Do You Really Need A Highbanker? - Australian Gold Prospecting
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- Do You Really Need A Highbanker? - Australian Gold Prospecting
Highbankers are fabulous machines that make mining for gold on a small scall very easy. Except for the cost, and the set up, and the running costs... There has to be a better way! And there is! This is a look at the latest methods of getting more gold with less equipment.
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Some friend Gadzee is . Instead of gloating with seal about how energetic he is, he should be sucking the poison out of that spider bite so his best budz can get his energy back too!! 😂
Redback spiders are Not Poisonous they are Venomous and you would not suck either out as you would cop it as well.........
@@rodneymiddleton1044 ... Thanks for pointing that out, Rodney. My bad... but Venom is injected, poison is ingested so if Gadz doesn't swallow... then what?? 🤔
Ewwww
@@buckshotprospectorI agree lol
@@buckshotprospector .. Ha, ha, ha... seen that in a movie once for snake bite. Just don't forget to spit the VENOM out. You'd do it for seal!😆
My grand daughters (9 and 10)and I have been watching your videos. Listening to your how to’s, and what to look for in the landscape. You have inspired them to go out and look for gold. Keep up with the great videos
A tray under the whole contraption would probably save a lot of scraping the leaked classifieds off of the ground.
interesting but you would have to traill it in, how about a tarp instead?
Camping as a young teen i watched a spider crawl into my buddies ear. We never found it and i still believe he has cob webs in his brain 40 years later😂😂
Spider brains 🧠
Love watching you even sick you rock
That poor spider...it now has gold fever.
Chris, what if you've added legs to the classifier screen and turned it into a classifying table with buckets underneath it. You could put several shovels at the same time and just rub the soil using your hands through the screen mesh. Add a flap door and you can instantly remove the heavy rocks. It would be easier when having a buddy to classify as one shovels. Anything that falls inbetween the buckets can be quickly scooped up while rocks are piled off to the side thanks to the flap doors.
Alternatively you could carry a small hose and a wee pump, pile the dirt on the screen mesh table and let the spray bar clasify the dirt for you into the bucket then just feed the paydirt into a tiny sluice box. Saves you carrying the big boy.
Take it easy and get plenty of rest to recover!
This was a great video. Aussie ingenuity at its best. The old timers would be proud
Panning while holding garnets,multi talented😮
The secret is to bite the spider before it bites you, preferably with a shoe 😂
😂
But then your tongue swells, and you feel **such** a heel....
As soon as I saw the buckets behind the classifier I thought 'dropcloth'. I was happy to hear you mention it later on.
One other suggestion, attach a small coil of wire onto a corner of the refitted frame, so any similar issues could easily be remidiated in the field. A toenail clipper is an excellent wire cutter and can be strung on the coil wire.
Feel better.
Chris maybe take a small plastic sheet to place behind the classifier on the ground to make it easier to retain your pay dirt. Plastic sheet is light and easier to transport in a your bucket.
That dirt would make amazying paydirt bags
Thanks Chris. Get well soon
Hi mate, been a subber for a couple of months, my girl, whom isn't so interested in my watching these vids calls you the 'bunings bucket guy'. hope you get over the poisoning and look forward to your next vid :)
You have the biggest variety of interesting and useful gold info among all of the channels I follow. Thanks for your hard work.
Chris my name's sake. I love your content bro. Your videos make me want to adopt a new hobby. Keep the great material coming. I totally enjoy it all!!!
I really enjoyed that one Chris! I didn’t pick up on any ill effects of the spider bite affecting your awesome knowledge, or presentation of it. Great job, just like you always do, you explain things wonderfully. Major respect 👊✌️ hope you’re back to full force soon! 😉
Thanks for another addition to fantastic collection of content you continue to create. Summary of categories covered are, handy man crafting, geology, nature, food review, science, engineering, entomology, toxinology, little bit of gold prospecting and as always shenanigans!
Great work, keep it up!
Saw some guy in cali who would classify into a bucket of water, spin that up with a paintmixer, while adding more water, flushing out the lights. Poured off the water, left a few cups of concentrate. Very fast.
Hope you're feeling better soon. Your the best teacher ever .
I respect the ingenuity and craftsmanship you show in idea then taking it into the field for proof of concept. Many people just stop at idea. Good on ya mate.
Good day considering how you were feeling. Great job
I love diy gold prospecting. I’m always making something
I dig the fast classifier. I’ve thought about doing similar but into a concrete tub that’s underwater in the creek.
