I’m pretty rough on things so pvc legs are good if I’m in a deeper hole (2-4’) I use broomstick type handles on my hobby miner sluice box to keep it at the top of the hole while recirculating. The pvc spray bar is a good idea but you might need an o-ring on one end or a bigger printed piece to hold a pvc cap to prevent leaks let me know when you get it figured out I would like 2 pvc holders for a spray bar on my hobby miner sluice. Bummer about the back I have the same issue. Great looking gold though. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
I think a good invention would be a five gallon bucket seat and a partial five gallon bucket back that would fit into the larger one for portability. It would also need some comfort padding, for our old broken down backs. It must have a cold snack holder (beer holder), and a spot for your Small Ice scoop or dog food scoop. All you have to do is invent a strong , young person to dig and carry buckets to you.. Life is good! good luck professor, you know I like all your inventions.
Nice day out on the crik I hope your back heals quickly. The sluice seems to be working great. Thanks for bringing us along on the trip my friend. Them grizzly mats are cool. The pvc legs are a great idea. If it works it works
At the 9:20 mark..the bottom of the pail has a Van Gough starring up at us lmao . Great to see you again Alan , even metal slices needs a rock on to hold it down..it's no wonder why it lifted , being made of plastic is much lighter . Great to see everything in use . See you soon my friend . Cheers
Morning Alan, looking back, I was under the impression that your smaller sleuths were all for clean out only and meant to be fed with a hand trial, not a large shovel. So for the ease of your back, maybe you need to print up a Stream Stool to sit on while you shovel into your small box with a garden trial? Listen, I just had my right hip replaced at the local VA hospital and a week later they removed my Gull Bladder. Now my right foot is acting up along with my right knee. I'm not looking for any pity, but I want you to realize that we are not getting any younger and things are gonna begin to wear out and break! Take it easy and start taking better care of yourself!
You can experiment with different sizes and 20 , 40 wall pvc pipes and find some that will fit tightly into each other kinda close fit , making a much more stringer support post for cheap .
I think if you add a grate over your sluice (like Jason’s on flour gold wizard) would make for a lot less bending over to pull larger material off your mats when shoveling in material !
If using for a Miller table you should add green chalk board paint to the base and test that out for possibly more visually. I see gold best on green personally. Love the stuff you keep coming up with for sure!!!
Water and cool weather, just the opposite of what we have. 94 deg in the mtns. and no water. Great to see you out getting after it. Thse roots are a lot like miners moss. Our backs have been through a lot my friend. Your sluice is running very good. Not sure why it would run better with no flare. I use stell 't' handles on 3/4" square tube legs with 1 1/2" washers on the bottoms so they don't sink. All my spray bar equipment use PVC. Great idea on the bigger sluice.( heal that old back my friend)😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
I think that will work well. I made leveler legs with 3/4” conduit, and for the adjusters used 1” conduit couplings and pop riveted them to the sides of the sluice with longer bolts to secure the legs. It’s great for the back, in that you can set up deeper and still get proper water flow and pitch. I also put 90s with a 6” cutoff on the legs to put stones on to secure it in quicker currents… I also have a 60 year old back. Lol
Ok so I have found the best legs that are cheap and don't cost alot are pipe hanger fittings. They are adjustable and using galvanized metal is light weight, strong and cheap. I haven't found anything that comes close. Hope this helps. Also using full run punch plate and inch off any setup keeps any gold in your setup. Without it then its like playing marbles. The big rocks knock out gold everytime.
Try filling a 5 gallon bucket with material and carry it to your sluice , and then do just as though you were doing when with your cleanup sluice. Sitting down but not with a spoon , but a trowel. It works for me
Hello Alan, just a thought. How about feeding your material from the hole to your sluice box with a smooth square gutter at an steep enough angle into the mouth of the sluice box . Use a slow flowing miller table like feed of water at the top of the gutter. . Then you can sit at the hole and only feed your sluice box.with small enough amounts of material which will slide it into your sluice bov via the water in the gutter.
PVC pipe is so versatile. Use it all the time. So, sluice legs and other arrangements is perfect and simple. Cheap to replace too. Sorry about your spine. Yeah, looked like you were doing a lot of bending and twisting. Hope you get better ! 👍⛏⚒🤠
Love the new sluice legs. Sorry about the back I’ve been there a few times. I broke my thumb about two months ago so I haven’t been able to dig at full capacity and barely been going out at that. It gets frustrating for sure when you’re body doesn’t keep up with your mind. Hope you’re doing better now. Keep up the great work.
i feel your pain, i got a hernia from running a dry washer here in nevada. the surgery to fix the hernia was the worst part, but i wont do dry washer again.
