You worked for 4-5 hours with 2 men. You got about $136 USD worth of unprocessed gold. That's about $13.5 USD per hour. Congratulations, you made a little better than minimum wage where I live. Considering how nice a day it was and you were outside with no annoying boss or customers, I'd say you've got a great thing going.
$200 to try out a new piece of equipment in hydraulically worked over ground. Minimum wage.. Okay, you can believe that 😂 Awesome designed Sluice.. Great brains into that one. All the very best gents. 🍻
please do not tell people a "powered sluice" is illegal in california, it is not. this has been heavily debated. "highbanking" that is, specifically the practice of digging above the high water mark, IS illegal. however, you can get a permit from the DWR to do so. the equipment itself that has been nicknamed the highbanker, was never banned. it is not illegal to pump water from a water way so long as the water is returned in the same condition as it was taken. with the exception of, if the material came from within the waterway below the high water line. no you do not need a permit from the DWR, nor do you need a POO or any of that to use water from a public water way. the only thing that was banned by the moratorium was specifically, mechanically powered "suction" or "vacuum". nothing else. it has been misinterpreted by people who don't understand legalese. the mining community literally gaslit itself by not understanding the english language.
You can actually use a highbanker in all of the United States, you just cannot discharge directly into the stream river or lake, you have to provide a catchment for sediment settling.
So, it has nothing to do with productivity, and as long as you aren't screwing up the stream ecosystem, they're OK? Sounds like the laws actually are doing what they say they're doing, no hidden agenda.
See, I'm a biologist by training, and my instinct would be to set up an inflatable kiddie pool, fill it with water from the creek, then run the banker in the pool while recirculating the existing water. Or even better, and more practical, would be to set up in a shallow hole and drop in a tarp. That way, all that silt and mud stays in the pool, rather than flowing downstream and smothering all the invertebrates. It won't do much to the fish, but it does kill their food and especially their eggs. The silt generated by taking shovelfuls of of dirt does still have an effect? But nowhere near as bad as running the banker *in* the stream. Mind you, this only really applies to SMALL streams, like the one you're working. A bigger stream, with more flow, would mean more dilution of the silt and far less impact, meaning a recirc setup would be excessive. But on a small one like this, from a biological perspective, it would be better to recirc.
hes australian. its about attention and getting americans to like his "crazy" personality. hes not a thinker or a carer. just a me person. your words mean nothing to a country of men with very little spine or morals. i see it here everyday. weak fearful people pretending to be "easy going" covid showed us how many of them are spineless and turn to water when it comes to human rights and big daddy govt. just me people. everyone out for themself. just like the oppressors like it.
Same in California. After the gold rush began in 1848, environmental damage from hydraulic mining and silt happened so fast that they'd banned it in most places within a generation.
Highbankers are very popular in Alberta, Canada. While designs vary, they typically follow the zig-zag design like the one you are using. The shovel-in box is a bit different, though. The upper end is flat bottom box where the rocks are washed and then roll down to hit the grizzly (bar classifier/screen) section. This allows a very thorough wash, especially in designs that have the shovel in section able to tilt differently than the grizzly because the water is kept around the material to be washed and does not simply fall through the bars too early, making it necessary to use way more water to get material washed properly.. That way, you can hold material in the box for better washing, but once it flows out, it has a steeper grizzly to allow the rocks to roll down and off with less time spent scraping rocks off the grizzly. It also has less rock wedging of the grizzly bars if using the type of grizzly you have. The gold is fine- typically minus 50 mesh with a significant amount less than 100 mesh. Riffles are usually low profile, and various permutations of expanded metal are popular. Carpet is the user's choice with NOMAD "rubber" spaghetti mat popular as is low- profile indoor/outdoor carpet. Of course, prospectors being what they are, we are constantly tinkering and buying new gimmicks to get every last flake. Part of the fun.
