beautiful home engineering! i love it. i have used some ideas from this, and made a design of my own; a little larger and more robust for (shovel -> mini-excavator type use) so i was concerned about mobility. then after stepping outside this morning i saw my old dolly sitting there and thought to myself, "high banker frame on wheels!" thank you Dan for the inspiration! earned my respect, like and subscription. God bless!
another great vid Dan....to much snow up there for me and Slim...like the design....we love using Doc's mat's too ....and a 2 inch pump.love the water feed with jets with that top feeder spray, we like using blue miners moss in the crash box with a 2 inch riser to act as a trap ....like to quick disconnect for the water line.... really good design Dan and great info... keep'em coming my friend.
Those are Gold Owl Mats in the top of the sluice Jeff. Id love you to get ahold of me about them, Dans has a link to my FB above. Thats not snow BTW, its just really hard water. :-)
You remind me of like a really cool substitute teacher thats really enthusiastic and hands on with teaching and outshines the regular teacher in every way.
Hey I know this is an old video. But in the last 5 10 years you've come a long way. I've even enjoyed your videos from when you were teaching your students a little bit about gold mining. I live in Humboldt County California probably one of the best gold mining areas except there's a million restrictions but I find myself watching more of your videos, then I do actually mining myself because it's just so hard to get away. I enjoy what you do thank you!
I completely agree my friend 😊, I know california HOLDS THE GOOD GOLD, lately in pennsylvania i've been looking for good quartz and their is ALOT of good stuff coming out of mountain near me, so i'm on the hunt for GOLD BABY!😊
@@surfinsilverFunny, speaking of California, I'm in the "mother lode" in El Dorado county... not too shabby as far as gold goes. Helps to have property, then the regulation folks can relax, because well they can't see anything lol. On the Quartz subject, I've got a really nice vein running through my backyard colliding with some shale, or soap stone. In this area Theres a really old tree, probably over 250 years old, it fell over exposed its roots, and in this root ball I found a nice quartz rock about 2 foot around. Well this quartz rock has some dark color in it, but its so dang heavy I can barely lift it! I can easily lift 50-100 pounds.... so this rock must be over 100 pounds...!!! I haven't been able to get it home yet, its on a slope in some soft dirt. And well...I have heart issues so I'm designing a cable pull to get it the rest the way up the hill. I hope its full of gold, oh my goodness its heavy.
I'd like to design+build a Self-Sluicing Backpack Highbanker which can be comfortably carried into the scottish hills. It could involve repurposing a lightweight folding ironing board! & include a river-powered pump to pull water into it so no batteries/petrol/gas required. I might also try making a portable robust *inflatable gravel sluice. So, apart from building my large 3D XY Printer, that's my Give-It-a-Go Build Projects sorted for this year. Must find where you can buy that strong fake wood over here.. Keep making videos & smiling Dan.
Thank you some of us do appreciate when you answer our questions and we appreciate the videos that are explaining what we're asking about thank you I do appreciate it as one of your fans and one of your Patriots please do not stop your videos like this we need more of them because no offense but there is a lot of dummies out there
I like what you've done with it. I think the use of the plastic wood really simplifies some of what I've been trying to deal with. I had originally discounted it as not durable enough to build prospecting equipment with, but you've definitely put it through enough abuse to disprove that! Thanks for the walk-through!
I watch your videos a lot. This one is going to help me and my prospecting partner out a whole heap. We been trying to figure out a way to make one that works good and easy for somebody with a very bad back. We have made all our own equipment except for the pans and classifiers. With this video we can probably make us one now that we can handle and be happy with. Keep up the great work. So many kids are learning life by being in your classes and keeping their minds on learning and doing rather than drugs. THANK YOU.
Hello again Dan...you wanted any Ideas for your highbanker..Well I do have one..Take a 10 to 12 inch pipe and weld on two pieces of channel to the pipe that will fit through the leg slots of your highbanker near the folding portion where your grizzly is located...or use U-bolts and bolt to the channel...now the point is when the pipe is mounted under the body of the highbanker the bottom rests on the pipe and is held there by the 2 pieces of channel...the final portion is a pair of tires like say from a bike...bolted to a piece of rod being used as an axle which runs through the pipe..so now your highbanker is a wheelbarrow which you can push or pull by your self with all your hoses and pumps carried on top...and anything else you want to throw up there...when your afield..put on your lower legs, lift the highbanker off the axle and install your legs...It will save your back and allow you to move more gear at once...have a good day..👍
Greatings from Venezuela!!! Dan...with this explanation of your High Banker...I believe any one who knows use tools...can make its own...excelent!!! Even when I wont build one or use it here...for the purpose...I saw all the video and just can say...EXCELLENT.
I think there is one thing missing, a name for your high banker. I have watched everyone of your videos, many twice. Never disappointed. This was a very informative video and it answered some questions for me as well for others, I hope. Beautiful gold. Gots to love it. Thanks Dan!
I Appreciate you making this video. I know, high bankers aren't all that complicated and I over think things which makes me over complicate them until I actually do whatever it is. But hey, look you've gotten over one million views! That should be some decent ad cents.