A highbanker or a sluice with a full run of punch plate an inch over the rig classify the material. You don't need a Trammell or classifiey the materials. Also you can gravity dredge with the use of batteries or gas motors or pumps and no noise or oil or gas to worrie about. And it saves on your back.
That's a good idea, but instead of pop riveting onto the sluice (putting more holes in the sluice), how about a smaller bracket that can hook over the top edge of the sluice, and slip under the the sluice to support the bottom. It would have an L shape in profile with a hook at the top of the L. If you had four of those brackets (or more for longer sluices) you can put one at each corner and slip a PVC leg through the bracket. Make the base of the L three or more inches long and it should provide more than enough support/stability. This should also dramatically reduce the amount of material needed to print and support each sluice (four brackets vs two long bars).
I was thinking of doing that and would work great but not sure how to make it work with different sizes of sluice boxes. 3 inch side versus 4 inch sides.
PVC maybe too light for deeper creeks.? I Love the Beer holder! You should put you Logo on it and sell it separate. Love your channel. many great ideas ive gotten from you. and those nugget trap mats r Great!!! Cheers!
Can you make a tiny miller table, like 6 or 8 inches, in blue, with lights and leveling legs? One where the water comes up over the edge from a well instead of a spray bar ? I do all of my fines from my beach here in the kitchen and have been wanting a miller table but they are all so big. I like the pvc on the river sluice because you can always replace them easily if needed. I also need a small set up for traveling for the day down to Cape D and I have an idea, but you know I can't build things. Please give Bear and I a holler! Thanks Alan! Hope your back feels better soon!
Hi Joanie yes I could make a small deep well miller table. Not sure about the lights. Now that I know the 3D print material will work I will see what I can come up with. Thanks.
Hi Joanie I made up the new miller table and tried it out today with some cape D sand and it worked fantastic. I will do a video on it as soon as I can.
why no sluice box on your website, with legs, like the coffee holder, maybe extend the slide bar, add the water pipe, and a bucket blaster and you now have the BlasterBanker
Well hello from the coast Alan. So sorry your back is acting up, I understand back pain all to well, so let it rest! I use pvc for all my highbanker plumbing and I imagine it would be fine for legs as well as long as you have enough weight in the sluce itself. I just about have my permit to dig at Cape Disappointment again! Back on the gold!😃
@@alanrobertson2510 Sweet. Do you sell them? I thought you make a lot of cool stuff. Didn't I get some nugget trap molds from you? I will go check your links now. Hey thanks fella. You absolutely Rock!
When I first started watching your video I saw you were putting very little in your box I thought that's going to take a long time and I guess I was right I was going to suggest a bigger box but then you had a new video seems to me the bigger the Box unless work and more gold as far as watching other people's video I'm not I like you and your videos keep up the good work
I just watched your Video, it was great like always. Sorry to hear about your back. If I was closer, like about 300 miles closer I would fix your back for you so that you were not experiencing pain any more. I noticed that from the way that you were standing in your video that there are other factors that are causing your back pain. If you get tired of fighting with your back pain you can private message me and I will give you my phone number. Keep up the great videos.
Hello I'm out of Boulder Montana and was wondering if you could help me stake a placer claim. If not do you know anyone who can? Dealing with the BLM is a Huge pain. Also if you can then you can work the claim anytime you want. Love your videos and I like, subscribe and share your channel on Facebook and Twitter! Thanks Aaron
I enjoy your videos! I appreciate the way you apply your years of wisdom to your modern inventions! Thanks for doing what you do!
Glad you like them! Thanks John
I’m pretty rough on things so pvc legs are good if I’m in a deeper hole (2-4’) I use broomstick type handles on my hobby miner sluice box to keep it at the top of the hole while recirculating. The pvc spray bar is a good idea but you might need an o-ring on one end or a bigger printed piece to hold a pvc cap to prevent leaks let me know when you get it figured out I would like 2 pvc holders for a spray bar on my hobby miner sluice. Bummer about the back I have the same issue. Great looking gold though. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
The broom stick is a good idea. I will let you know when the holder are ready, Take care of that back. Thank you.
