Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and yours! I hope that you are doing well, and have some amazing plans or at least a break over the next few weeks!
@VoGusProspecting you could even go so far as ziptieing a second pool noodle to the first one that's secured to the bucket all the way around as well to prevent tipping. Now I want to redneck engineer a floating highbanker.
Most excellant vidio! I heard of a river that has gold in it, but I have never done a pan because there is so much overburden I only walk my dog there and observe. 2 days ago I found where the river cut into a spot I thought would have the gold if there wasn't the overburden, and the river cut out the overburden and left a solid clay layer about 1 1/2 feet below water level and extends about a foot out before dropping 4-5 feet deeper into the abyss. I am going back, but it has rained-42 degrees. It is too miserable for cold water above and below the water line to get much accomplished. I have my plan, and your video gave me a couple ideas on how to better sample this spot. Thank you, thank you, Chris, and wishing you a Merry Christmas! I live in Washington State, and it's winter here-the rivers can go from flood stage to the lowest levels you'll ever see in 2-3 weeks time, depending on the temps and rain train clouds coming in off the Pacific Ocean. Happy prospecting!
Hello from the Southwest of the UK. Just love watching the videos you make. Am gonna try my hand at a bit of prospecting in the new year. You truly do inspire. Keep up the fab work. I hope you have a fab Christmas. Xxx
Gday Chris crouch here Am watching ya new rig up lol They use a small inner tube of a car works well and sometimes a fishing mesh in it on a bigger inner tube to stop it going thru Merry Christmas mate and happy new yr mate Cheers 🍻 CrouchOz
Chris in the land of shark tooth Capital of the world (Venice, FL) we use floating water sieves to sift for shark teeth. I'm sure you can modify for your project. I know your terminology is different (watching Gadsees video on making suction thing😅) but in US, pvc tubing with elbows to make a square and noodles sliced fit over pvc secured with zip ties. Then add your 1/4 inch mesh. Now with teeth we are doing the opposite searching what's on the mesh...so you have to figure the mechanics of catching. A sliding noodle on the bucket that hits a stopper (the noodle hits the stopper) so you have still a floating full bucket
Watching people find gold is always satisfying. But you really do make the whole experience feel so fun and full of wonder! Wishing you all the best this season!
Cmon Chris you can use your stumpy highbanker out there all you need to do is spend the money to get a few 10’ sticks of rigid electrical conduit, cut them to a longer length and match the bend in the original legs then drive them into the overburden and get a longer hose if needed and your pulling out ounces from the bedrock….😬🤩 ya it will work well and spud engineering can do it heck if you can’t afford conduit use a wooden. Broomstick or tree branches that will fit where the legs go I really want to see this happen can you do it???? Great live stream thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
Chris wouldn't a trailer tire inner tube work better than a pool noodle? Just need to find out what size rim compares to your bucket outer size. I use to have one for the swimming pool that I rigged as a drink holder for floating around in a larger tube. Just tied the two together so my drink would not wander off.
Ok, overthinking session.. put first pool noodle circle tightly around bucket so that the lip on the bucket where the handle locates, holds the bucket in place and so it won't slip out of the noodle. Put second pool noodle around the outside of first pool noodle creating a double circle, more stability. Now put water in bucket to stabilise the whole thing then put pan and strainer on top.... voila !!!!! Now off to design floating sluice.....😁
Imagine if you were able to use a small vacuum dredge? I respect to the decision not to destroy the environment and force people to follow the rules. ALWAYS great content as I am watch the middle of the US.
You are so freaking funny. I love watching you. Plus you are very lucky... For sure!!! You would love it here in Washington State... WAY TOO much black sand. So much that I can't get rid of it all
Are you allowed dredging in that area? In mine u can if it’s piped 30 meters away from the river into a contained area, as in none of your outflow can touch the river. Asking cuz that hole your making seems like it would be wicked awesome for a dredge!
I agree, and I asked him that, and he replied they're legal, or maybe it was some one else. He's found enough gold; I'm sure he could buy a backpack unit that wouldn't lighten his wallet too much!
@@vjdjwaffelz From what I understand, you have to get in the water with them and monitor the gravel being sucked up to prevent clogs. Wouldn't it be the same with a high banker being used as a dredge? Sucking up to much or too large of rocks and clogging the hose? I read your comment about using one like Dredge and I am intrigued. I have a sluice, I have a motor, I would need the hose and foot, whatcha ma call it, a pump and header to the sluice, and some fabrication to make it all work, but it would be way cheaper than buying a manufactured one made for retail. Even if you need to be in the water, a wetsuit would be maybe around $200-300, depending how cold the water is in your area. Why does a dredge need to sit in the water? I read an article about a guy who used his both in and out of the water depending on if it was a stream or river-so why not? A pontoon would be easier than building a retention pond, but having it all on the surface would be nice too! I'm open for ideas!