Yep some years are really bad with them yellow jackets (ground hornets) hate them! Got stung real bad 1 year when my doggo Bear was about 6 months old. Took Bear for a walk at the farm (he was city dog for most part) and we walked across my bridge at the creek. He sticks his face into the edge past the bridge & backed away with a face full of them. I'm in shorts & no shirt 😮😢😢 I take off 30 or 40 feet up creek & tey to get them off his face & head (swarm of 20 plus buggers.) I'm swatting him about the face & head where they are stinging him. Poor boy thinking these bugs are biting hard & daddy is whooping me for getting them riled up. Little did I know we stopped right by a 2nd nest & an entire swarm comes out of that nest & both of us getting stung bad as smashing them releases chemicals that make more come after you.. I run off dragging a yelping pup stop by what had to be a major nest now at the 2rd stopping point (100s are now out after us both. ) 😡 😡 I picked him up (he was covered in DOZENS of them) ran back towards house swarm followed us so I kept going. I got stung dozens of times him as more too. They go for the "bending bits & eyes" I had probably 15+ stings on my face. 5 plus per ankle; knees, elbows, sides/chest fromm carrying him who had dozens of em in his fur.😢😢😢 Only time a sting made me want to go to the ER, took a bunch of benadryl antihistamines. Pain killers & anti-inflammatory pills. Took me a good 3 weeks to get rid of the pain & itching. Bears face nose h ears all swelled up so bad poor boy. We gave him some of the same dissolved in his water he looked at me sideways for a while as I had to smash them to stop the stinging. Lost track of how many sstings I got on my hands😮😢. 3 days later the Brush Burner propane weed burner and I went hunting along the creek bank. I found 7 nests along that bank and killed 1000s of em with FIRE😊 got stung a couple more times but was worth it for the satisfaction 😂😂. Waited a week & went back to find 2 or 3 more nests. Was a bad year for them for sure. Best way to kill entire nest is a small half full plastic drink bottle drill a few small holes in lid squeeze it like squirter gun into the hole and stick it into the hole upside down let it drip in the heavy mix gas kills them all. 😊
@@markmatt9174 Another great alternative to glorious FIIIIIIRRREEEEEE is soapy water, no shit, soapy water fucks up bugs days so bad it's not even funny, plus it won't burn your property down! Soapy water in a knock-off Super Soaker is actually exactly how a buddy of mine and I cleared out a huge nest in a centennial home he was restoring.
I bought a powermower with a Honda engine 8 years ago, and it's never failed to start on the first pull unless I run the fuel dry. Then, it takes 2 pulls. It's also phenomenal on fuel consumption, and it only needs an oil change about every other year. I'm scheduled to do it this year, and when I checked, it's still full and dark amber colored. They're truly amazing engineers at Honda! After all winter in the shed, I take it out in the spring, and it starts first pull.
Quick tip you might already know....when stung by a wasp, slap some wet mud on the sting asap and it will make it a LOT less painful. Wet tobacco or flour also works, but plain old mud works best. Been doing this my entire life and it really helps a lot.
It's cause as the mud dries it naturally pulls the venom or in the case of bees helps pull the whole stinger free. Leaving it less likely to inflame/react to the venom as long.
Ha! Imagine my surprise when my Dad did that when I was stung on the forehead by a bee as a kid. I was screaming and he ran over with a handful of mud from a puddle and slapped it on my head.
Sir i was walking in a field and got stung. I found a big ol pile of mud, a bug mound of it like some dig was digging and left it. I reached in for a handful and to my horror it was warm. I stuck my hand into fresh shit. Off in the distance i heard a damned donkey laugh at me, that fucker and the wasp teamed up for this moment.
Men in suits v men in waders has been a problem for quite some time even outside the realm of prospecting.. We are of common kin my man and we will continue to fight the oppression of reward for effort ✊
I'm in construction and deal with the same problem in a slightly different form. We have investors/managers in cubicles creating a lot of busy work for us thinking it will make the construction easier & faster
The problem is, the men in suits are one bad break or conviction away from becoming the men in waders. The movement doesn't usually go the other way... because of genetics.
Man there is something so satisfying about watching a perfectly designed gold catching machine in-action, also that high banker is pretty cool to. Big love Vo-Gus congrats on the new toy :P
The problem is that fresh water clams and others are dependant on clear water and muddying water like that kills them down stream this happened recently in Finland when a forestry truck illegally crossed a marked stream crushing several endangered river pearl clams and killed even more of them by suffocation as the muddied water was then carried further down the stream.
Thats 1 sweet highbanker, very interesting. 1 thing you can also add a test mat to the derocker/hopper to catch even more gold before it reaches the Jarvis riffles and it gives you an opportunity to remove the premium stuff outta the box for safe keeping or visual testing indicators, love your work as usaul embraced the mould ages ago
@@Ezzell_The finer, lighter particles in the tailings stay suspended in the water, reducing water quality and making it harder for fish to breathe and hunt. Not only that, when the silt eventually settles it can build up in nests and suffocate the fish eggs. By leaving the tailings on the bank or further away, it allows the particles to redistribute more slowly and evenly from natural erosion like wind and rain.
We use high bankers in America, most of California even. Gas motors are banned in some of California but high bankers can be run by bucket. Here in Arizona desert country we often bring water and reclaim it by working into a kid pool or livestock watering tank and pump it around again and again.
Hey Chris, Tell Gadzee to ALWAYS check his waders, you too.. Where I used to live, i'd find bloody funnel webs in my boots regularly, I NEVER put shoes on without performing an exorcism first !!! 😁
Wow, that was a beautiful Sapphire. Great speci, and great weigh up. That highbanker is neat as well. Love it fully opens and being able to clean grizzly bars. Awesome.
I love Gus's videos because he gets technical. He talks about water speed and angle of the high banker. How you need to adjust by the quality of your materials. The high banker he is using. Is pretty cool.