Looks like the water is going good, hope ya keep safe alan!
Yes, thanks
Great setup indeed fam. Your doing great work. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Great shout out fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Thank you. Heavy pans to you
I think a good invention would be a five gallon bucket seat and a partial five gallon bucket back that would fit into the larger one for portability. It would also need some comfort padding, for our old broken down backs. It must have a cold snack holder (beer holder), and a spot for your Small Ice scoop or dog food scoop. All you have to do is invent a strong , young person to dig and carry buckets to you.. Life is good! good luck professor, you know I like all your inventions.
Nice day out on the crik I hope your back heals quickly. The sluice seems to be working great. Thanks for bringing us along on the trip my friend. Them grizzly mats are cool. The pvc legs are a great idea. If it works it works
Thanks 👍. I love the grizzly bar mat and getting a lot of good feed back.
At the 9:20 mark..the bottom of the pail has a Van Gough starring up at us lmao . Great to see you again Alan , even metal slices needs a rock on to hold it down..it's no wonder why it lifted , being made of plastic is much lighter . Great to see everything in use . See you soon my friend . Cheers
Yes the sluice did slide a bit but I haven't had to put a rock on top of the sluice yet to hold it down. Thanks Steve
Morning Alan, looking back, I was under the impression that your smaller sleuths were all for clean out only and meant to be fed with a hand trial, not a large shovel. So for the ease of your back, maybe you need to print up a Stream Stool to sit on while you shovel into your small box with a garden trial?
Listen, I just had my right hip replaced at the local VA hospital and a week later they removed my Gull Bladder. Now my right foot is acting up along with my right knee. I'm not looking for any pity, but I want you to realize that we are not getting any younger and things are gonna begin to wear out and break! Take it easy and start taking better care of yourself!
Hahah finally gave in to the aluminum sluice box! I like the attachable legs and pvc. Maybe use 3/4 blue pex tubing so its not white
Yep I sure did. Might have to check out the pex tubing
You can experiment with different sizes and 20 , 40 wall pvc pipes and find some that will fit tightly into each other kinda close fit , making a much more stringer support post for cheap .
Good idea Rod thanks
I think if you add a grate over your sluice (like Jason’s on flour gold wizard) would make for a lot less bending over to pull larger material off your mats when shoveling in material !
That would work but I will be sticking with the grizzly bar mat.
If using for a Miller table you should add green chalk board paint to the base and test that out for possibly more visually. I see gold best on green personally. Love the stuff you keep coming up with for sure!!!
Great suggestion! Paint will not stick very well to this material.
@@alanrobertson2510 ah ok. Was not sure if it would or not.
Water and cool weather, just the opposite of what we have. 94 deg in the mtns. and no water. Great to see you out getting after it. Thse roots are a lot like miners moss. Our backs have been through a lot my friend. Your sluice is running very good. Not sure why it would run better with no flare. I use stell 't' handles on 3/4" square tube legs with 1 1/2" washers on the bottoms so they don't sink. All my spray bar equipment use PVC. Great idea on the bigger sluice.( heal that old back my friend)😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Thanks Chuck. It stinks to get old. Stay cool my friend.
I think that will work well. I made leveler legs with 3/4” conduit, and for the adjusters used 1” conduit couplings and pop riveted them to the sides of the sluice with longer bolts to secure the legs. It’s great for the back, in that you can set up deeper and still get proper water flow and pitch. I also put 90s with a 6” cutoff on the legs to put stones on to secure it in quicker currents… I also have a 60 year old back. Lol
Good ideas. Take care of that 60 year old back. Lol
I would love to see more on the sluice. I would personally have no issues with pvc for legs. I actually need legs for my current sluice!
More info to come. Working on different ways to connect the sides to the sluice right now. Thanks Josh
Ok so I have found the best legs that are cheap and don't cost alot are pipe hanger fittings. They are adjustable and using galvanized metal is light weight, strong and cheap. I haven't found anything that comes close. Hope this helps. Also using full run punch plate and inch off any setup keeps any gold in your setup. Without it then its like playing marbles. The big rocks knock out gold everytime.
Alan , nice to see you , great ideas again !
Thank you.
Try filling a 5 gallon bucket with material and carry it to your sluice , and then do just as though you were doing when with your cleanup sluice.
Sitting down but not with a spoon , but a trowel.