Nope I can see behind the couch from where I'm sitting...disappointed So thats where you found all that lovely evil gold for the other video...can't wait to see the next video ...or few videos on that spot...I have a feeling its an amazing spot and you're going to be looking for more places like it. Merry Christmas Mr Chris to you, your lady and the guppies...oh and Fern and Bob the Turtle
2 man operation. Burnings bucket attached to a rope. One brave soul willing to dive down and scoop a big scoop. Shore guy drags full bucket over and feeds it into a highbanker. Then toss the bucket back. Rinse and repeat.
Cool idea! Also, if you submerge the bucket under the water with a couple large rocks then you won’t have to lift your shovel so high or worry about it sinking
One year from now: "As you can see I've made some further improvements to the system! From the boat runs a pipe over to the barge for the concentrates, but now we have a *second* barge over here to carry the dredge so I get more room on the boat. That opened a better spot for the diving bell, and....."
Awesome idea! I'm thinking a car size inner tube with the bucket in the hole prior to filling with air. (can you even get a car sized tube anymore?) Then you could lanyard your classifier to it as well and keeping everything floating with you. Happy holidays all!
Here is an idea 💡 for you. 2. Pontoons that can hold an 8-inch stumpy high banker with an electric bilge pump so you can shovel straight into the high banker, then have a yabby pump with one-way valves , like a mother sucker pump, to pump the crevices up into the hopper.
Back when I was an ankle-biter, we would make a raft from plywood and inner tubes to float the river, and tow a separate tube for the cooler. More flotationism than a noodle and about the same price and weight.
I think the floating high banker would be cool to try there. Use pvc pipe and make pontoons and do three pontoons two on the outside with air and one in the middle full of sand for weight in the middle
What about a double ringer with stabilizer bars for a little extra buoyancy and you could make it to the size of the bucket instead, prolly still hold the pan too. A small led strip would work wonders for working late into the afternoon and illuminating those darker spots on the creek and looking at crystals too
Nice floaty gizmo thing there, Chris. Cheers to a job well done!! How long does it normally take for your packages to get to this side of the world? I picked up two slobber bags I believe if this old man remembers right LOL was a week or two ago, ' o ( I sure hope it has better luck getting here than the packages I sent down to Aussieland did, there are still like three packages that have never arrived to their destinations ) Cheers!!!
Great vid! Is it illegal to dredge there? Because I feel like that would be a good solve to the " can't highbank because it's too deep" problem, just curious.
Bush wrens 🐦 also have a common name of the emu wren, which serves as another fine example of Australian irony, I think you'll agree, Chris. Your single question, answered. The presence of the large boulder gouging out the bedrock has allowed a fine array of heavier materials to accumulate, and make their ways manually onto your retractable pocket pool noodle punt, coracle, caddy, the other pocket occupied by the inflatable night dredge, where the depths are reached whilst nude bait-pumping among the big rocks in the deeper pools. Wishing you a cool Yule, happiness, and continued success and growth, although the Krampus beard might see scissors when the humidity and heat collide, amidst fields of storms and masses of exploding grass pollens. Stay safe in all things, don't gurgle Eau de Reedy, when having fun with your noodle, as you sing "shout! shout! swing it about!", watch for recoil as you would with bungee cords, eye damage with eau de Reedy you'll have weepy custard of the wrong sort this festy season, it'll be truly off-pudding. Don't blame me, it was the walrus, or John, possibly Paul.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and yours! I hope that you are doing well, and have some amazing plans or at least a break over the next few weeks!
For you to mate Merry Christmas and smashing new year and lost of Gold I wish for you 🥃
You need a:2" Dŕege
Try a boogie board… cut a hole in it and add a 360 camera…
When did you know you were color blind Chris?
@VoGusProspecting I will be in Bright third week of January for the week with my family. I may have to come over for a pan in Reedy Creek.
A drill and some zipties to secure that pool noodle to the bucket would be a major improvement on a fantastic idea
Thats a solid improvment!
@VoGusProspecting you could even go so far as ziptieing a second pool noodle to the first one that's secured to the bucket all the way around as well to prevent tipping. Now I want to redneck engineer a floating highbanker.
