The constant rotational swirling with light material going off all around the outside of the pan appears much more efficient than the one side tipping to let light material slide off that we here in North America usually see. Actually, with a batea, the material is constantly stratifying, not to one side and then another, but to one focus point at the bottom of the pan. Great and informative video, as always, Dan.
I have watched some content of artisanal miners using variations of that pan, some wooden some metal. Once again with your video I find the long flat intriguing. It makes good sense with a focused small low point and the long flat surface. I wouldn't however turn this one over and use it for a stool. ; D Nice happy, sunny video, Thank You Dan Hurd!
@@Danhurd 2020 you says 2019 was doing it wrong. LOL I watched todays video first and then found this one. Now I am sitting thinking " you are doing it wrong ". LOL
Mr. Hurd, thank-you, so very much for sending my wife's prize to her. She got so excited, when she read the mail. You're an honest man and a good teacher. I wish you good luck and good gold.
At 10:20 you got the swirling motion right with the simultaneous tilting. You can tilt it quite aggressively as the centrifugal force will keep the heavies at the center. Batea simply means "pan" and it is designed to process large amounts of material in a short time without having to clean out the pan each time. It does require a lot of water to work in because of its size and you won't find a wash tub big enough to try out at home. I live in Arizona and bought my batea years ago from a company in Vancouver as none are available in the lower 48. Thanks for posting this!
Looks like a great concentrating pan. You can work all of the dirt in a quick amount of time and keep the concentrates. I use the Pyramid pro pan, kind of the same concept. Blow out the and still build up the concentrates for the end of the day. Both of these look great for low water situations. Great video!
There is a blue plastic version of the pan available now that some metal rod type bits in the very center used for breaking up clay and clumps as you swish it around. If you had to work with clay and clumps it looks like it would be very handy. They say the blue color is optimum for observing gold as it is opposite in contrast on a color chart.
YFRC in the house supporting another fine member. As soon as you showed the pan, I could vision exactly what to do. I love the speed of it! At first, side to side stratification but after that, stratification would always be in a circular motion only. Personally, I think you did a fine job for your first time.
One of the miner i met in my country ,told me because of the materials that they panning consists hard dissolve clay.while they stratifying the materials. Periodically they use their hand/palm to smoothen/crush the small chunky clay materials,that might contains fine gold in it. That's why they use this pan instead of the riffle one.(i dont know it's true or not)good video,love to watch you prospecting gold.
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!!!
Well, that was fun. I have seen those pans and just thought that they were inferior to our plastic ribbed ones, turns out they are used in a completely different way. Thanks for demonstrating!
Once again Dan, a superior video. As I learned from Doc Williams, Costa Rican miners would use the removed top of a 55 gallon drum for their Bateas. The circular top would be heated and when very hot it would be placed over a hole in the ground and then formed (pounded) into the traditional long, flat cone shape with a small drop catchment in the very center. Of course the water in Costa Rica is quite warm so the very large Batea could help to support itself by partly floating during it's use by the panner who was also in the river as well. Looking at the bottom of the pan it certainly wasn't heated well (for seasoning) - although a thorough cleaning with solvent or soapy water does the same thing.
Hi Dan, informative as always. I have seen in other onlie videos people using this type of pan and having it pretty much under water the whole time. I was zurprised at fast the lighter material washed out.
Nothing concentrates more than a cone.People using ,bateas along years dont loose anything,even the fines.The most usef pan in south america,just because all riffled pans are imported,from USA or Cbhina,are very expensive,for rxample,Garret kit,10",14" and 1/2 inch classyfier nearly 100 dollars,and this batea can easy be made at home,In all sizes you want,Bad thing:no riffles,must be cateful while swirling,good thing,if you have practice enough,by the same swirling,you van get the gold absolutely clean,even the fines.Thank you teacher,another beautiful vid!
Beautiful area and some good gold. Very interesting pan and technique. If I had a spot like that, I'd have to throw out a fishing line while I was panning!
VERY COOL! Hubby and I occasionally do a little planning along Peers creek, Cadomin, etc. We have a couple of those pans from hubbys grandfather. We hadn’t tried them, but now we will. Thanks so much!