It's worse than that. It's men and women working for these green companies that achieved their goals decades ago and look for something, anything else to have a campaign on. See, we did this. Send us money. Stupid people send money to greenpeace, sierra club, and others. They're also not above outright lying to legislatures. Such as save an animal and the area they looked at never had that animal because of the altitude. They did that in I think Arizona and were caught.
Excellent piece of kit, Chris. Rightly proud it's locally made too. Minus the One Horse Honda, although likely it's made with Australian steel. How cute is that little motor?! Aww... Names: Harry Hi-Stumpy, High-Dansky, Lavington High-Banksy (Lavinia), Hi-Danker, Bumpy's-Stanker, Dug More-Banks Fairchild Junior. That's it! Doug More-Banks. The Scottish guy with a shovel in his head. Douglas is the one with no shovel in his head. Good luck with the wild weather, may it have restocked your local gold deposit bank branches of your local waterways.
When I was staying at a youth hostel in a castle in Scotland, you had to leave your shoes outside. In the morning, I put on my hiking boots, found a hornet decided my boot would make a good new home. I got stung 4 or 5 times on my heel before I could get the boot and evict the nasty hornet. Made walking miserable for a couple days. Luckily I had some moleskin bandage tape. It was like the worst blister on my heel ever, but the moleskin helped keep more friction off the bites at least.
CamLocks! Converted my brew system to cam locks. Instantly regretted not going for quick releases instead. Camlocks are a pain. They are meant to be deliberately hard to (accidentally) pop open for use with boiling fluids, but they are a fiddly pain the a.r.s.
When I watch Gold Rush with the larger wash plants they always say not to let your sluices run without material going through and always panic to shut the water off so not to wash away gold. Does this not happen with theses little sluice kits ?
Geez Lueeze Skippy!!! Yer funny as heck & a genious producer. Both in video content and gold sluething panning or whatever it is. The Gods gifted U sum awesome gifts. Thanks. I've never been so entertained whilst being educated. Keep it up. Good on ya mate.
I see the best utility in this unit: if your water is a limited flow, you can set the pump downstream, and reuse it. Even if you have to bring an extra section of hose
What's the name of that wonderful portable Gold Machine snd what company makes it? I'm sure it has to be legal in some areas, surely. At least, one can hope. 😊
High Bankers are preferred, and are the highest sold units in America. I have a Keene Industries Mini-Max High Banker. The difference is for the most part, we use an electric motor with a lawn mower battery.
Many laws in California are not clear, you can use a dredge but it’s illegal they don’t ticket for it unless park and game come. It’s an overturned law people can use them but not a business.
Why would a water material sifter be an illegal object to have? You should be allowed to harvest your own materials from nature like that and you are not even harming the environment (except that motor and manufacturing the machine...).
I reside in northwest rural Nevada, USA, surrounded by famous gold-producing ghost towns such as Bodie (California), Aurora (Nevada), Rawhide (Nevada) and more -- all within 30 miles of my front door. Highbankers are legal here, but we don't use 'em. Don't need to. Much like when we fish we don't need bait & tackle because fish jump right into the boat, we don't need prospecting equipment because we just pick up placer nuggets at our feet. Around here it really pays to be short, because ol' shorty doesn't have to bend and stoop as much to come away with a good payday.
First time viewer here I'm curious if you do this as your main source of income or as a side hustle? Ib think this could be a decent hobby to get into (if I had somewhere to go....) but looks like it might be a costly hobby to start
They don't want anything automated out of the fear that someone would abuse it and damage the land. Unfortunately this bottlenecks most people when farming gold.
In the pacific northwest of north america it was found that equipment like this run in the stream would silt up the gravel that salmon spawn in. They were finding that salmon stocks collapsed wherever gold miners set up and stayed down for decades. That's a big deal for populations that survive mostly on salmon.
Hey never done it before but been watching you and other gold prospecting shows. Just wondering do you get lucky regulary? Reason i ask is me and boys always camping along rivers all over the joint and i always wonder if there could be gold there.
Hydro mining areas are the best locations such crued concepts left us alot of gold and they did the hard work blasting it down from the hills with that cannon of pipred water sure is crazy anyway hope you have a great day im in california southern part called phelan and i live right next to some rich placer deposits and a ton of hydro mining from miners in 1849 i live not to far from texas hill you may have heard jeff willams talk about it in his lytle creek video
Could you get a foam pad to bounce the sound of the pump away from you? I'd say box it in but that would probably have heat and air circulation issues. I've been in a job where wearing ear defenders all day isn't nice at all so I don't see that as an ideal solution.
What`s scary is...a person can DEVELOP an unexpected allergy to various stings and even snakebites. I`ve been bitten by venomous copperhead snakes 3 times in Louisiana. The next could mean a bad reaction and instant doom. I`ve been stung by dozens of yellowjacket ground wasps at once too and millions of times by fire ants. The larger paper wasps, bumblebees and hornets really hurt!