Most excellant vidio! I heard of a river that has gold in it, but I have never done a pan because there is so much overburden I only walk my dog there and observe. 2 days ago I found where the river cut into a spot I thought would have the gold if there wasn't the overburden, and the river cut out the overburden and left a solid clay layer about 1 1/2 feet below water level and extends about a foot out before dropping 4-5 feet deeper into the abyss. I am going back, but it has rained-42 degrees. It is too miserable for cold water above and below the water line to get much accomplished. I have my plan, and your video gave me a couple ideas on how to better sample this spot. Thank you, thank you, Chris, and wishing you a Merry Christmas! I live in Washington State, and it's winter here-the rivers can go from flood stage to the lowest levels you'll ever see in 2-3 weeks time, depending on the temps and rain train clouds coming in off the Pacific Ocean. Happy prospecting!
I love inventiveness! I commented to pioneer Pauly tonight that he needed shovel shoes for his leg arms when he’s moving gravel.
The water is like 35 degrees and freezing cold this time of year; I hear you too!
This looks great for a hot day on the creek, stay cool in the water, pan, and no crouching down to wash out (saves knees and back)
Yeah, the water is the best part
Hello from the Southwest of the UK. Just love watching the videos you make. Am gonna try my hand at a bit of prospecting in the new year. You truly do inspire. Keep up the fab work. I hope you have a fab Christmas. Xxx
Fair play mucker. Sending Christmas wishes from Bristol 👍🏻⚒️🏴
Another great video. vo-cus always has funny videos and informative.
Good, glad you enjoyed it.
Gday Chris crouch here
Am watching ya new rig up lol
They use a small inner tube of a car works well and sometimes a fishing mesh in it
on a bigger inner tube to stop it going thru
Merry Christmas mate and happy new yr mate
Cheers 🍻
CrouchOz
I don't have anyone to show me how to pan. So I've been watching your videos to help me . Pretty soon I'll have all kinds of Gold . Thank you 💪🤟
Hey Chris, I hope you and your family have a merry xmas & a happy new year! Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada. 😀🥶👌👍✌
Actually, people used to use life preservers to float buckets while panning for gold in the Yukon back in the 60's
Spud engineering at it's finest!
Merry new times Chris! Thank you for all of your excellent videos! Cheers to you!
Chris in the land of shark tooth Capital of the world (Venice, FL) we use floating water sieves to sift for shark teeth. I'm sure you can modify for your project. I know your terminology is different (watching Gadsees video on making suction thing😅) but in US, pvc tubing with elbows to make a square and noodles sliced fit over pvc secured with zip ties. Then add your 1/4 inch mesh. Now with teeth we are doing the opposite searching what's on the mesh...so you have to figure the mechanics of catching. A sliding noodle on the bucket that hits a stopper (the noodle hits the stopper) so you have still a floating full bucket
Looking forward to seeing more videos of that area. Great job 👍
Ingenuity at its finest
Watching people find gold is always satisfying. But you really do make the whole experience feel so fun and full of wonder! Wishing you all the best this season!
Cmon Chris you can use your stumpy highbanker out there all you need to do is spend the money to get a few 10’ sticks of rigid electrical conduit, cut them to a longer length and match the bend in the original legs then drive them into the overburden and get a longer hose if needed and your pulling out ounces from the bedrock….😬🤩 ya it will work well and spud engineering can do it heck if you can’t afford conduit use a wooden. Broomstick or tree branches that will fit where the legs go I really want to see this happen can you do it???? Great live stream thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
The birds!!!that's the best! 😆😁😁😁
Yes it's green to the gold
Thanks for taking us along! ❤
You are most welcome.
Get that deep gold 🇦🇺👍
Hell yeah man
Chris wouldn't a trailer tire inner tube work better than a pool noodle? Just need to find out what size rim compares to your bucket outer size. I use to have one for the swimming pool that I rigged as a drink holder for floating around in a larger tube. Just tied the two together so my drink would not wander off.
Never let them drink containers grow legs and wander off!
love the thinking outside the box! Merry Christmas Chris & Zoey!!
Love watching u get gold on the river
I like getting gold on the river too!
had my wife check for wild Gadzee's behind the couch. She told me nope and that I'm quackers!
beauty! thank you for what you do. i am lucky to be taught and entertained by you.
Ok, overthinking session.. put first pool noodle circle tightly around bucket so that the lip on the bucket where the handle locates, holds the bucket in place and so it won't slip out of the noodle. Put second pool noodle around the outside of first pool noodle creating a double circle, more stability. Now put water in bucket to stabilise the whole thing then put pan and strainer on top.... voila !!!!! Now off to design floating sluice.....😁
Hey Chris, just a suggestion. Try using a inner tube rather than a pool noodle because the tube will be a lot more stable:)
Great video, you are the only one that I see using a pan like that.
