First Run of my New Highbanker! Day One of a Five Day River Trip...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2023
- Chris and I found gold each day of this trip and I can't wait to show you all the final cleanout!
Thanks again to everyone for watching and thank you all for your continued support of my TH-cam channel!
To those wondering when the highbanker will be ready for sale, It won't be ready 100% until the end of this season as I will be testing a few things along the way as I work towards the best final product I can come up with.
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Excellent 👍🏻✅🍻
Thanks Jason!
Good vid. If you are catching 95+%you are doing well. Having 2 guys shoveling into the sluice makes this a go to sluice, because it will easily handle whatever one man can shovel. There is no doubt in my mind your double decker could handle chunkier gold that would come through the screen via the size of the expanded being used. The cross hatching of the screen helps with stopping the heavies going over it in the water . A way to see if you are loosing gold in the over flow of water over the screen is pan your over sized gravel collected in the buck that collects that over flow water as well . screen and wash that gravel again pan and see . The screen seems to be working well and gravel does not seem to hang up like on regular bar grizzlies . You got my attention on your build . Looking like a winner so far
Thanks Bart! I think I needed the screen to be at a lower average angle, but wanted the hopper a bit steeper so I picked the middle ground. I can adjust the angles when I get home and I think it will work even better next run. I'm definitely very happy with the initial test and am overall very please with how the highbanker performed! Recovery I believe is better than 95% once I got it dialed in. There was almost no scour out losses with running empty either. Absolutely loving it so far and it's only going to get better! Thanks for the tips along the way!
You have a single T-Piece emitting water.
I would consider having 2 of them side by side.
Just to build a wall of opposing water to keep the initial dump in the hopper for a little longer.
Great idea to test out! I love that the spray bar is all screw together so it's easy to adjust and modify.
I like your source of material you are running into your highbanker. Lots of organics with roots shows many low and high water runs over that area. Areas with roots/gravel usually (but not always) are rich with flour gold. A well tuned piece of equipment you are running. Must be tuned in the key of "G."🎼
Definitely need to G tuning forks for use in the field... :)
Oooooooo buddddy!!!!! Absolutely awesome video!!!!! Getting that gold!!!!!
You bet buddy! I just love being outside doing this kind of thing!
I had a blast coming by today fam. Great job all around. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!
Thanks for my high banking fix for the day! I’m gonna hot the nsr tomorrow woohoo
Woooohooo!
I dont see any surge in the sluice from the bed load dump, so well thought out. Chris and you always have such great adventures together, Glad you took him, at least he got cameraman breaks LOL. The fingers look like they may catch most of the gold, but then again how much was pounded into the hopper by the blaster jet :) love this machine all around. I''m sure you are already tweeking it for next time out :) cheers. K
Yeah the hopper did a great job of handling surging! I'm calling the middle capture area "goldfingers" haha! The split seems to be about 25% hopper, 25% goldfingers, and 50% makes it into the sluice. I'm really happy with the first run, and it can only get better from here on out!
Excellent video, Kyle and Chris. Sure looks like your doubledecker setup is performing very nicely. Thank you both for sharing.
Thanks, and thanks for watching!
That’s a really cool looking highbanker👍
Thanks Bjarne!
Great video! Love the new highbanker, I might try a 8" double decker for my next build after seeing yours work so well. Super compact! The peaceful river shots at the end were a nice touch too. Looking forward to the next vid!
That is an awsome machine my friend. Great job.
Thanks man!
This is an ingenious build Kyle. The reverse water flow in the extra-long hopper, ever-steepening and auto-clearing grizzly, and pretty much perfect water flow on your 2 level box. One of the better DIY builds I have ever seen for sure. Looks like it's working well. That is as close to perfect water flow for flour gold as I have ever seen, and nearly zero bubbles!
Thanks Dan! Yeah I was really please with how it all turned out... Obviously there will be a few tweaks but I think it's a solid build!
Right on Kyle. Looks like you've dialed in pretty good. That's awesome you've got company helping and showing interest in the hobby. Cheers to both of ya and looking forward to the season. Mine too 😁
Thanks Chris!
Make a whirlpool at the top and an adjustable nozzle.