@@michaelp3650 My sister`s neighbor and one of my dogs were bitten by copperheads and immediately dropped. The neighbor was picking up trash that blew up against a fence from the road. His wife found him on the ground beside the snake. My dog was with me in the woods and went ahead of me about 30 feet. I found him on the ground after only a minute with the snake nearby.
you should have a little pack of baking soda with you. Mix it with water making a past, put it on the bee sting and it will take the pain of the sting away. I have used it a few times because there is a bee that causes me to swell up and I don't know which bee it is. Very handy. Hope this helps Gadzee 😀
Love the stumpy run!! I wish i could get more out of my dirt, im at about 0.1 g a bucket at 4 coyote buckets a day 2 or 3 days a week. Im running a banjo pan on top of a fluid bed sluice. It catches the ultra fines , and alot of em but my spot has about 1 picker/poker every 15 buckets or so
seeing aussies regarding the common wasp as some sort of dangerous critter has broken me. do you not have, like, spiders that have integrated machine guns and stuff? that shoot venom that makes the target explode into a fine mist? a fine explosive mist that also births more spiders?
You worked for 4-5 hours with 2 men. You got about $136 USD worth of unprocessed gold. That's about $13.5 USD per hour. Congratulations, you made a little better than minimum wage where I live. Considering how nice a day it was and you were outside with no annoying boss or customers, I'd say you've got a great thing going.
consider the carbon footprint, net loss at the end.
..and that unexpected bonus every so often
$200 to try out a new piece of equipment in hydraulically worked over ground. Minimum wage.. Okay, you can believe that 😂
Awesome designed Sluice.. Great brains into that one. All the very best gents. 🍻
they get much more given that they are selling the pay dirt for more than the value of the gold in it.
What about operating costs?
please do not tell people a "powered sluice" is illegal in california, it is not. this has been heavily debated. "highbanking" that is, specifically the practice of digging above the high water mark, IS illegal. however, you can get a permit from the DWR to do so. the equipment itself that has been nicknamed the highbanker, was never banned. it is not illegal to pump water from a water way so long as the water is returned in the same condition as it was taken. with the exception of, if the material came from within the waterway below the high water line. no you do not need a permit from the DWR, nor do you need a POO or any of that to use water from a public water way. the only thing that was banned by the moratorium was specifically, mechanically powered "suction" or "vacuum". nothing else. it has been misinterpreted by people who don't understand legalese. the mining community literally gaslit itself by not understanding the english language.
Everything's illegal
You can actually use a highbanker in all of the United States, you just cannot discharge directly into the stream river or lake, you have to provide a catchment for sediment settling.
You can't use anything that is motorized in Washington state. The liberal cult that runs the state capitol says so.
Yup men I suits making laws for men in flannels
laws R made 2 B Broken lol
So, it has nothing to do with productivity, and as long as you aren't screwing up the stream ecosystem, they're OK? Sounds like the laws actually are doing what they say they're doing, no hidden agenda.
Can't use pumps in Cali. It's the suction pumps that's outlawed.
See, I'm a biologist by training, and my instinct would be to set up an inflatable kiddie pool, fill it with water from the creek, then run the banker in the pool while recirculating the existing water. Or even better, and more practical, would be to set up in a shallow hole and drop in a tarp. That way, all that silt and mud stays in the pool, rather than flowing downstream and smothering all the invertebrates. It won't do much to the fish, but it does kill their food and especially their eggs. The silt generated by taking shovelfuls of of dirt does still have an effect? But nowhere near as bad as running the banker *in* the stream. Mind you, this only really applies to SMALL streams, like the one you're working. A bigger stream, with more flow, would mean more dilution of the silt and far less impact, meaning a recirc setup would be excessive. But on a small one like this, from a biological perspective, it would be better to recirc.
hes australian. its about attention and getting americans to like his "crazy" personality.
hes not a thinker or a carer. just a me person.
your words mean nothing to a country of men with very little spine or morals.
i see it here everyday.
weak fearful people pretending to be "easy going"
covid showed us how many of them are spineless and turn to water when it comes to human rights and big daddy govt.
just me people. everyone out for themself. just like the oppressors like it.
WHAT A GREAT IDEA !!! Do you think the officer would be ok with that? Thanks for caring. Ronald from Humboldt Co., Ca.
You mean to tell me that the stuff that the fish and other wild life LIVES in is somehow bad for them? Make that make sense.
@@Apollo55_ its called science. its hard. i dont you would like it. just stick to beer and guns.
When it rains doesn't this occur naturally? The inundation of silt in the river that is.
Here in Canada the high banker laws are more about silt, and environmental contamination rather that production and efficiency.
Same in California. After the gold rush began in 1848, environmental damage from hydraulic mining and silt happened so fast that they'd banned it in most places within a generation.