Imagine if you were able to use a small vacuum dredge? I respect to the decision not to destroy the environment and force people to follow the rules. ALWAYS great content as I am watch the middle of the US.
There could be gold there too; it's in Wisconsin to Indiana!
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West to East coasts!
You are so freaking funny. I love watching you. Plus you are very lucky... For sure!!! You would love it here in Washington State... WAY TOO much black sand. So much that I can't get rid of it all
Hey, Chris, get a rubber dingy. Use that to hold your sluice. 😊
Been watching your videos one after another since I found your channel. Also starting on the engineering one
Are you allowed dredging in that area? In mine u can if it’s piped 30 meters away from the river into a contained area, as in none of your outflow can touch the river. Asking cuz that hole your making seems like it would be wicked awesome for a dredge!
I agree, and I asked him that, and he replied they're legal, or maybe it was some one else. He's found enough gold; I'm sure he could buy a backpack unit that wouldn't lighten his wallet too much!
@ I figured use that UA-cam money to build or buy a little pontoon unit, suck that river bed right through a high banker..
@@vjdjwaffelz From what I understand, you have to get in the water with them and monitor the gravel being sucked up to prevent clogs. Wouldn't it be the same with a high banker being used as a dredge? Sucking up to much or too large of rocks and clogging the hose? I read your comment about using one like Dredge and I am intrigued. I have a sluice, I have a motor, I would need the hose and foot, whatcha ma call it, a pump and header to the sluice, and some fabrication to make it all work, but it would be way cheaper than buying a manufactured one made for retail. Even if you need to be in the water, a wetsuit would be maybe around $200-300, depending how cold the water is in your area. Why does a dredge need to sit in the water? I read an article about a guy who used his both in and out of the water depending on if it was a stream or river-so why not? A pontoon would be easier than building a retention pond, but having it all on the surface would be nice too! I'm open for ideas!
You could process so much more material sucking it up over shoveling it up!
It's like you have a butler on the creek. James, hold my gold. Jimmy Buttler (nickname Jimmy Buckets) is a top NBA player, coincidence?
The bucket buddy. I can see you making a fortune. I wish I lived there you seem really fun to hang with. Love your videos.
I checked behind my couch and disappointedly only found a dust bunny. Gadzy, where art thou?
152 👍's up VGP thank you for sharing 🤗
Thank you!
That's a good idea 💡 sounds like what i was talking about last month.
The deeper you go, the better the gold.👍🏻⚒️🏴
Nope I can see behind the couch from where I'm sitting...disappointed
So thats where you found all that lovely evil gold for the other video...can't wait to see the next video ...or few videos on that spot...I have a feeling its an amazing spot and you're going to be looking for more places like it.
Merry Christmas Mr Chris to you, your lady and the guppies...oh and Fern and Bob the Turtle
Good idea to start. Have you thought about using an inner tube that fits your bucket as a float? . It would be a lot more stable
Great fun video. Spreading the cheer👍
2 man operation. Burnings bucket attached to a rope. One brave soul willing to dive down and scoop a big scoop. Shore guy drags full bucket over and feeds it into a highbanker. Then toss the bucket back. Rinse and repeat.
13:15 😂Subconscious. The Romans conquered the world in search of gold. You're a funny bloke 🤣 👍🏻⚒️🏴
How about a tripod that you could just set up in the creek and hang stuff from in the middle that way you wont be worried about things floating away.
Great episode ingenious contraption 😊 thanks for this years entertainment and education.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.🎄
Cool idea! Also, if you submerge the bucket under the water with a couple large rocks then you won’t have to lift your shovel so high or worry about it sinking
One year from now:
"As you can see I've made some further improvements to the system! From the boat runs a pipe over to the barge for the concentrates, but now we have a *second* barge over here to carry the dredge so I get more room on the boat. That opened a better spot for the diving bell, and....."
Happy holidays to you and the family sir
Merry christmas to you and yours
Merry Christmas from nerrigunhda, love your work
The pool noodle is great. Maybe an inner tube would give more flotation and stability.
cool see yeah on podcast 👍
Good spot
yup birds did it 😅
Pool noodle doodle !!!
Pool noodle on the end of the shovel handle works okay as well
Awesome idea! I'm thinking a car size inner tube with the bucket in the hole prior to filling with air. (can you even get a car sized tube anymore?) Then you could lanyard your classifier to it as well and keeping everything floating with you. Happy holidays all!