I always love your videos, Dan! Envious! We have so much hold here in the Willamette Valley mountainsides, and I'm stuck panning every flake by hand! Someday I'll get enough to buy or be able to afford the materials for a highbanker!!! I just use the old classifiers and pan method for now!
I thoroughly enjoy your channel, even though I’m not a gold prospector. I’m a retired professional handyman who enjoys recreational metal detecting, but still find it fascinating to watch other forms of treasure hunting. I much prefer to make things if I can, rather than buying them whenever possible. Keep enjoying what you do, and happy hunting to you and your family!👍👍
I was going to make a 12” wide high banker but in seeing that yours is 10” wide I’m starting to reconsider. Good point about the size making it easier to carry in. Great video once again Dan!
Dan, your philosophy of feeding mass material vs. losing a little bit of gold is spot on!!! Secondly, the jets that shoot water UPHILL is absolutely perfect! One more compliment; the thin rubber dispersing mat on the sluice help insure an even spread of water and material. Darn fine job!!!
thanks so much Dan i am working on my first highbanker i have only tested it the once but watching this i can see two vast improvements you have shown me to do to mine soon
Dan, you are the MAN. I've been asking for this and you delivered big time. Didn't even watch the video yet but I am going to go grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy this one. Awesome.
I like it and have planned on building my own.I would have some footing on the legs for more stability and you could have made it shorter with a lip on the bottom with a second piece on underneath that slides out like a telescopic pole so it would collapse smaller for easy transport. But a little extra work for compact version. Love the videos!
Great video Dan. They just made the dream mats, so I bet you would like to try them out possibly to see how well they work compared to the other mats. I had watched a video about feeding material through a high banker with bar magnets underneath to create black sand riffles. It looked like they created a hinge that bolted to the very top underneath the high banker. then at the bottom locked it in place. I bet an eyelet with a pin on each side would lock the magnetic plate in place. Else one long eyelet that goes all the way across. Then after run enough material, pull out the eyelet and all the black sand can be dropped into a bucket with a little bit of water feed. No black sand to deal with makes finding the gold a lot faster. You probably don't want all that black sand going into the crash box. The dream mats have made me find a lot more gold that usually gets washed away from the miners moss sluice system with the plastic riffles as well. Having a flow rate I can control with a water pump has really helped compared to just throwing a sluice in the water and just using the current control the flow rate. My water powered sluice has levels built into it that helps me get it set correctly. It definitely helps to get set up. Where you want a nice even flow all the way across. Your system looks really professional. I like the metal fingers on your system. The jets facing up and the water jet going down is a great design that you have there. Those fingers are like classifiers. I could only imagine having various sets of those through a multiple stage system that places all the various sizes to their own section. Sometimes you lose gold by having bigger material crashing into smaller material. I could bee each area getting its own 5 gallon bucket. I usually end up only using 3 classification screens when I have to manually place them on top of a bucket and shaking them down each size till only the smallest screen size is what is in the bucket. I had recently used the water sluice over all of those classifiers to have a constant water flow and be able to shake the material through them a little faster. Looking through the bigger screens quickly and throwing out the bigger material that I didn't see gold. It all takes a lot of time to do all of that. But, way faster then pouring a small pot of water on top and shaking to get material to classify through. You tend to find a lot bigger pieces than I do. I haven't every found a piece in one of the classification screens. It is always found in the bucket. That's how small the gold we find here in Ohio. I am using the 3 biggest size classifier screens that are normally sold. I noticed that the black sand carries a lot of gold hidden in it doing the backwash method. I ended up having to use a small brush to fan out some of the black sand and then using the long eye dropper to pick up the gold. Black sand isn't easy to deal with. Tapping the bowl and getting the gold up into the small riffles and sucking it up there has worked good for the very fine gold. It is when you have super tiny gold with bigger material that I tend to have some trouble. I can tell ya going through a bag of pay dirt take a very long time. So much micro gold just sticks to the pan everywhere and it is very hard to get it all to stay in one place. I have tried lots of methods. Backwash, tapping, and circular. That is when I found the brush method for the hidden gold. It definitely works. They said only a miller table can get to that fine gold. It can be done manually with a small brush and an eye dropper. Once it is separated and put into a bottle, it can always be gone through again with the eye dropper and clean all the junk from the gold. Sometimes I just suck up the non gold just to get rid of it so that I don't have to deal with it and put it into a small cup. Its time consuming, but I enjoy going through material. When you have a lot of material to go through, is when you really want to find a way to speed things up though. Especially when, you only got a few hours on a weekend before having to go back home. I built a water suction pump system that uses a water jet to create suction. It is battery powered. Found that a water transfer pump with only 35 PSI isn't really enough flow to create enough suction for a 1.5 inch PVC pipe. Normal water pressure for a house garden hose system is between 40 to 65 PSI. It makes a powerful stream many feet across the yard. But, not enough suction through a plumbers WYE to really pick up water. I bet the high PSI Power Washers that are gasoline powered would work really well. They get up to 3000 or higher PSI compared to electric versions which are more like 2100 PSI. I have a venturing curve in my design. As well as a brass garden hose set to steam mode to get the most PSI I can get. I did it this way so that I wouldn't clog up the pump and only use it to push water through the WYE to create the suction. At the end of it, you get the clean water combined with the material that is being sucked up through the other end of the WYE. A portable 18 Volt Milwakee battery and their M18 Water Transfer system would have been awesome. It is 35 PSI. So it can at least be a preamp module for a high pressure spray system that may need to be primed. The M18 self primes itself.