I had a close call with black widows when I was in the Air Force stationed in Arizona. I was dating a local girl who invited me over to her dad's house where she was staying and went into her backyard. There was a grill back there and I had an idea that we could have a bbq. I lifted the lid and there was quite a few black widows in there, then I started looking around and saw I'd guess around 20-30 more. I noped out of there real fast. Going back to base I had that creepy crawly feeling all over.
Dude. You are a super trooper to be out in the heat when you still have spider venom in your system. Great idea for a cheap classifier. I think you are on to something.
I thought I found a gold sovereign yesterday. 😳 turned out to be a 5 yen coin.
I can’t remember being bitten by a spider and you’ve already told me how many specks were in the pan so that’s my comment!
Good location for a new spider tat!
Despite the Redback bite, great video Chris. Though I have been woken up with spiders and sometimes scorpions, crawling across my face, none (touch wood) have ever bitten me thankfully!
Great work Chris, even after that spider bite.
Well done Chris, always a pleasure to watch you on your Web.....
Wait! What?
Just a thought, maybe you could bring a tarp to put down under that screen to catch the paydirt, that way you get all of it and can just pick up the tarp and dump it in a bucket easier.
Feel better soon!!! Hugs!
Hi Chris at gazzie good to see you still having fun even with the spider bite
Always a good watch
Best comment about spider bites right here!
Here's ya comment, mate. You did pretty well for a bloke who's just been bitten by a redback. Hope it's not had any lasting ill effects. Cheers. Geoff in France.
Get better soon
11:15 get yourself a scrap offcut of a tarp for under your screen. Catch all the good bits :)
I must admit I'm very happy to see you that you're feeling better. You're one of my favorites to watch.
Thanks mate, feeling better now. Not so much then
@@VoGusProspecting I've heard that redback spiders make your whole body ache after the first hour - is it really like that? If so, how bad from 1 to 10? Any painkiller that works for it?
feel better
When I was stationed in Alabama, I got bit by a BlackWidow spider on my wrist. The next 24hrs sucked, hard. Glad you're back at it.
Love the ingenuity of looking for better ways to keep gold
Hope you feel better soon
My thoughts on improving ur classifying screen: I wouldn't set an angle of the screen more than 45 degrees, you want the bigger rocks to roll down your screen as much as possible to help the smaller clingers break off and fall through.
Secondly, I reckon go grab a massage gun from Kmart and strap it to the screen. The vibrations will help agitate the dirt as it runs down the screen hopefully leading to a better separation
Love ur ingenuity and hope ur feeling better soon
Get better and more gold!!! Just do it!!
it was - 13 C. here today, and still very much winter.. one of the benefits of living in a place where the air hurts your face, is when it is summer, there are less creepy snakes or poisonous spiders.......thanks for soldiering through that for the sake of the video....
2 things to improve that screen by heaps:
1. make a piece of sheet metal at the bottom 30 cms or so it will make it easier to remove the tailings
2. use a slightly oarser mesh, say 5mm. it let the material through better, and won't clogg up with the clay as your screen did.
might wanna put a small tarp underneath the buckets, saves scooping up whatever spilled next to the buckets, very efficiently!
Apart from that, I do have such a screen, and it works a charm!!!
im not one to try and chime in on your Builds,but ive seen you use your other one in the field and your always looking for a couple sticks prop it up at an angle. but this i think you will like.simply make 2 full length side legs that are secured by a bolt on the top end of both side's of the frame you built. they will swivel out to any angle you will need to accomplish classifying without running around and looking sticks every time you use it. that would increase your dig time and be ( more efficient),something your very keen on mate. love your constant tinkering with home made equipment.
I seriously considered it. But here's my logic as to why I didn't.
Sticks are always in the bush. Meaning less weight, less things to break and less cost.
@VoGusProspecting i figured that might come up . yah i get it for sure ,but it looked so great when you reconfigured and made the new upgrade, i was like, just one more little thing. but hey you have your reasons and I appreciate and respect the process every time. Oh yah nice recover from that little session and not high banking. damm good alternative for sure. looking forward to more of the process mate .
Wouldn't it work better if somehow you had water spraying onto it before it hit the screen. Dunno how you'd achive that though with mininal weight, a waterfall perhaps lol
@Jabarri74 He doesn't need to do that. Actually, once he's gathered up all the fine material on the back side. That's been classified. He needs to just add water to the bucket to make it a slurry before he Runs it on his in streams sluice
@@johnwoods1247 I mean to wash off the loose soil from the rocks? Isn't that the whole puropose of spray bars on a normal high banking set up?