Dan herd… uses a high banker
@@tylerwestman5258 He does, but he explains how they must use settling ponds and the water must not directly dump into the river.
yea.. how dare you take some of the environment, and wash it through some environment, and keep the shiny environment. Youre killing the environment.
*Be glad that eurowasp didn't fly up your pant leg and sting you on the **_Weasel_** !*
Highbankers are very popular in Alberta, Canada. While designs vary, they typically follow the zig-zag design like the one you are using. The shovel-in box is a bit different, though. The upper end is flat bottom box where the rocks are washed and then roll down to hit the grizzly (bar classifier/screen) section. This allows a very thorough wash, especially in designs that have the shovel in section able to tilt differently than the grizzly because the water is kept around the material to be washed and does not simply fall through the bars too early, making it necessary to use way more water to get material washed properly.. That way, you can hold material in the box for better washing, but once it flows out, it has a steeper grizzly to allow the rocks to roll down and off with less time spent scraping rocks off the grizzly. It also has less rock wedging of the grizzly bars if using the type of grizzly you have. The gold is fine- typically minus 50 mesh with a significant amount less than 100 mesh. Riffles are usually low profile, and various permutations of expanded metal are popular. Carpet is the user's choice with NOMAD "rubber" spaghetti mat popular as is low- profile indoor/outdoor carpet. Of course, prospectors being what they are, we are constantly tinkering and buying new gimmicks to get every last flake. Part of the fun.
Fun fact: Every time Chris put the word "illegal" in the videos, he always have a higher number of visualizations.
We call those yellowjackets in the states. They are a pain in the where ever they sting you.
Gold is good anyway you look at it .but going out the way .away from civilization. Is even better
2 months later my 4 stings still itch from those things.
@@inadad8878 You might be allergic to them now. That's how I found out I am.
Yep some years are really bad with them yellow jackets (ground hornets) hate them! Got stung real bad 1 year when my doggo Bear was about 6 months old. Took Bear for a walk at the farm (he was city dog for most part) and we walked across my bridge at the creek. He sticks his face into the edge past the bridge & backed away with a face full of them. I'm in shorts & no shirt 😮😢😢 I take off 30 or 40 feet up creek & tey to get them off his face & head (swarm of 20 plus buggers.) I'm swatting him about the face & head where they are stinging him. Poor boy thinking these bugs are biting hard & daddy is whooping me for getting them riled up. Little did I know we stopped right by a 2nd nest & an entire swarm comes out of that nest & both of us getting stung bad as smashing them releases chemicals that make more come after you.. I run off dragging a yelping pup stop by what had to be a major nest now at the 2rd stopping point (100s are now out after us both. ) 😡 😡 I picked him up (he was covered in DOZENS of them) ran back towards house swarm followed us so I kept going. I got stung dozens of times him as more too.
They go for the "bending bits & eyes" I had probably 15+ stings on my face. 5 plus per ankle; knees, elbows, sides/chest fromm carrying him who had dozens of em in his fur.😢😢😢
Only time a sting made me want to go to the ER, took a bunch of benadryl antihistamines. Pain killers & anti-inflammatory pills. Took me a good 3 weeks to get rid of the pain & itching. Bears face nose h ears all swelled up so bad poor boy. We gave him some of the same dissolved in his water he looked at me sideways for a while as I had to smash them to stop the stinging. Lost track of how many sstings I got on my hands😮😢.
3 days later the Brush Burner propane weed burner and I went hunting along the creek bank. I found 7 nests along that bank and killed 1000s of em with FIRE😊 got stung a couple more times but was worth it for the satisfaction 😂😂. Waited a week & went back to find 2 or 3 more nests. Was a bad year for them for sure.
Best way to kill entire nest is a small half full plastic drink bottle drill a few small holes in lid squeeze it like squirter gun into the hole and stick it into the hole upside down let it drip in the heavy mix gas kills them all. 😊
@@markmatt9174 Another great alternative to glorious FIIIIIIRRREEEEEE is soapy water, no shit, soapy water fucks up bugs days so bad it's not even funny, plus it won't burn your property down! Soapy water in a knock-off Super Soaker is actually exactly how a buddy of mine and I cleared out a huge nest in a centennial home he was restoring.
I bought a powermower with a Honda engine 8 years ago, and it's never failed to start on the first pull unless I run the fuel dry. Then, it takes 2 pulls.
It's also phenomenal on fuel consumption, and it only needs an oil change about every other year.
I'm scheduled to do it this year, and when I checked, it's still full and dark amber colored.
They're truly amazing engineers at Honda!
After all winter in the shed, I take it out in the spring, and it starts first pull.
Quick tip you might already know....when stung by a wasp, slap some wet mud on the sting asap and it will make it a LOT less painful. Wet tobacco or flour also works, but plain old mud works best. Been doing this my entire life and it really helps a lot.