I recently retired and am considering taking up gold and gem prospecting as a hobby and to travel to different parts of the USA. I would definitely add a couple of 4" wheels on one end to help with pulling it along trails to the water's edge.
im 16 now and pretty interested in prospecting for gold and other minerals and ive got to say i really do like these vid you put out for us they are rich in knowledge and entertainment. also your beard is really great
Hi.Dan.Nice build.I do not know the mats you are using in the top half.I use gold hog.I will not put any metal over top of my mat.I find it interferes with the design of the mat.Example vortex mats are designed to work alone.Some folks believe that expanded or metal riffles will catch more gold but I have found it only messes up the system.To each his own.Another thing is I can pull out my mat do a cleanup and be running again in about 45 seconds and i am not packing anything extra.Just my opinion.Luck,Mcbain.
She’s a beauty,that hopper is a beast.I think I might have to ditch my spray bars for some jets like you run,I am over getting soaked from the constant mist from my spray bars.Great build Dan thanks for sharing
Lol a cold beverage holder with a little umbrella to keep the dirt out would be a nice addition And a big comically shaped pot of gold to catch the fine tailing in for that bit of class lol But in all honesty that is really nice setup and the mouth on that beast is really nice wonder if u could use a punch plate and sandwich some type of mat maybe if that would add capture area before the sluice and keep you from breaking a hole in the box from throwing bowders at it lol
Love to see people shovelling big rocks in the crash box/hopper. I've nearly finished my stream sluice build, and can't wait till after Salmon spawning season to test!!! Great vid Dan
Hi Dan , I really like your high banker it looks like you put a lot of time and work into this gold trap. I wrote down your verbl directions on paper and cant wait to start working on mine .
Thanks for the tour of your highbanker and the descriptions of what you did and how you made it. Also thanks for the pics of good for the good junkies.😁
Dan, it is YOUR channel. You make the content that YOU want to make. Viewers will either like it or not but that is THEIR problem, not yours. Love the information.
I'm a new sub but have watched quit a few of your vids, your one of the best ones to watch. I am a prospector in Washington State and I love being able to see what you get in gold. Because it just makes me get up and go do some prospecting my self. But I for one love these videos as well because it gives me good ideas for my set up so thank you for that!!
At first, I really wasn't a huge fan of your intro music-- but, you know what happens when you listen to something a bunch, and appreciate what that music represents? I really dig it every time you play it.
The only thing I would change is the last two feet of sluice so that it would fold or detach and fit into the hopper. This way you would make your carry easier when walking through bush etc.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Trying to go back and catch all of your older videos. I would LOVE to pan for gold. Wish I was able. Oh well. At least I can watch your videos.
Very nice Dan! It's a rough build in spots but, very well done indeed. Hey! as long as it serves the purpose which is keep the gold, it's awesome, and that's all their is to it! GREAT VIDEO.
Not sure if making a way to adjust the water jets for different materials would help much, possibly 🤔 but then again... those picture shots of, GOLD! found with this highbanker, pretty much telling the tale. It works great 👍
Keep at R Dan, great video as always, very educational. Great info for when I put together my own system. You've inspired me to get my Ontario Prospectors license this year, hope to put in claim #1 this summer. Thank you for all you post. D
I have a CAROLINA CLAIMER HIGH BANKER built here in North Carolina. Was not pleased with the carpet and riffle bars. Changed to GOLD OWL matting full length after watching one of your videos works a lot better. Question? IS a crash box really needed? Keep up the videos and I will keep watching.
great video.... so i am in the process of building a sluice box for home and am using the white board to build the box with. I have never built anything like this before so I am shooting from the hip so to speak. I also am making my own silicone mats just to see if I can. your video in detail has helped me with a few things on this project so thanks for that and hopefully this won't be a total fail....
Show pictures of gold to please the people that leaves bad comments 😂😂😂 brilliant 😄 Literally finished yesterday to build my own sluice, I’m really inspired by what you’re doing so keep it up 💪🏼
Dan Hurd not really it shattered even before putting it in the water 😂 I chanced the plastic sluice, too flimsy ! Going for wood. At that rate I’ll be better off buying a base 😂 it’s part of the fun I guess !
You know it really took me a couple videos to warm up to you but I really love your videos I really love your input I think you're a great family guy and I love your enthusiasm keep up the good work I loved this video of you showing your high banker because I'm in Arizona and I have a dry wash that I could actually convert into a part time Hi banker if I wanted all I need to do is run different mats and water and I think I'd be OK
First off let me say your videos are very inspirational and educational as well as entertaining! I do like your style! I'm sorry to revive an old video with a question, but I'm thinking about building a sluice house. A building with a permanent sluice built into it. I was thinking miner's Moss at the top, but I see you have none in yours. Would I just be wasting time using any at all? I'm presuming it's apparently not necessary? Thank you for your time and videos!