Nice job Dan, I have a pan designed after that pan by a guy in SW Washington, called the Bat Pan, I didn't really like it myself, but I will mess with it more before I do a video on it. Keep them coming, buddy...
Well Hellooo Dan, I like your videos. The new pan is awesome. But I think I like the plastic ones better ya know the half moon ridges. Just seems quicker. Anyway I watch your vids every evening bout 2 hours of them. Saving em also. Thanks Dan for sharing.
Hi Dan the first gold pan i used was of my mates car we used one of its hub caps and found a few specks we put them in the foil out of a cigarette packet and when we went to the pub decided to show off our wealth opening the foil it pinged and our gold was gone, we could not stop laughing, gold panning comes in all forms always great .
You could speed pan with this in areas of fine gold as all the gold will go to the point in the pan quickly and then you can push off the waste on top and then dump the remains in the point into a regular pan to be panned out later.
I have an old pan like that. You've got the motion down good. Try keeping the whole rim of the pan just slightly submerged and you'll get rid of material faster. I still like the gravity trap better
Batea means actually gold pan. It's an italian pan, invented somewhere between romans and pre-romans emperor in northwest italy and that's the way we call a pan. Your pronounce its almost perfect: just there's "no air" going out your mouth on the final three letters "TEA", only gut sound like the first two letters "BA".. and "EA" is just two vowels sound not like "EyA". cheers from Italy and thanks for your contents! Bye!
Oh something new😳 I've seen these used before But like you haven't tried one. I did make a similar pan with a small 1/4 in mesh screen in the bottom and a cup to collect the fines attached to the button. It works ok but not as fast as a regular pan but it was an experiment that someone else has since made and sell. Called a Focus pan and I believe they are made here in B.C. And as far as a flat pan goes, way to much work and I found it awkward due to it's size. I would say It's your pronouncing it correctly. Looking forward to hearing about the new claim. GL&HH
Thanks. I haven't tried a Focus pan - yet. I think I would have a hard time breaking away from my Garrett pan for anything but I could see the batea being good if I practiced a lot.
You did a fabulous job working that pan. I’ve used this pan for a few years now and love it. I love my Garrett sluice pan to. Depending on how I feel that day depends on what pan I use.
@@Danhurd I am 46 years old started panning at the age of 4 I was told. I was at the gold mine all summer ever summer until I moved to my fathers at the age of 16. I had not picked up a pan until last year since then I have been bitten bad by the gold bug. I have several thousand dollars worth of gold mining equip. Sad thing is I live in NC more toward the east and don't relay have a good place to go unless I drive 2 hrs one way. I wished I was in Alaska or Cal. I would never put the pan down.. My grandpa would tell the older me that at my age 5 or 6 That I would out pan them all . Miss the good oldays. Well hope the gold gods are on your side my friend
My intuition tells me that u could just keep filling the whole pan with water, shake it and spin it, dump, then fill the whole thing with water, shake it spin it, dump, repeat. Since the angle of the pans strongest gravity would be straight up and down. But I've never used one nor seen someone use one before. Lol
Ive seen a video clip somewhere of a Brazilean (I think) miner making one of those out of the cut out bottom of a 205lt drum. Heated over hot coals and hammered into a cone with a small cup formed in the bottom to hold a spoonful of Mercury.. When worked it was a continuous process until the amalgam became pastey.
So envious that you can jump from one part of heaven to the next, and pan gold also. Clearly your new pan wasnt keeping the gold in the cental nipple, but that is because you switched panning style as the black sand came into view. Not a criticism as you hauled some nice keepers as the levels got very low. Thanks Dan, keep us smiling.
Did you blacken your pan? Or leave it as bare metal? I have one that I got in the late 70's and I blackened it. Not rusted yet, and easier to see the gold.
The BIG advantage is that the REAL wooden Batea's float so you can hold 20 lbs. of sand and hold it with one hand and it will not sink. You can get twice the work done and save your back! If it DON'T float is not a real BATEA.
I have heard a few people say that the large sized old fashioned 49ers pan with a light layer of rust is supposed to be excellent at catching very fine gold,. That might be worth a video sometime, perhaps with an update on batea pans?