Glad you're on the mend.
I'd maybe look at reducing the angle of the thing a little though.
As you suggested, I reckon a tarp would be usfull also.
Loving the videos and the education you share
Put a small tarp on the ground under your screen classifier so none of your hard work goes to waste. You should be able to be a bit less careful and so faster. You can still chuck the buckets on top if you want.
Edit: just got to 11:30 haha
Always good to see you and Gadzee adventuring
Lay the mesh flat on top of buckets load with gravel then shake the fines through
I understand yours is smaller and lighter but I use an old fashioned steel mesh bed bases that I have attached to a metal frame and it does a great job. I leave it a little saggy on the frame so if it does start to clog I just have to hit it with the shovel and it clears. I got the idea when I was shifting clay to make mud bricks and it was taking a lifetime and in the old house that was on the block was two old beds with the mesh bases so I gave it a go and the particle size coming through the mesh was very fine and great for mud brick so when I started looking for gold and wanted to separate fines I got my old mud brick sifter out again. That was bad luck about the spider bite, I have had them crawl up my sleeve and been in my gum boot and even in a hat I put on and have never been bitten. Bull Ants at Beechworth are another story. I have been bitten a lot and they bloody hurt. Happy pans .
👍 the old redback got ya, I've been done three times, the first time I thought I was going to die, cold flushes on a 40 degrees day and all, the others weren't as bad.
Got bitten by something on lower back/ top of arse 18 months ago,still crook from it.
Have you thought about putting the mega sluice under your new classifier, Kill two birds with one stone, you may have to make a adjustable stand if running it in the spot on your tape.
Hope you get better soon.
Chris it sounds like a cousin to a crappy spider we have here in nm the brown recluse, possible gangreen, muscle damage and rotting skin and all kinds of fun theyre also known as corner spiders they say if you can easily see the web its not a recluse i hate them things. Ive been buzzed by three black widows but the recuse is way worse,get betyer buddy and hi from nm
Love the episode my man! Your innovative ways are great! ✨🇨🇦
You could also put another frame on the other side of the metal.
Chris, my gold is 98% under 1,5 mm and I learned very early to exactly classify down to 4mm. You remember the Inox basket You got some time ago?
Thats my first step in the river, bin the above 1 inch, then immediately classify down to 4mm and pan/sluice that soil.
It made me win loads of time and work in panning and sluicing. On very promising spots I sample only to 5mm, just to be sure to get the bigger grenats.
I made a second basket out of 3,14 mm inox mesh I had in my bee keeper inventory. That idea basically came from you, since you made an inlay of rabbit wire for the bigger inox basket.
Greets from the other side of the globe :)
Chris rather than zip tie and duct taping your sifter you should put some boards behind the ones you have sandwiching the screens and bolt them together and then your screens will be a lot stronger, no matter what I think your videos are great.
That's a good idea
Nice work spiderman!
Great, informative video!
7:00 A WILD GADZEE APPEARS!!
We make wet versions of these in the northeast. Large Mason tub or 55 gal barrel shed, screen like your set but with sides. We submerge the tub like a sluice. Dump either full buckets or shovel rite on the big rocks get washed off pull your full tube to the sluice. It takes the same amount of time to fill 30 gallons of material as it does to hand classify a 5 gallon bucket.
I've watched you for awhile and have enjoyed your channel. I do have one suggestion for transporting your equipment.
You could get a deer car with a sled which will allow you to cart all the gear to your spot. The sled could be used to float your gear behind you if needed. Also the sled can sit under your homemade classifier to catch your fines.
I built a screener similar to yours but it is attached to a black plastic cement mixing tub. When my reject pile gets too big I just pull the tub over a foot and start again. When the tub gets full I pull it out to my sluice box and run the material. Love all your videos!!
Great DIY vid Chris. Do make more. Sadly we don't get a super power from a Redback. He he he.
Regards, Jas.
I really enjoy your inventive streak, fueled by your analytical skillset.
Double frame the screen and yes a tarp would be a good idea or some black building plastic would be stronger with no weaving to steal your gold .
I wouldn't have gone out feeling like that. Good on you!
sounds like the tarp idea would prevent any looses and make your clean up easier your area really produces the finest particles this looks like a real deal maker for processing the raw material down to a manageable size
Enjoyed, as always.
get a silnylon tarp and some sticks so you can put it over your work station, staying out of the sun lets you work longer
Thanks for the look
As you say Chris, a game changer. I'll be reaching for sticks and mesh. And cable ties!