It would be helpful if you put a carabiner, with braided wire attached to it and a ground stake of some type at the other end. Attach the carabiner to the eye bolt on the legs and pound the stakes into the ground. (One on each side.) This will provide a good deal of strength and stability to your sluice box.
Looks like a simple build. That would be easy to carry to remote areas. A possible improvement to the upper hopper might be some 1/4 inch thick Teflon cheating to add a replaceable wear surface. But nice design simple and effective
Lol! Well sense everyone likes to cry I might as well cry too! You didnt give me the gold! Nah jk. I will say I enjoy the videos for what they are. If it's about making something or describing how it was made... or even how something you make works... I enjoy it for that seeing as you described it as just that. One thing I would like in all the videos if I were to suggest something is weight of the total gold or larger peices along with a tangible item to give a size comparison other than a finger. Your ginger or my finger may be biger. So a quarter some kind of dime sense it's so easy to just carry one in your pocket. Love the clean up shots after your videos. Amazing pics.
I would suggest like a 3/4 inch spacing between the top water feeds and the high banker to allow material that hits the water feeds on the sides to fall in instead of out. Just an observation after watching many vids
I Just came here to leave this comment because i couldn't find all the Easter eggs so i will just leave this message here for my bonus! lol Thank you Dan Hurd!!!
Outstanding build and explanation , one question though on water supply. Getting enough water can sometimes be a real PIA, so as I watched I thought about a creek where the water is limited due to the land owner not wanting the stream mucked up with dams or pools. So I was wondering, if you thought a gravity feed from a natural hole say 60 feet away with maybe a 6 foot head would be able to be used. I know the about of water entering the line is paramount but I was wondering about the concept
Great video as always. I enjoyed the way you assembled your high banker. I agree with you on finding more gold with a high banker but from your description I do not think I would find more gold with a high BAKER and I would definitely not eat any of his bake goods LOL. Keep the videos coming I enjoy and learn a lot from you.
Pretty good detailing and structural tips, but nothing about your pump (except mentioning 1 1/2 inch) or power supply. I have to assume you use a petrol fueled 110 generator for that massive water flow, and you mentioned having no problem with the lift from the water source. I'm hoping to use a 12 volt bilge pump, but fear it won't have the power or run time on a deep cycle battery and I'm not sure about the weight advantage between generator and battery. Of course a water-turbine driven generator at the bottom of the sluice would make a perpetual motion machine out of it... ;-) so no worries!
beautiful home engineering! i love it.
i have used some ideas from this, and made a design of my own; a little larger and more robust for (shovel -> mini-excavator type use) so i was concerned about mobility. then after stepping outside this morning i saw my old dolly sitting there and thought to myself, "high banker frame on wheels!"
thank you Dan for the inspiration! earned my respect, like and subscription.
God bless!
another great vid Dan....to much snow up there for me and Slim...like the design....we love using Doc's mat's too ....and a 2 inch pump.love the water feed with jets with that top feeder spray, we like using blue miners moss in the crash box with a 2 inch riser to act as a trap ....like to quick disconnect for the water line.... really good design Dan and great info... keep'em coming my friend.
Those are Gold Owl Mats in the top of the sluice Jeff. Id love you to get ahold of me about them, Dans has a link to my FB above. Thats not snow BTW, its just really hard water. :-)
Ask Jeff Williams when we going to see some content from you and slim?
i w2ould watch you again but . you have lost your mind to all the drugs / poison your eating.
@@theinternetisaseriesoftube5107 He who knows not of what he speaks, should not speak at all.
Yea, snow sucks. And, you might get a little cold! As for me, I'm looking forward to getting a little wet again! Keep up the great work Jeff.
You remind me of like a really cool substitute teacher thats really enthusiastic and hands on with teaching and outshines the regular teacher in every way.
Thanks!
I've looked a several highbankers and I like yours better than than any others I've looked at.
Good ideas here, very thorough explanations, and he's got a long beard so I can believe what he says.
^This comment is underrated 👏
The longer the beard the more trustworthy a miner will be. Love your channel.
Hey I know this is an old video. But in the last 5 10 years you've come a long way. I've even enjoyed your videos from when you were teaching your students a little bit about gold mining. I live in Humboldt County California probably one of the best gold mining areas except there's a million restrictions but I find myself watching more of your videos, then I do actually mining myself because it's just so hard to get away. I enjoy what you do thank you!
I completely agree my friend 😊, I know california HOLDS THE GOOD GOLD, lately in pennsylvania i've been looking for good quartz and their is ALOT of good stuff coming out of mountain near me, so i'm on the hunt for GOLD BABY!😊
@@surfinsilverFunny, speaking of California, I'm in the "mother lode" in El Dorado county... not too shabby as far as gold goes. Helps to have property, then the regulation folks can relax, because well they can't see anything lol.
On the Quartz subject, I've got a really nice vein running through my backyard colliding with some shale, or soap stone. In this area Theres a really old tree, probably over 250 years old, it fell over exposed its roots, and in this root ball I found a nice quartz rock about 2 foot around. Well this quartz rock has some dark color in it, but its so dang heavy I can barely lift it! I can easily lift 50-100 pounds.... so this rock must be over 100 pounds...!!! I haven't been able to get it home yet, its on a slope in some soft dirt. And well...I have heart issues so I'm designing a cable pull to get it the rest the way up the hill.