In Australia in the early days of the gold rush metal pans were seasoned before use by placing them upside down on a fire until the metal showed the first change of colour. This was to burn away the last residue of oil or grease preservative on the pan. We remove oil residue from new plastic pans as well. Did you do anything to your Batea pan before you used it?
What do you normally have to pay for a claim ? I imagine various factors apply, how long you have the claim for use, history of high amount of gold you clean out, convince and ease to get to claim area.
The builder of that pad said to swirl it in the water, not over the water like dan is doing. i wonder if some ridges on one small part of it would help?
Don't forget the jet dry! Btw.. That looks like a Wok. I'm going to go to a thrift store tomorrow and get a Wok and try it out on some fines. Thanks Dan! P. S. Double thanks for the locomotive clip. I'm a huge Railfan!
Hello Dan, my hero of the gold digger. Back then, I got stuck in British Columbia about your videos on the claim. Or how you show your claims. I think it's a shame that you digress something. Detect, dive and now even such an eotic washpan. I hope you return to your claim that you have processed with your BobCat. You built a rack for a big high banker ...Unfortunately, they then took the bridge away. But you found a way.These adventures were my favorite. How to get started with friends and family.And I stay with my washpan.Your faithful gold wash colleague from Bavaria.Greeting Goldjunge Tom
Bet it would be phenomenal if it were mounted to a shaker box scenario where it was oscillating. Then you could just shovel on the material and not wear out your arms! Funny enough there was an add for something like that at the start of one of your vids. Always great watching!
From a Spanish to English translation - this makes some sense given the Spanish history with gold. José levantó su batea del agua y vio una pepita de oro.Jose raised his washing pan from the water and saw a gold nugget.
Here I go again, swirling my phone to help pan out the gold. 😁 I like the batea pan in that I think swirling the pan is easier than shaking it back and forth. Might not sound like much but when you get to my age (OLDer), easier means a longer time at the river. Wonder what Dayna thinks of it?? Thanks for the lesson Dan.
Another incredible video. As i live in Australia your scenery is just so beautiful. Sadly though i noticed a dumped tyre at 16:00 . Why do people have to do this. When is the next three generations of Hurd video.
Looks like you did a good job for the first time doing it. You should take some home and pan it out in a safety pan just to see how much you are actually losing.
I think it's just a cultural difference, just like driving on the right or the left. In Brazil we have both kinds of pan, old schoolers use the batea(called a bateia in Portuguese) while younger people use the green plastic one, also called a bateia but usually called a plastic bateia to distinguish the two. Just like older people love revolvers instead of auto loading pistols and some still swear by using the plumb bob instead of a spirit level when laying brick. I'm not an expert but I think the difference in efficiency is negligible. I've read the Batea can use less water, but that's not really a concern down here since we have lots of water, it's not called a rainforest for nothing. One advantage of the Batea is that you can make one out of anything, a piece of "tin", wood, an old pan etc while making an injection molded plastic might not be so easy. For what it's worth these conical pans were used by early american prospectors near Mexico.
What an amazing place to prospect. Is that your claim Dan? What are the rules for prospecting in BC? I enjoy these videos. I have been prospecting for 4 years now and still consider myself a novice. :-)
Batea is the spanish word for bowl or pan , and we call it batée in French . Thank you for the good work with your interesting videos!
The constant rotational swirling with light material going off all around the outside of the pan appears much more efficient than the one side tipping to let light material slide off that we here in North America usually see. Actually, with a batea, the material is constantly stratifying, not to one side and then another, but to one focus point at the bottom of the pan. Great and informative video, as always, Dan.
Thanks!
I really liked the sound of the water hitting the side of the pan. It sounded kind of like a steel drum. I enjoy your videos and your charisma.
Thanks
I have watched some content of artisanal miners using variations of that pan, some wooden some metal. Once again with your video I find the long flat intriguing. It makes good sense with a focused small low point and the long flat surface. I wouldn't however turn this one over and use it for a stool. ; D Nice happy, sunny video, Thank You Dan Hurd!
Ouch! My Garrett is so versatile!