It's cause as the mud dries it naturally pulls the venom or in the case of bees helps pull the whole stinger free. Leaving it less likely to inflame/react to the venom as long.
Ha! Imagine my surprise when my Dad did that when I was stung on the forehead by a bee as a kid. I was screaming and he ran over with a handful of mud from a puddle and slapped it on my head.
Sir i was walking in a field and got stung.
I found a big ol pile of mud, a bug mound of it like some dig was digging and left it.
I reached in for a handful and to my horror it was warm. I stuck my hand into fresh shit.
Off in the distance i heard a damned donkey laugh at me, that fucker and the wasp teamed up for this moment.
dont put dirt on an open wound...
@@gamesareforfun A sting is hardly an open wound. But if you prefer pain, you do you.
My grandpappy always said "who the heck are you and why are you in my house?"
@@garrettmillsap followed by a shotgun rack
lol
@@VoGusProspecting yeah, he always kept it loaded with homemade loads of rock salt so we didn't die, just learn a lesson lol
mine said " never fall in love at the glory hole"
but he was a different breed for sure
Why did your grand pappy even ask? Mine just shot people, the signs did all the talking for him.
"Honda, the producer of the Hi-Lux".
Well that's going to come as a surprise to Toyota.
Garrners comments though
@@VoGusProspecting But it's wank.
@@VoGusProspecting Looked up "garrners", no such word.
@@VoGusProspectingI guarantee the competitive Street Fighter community won't be offended.
@@ArthurTanner-d7s it roughly means: to accumulate.
Chris I've finally worked it out why I watch you digging holes in the river. You remind me of what real work looks like 😂
That's not work.....that's fun😂
Men in suits v men in waders has been a problem for quite some time even outside the realm of prospecting.. We are of common kin my man and we will continue to fight the oppression of reward for effort ✊
I aprove this message
i prefer to go wading in water without pants on, only in summer cause willy hates the cold
This is damn genious.
I'm in construction and deal with the same problem in a slightly different form. We have investors/managers in cubicles creating a lot of busy work for us thinking it will make the construction easier & faster
The problem is, the men in suits are one bad break or conviction away from becoming the men in waders. The movement doesn't usually go the other way... because of genetics.
15:14 "They go to heaven if they're good"😂😂 he's a different breed ❤
Linus Tech Tips is really getting outside his usual videos lately. 1:09
I really want to try one of these here in WA... we do have moisture, only at certain times of year though.
Glad to hear you're not all jerky
@@VoGusProspecting I don't identify as Western Australian... I was born in South Aus and grew up in NSW, QLD and Vic.
Man there is something so satisfying about watching a perfectly designed gold catching machine in-action, also that high banker is pretty cool to. Big love Vo-Gus congrats on the new toy :P
The problem is that fresh water clams and others are dependant on clear water and muddying water like that kills them down stream this happened recently in Finland when a forestry truck illegally crossed a marked stream crushing several endangered river pearl clams and killed even more of them by suffocation as the muddied water was then carried further down the stream.
Thats 1 sweet highbanker, very interesting. 1 thing you can also add a test mat to the derocker/hopper to catch even more gold before it reaches the Jarvis riffles and it gives you an opportunity to remove the premium stuff outta the box for safe keeping or visual testing indicators, love your work as usaul embraced the mould ages ago
Hey Chris, you absolutely can highbank in california, you just can’t discharge where it can go directly back into the stream.
Why the law? You are moving dirt from the stream and putting it back in it. It seem they would want you to do it.
@@Ezzell_The finer, lighter particles in the tailings stay suspended in the water, reducing water quality and making it harder for fish to breathe and hunt. Not only that, when the silt eventually settles it can build up in nests and suffocate the fish eggs. By leaving the tailings on the bank or further away, it allows the particles to redistribute more slowly and evenly from natural erosion like wind and rain.
@@Argophobiac Thanks for the reply.
We use high bankers in America, most of California even. Gas motors are banned in some of California but high bankers can be run by bucket. Here in Arizona desert country we often bring water and reclaim it by working into a kid pool or livestock watering tank and pump it around again and again.
Damn wasp gave me kankles
Wasples
@@VoGusProspectingwankles
an unexpected fatality by wasp 🤣
@@frackcenturion😅
Awww. Poor baby. 🤗
Big fan, keep on making great content!
Also some form of rubber tie or clamp to hold the movable bars down, would keep them from shifting, but still allow for easy removal of jams
Thanks! Enjoyed it!
Love that highbanker dude. Made great and looks to have awesome durability as well.
First time watching your channel.i was amazed of the beauty you extracted from the opal. Great job.
That's a nice get, for Harry the high banker first ever outting to the creek.
Hey Chris, Tell Gadzee to ALWAYS check his waders, you too.. Where I used to live, i'd find bloody funnel webs in my boots regularly, I NEVER put shoes on without performing an exorcism first !!! 😁
Poor Gadzee. 😕 At least the wasp didn't get him on the winky though. 😂
Nobody needs a wasp all on up in your Pato’s mate.