I hope its full of gold, oh my goodness its heavy.
I'd like to design+build a Self-Sluicing Backpack Highbanker which can be comfortably carried into the scottish hills. It could involve repurposing a lightweight folding ironing board! & include a river-powered pump to pull water into it so no batteries/petrol/gas required. I might also try making a portable robust *inflatable gravel sluice. So, apart from building my large 3D XY Printer, that's my Give-It-a-Go Build Projects sorted for this year. Must find where you can buy that strong fake wood over here.. Keep making videos & smiling Dan.
Thanks! (Home depot is where I got the plastic wood)
Funny! I was talking about the same, a fold out system, also from Scotland. Did you ever complete the project ?
The ring manifold to add strength, mass, inertia and balance without weight is an awesome design feature.
Thanks!
Thank you some of us do appreciate when you answer our questions and we appreciate the videos that are explaining what we're asking about thank you I do appreciate it as one of your fans and one of your Patriots please do not stop your videos like this we need more of them because no offense but there is a lot of dummies out there
Your students are so lucky.... I'm almost 40 and I wish I could of had you as a teacher in school. I've learned tons from you
I like what you've done with it. I think the use of the plastic wood really simplifies some of what I've been trying to deal with. I had originally discounted it as not durable enough to build prospecting equipment with, but you've definitely put it through enough abuse to disprove that! Thanks for the walk-through!
Thanks!
I watch your videos a lot. This one is going to help me and my prospecting partner out a whole heap. We been trying to figure out a way to make one that works good and easy for somebody with a very bad back. We have made all our own equipment except for the pans and classifiers. With this video we can probably make us one now that we can handle and be happy with. Keep up the great work. So many kids are learning life by being in your classes and keeping their minds on learning and doing rather than drugs. THANK YOU.
Hello again Dan...you wanted any Ideas for your highbanker..Well I do have one..Take a 10 to 12 inch pipe and weld on two pieces of channel to the pipe that will fit through the leg slots of your highbanker near the folding portion where your grizzly is located...or use U-bolts and bolt to the channel...now the point is when the pipe is mounted under the body of the highbanker the bottom rests on the pipe and is held there by the 2 pieces of channel...the final portion is a pair of tires like say from a bike...bolted to a piece of rod being used as an axle which runs through the pipe..so now your highbanker is a wheelbarrow which you can push or pull by your self with all your hoses and pumps carried on top...and anything else you want to throw up there...when your afield..put on your lower legs, lift the highbanker off the axle and install your legs...It will save your back and allow you to move more gear at once...have a good day..👍
I don't go into many places where I could wheel anything in.
Greatings from Venezuela!!! Dan...with this explanation of your High Banker...I believe any one who knows use tools...can make its own...excelent!!! Even when I wont build one or use it here...for the purpose...I saw all the video and just can say...EXCELLENT.
Thanks!
I think there is one thing missing, a name for your high banker. I have watched everyone of your videos, many twice. Never disappointed. This was a very informative video and it answered some questions for me as well for others, I hope. Beautiful gold. Gots to love it. Thanks Dan!
Thanks! A name hey...
@@Danhurddid you decide on one ?
I Appreciate you making this video. I know, high bankers aren't all that complicated and I over think things which makes me over complicate them until I actually do whatever it is. But hey, look you've gotten over one million views! That should be some decent ad cents.
I always love your videos, Dan! Envious! We have so much hold here in the Willamette Valley mountainsides, and I'm stuck panning every flake by hand! Someday I'll get enough to buy or be able to afford the materials for a highbanker!!! I just use the old classifiers and pan method for now!
You can buy a decent highbanker for $280 and hook it up to a lawnmower battery. I recommend looking into them
When i first saw thus sluce i thought it was a comerical built one. You did a very nice job making this one
I thoroughly enjoy your channel, even though I’m not a gold prospector. I’m a retired professional handyman who enjoys recreational metal detecting, but still find it fascinating to watch other forms of treasure hunting. I much prefer to make things if I can, rather than buying them whenever possible.
Keep enjoying what you do, and happy hunting to you and your family!👍👍
Thanks!
I never would have thought that id like these style videos but I am absolutely loving it thank you and keep up the great work
Thanks!
It's good to know how to build your own box thanks for your support
I am here to learn and enjoy all your videos, Dan. Even the ones that find gold! LoL Thank you for your efforts to spread the love of prospecting.
I have to say thanks for the amount of information you put in your videos.
I was going to make a 12” wide high banker but in seeing that yours is 10” wide I’m starting to reconsider. Good point about the size making it easier to carry in.
Great video once again Dan!
I am also intresting the making the high banker . can you help me.
Thanks!
Dan, your philosophy of feeding mass material vs. losing a little bit of gold is spot on!!! Secondly, the jets that shoot water UPHILL is absolutely perfect! One more compliment; the thin rubber dispersing mat on the sluice help insure an even spread of water and material. Darn fine job!!!
thanks so much Dan i am working on my first highbanker i have only tested it the once but watching this i can see two vast improvements you have shown me to do to mine soon
Very Much appreciated you making this Video. Thanks!