@@Danhurd 2020 you says 2019 was doing it wrong. LOL
I watched todays video first and then found this one. Now I am sitting thinking " you are doing it wrong ". LOL
Mr. Hurd, thank-you, so very much for sending my wife's prize to her. She got so excited, when she read the mail. You're an honest man and a good teacher. I wish you good luck and good gold.
You are very welcome.
At 10:20 you got the swirling motion right with the simultaneous tilting. You can tilt it quite aggressively as the centrifugal force will keep the heavies at the center. Batea simply means "pan" and it is designed to process large amounts of material in a short time without having to clean out the pan each time. It does require a lot of water to work in because of its size and you won't find a wash tub big enough to try out at home. I live in Arizona and bought my batea years ago from a company in Vancouver as none are available in the lower 48. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks very much for the feedback - I'll keep practicing!
Looks like a great concentrating pan. You can work all of the dirt in a quick amount of time and keep the concentrates. I use the Pyramid pro pan, kind of the same concept. Blow out the and still build up the concentrates for the end of the day. Both of these look great for low water situations. Great video!
Thanks
Thanks for showing that pan! I enjoyed the new subject. I want one now...
It's kind of fun!
Can easily do it at home
Looks like a useful pan. Gold, cooking dinner, sun hat, drumming around the fire at the end of the day...
I will have to practice more
There is a blue plastic version of the pan available now that some metal rod type bits in the very center used for breaking up clay and clumps as you swish it around. If you had to work with clay and clumps it looks like it would be very handy. They say the blue color is optimum for observing gold as it is opposite in contrast on a color chart.
YFRC in the house supporting another fine member. As soon as you showed the pan, I could vision exactly what to do. I love the speed of it! At first, side to side stratification but after that, stratification would always be in a circular motion only. Personally, I think you did a fine job for your first time.
Thanks - I need to practice a bit more but that's a great excuse to go panning! (Not that I ever need an excuse)
One of the miner i met in my country ,told me because of the materials that they panning consists hard dissolve clay.while they stratifying the materials. Periodically they use their hand/palm to smoothen/crush the small chunky clay materials,that might contains fine gold in it. That's why they use this pan instead of the riffle one.(i dont know it's true or not)good video,love to watch you prospecting gold.
Interesting
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!!!
Good job Dan!
What's nice about that pan is when you get hungry, you can Wok up yourself a river side Asian lunch. Chop Chop!🥢🤓
It does look like a wok
Hahaha! 😂
@Todd Radel hahaha
Lmao! 😂
@Smooth Move Huey
Well, that was fun. I have seen those pans and just thought that they were inferior to our plastic ribbed ones, turns out they are used in a completely different way. Thanks for demonstrating!
just received mine❤ learning how to use thanks Dan did find water tub.
..just big enough
Once again Dan, a superior video.
As I learned from Doc Williams, Costa Rican miners would use the removed top of a 55 gallon drum for their Bateas. The circular top would be heated and when very hot it would be placed over a hole in the ground and then formed (pounded) into the traditional long, flat cone shape with a small drop catchment in the very center. Of course the water in Costa Rica is quite warm so the very large Batea could help to support itself by partly floating during it's use by the panner who was also in the river as well.
Looking at the bottom of the pan it certainly wasn't heated well (for seasoning) - although a thorough cleaning with solvent or soapy water does the same thing.
Thanks. I will have to season it.
Looks like another great BC day, what a great spot to pan in.
It was a beautiful day!
Your videos are always fun and informative. Keep it up!
The beautiful thing about this pan is that you can work it all day before doing the final pan. I need to make one
I like the new pan its seems like it works really well
I need more practice
Great weather, I liked the Train shot !!!!!
Thanks! It was a good day
Hi Dan
Well I never even seen one of those batea Pan...
Thanks for sharing the day showing us how to use one.
Cheers Tony.👍🤓🍺⛏
Thanks for watching!
the sound of water on metal reminded me of been a kid out in a metal boat!
It's a distinctive sound
Awesome Dan. Love the vids!
You get a like for that opening scene. You are so lucky to be able to work there. Now I'll watch the rest. Lol
Thanks!
It's always good to see the sun in midwinter!
Exactly!
Hi Dan, informative as always. I have seen in other onlie videos people using this type of pan and having it pretty much under water the whole time. I was zurprised at fast the lighter material washed out.