@@weedfreer Right? 👍😅
@@StaceNyourFace 😄😂
gtsy Stace 😁💕
But at least Mr. Wiggles would swell up twice his size!
Very entertaining and informative
Awesome Chris!!
- Your channel has really grown since I started subscribing . 💯👍💯
And thank you for sharing.
Another great vid mate perfect thing for fathers day
I just discovered your channel and I'm hooked!!! Hello from Alaska!
God bless these good samaritans for picking up rocks and washing them before putting them back all clean and nice.
Wow, that was a beautiful Sapphire. Great speci, and great weigh up. That highbanker is neat as well. Love it fully opens and being able to clean grizzly bars. Awesome.
Thanks to your tutorial videos I found some flakes and a mini nugget on first trip out! Love the content, appreciate it man!
Beautiful tool boys!👌🏻
21:11 Chris you know we love the clean up sir. I would have watched another 15 minutes man. 💪
Random thought to make the setup easier to move; they have garden hose that flattens and rolls up. Very compact...
Good Morning epic dudes! Hope you find your treasure today !
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Ooo fresh content, no more scrolling to find I watched videos
Love that big specimen piece! The sapphire is amazing too. And the engineering behind that high banker looks really good! 🍺
I love Gus's videos because he gets technical. He talks about water speed and angle of the high banker. How you need to adjust by the quality of your materials. The high banker he is using. Is pretty cool.
It's very simple but the results are very satisfying 👍
These videos are really well made and entertaining keep it up
"When men in suits make laws that affect men in flannel."
They forget they are our hired public servants. Making us their bosses.
Just wait till you see the clip boards.
It's worse than that. It's men and women working for these green companies that achieved their goals decades ago and look for something, anything else to have a campaign on. See, we did this. Send us money. Stupid people send money to greenpeace, sierra club, and others. They're also not above outright lying to legislatures. Such as save an animal and the area they looked at never had that animal because of the altitude. They did that in I think Arizona and were caught.
This is why all laws are made. When you figure that out, you will be against all regulations since they are not written to protect you but the rich.
@@kerrihansen2413 Get it right, we are the kings of this great nation.
What a fantastic MACHINE he bee great vid and gold 👏
Excellent piece of kit, Chris. Rightly proud it's locally made too. Minus the One Horse Honda, although likely it's made with Australian steel. How cute is that little motor?! Aww...
Names: Harry Hi-Stumpy, High-Dansky, Lavington High-Banksy (Lavinia), Hi-Danker, Bumpy's-Stanker, Dug More-Banks Fairchild Junior. That's it! Doug More-Banks. The Scottish guy with a shovel in his head. Douglas is the one with no shovel in his head.
Good luck with the wild weather, may it have restocked your local gold deposit bank branches of your local waterways.
When I was staying at a youth hostel in a castle in Scotland, you had to leave your shoes outside. In the morning, I put on my hiking boots, found a hornet decided my boot would make a good new home. I got stung 4 or 5 times on my heel before I could get the boot and evict the nasty hornet. Made walking miserable for a couple days. Luckily I had some moleskin bandage tape. It was like the worst blister on my heel ever, but the moleskin helped keep more friction off the bites at least.
"If you know, you're dirty" 😂😅😂😂
CamLocks! Converted my brew system to cam locks. Instantly regretted not going for quick releases instead. Camlocks are a pain. They are meant to be deliberately hard to (accidentally) pop open for use with boiling fluids, but they are a fiddly pain the a.r.s.
Still looks like hard work, we all earn coin our own ways, rock on brother!
When I watch Gold Rush with the larger wash plants they always say not to let your sluices run without material going through and always panic to shut the water off so not to wash away gold. Does this not happen with theses little sluice kits ?
Geez Lueeze Skippy!!! Yer funny as heck & a genious producer. Both in video content and gold sluething panning or whatever it is. The Gods gifted U sum awesome gifts. Thanks. I've never been so entertained whilst being educated. Keep it up. Good on ya mate.
Where is the link to this machine it looks fantastic
Great take on the creek with the new high banker. Works a treat.
Cousin Jack says hello 😁👍
I see the best utility in this unit: if your water is a limited flow, you can set the pump downstream, and reuse it. Even if you have to bring an extra section of hose
Men with more money then you decided you can't try to make more money
Very nice Chris!!!
Gadsy!! Good to see you mate!
That's a great new toy! Great video
What's the name of that wonderful portable Gold Machine snd what company makes it? I'm sure it has to be legal in some areas, surely.
At least, one can hope. 😊
The zoom function on your cell phone camera actually works great for macro pictures
Thanks Chris!
High Bankers are preferred, and are the highest sold units in America. I have a Keene Industries Mini-Max High Banker. The difference is for the most part, we use an electric motor with a lawn mower battery.