Dan, you are the MAN. I've been asking for this and you delivered big time. Didn't even watch the video yet but I am going to go grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy this one. Awesome.
Thanks!
I like it and have planned on building my own.I would have some footing on the legs for more stability and you could have made it shorter with a lip on the bottom with a second piece on underneath that slides out like a telescopic pole so it would collapse smaller for easy transport. But a little extra work for compact version. Love the videos!
Great video Dan. They just made the dream mats, so I bet you would like to try them out possibly to see how well they work compared to the other mats. I had watched a video about feeding material through a high banker with bar magnets underneath to create black sand riffles. It looked like they created a hinge that bolted to the very top underneath the high banker. then at the bottom locked it in place. I bet an eyelet with a pin on each side would lock the magnetic plate in place. Else one long eyelet that goes all the way across. Then after run enough material, pull out the eyelet and all the black sand can be dropped into a bucket with a little bit of water feed. No black sand to deal with makes finding the gold a lot faster. You probably don't want all that black sand going into the crash box.
The dream mats have made me find a lot more gold that usually gets washed away from the miners moss sluice system with the plastic riffles as well. Having a flow rate I can control with a water pump has really helped compared to just throwing a sluice in the water and just using the current control the flow rate. My water powered sluice has levels built into it that helps me get it set correctly. It definitely helps to get set up. Where you want a nice even flow all the way across. Your system looks really professional. I like the metal fingers on your system. The jets facing up and the water jet going down is a great design that you have there. Those fingers are like classifiers. I could only imagine having various sets of those through a multiple stage system that places all the various sizes to their own section. Sometimes you lose gold by having bigger material crashing into smaller material. I could bee each area getting its own 5 gallon bucket. I usually end up only using 3 classification screens when I have to manually place them on top of a bucket and shaking them down each size till only the smallest screen size is what is in the bucket. I had recently used the water sluice over all of those classifiers to have a constant water flow and be able to shake the material through them a little faster. Looking through the bigger screens quickly and throwing out the bigger material that I didn't see gold. It all takes a lot of time to do all of that. But, way faster then pouring a small pot of water on top and shaking to get material to classify through. You tend to find a lot bigger pieces than I do. I haven't every found a piece in one of the classification screens. It is always found in the bucket. That's how small the gold we find here in Ohio. I am using the 3 biggest size classifier screens that are normally sold.
I noticed that the black sand carries a lot of gold hidden in it doing the backwash method. I ended up having to use a small brush to fan out some of the black sand and then using the long eye dropper to pick up the gold. Black sand isn't easy to deal with. Tapping the bowl and getting the gold up into the small riffles and sucking it up there has worked good for the very fine gold. It is when you have super tiny gold with bigger material that I tend to have some trouble. I can tell ya going through a bag of pay dirt take a very long time. So much micro gold just sticks to the pan everywhere and it is very hard to get it all to stay in one place. I have tried lots of methods. Backwash, tapping, and circular. That is when I found the brush method for the hidden gold. It definitely works. They said only a miller table can get to that fine gold. It can be done manually with a small brush and an eye dropper. Once it is separated and put into a bottle, it can always be gone through again with the eye dropper and clean all the junk from the gold. Sometimes I just suck up the non gold just to get rid of it so that I don't have to deal with it and put it into a small cup. Its time consuming, but I enjoy going through material. When you have a lot of material to go through, is when you really want to find a way to speed things up though. Especially when, you only got a few hours on a weekend before having to go back home. I built a water suction pump system that uses a water jet to create suction. It is battery powered. Found that a water transfer pump with only 35 PSI isn't really enough flow to create enough suction for a 1.5 inch PVC pipe. Normal water pressure for a house garden hose system is between 40 to 65 PSI. It makes a powerful stream many feet across the yard. But, not enough suction through a plumbers WYE to really pick up water. I bet the high PSI Power Washers that are gasoline powered would work really well. They get up to 3000 or higher PSI compared to electric versions which are more like 2100 PSI. I have a venturing curve in my design. As well as a brass garden hose set to steam mode to get the most PSI I can get. I did it this way so that I wouldn't clog up the pump and only use it to push water through the WYE to create the suction. At the end of it, you get the clean water combined with the material that is being sucked up through the other end of the WYE. A portable 18 Volt Milwakee battery and their M18 Water Transfer system would have been awesome. It is 35 PSI. So it can at least be a preamp module for a high pressure spray system that may need to be primed. The M18 self primes itself.
I recently retired and am considering taking up gold and gem prospecting as a hobby and to travel to different parts of the USA. I would definitely add a couple of 4" wheels on one end to help with pulling it along trails to the water's edge.
im 16 now and pretty interested in prospecting for gold and other minerals and ive got to say i really do like these vid you put out for us they are rich in knowledge and entertainment. also your beard is really great
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very good The explanation was complete, I will make one
Looks like best small scale mining sleuce
Hi.Dan.Nice build.I do not know the mats you are using in the top half.I use gold hog.I will not put any metal over top of my mat.I find it interferes with the design of the mat.Example vortex mats are designed to work alone.Some folks believe that expanded or metal riffles will catch more gold but I have found it only messes up the system.To each his own.Another thing is I can pull out my mat do a cleanup and be running again in about 45 seconds and i am not packing anything extra.Just my opinion.Luck,Mcbain.