What an awesome high-banker design Kyle, I really like the reverse expanded metal and miners moss in your diversion tray section. Such a great use of the space all around. I want one!
I was waiting for this vid!!!
Very nice!
Love the design! Was waiting for your video to see how it would do, I'm very impressed with what you captured! Can't wait to see the next video!
Thanks man!
You bet!
Very impressed! I think you got a side business making/selling highbankers for the winter months.. I may be buying another one..
Thank you! Yeah I hope by the end of the season to have it nicely dialed in and this one will be a real winner!
The new rig looks great!
Thanks!
Nothing like a maiden test good luck mate hope you get the colour 👍
Very interesting! Great video😃
Great work man!
Awesome man be careful 👍
Beautiful looking highbanker, really looks like it runs well there, peaceful actually. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks man!
Do you have the Blue Bowl ? If not check it out they are amazing at separating black sand and collecting your gold! I have mine set up at home, it's nice to be able to bring your cons home and not have to pan it all out. Be safe be blessed.
I like it mate, great work 💪
Nice set up
Great looking banker and setup!
Thanks!
Very nice system. Are the cobbles and gravel sliding down off the hopper getting clean enough? That sluice is running smooth as butter. Excellent construction.! Keep them coming
The cobbles were pretty clean, but I need the screen to be at a slightly less steep angle. I can make some adjustments and see how things improve. The hopper did a pretty nice job of washing everything, but sometimes I was loosing a bit of water off the screen.
I like it I got something similar that I made it's a cross between a gold hog and the gold cube
you should also set some bank lines and catch some fish....
Friggin rights. Next vid can’t come soon enough.
Thanks! Hopefully not too long now... :)
Check thy tailings for gemstones and agates..
Looks like you need to flatten your spray nozzle, and pan out the bottom of that bucket 🧐🤔👀I know you're recovering fine Gold in the Sluice, buthas to go Through the Sluice, to catch it😉🍀🦾⛏️🪠🎯😎 it
Definitely something to work on...
I use cleangold, it runs on black sand
Looks exciting!! Have you highbanked this area before? If so, how does this compare to prior excursions? :)
This was my first time at this spot. It's always tough to tell how well you are doing, but I am trying to pay attention to how much I get in the box vs how much it looks like in a gold pan. Would be wonderful to one day be able to know about how much an area would pay per hour just by panning it...
i noticed your losing material out the back of the hopper that should be going threw the sluicebox. All high banker's usually do though not bagging on your high banker i think its awesome
Yeah, that's definitely something to work on improving. I'm hoping to be able to reduce that water loss a fair bit on the next trip out.
You want a hopper of that size 17° is the angle you need
I'll give it a try.
Hey Kyle. I'm up in Fort Mcmurray and I've only been out 2 days so far. Haven't found any gold yet and don't expect to find much. That said, if I do...I'm just wondering if you ever would make a few of your new design to sell or if you have a highbanker that you'd recommend for the fine gold we get here in Alberta? Where do you buy your aluminum sheets from?
Hey, I get my sheets from Russel metals here in Calgary. Material is is pretty affordable but I think they have a $500 minimum purchase. I intend to have a full size highbanker for sale by the end of the season to give me something to do in the off season, but as I collect prototypes along the way I may sell a few one off's later on in the year. I can't just collect these things now can I? haha
As far as recommendations go, surprisingly I don't actually know much about the various models being sold out there. I would typically recommend you look locally as a way to support your local builder, as well as in the hopes a local knows the local gold... If you have any you have an eye on, feel free to email me what you see and I might be able to give you a gut reaction to what I see? I know that Paul Jarvis out of Edmonton has a company called "adventures in prospecting" and I think his boxes looked pretty good. I would shy away from the dream mats he usually sells if you are going to be using a 3 or 4 foot box, as the recovery I saw using the mini beach mats in my 2020 season was pretty bad in comparison to miners moss (like 70% vs 90+%) but Paul will sell a box with moss as well.
I'm not 100% sure about any recommendation right now though, as I'm still out testing and learning through the season. I even have a gold hog piglet I'll be reviewing soon which might actually be a viable option if you were OK with getting an extension for it.
My current favorite gold specific mat is the VDR mats from infinity prospecting, although I still use miners moss as I haven't had a chance to field test the VDR yet to see how it does with surging and running empty...