Thanks. It processed pretty quickly
Nothing concentrates more than a cone.People using ,bateas along years dont loose anything,even the fines.The most usef pan in south america,just because all riffled pans are imported,from USA or Cbhina,are very expensive,for rxample,Garret kit,10",14" and 1/2 inch classyfier nearly 100 dollars,and this batea can easy be made at home,In all sizes you want,Bad thing:no riffles,must be cateful while swirling,good thing,if you have practice enough,by the same swirling,you van get the gold absolutely clean,even the fines.Thank you teacher,another beautiful vid!
Thanks
Beautiful area and some good gold. Very interesting pan and technique.
If I had a spot like that, I'd have to throw out a fishing line while I was panning!
Thanks!
VERY COOL! Hubby and I occasionally do a little planning along Peers creek, Cadomin, etc. We have a couple of those pans from hubbys grandfather. We hadn’t tried them, but now we will. Thanks so much!
You're welcome
I love it it's easy to use you are the boss Dan
Thanks
Nice job Dan, I have a pan designed after that pan by a guy in SW Washington, called the Bat Pan, I didn't really like it myself, but I will mess with it more before I do a video on it. Keep them coming, buddy...
Thanks. Next video out on Wednesday
Well Hellooo Dan, I like your videos. The new pan is awesome. But I think I like the plastic ones better ya know the half moon ridges. Just seems quicker. Anyway I watch your vids every evening bout 2 hours of them. Saving em also. Thanks Dan for sharing.
Hi Dan the first gold pan i used was of my mates car we used one of its hub caps and found a few specks we put them in the foil out of a cigarette packet and when we went to the pub decided to show off our wealth opening the foil it pinged and our gold was gone, we could not stop laughing, gold panning comes in all forms always great .
You could speed pan with this in areas of fine gold as all the gold will go to the point in the pan quickly and then you can push off the waste on top and then dump the remains in the point into a regular pan to be panned out later.
Very true
Very good! Congratulations!
love watching.. good luck Dan
Thanks!
I bought an EstWing metal gold pan this summer, at the 'Rock Doc' [awesome people] in Buena Vista, CO, USA
Nice!
With the batea pan its easy to see the lights float out the edges
I found myself swirling my iPad when you were swirling the pan! 🤭
Practicing the technique!
You have such a cute smile. I'm enjoying your videos a lot.
Thanks!
I have an old pan like that. You've got the motion down good. Try keeping the whole rim of the pan just slightly submerged and you'll get rid of material faster. I still like the gravity trap better
Awesome video I think the modern version of that pan is the turbo pan sorta have a great day and prospect on
I agree.
The original batea or bateia in Portuguese is made from wood, I have been after one of those for some time... Great spot and great views!
Thanks!
@@Danhurd By the way your pronunciation of batea was spot on! :)
According to vo-gus prospecting in Australia to you are pronouncing it right
Batea means actually gold pan. It's an italian pan, invented somewhere between romans and pre-romans emperor in northwest italy and that's the way we call a pan. Your pronounce its almost perfect: just there's "no air" going out your mouth on the final three letters "TEA", only gut sound like the first two letters "BA".. and "EA" is just two vowels sound not like "EyA".
cheers from Italy and thanks for your contents!
Bye!
Awesome - thanks!
the hand made ones in south america are true works of art but sadly cant get them here, the wood grain ones are truly amazing!!
I bet!
Oh something new😳 I've seen these used before But like you haven't tried one. I did make a similar pan with a small 1/4 in mesh screen in the bottom and a cup to collect the fines attached to the button. It works ok but not as fast as a regular pan but it was an experiment that someone else has since made and sell. Called a Focus pan and I believe they are made here in B.C. And as far as a flat pan goes, way to much work and I found it awkward due to it's size.
I would say It's your pronouncing it correctly.
Looking forward to hearing about the new claim. GL&HH
Thanks. I haven't tried a Focus pan - yet. I think I would have a hard time breaking away from my Garrett pan for anything but I could see the batea being good if I practiced a lot.
Cool pan. Thx CR
Very cool, want one now.
It's different!