I agree with the expanded steel - it's a bit of a pain and doesn't work well over mats
Try Dream mats they interchangeable with your matting Mate
"Everbody likes looking at gold!"..nuggets appear...Hilarious!!! Love it brother!!
Cool build !!
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She’s a beauty,that hopper is a beast.I think I might have to ditch my spray bars for some jets like you run,I am over getting soaked from the constant mist from my spray bars.Great build Dan thanks for sharing
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A really welcome and timely video...Nice one Dan..good show..I got valuable ideas and images..
Lol a cold beverage holder with a little umbrella to keep the dirt out would be a nice addition
And a big comically shaped pot of gold to catch the fine tailing in for that bit of class lol
But in all honesty that is really nice setup and the mouth on that beast is really nice wonder if u could use a punch plate and sandwich some type of mat maybe if that would add capture area before the sluice and keep you from breaking a hole in the box from throwing bowders at it lol
Love to see people shovelling big rocks in the crash box/hopper. I've nearly finished my stream sluice build, and can't wait till after Salmon spawning season to test!!! Great vid Dan
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Hi Dan , I really like your high banker it looks like you put a lot of time and work into this gold trap. I wrote down your verbl directions on paper and cant wait to start working on mine .
How'd it go?
Thanks for the tour of your highbanker and the descriptions of what you did and how you made it. Also thanks for the pics of good for the good junkies.😁
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Dan, it is YOUR channel. You make the content that YOU want to make. Viewers will either like it or not but that is THEIR problem, not yours. Love the information.
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Thanks Dan! I'm actually modifying my high banker for beach placer for Washington. Perfect timing.
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Loving your videos Thanks for sharing. Keep it up 👍😊
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In the very back up front I would put a trough about 1” tall to hold first gold coming onto the box before it drops below
Great Video Dan... What and where does that light weight plastic board you use called and acquired...?
What in tarnation ya got there Hillbilly, a Highbanker? 😉Nice!.. Pictures of gold? It'll do! 😂👍Nice build Dan!🇺🇸⚒⛏
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I'm a new sub but have watched quit a few of your vids, your one of the best ones to watch. I am a prospector in Washington State and I love being able to see what you get in gold. Because it just makes me get up and go do some prospecting my self. But I for one love these videos as well because it gives me good ideas for my set up so thank you for that!!
Thanks for subscribing - glad you are enjoying the videos!
At first, I really wasn't a huge fan of your intro music-- but, you know what happens when you listen to something a bunch, and appreciate what that music represents? I really dig it every time you play it.
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All of your videos are very informative. Watching them increases my belief that I can do this too. Nice that you do this in BC. Regards, Mark
The only thing I would change is the last two feet of sluice so that it would fold or detach and fit into the hopper. This way you would make your carry easier when walking through bush etc.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Trying to go back and catch all of your older videos. I would LOVE to pan for gold. Wish I was able. Oh well. At least I can watch your videos.
Thanks for putting the time into making this video, keep up the great work!
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Another great video
Great design Dan, I have two home made High Bankers I use miners moss at the top of mine and stops most of the gold at that point.
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Very nice Dan! It's a rough build in spots but, very well done indeed. Hey! as long as it serves the purpose which is keep the gold, it's awesome, and that's all their is to it! GREAT VIDEO.
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Not sure if making a way to adjust the water jets for different materials would help much, possibly 🤔 but then again... those picture shots of, GOLD! found with this highbanker, pretty much telling the tale. It works great 👍
I like your design
Gees I really like that quick release fitting. Much easier than a cam clamp fitting.
Yup, it's good.
Keep at R Dan, great video as always, very educational. Great info for when I put together my own system. You've inspired me to get my Ontario Prospectors license this year, hope to put in claim #1 this summer. Thank you for all you post. D
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Great video, have been wanting a high banker, and building it gives me a good project to work on with my son. Thanks!
seeing gold is cool, you building catchment methods even cooler
I have a CAROLINA CLAIMER HIGH BANKER built here in North Carolina. Was not pleased with the carpet and riffle bars. Changed to GOLD OWL matting full length after watching one of your videos works a lot better. Question? IS a crash box really needed? Keep up the videos and I will keep watching.
You can put capture material in there, I choose not to
Great detail on the high banker Dan.
Very similar to my Gold Hog
Raptor.
Good design and great pics of GOLD.
excellent video Dan, I really like that no welding involved and you did it all by hand, awesome work and keep them coming, cheers
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I would put adjustable legs on the hopper to raise and lower the angle on it.
I'd put a pice of chained link fence over hopper just a thought looks 👍
I like your high banker. Thank you for another very good video! Not to mention, I needed a good reason to buy a metal brake and a shear!
Thank you Dan. You never disappoint me with your great videos.
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great video.... so i am in the process of building a sluice box for home and am using the white board to build the box with. I have never built anything like this before so I am shooting from the hip so to speak. I also am making my own silicone mats just to see if I can. your video in detail has helped me with a few things on this project so thanks for that and hopefully this won't be a total fail....