Got an idea for improvement on your large classification screen. Build a two wheel barrow with an open end under it, and build in supports that can hold the screen at about a 35-45° angle. Make the screen sort of like a hinged lid angled toward the closed end of the box. That way when you are classifying the classified soils drop into the wheel barrow, and the oversize drops off the front of the box onto the ground. You will be able to classify a whole lot more at once, and transport is as easy as rolling a wheel barrow to your high banker site. Additionally you can use the barrow to transport all your tools and equipment. If you build it with the idea of portability (easily removed and reattached sides and top) then you can fit it into your vehicle.
1. How about putting a tarp under the water where you don't plan to dig.
2. Put your classifier above the tarp - probably with some short legs - so it is under water but not on the tarp. Maybe if your wash spot is deep enough you could set it on an angle like your "bank screen - but not as much tilt.
3. Shovel in to it - washing the gravels better, w/o any "power washing" - river flow power.
4. Dump the bigger stuff by tilting the screen up every few shovels. this takes a while longer but you don't need to walk over to the screen on the bank, saving some time/effort. You don't lose all your "dump time" because you need to clean the "bank screen" periodically anyway - and that takes time.
5. Slide the tarp out to claim your washed, classified gravels.
The extra recovery may not be worth the extra complexity - but in some spots, maybe?
Stay away from spiders! At least don't aggravate the ones that get on you so they won't bite. (Easier said than done) or hope/pray (depending your inclination) for spiders that are having a good day and aren't cranky.
Hey spiderman, to be bit by a red back you. Must have disturbed its nest.
When we lived in Melbourne as kids, My youngest sister used to play in the sandpit with redbacks. She had named them all, play with them ( tea parties and what not ) and generally loved them all. Not once did she ever get bitten.
Too our mothers horror she’d bring some inside out of the rain and have them in her bed. Crazy yeh!
Mind you I have a major fear of needles and spiders! That’s it!
Me, I like snakes crocs and any kind a ferocious Australian fauna, but them deadly assassins!
Keep up the great work you do , your lessons are awesome. I hope to get out and do some for myself here in NQ , and use what I have learnt from yourself and Gadzee.
Cheers
I scratch my dog behind her ears every day because of u Chris keep up the amazing work m8 from England no deadly spiders over here lol
I do the same and the doggy loves it, though throughout the western states we have venomous spiders.
Awesome stuff mate keep it up
What a simple effective way of concentrating your dirt thanks 😊
Love the video and that was a great idea. Sorry you don't feel well.
Bitten by a brown widow here in Darwin a few years ago. Took ages before I felt bad, in the end it was like a hangover. The red lump stayed for a fair while, nearly two weeks from memory, but it didn't itch much after the first day or two.
Have you tried using your large homemade classifier in the water lying flat? Since the river runs slow you could use the water to wash the rocks on the top of the screen and make your paydirt pile in the water below.
You could then run the wet concentrates through a sluice. Great video Chris! Hope you feel better from your spider bite!
your editing and videos are getting really really good mate they have seriously improved and i cant stop watching them
Yikes, a spider bite! I hope you are feeling better.
Hope you feel better soon mate ✊🏼
Brown Recluse was my last, yes it sucked. Keep on keepin on
Glad your feeling ok enough to go out. Enough dare/ gold flakes definitely worth it!!
Maybe you can attach a small oscillating motor on the screen so it vibrates a bit so more soil shakes through?
Love these invention videos where you think outside of the box, i love making things more efficient 😀
Inventing is how we learn and evolve , well done with this screen classifier , but I reckon your chip shop frier basket in a water filled bucket is the ticket to not loose as much material , and lighter to transport . 👍😁
Really enjoying your videos.
Chris, you could make it into a classification table. Just add fold up/down legs. 👍
😊 I'm thoroughly enjoying watching your videos where you craft and refine the tools you use for gold prospecting.
First time I have heard of claim jumping spider's. Classification is definitely the key to better spec counts.
Nothing is much fun when your brain is swimming. But I think that gold take will make up for it Chris!
Hey yah Gadzee!
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks for the video mate, it has given me something to think about before the next trip
Spider Man, Spider Man does whatever a spider can. I know they don’t feel good!
Thoughts on concentrating the concentrator? Bend the mesh into a V lengthwise and add a spray bar at the top to wash away oversize material. A plastic restaurant bus tub or even aluminum sheet pan would give more efficient concentrate capture. If done well everything can nest together for easier transport.