Nice job Dan ! I'm going have to try one. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I'm going to have to practice a bit more.
You did a fabulous job working that pan. I’ve used this pan for a few years now and love it. I love my Garrett sluice pan to. Depending on how I feel that day depends on what pan I use.
Yup, I'll have to practice more
@@Danhurd I am 46 years old started panning at the age of 4 I was told. I was at the gold mine all summer ever summer until I moved to my fathers at the age of 16. I had not picked up a pan until last year since then I have been bitten bad by the gold bug. I have several thousand dollars worth of gold mining equip. Sad thing is I live in NC more toward the east and don't relay have a good place to go unless I drive 2 hrs one way. I wished I was in Alaska or Cal. I would never put the pan down.. My grandpa would tell the older me that at my age 5 or 6 That I would out pan them all . Miss the good oldays. Well hope the gold gods are on your side my friend
My intuition tells me that u could just keep filling the whole pan with water, shake it and spin it, dump, then fill the whole thing with water, shake it spin it, dump, repeat. Since the angle of the pans strongest gravity would be straight up and down. But I've never used one nor seen someone use one before. Lol
Great video, gorgeous landscape too.
Thanks - it's a beautiful spot. My wife's favourite claim
pan looks to be extremely efficient. as well as fun to use
Another great video Dan. I’ve never seen one of them pans before.
Thanks. I am going to have to practice with it
The modern version to the bates pan could be the aussie turbo pan, similar action a good pan to try
Very similar
Great job you did better than I would have keep practicing and try it again this summer I bet once you get the technique down it will work very fast
Thanks!
Nice railfan action.
Ive seen a video clip somewhere of a Brazilean (I think) miner making one of those out of the cut out bottom of a 205lt drum. Heated over hot coals and hammered into a cone with a small cup formed in the bottom to hold a spoonful of Mercury.. When worked it was a continuous process until the amalgam became pastey.
So envious that you can jump from one part of heaven to the next, and pan gold also. Clearly your new pan wasnt keeping the gold in the cental nipple, but that is because you switched panning style as the black sand came into view. Not a criticism as you hauled some nice keepers as the levels got very low. Thanks Dan, keep us smiling.
Thanks!
My first gold pan was purchased in the 1970’s, flat bottom metal that liked to rust if neglected.
👍👍
metal ones tend to do that.
Did you blacken your pan? Or leave it as bare metal? I have one that I got in the late 70's and I blackened it. Not rusted yet, and easier to see the gold.
My master, thank you.
You're welcome!
The BIG advantage is that the REAL wooden Batea's float so you can hold 20 lbs. of sand and hold it with one hand and it will not sink. You can get twice the work done and save your back! If it DON'T float is not a real BATEA.
Took me till 5 years ago to convert to the green pan (which I love) I'd always used a metal pan until then. But a pie pan or a dinner plate will work.
I have heard a few people say that the large sized old fashioned 49ers pan with a light layer of rust is supposed to be excellent at catching very fine gold,. That might be worth a video sometime, perhaps with an update on batea pans?
What type of classifier is that? I like the way it fits down in your bucket!
I'm not sure but I would pronounce the pan bateye! That's how I sometimes pan using my Garrett gold trap.great video😁
Thanks
Very interesting it would take. Bit of getting used to but I can see why it would work very well
Yup - I'm going to have to spend a bit more time with it, that's for sure.
In Australia in the early days of the gold rush metal pans were seasoned before use by placing them upside down on a fire until the metal showed the first change of colour. This was to burn away the last residue of oil or grease preservative on the pan. We remove oil residue from new plastic pans as well. Did you do anything to your Batea pan before you used it?
LOOKS LIKE A GREAT FIRST ATTEMPT. LOOKS LIKE MY WOK MINUS THE CONE AT THE BOTTOM LOL. THANKS FOR SHARING. HAVE FUN AT THE NEW CLAIM....
Thanks! Always fun to check out a new claim
Well it looks like the batea did well, I have seen them before but I have never used one.
It wasn't bad at all
That's a cool pan, I'm gonna get one and try it out!
It's fun
What do you normally have to pay for a claim ?
