when you’ve found a spot, and B. Steady it for when youre sluicing. Big brain engineering! Love your work mate!
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A couple of those buckets from the Aussie HD hooked up to your existing setup. Then a couple of things called anchors. I would suggest two. Then add a pump to your tray. Your golden. Ha
Usse a truck inner tube with the tray within. Look at floating dredges.
Great concept Chris look forward to Floating Sluice Mk 2.0 with pool Noddle outriggers🤞👍🎬🖖
Use two spuds. Like on Shawn’s Bering sea gold dredge. Two pieces of pipe that adjust
Welp, congrats brudda. Ya just gave me a wintertime project. Hope ya happy with yourself. Time to find my scrap chunks .
One thought get a number 10 shovel it will fit the highbanker distruction chamber better. The also call them gardening shovels or concrete form shovels . Small head with full length handle
The Christopher Rose!
You had the right idea with the noodles, but them into outriggers by sliding them over PVC pipe.
Maybe needing to come up with a 'Coolman' system that pumps water from the creek and have a spray bar/tube that runs along both shoulders and around the back of your neck, that way you could stay cooler for longer and process more dirt? 😆 🤣 😂
Love it when consepts come to life👍well done bloody awesome.