Lots of good options. Finding the gold is the hard part, then just make sure you have a way to carry in whatever it is you wind up buying. Smaller and lighter has become a high priority for me.
Anyways, that's my way too long winded answer for now :)
@@UtmostOutdoors Thanks for the response. Good luck!
I’m not a fan of that top sluice. It makes no sense to sluice material before cleaning and classifying, which is why we don’t see it on commercial equipment. There’s a reason why it’s always clean/classify/sluice.
Move that top sluice to a 2nd level nugget/picker sluice and you’ll have something!
I’m also not a fan of how much it shakes and shudders with each shovel full. That loosens/looses gold. Thicker leg stock and legs angled out will stabilize things.
Fair enough... The hopper has moss in it more as a way to absorb and then bleed out the black sands for a smoother feed rate into the main box. It turned out that the top hopper actually captured 25% of our total gold take, so it did help with recovery somewhat. As to the legs, I know some guys actually used to mount their motors directly on the sluice to add vibration to help settle the gold into the matting. This may be beneficial, or might not, I don't know for sure... Perhaps angling out the legs as you say would help the movement, but I'm not sure I see a reason to at this point. Thanks for the feedback! I wonder if as you say a "nugget and picker sluice" could be incorporated into the top hopper simply by adding some raised expanded to the bottom 6" of that run... Food for thought for testing for sure.
I catch 98% of my gold in the top box
I caught about 25% in the top box... Different gold sure does behave differently it seems.
@Utmost Outdoors yeh sure does mate I know we're I am I get a lot of course gold but I travel about 45 minutes away and start getting a lot of flood gold and mustard gold
@@UtmostOutdoors I live in the golden Trianglearea in Bendigo Australia 🇦🇺
Bears okey?)
The bears were well behaved.
NSR?
Nice video but I disagree with the design of the highbanker. I would definitely not run a mat and expanded in the top section as it makes it not clean out and you really don't need it as you catch everything in the lower sluice. And I would not use a square mesh, instead use a proper grizzly bar with about 1cm between the bars.
I have to disagree with you here, but mostly because I also used to think hopper recovery was not needed. Here is why I think we were wrong and why I like the new design:
The hopper can be made a bit steeper to help the rocs tumble out faster, that I agree with, but holding the rocks for a few seconds really helps regulate the surge of a big shovel into the lower sluice. The top miners moss also holds onto the heavy sands for a while to slowly bleed those into the lower box which helps recovery. Also, we found out that the top recovery area actually held onto about 25% of our total gold, even after running for 6 hours between cleanouts! That's 25% that never had a chance to be lost in the main sluice...
Now about the grizzly versus screen: You may be correct here. I have tried both a screen and a grizzly on my old highbanker, and the grizzly did a better job of shedding roots and grass. The grizzly did however let some larger rocks through that required a higher flow rate through the sluice to clear, as well as risk scouring out gold held underneath them. The screen is hands down better for recovery when running low flow and slope in search for the ultra fine, flat gold in my area. But it does leave some to be desired when it comes to shedding organics. I will have to put more thought into that part of the build...
Thanks for the comment and thoughts, It's always good to keep trying to improve the design and these thoughts help!
@@UtmostOutdoors if you are conserved about loosing gold just make it longer instead. I got a goldhig myself, the big one and I can showel like a madman into it and no issues what so ever about loosing anything.
Convert it imto a dredge and run 100x more material…
What size of pump are you using?
Honda WX15 1.5" gas pump.
@@UtmostOutdoors it works well.
Im just trying to figure out which pump i should buy for my claim. As BC restricts to 1.5" for hand works. Honda seems good..pricier but prob a case of get what one pays for.
I am just starting to increase size from panning to highbanking.
I bought my WX15 back in 2013. Still running strong. I turn off the fuel for winter storage, and have only needed to do oil changes and a spark plug. It's a very light pump for It's output compared to other options... if you're going all out, I'd recommend it, otherwise look into electric bilge pump options for a mini highbanker as a viable option to start and access hard to reach areas. Good luck!
your upper classifier is way to small,, need nothing smaller than 1/2 inch . any type of picker is gonna go right past it..
Love these videos