This video rocks like that gold pan
Good video bud.
Merry Christmas mate. You need to float the high banker or just replace the legs with 5 foot ones. Easy done
Nice pans
they were getting better too!
You could do with one of those life rings.. Like you get on boats or at the swimming pool.. You’ll have to go on rob 😂
Add a second pool noodle around the outside, and you need 3 or 4 outriggers to increase stability.
Here is an idea 💡 for you. 2. Pontoons that can hold an 8-inch stumpy high banker with an electric bilge pump so you can shovel straight into the high banker, then have a yabby pump with one-way valves , like a mother sucker pump, to pump the crevices up into the hopper.
Back when I was an ankle-biter, we would make a raft from plywood and inner tubes to float the river, and tow a separate tube for the cooler. More flotationism than a noodle and about the same price and weight.
I think the floating high banker would be cool to try there. Use pvc pipe and make pontoons and do three pontoons two on the outside with air and one in the middle full of sand for weight in the middle
Wrap a pool noodle around the bucket.😅😂
What about a double ringer with stabilizer bars for a little extra buoyancy and you could make it to the size of the bucket instead, prolly still hold the pan too. A small led strip would work wonders for working late into the afternoon and illuminating those darker spots on the creek and looking at crystals too
Happy holidaze, bro!
I'm not late this time 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Good day mate
Sir if you want to much black sand and no water come on up to Arizona thank you keep it up
Chris, your hair is looking good
Say It Isn't So a little motherload😂❤
I'm going try it out cheers
Im leaving a comment 👍
leaving a reply
Where are the beverage holders? Food for thought
13:11 my cat EARS could hear tweeting
Try a boogie board. It will give you more support for your pan and you could also cut a hole and put your bucket in it
Is a Venturi dredge legal on Reedy Creek?
Use an inner tube from a tire. Very buoyant, stable and durable enough.
You need a water vacuum and a trommel and sluice!! Can be made with screen, plastic buckets and plastic pipe and windshield washer motor and battery
Nice floaty gizmo thing there, Chris. Cheers to a job well done!! How long does it normally take for your packages to get to this side of the world? I picked up two slobber bags I believe if this old man remembers right LOL was a week or two ago, ' o ( I sure hope it has better luck getting here than the packages I sent down to Aussieland did, there are still like three packages that have never arrived to their destinations ) Cheers!!!
Chris, have you tried wearing Colour Blindness Glasses such as "Glassmina"? They really work for some people 👍🏼
What a out car tube?
How much tin do you collect compared to how much gold you collect ?
Can you use your high banker pump as a dredge and use a snorkel and mask on the bottom?
Great vid! Is it illegal to dredge there? Because I feel like that would be a good solve to the " can't highbank because it's too deep" problem, just curious.
Bush wrens 🐦 also have a common name of the emu wren, which serves as another fine example of Australian irony, I think you'll agree, Chris. Your single question, answered.
The presence of the large boulder gouging out the bedrock has allowed a fine array of heavier materials to accumulate, and make their ways manually onto your retractable pocket pool noodle punt, coracle, caddy, the other pocket occupied by the inflatable night dredge, where the depths are reached whilst nude bait-pumping among the big rocks in the deeper pools.
Wishing you a cool Yule, happiness, and continued success and growth, although the Krampus beard might see scissors when the humidity and heat collide, amidst fields of storms and masses of exploding grass pollens. Stay safe in all things, don't gurgle Eau de Reedy, when having fun with your noodle, as you sing "shout! shout! swing it about!", watch for recoil as you would with bungee cords, eye damage with eau de Reedy you'll have weepy custard of the wrong sort this festy season, it'll be truly off-pudding. Don't blame me, it was the walrus, or John, possibly Paul.
Whats the betea pan coated in
Im guessing not oiled
Not sure if bees wax be good or a epoxy or yet again im guessing there just natural timber finish
You should get a unicorn floaty for your bucket holder
The bucket caddy
Trust the pan Chris, trust the pan! 😂
Is there a link for the temu classifier?
Can you use a river sluice?
Tune in next week to see Fern floating past on her brand new bed of noodles.
I wonder, could you at all possible create a diversion with the water so that you can get to the bottom of the matter?
I’m gonna try going deeper the next time I can’t find the shallow deposits.
12:13 I've seen a woman using one the other week, and it really was massive. She pulled out some chunky gold, too.
Try a inner tube around your bucket
there are plenty of floating highbankers