Love your videos Dan. You're a great source of information and inspiration. Thank you.
Glad you are enjoying them!
Awesome info Dan! Thanks for your videos and knowledge! Stay well and HH, Aaron
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Show pictures of gold to please the people that leaves bad comments 😂😂😂 brilliant 😄
Literally finished yesterday to build my own sluice, I’m really inspired by what you’re doing so keep it up 💪🏼
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Dan Hurd not really it shattered even before putting it in the water 😂 I chanced the plastic sluice, too flimsy ! Going for wood. At that rate I’ll be better off buying a base 😂 it’s part of the fun I guess !
@@benbarnes3974 Yup! Live and learn
Thank you so much for making this video.
I'm going to copy some of your ideas for the much smaller highbanker that I am making.
You did a great job. I consider myself a pretty good fabricated and I say you did a very good job.
Look at how the Oldies built their Long Tom's and you won't go wrong, Enjoy your videos
Thankyou for posting this. I was wondering how to do this. Hope your week is off to a good start. Keep up the great work.
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You know it really took me a couple videos to warm up to you but I really love your videos I really love your input I think you're a great family guy and I love your enthusiasm keep up the good work I loved this video of you showing your high banker because I'm in Arizona and I have a dry wash that I could actually convert into a part time Hi banker if I wanted all I need to do is run different mats and water and I think I'd be OK
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This is a cool video. I wish I lived in a state that let you keep the gold you find. Prospecting, would be a great hobby. Thank you for the videos.
Which commie state do you live?
@@dw4940 New York
Add a 12ft run! Ha, only kidding. It’s always great to see an improved upon design - very cool to see how you’ve modified it over the years.
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First off let me say your videos are very inspirational and educational as well as entertaining! I do like your style!
I'm sorry to revive an old video with a question, but I'm thinking about building a sluice house. A building with a permanent sluice built into it. I was thinking miner's Moss at the top, but I see you have none in yours. Would I just be wasting time using any at all? I'm presuming it's apparently not necessary?
Thank you for your time and videos!
It would be helpful if you put a carabiner, with braided wire attached to it and a ground stake of some type at the other end. Attach the carabiner to the eye bolt on the legs and pound
the stakes into the ground. (One on each side.) This will provide a good deal of strength and stability to your sluice box.
Looks like a simple build. That would be easy to carry to remote areas. A possible improvement to the upper hopper might be some 1/4 inch thick Teflon cheating to add a replaceable wear surface. But nice design simple and effective
Lol! Well sense everyone likes to cry I might as well cry too! You didnt give me the gold! Nah jk. I will say I enjoy the videos for what they are. If it's about making something or describing how it was made... or even how something you make works... I enjoy it for that seeing as you described it as just that. One thing I would like in all the videos if I were to suggest something is weight of the total gold or larger peices along with a tangible item to give a size comparison other than a finger. Your ginger or my finger may be biger. So a quarter some kind of dime sense it's so easy to just carry one in your pocket. Love the clean up shots after your videos. Amazing pics.
If you were to ever remake your hopper you should add some beads to the bottom to give lots more strength but no extra weight.
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Nice Build :) This Prospector approves
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Lol. The gold pictures to appease your gold picture junkies. I like your videos no matter if you show gold. Thank you for the great information!
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Reverse bolts on lower leg supports so bolt threads are inside of legs and save knuckles.
I would suggest like a 3/4 inch spacing between the top water feeds and the high banker to allow material that hits the water feeds on the sides to fall in instead of out. Just an observation after watching many vids
I Just came here to leave this comment because i couldn't find all the Easter eggs so i will just leave this message here for my bonus! lol
Thank you Dan Hurd!!!
Outstanding build and explanation , one question though on water supply. Getting enough water can sometimes be a real PIA, so as I watched I thought about a creek where the water is limited due to the land owner not wanting the stream mucked up with dams or pools. So I was wondering, if you thought a gravity feed from a natural hole say 60 feet away with maybe a 6 foot head would be able to be used. I know the about of water entering the line is paramount but I was wondering about the concept
Concept is sound, but actually getting it to work can be a pain.
New winter project! I'm going to build a high banker. TY
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Thanks for continuing your vids during winter .cant waight for. The snow to go so i can get some garnett
We got more snow last night...
Great video as always. I enjoyed the way you assembled your high banker. I agree with you on finding more gold with a high banker but from your description I do not think I would find more gold with a high BAKER and I would definitely not eat any of his bake goods LOL. Keep the videos coming I enjoy and learn a lot from you.
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Pretty good detailing and structural tips, but nothing about your pump (except mentioning 1 1/2 inch) or power supply.
I have to assume you use a petrol fueled 110 generator for that massive water flow, and you mentioned having no problem with the lift from the water source.
I'm hoping to use a 12 volt bilge pump, but fear it won't have the power or run time on a deep cycle battery and I'm not sure about the weight advantage between generator and battery.
Of course a water-turbine driven generator at the bottom of the sluice would make a perpetual motion machine out of it... ;-) so no worries!
Great design Dan....thank you and your patreons. I enjoy watching.
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Thanks Dan - a great anatomy of a highbanker!
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