Many laws in California are not clear, you can use a dredge but it’s illegal they don’t ticket for it unless park and game come. It’s an overturned law people can use them but not a business.
Sir I love your videos. They are great...🙂
Wow amazing sluice..
Why would a water material sifter be an illegal object to have? You should be allowed to harvest your own materials from nature like that and you are not even harming the environment (except that motor and manufacturing the machine...).
The machine itself isn't actually illegal, it's how the silt is handled that can make a problem
Could it be run by electric?
Is there a portable electric set up that’s more “quiet”?
Love the high banker.👏👍🏻
I reside in northwest rural Nevada, USA, surrounded by famous gold-producing ghost towns such as Bodie (California), Aurora (Nevada), Rawhide (Nevada) and more -- all within 30 miles of my front door.
Highbankers are legal here, but we don't use 'em. Don't need to. Much like when we fish we don't need bait & tackle because fish jump right into the boat, we don't need prospecting equipment because we just pick up placer nuggets at our feet. Around here it really pays to be short, because ol' shorty doesn't have to bend and stoop as much to come away with a good payday.
What angle do you set it up at?
First time viewer here
I'm curious if you do this as your main source of income or as a side hustle? Ib think this could be a decent hobby to get into (if I had somewhere to go....) but looks like it might be a costly hobby to start
That was a great video
Great weight in!
They don't want anything automated out of the fear that someone would abuse it and damage the land. Unfortunately this bottlenecks most people when farming gold.
Machine name...Ole' Faithful. First time to watch,had to subscribe. Enjoying from Texas 👍
I made a tiny high banker, had no idea they were illegal years ago.
In the pacific northwest of north america it was found that equipment like this run in the stream would silt up the gravel that salmon spawn in. They were finding that salmon stocks collapsed wherever gold miners set up and stayed down for decades. That's a big deal for populations that survive mostly on salmon.
Very nice
Great vid
Rumer has it that they discovered gold at Sutters Mill California. Might be worth a trip to find out!
if you dig it with your pan and quick-pan it into the high banker is it still high banking?
That is one awesome unit 👍 great job Dan and a fantastic episode “follow the big blue sausage back to the noise maker” 😂
Thanks 👍
That's a pretty cool setup.
Well, what I really appreciate ( is or are?) the "nuggets" of humor!
Hey never done it before but been watching you and other gold prospecting shows. Just wondering do you get lucky regulary?
Reason i ask is me and boys always camping along rivers all over the joint and i always wonder if there could be gold there.
Hydro mining areas are the best locations such crued concepts left us alot of gold and they did the hard work blasting it down from the hills with that cannon of pipred water sure is crazy anyway
hope you have a great day im in california southern part called phelan and i live right next to some rich placer deposits and a ton of hydro mining from miners in 1849 i live not to far from texas hill you may have heard jeff willams talk about it in his lytle creek video
Could you get a foam pad to bounce the sound of the pump away from you? I'd say box it in but that would probably have heat and air circulation issues. I've been in a job where wearing ear defenders all day isn't nice at all so I don't see that as an ideal solution.
"Two men one jar" that killed me 😂😂😂😂
What`s scary is...a person can DEVELOP an unexpected allergy to various stings and even snakebites. I`ve been bitten by venomous copperhead snakes 3 times in Louisiana. The next could mean a bad reaction and instant doom. I`ve been stung by dozens of yellowjacket ground wasps at once too and millions of times by fire ants. The larger paper wasps, bumblebees and hornets really hurt!
I'm glad you lived.....
@@michaelp3650 My sister`s neighbor and one of my dogs were bitten by copperheads and immediately dropped. The neighbor was picking up trash that blew up against a fence from the road. His wife found him on the ground beside the snake. My dog was with me in the woods and went ahead of me about 30 feet. I found him on the ground after only a minute with the snake nearby.
How about 3d printed expanded platic designed, to retain gold? Something with the proper angles and catching wells and miners moss at the bottom
you should have a little pack of baking soda with you. Mix it with water making a past, put it on the bee sting and it will take the pain of the sting away. I have used it a few times because there is a bee that causes me to swell up and I don't know which bee it is. Very handy. Hope this helps Gadzee 😀
Love the stumpy run!! I wish i could get more out of my dirt, im at about 0.1 g a bucket at 4 coyote buckets a day 2 or 3 days a week. Im running a banjo pan on top of a fluid bed sluice. It catches the ultra fines , and alot of em but my spot has about 1 picker/poker every 15 buckets or so
seeing aussies regarding the common wasp as some sort of dangerous critter has broken me. do you not have, like, spiders that have integrated machine guns and stuff? that shoot venom that makes the target explode into a fine mist? a fine explosive mist that also births more spiders?
Yay! I live in WA!
Shxt! Im allergic to normal wasps. I didnt even know we had the big ones here...
Great bit of kit stumpy 👏
All the way from Australia