I imagine various factors apply, how long you have the claim for use, history of high amount of gold you clean out, convince and ease to get to claim area.
buying a clam privately usually runs between $500 to $5000 - depending on the factors you listed
The builder of that pad said to swirl it in the water, not over the water like dan is doing. i wonder if some ridges on one small part of it would help?
Don't forget the jet dry!
Btw.. That looks like a Wok. I'm going to go to a thrift store tomorrow and get a Wok and try it out on some fines.
Thanks Dan!
P. S. Double thanks for the locomotive clip. I'm a huge Railfan!
Thank you for information
You are welcome
Hello Dan, my hero of the gold digger. Back then, I got stuck in British Columbia about your videos on the claim. Or how you show your claims. I think it's a shame that you digress something. Detect, dive and now even such an eotic washpan. I hope you return to your claim that you have processed with your BobCat. You built a rack for a big high banker ...Unfortunately, they then took the bridge away. But you found a way.These adventures were my favorite. How to get started with friends and family.And I stay with my washpan.Your faithful gold wash colleague from Bavaria.Greeting Goldjunge Tom
I am frozen out of that claim until May at the earliest. I will return to that claim!
Also works as a hardhat in Southeast Asia...
Bet it would be phenomenal if it were mounted to a shaker box scenario where it was oscillating. Then you could just shovel on the material and not wear out your arms!
Funny enough there was an add for something like that at the start of one of your vids.
Always great watching!
Thanks - it really is an interesting pan
From a Spanish to English translation - this makes some sense given the Spanish history with gold.
José levantó su batea del agua y vio una pepita de oro.Jose raised his washing pan from the water and saw a gold nugget.
That thing sounds like a pontoon boat in the water. Hahaha Looks fun though !
looks great! would love to try it
Here I go again, swirling my phone to help pan out the gold. 😁 I like the batea pan in that I think swirling the pan is easier than shaking it back and forth. Might not sound like much but when you get to my age (OLDer), easier means a longer time at the river. Wonder what Dayna thinks of it?? Thanks for the lesson Dan.
Another incredible video. As i live in Australia your scenery is just so beautiful. Sadly though i noticed a dumped tyre at 16:00 . Why do people have to do this. When is the next three generations of Hurd video.
Thanks! The next 3 gen video might not be until late spring.
Those a pretty cool pan
I've got to practice more
Looks like you did a good job for the first time doing it. You should take some home and pan it out in a safety pan just to see how much you are actually losing.
Thanks - good idea!
always wanted to learn how that was done..
It seems to resemble the technique of how a spiral pan works.
Yes, very similar
Interesting Dan! Thank you!
You are welcome
I think it's just a cultural difference, just like driving on the right or the left.
In Brazil we have both kinds of pan, old schoolers use the batea(called a bateia in Portuguese) while younger people use the green plastic one, also called a bateia but usually called a plastic bateia to distinguish the two. Just like older people love revolvers instead of auto loading pistols and some still swear by using the plumb bob instead of a spirit level when laying brick.
I'm not an expert but I think the difference in efficiency is negligible. I've read the Batea can use less water, but that's not really a concern down here since we have lots of water, it's not called a rainforest for nothing.
One advantage of the Batea is that you can make one out of anything, a piece of "tin", wood, an old pan etc while making an injection molded plastic might not be so easy.
For what it's worth these conical pans were used by early american prospectors near Mexico.
Another great vid
Thanks!
Nice spot. Nice pan! This summer i come back. Try to find some gold!
Happy hunting!
If they made then in 15inch models, they would simply be better in every way other than maybe needing deeper water than a regular pan.
Gold Claw makes a pan like this called the "Turbo Pan". I say this cause you mentioned you wondered what innovations could be made to the Batea Pan.
i wont be using that pan in the living room to much WET. nice video and as always may the gold be with you.
Thanks! It's definitely a use in the creek kind of pan
I noticed the green pan is still usefull. 😉
It is indeed!
What an amazing place to prospect. Is that your claim Dan? What are the rules for prospecting in BC? I enjoy these videos. I have been prospecting for 4 years now and still consider myself a novice. :-)
another good video Dan, interesting pan and it looked fairly easy to use, good job and keep the videos coming
Thanks! Next video Wednesday!