It works for me
That's a really nice clean up..I like the new idea for the sluce.
Thanks Jack
I like it Alan. PVC is fine great job brother. I hope your back feels better soon
Yes, thank you
Hello Alan, just a thought. How about feeding your material from the hole to your sluice box with a smooth square gutter at an steep enough angle into the mouth of the sluice box . Use a slow flowing miller table like feed of water at the top of the gutter. . Then you can sit at the hole and only feed your sluice box.with small enough amounts of material which will slide it into your sluice bov via the water in the gutter.
Not a bad idea. might have to put some thought into it.
Thanks for the vid Alan. I feel for you regarding back issues.
Doing a lot better now, Thanks
PVC pipe is so versatile. Use it all the time. So, sluice legs and other arrangements is perfect and simple. Cheap to replace too. Sorry about your spine. Yeah, looked like you were doing a lot of bending and twisting. Hope you get better ! 👍⛏⚒🤠
I agree pvc is very useful in many ways. I hope the 10 inch sluice will help on the back. Thanks Allan
thats why i always bring a lawn chair and smaller scoop
Great Video Al..It's has to feel good to get out a prospect again..
It sure does
Love the new sluice legs. Sorry about the back I’ve been there a few times. I broke my thumb about two months ago so I haven’t been able to dig at full capacity and barely been going out at that. It gets frustrating for sure when you’re body doesn’t keep up with your mind. Hope you’re doing better now. Keep up the great work.
Dang a broken thumb stinks. Back much better now.
i feel your pain, i got a hernia from running a dry washer here in nevada. the surgery to fix the hernia was the worst part, but i wont do dry washer again.
Alan the genius. Wonderful place, great video. Rei from Brazil
Thank you very much!
A highbanker or a sluice with a full run of punch plate an inch over the rig classify the material. You don't need a Trammell or classifiey the materials. Also you can gravity dredge with the use of batteries or gas motors or pumps and no noise or oil or gas to worrie about. And it saves on your back.
Without the use of gas pumps, electric pumps or all the Noise. Gravity dredging works!
That's a good idea, but instead of pop riveting onto the sluice (putting more holes in the sluice), how about a smaller bracket that can hook over the top edge of the sluice, and slip under the the sluice to support the bottom. It would have an L shape in profile with a hook at the top of the L. If you had four of those brackets (or more for longer sluices) you can put one at each corner and slip a PVC leg through the bracket. Make the base of the L three or more inches long and it should provide more than enough support/stability. This should also dramatically reduce the amount of material needed to print and support each sluice (four brackets vs two long bars).
I was thinking of doing that and would work great but not sure how to make it work with different sizes of sluice boxes. 3 inch side versus 4 inch sides.
I can't emphasize enough. You have to use a full run of punch plate and inch over your setup. Those rocks will knock gold out every time
Lookin good Alan!
Thank you Rick
I knew something was up with you bud not seeing videos from you. Glad you're feeling better or at least getting around again.
Doing good now and just super busy right now. Take care
Good idea! Be careful out there. Have a good day from Zurich mt.
Thanks, will do!
PVC maybe too light for deeper creeks.? I Love the Beer holder! You should put you Logo on it and sell it separate. Love your channel. many great ideas ive gotten from you. and those nugget trap mats r Great!!! Cheers!
Deeper creeks might be a problem for sure. Glad you can use some of my ideas. The beer holder I might giveaway with the side kits.
Looks good
Thanks
Can you make a tiny miller table, like 6 or 8 inches, in blue, with lights and leveling legs? One where the water comes up over the edge from a well instead of a spray bar ? I do all of my fines from my beach here in the kitchen and have been wanting a miller table but they are all so big.
I like the pvc on the river sluice because you can always replace them easily if needed. I also need a small set up for traveling for the day down to Cape D and I have an idea, but you know I can't build things. Please give Bear and I a holler! Thanks Alan! Hope your back feels better soon!
Hi Joanie yes I could make a small deep well miller table. Not sure about the lights. Now that I know the 3D print material will work I will see what I can come up with. Thanks.
@@alanrobertson2510 Awesome! Thank you so much Alan! That is just what I am missing for my little set up!
Hi Joanie I made up the new miller table and tried it out today with some cape D sand and it worked fantastic. I will do a video on it as soon as I can.
@@alanrobertson2510 Oh my gosh Alan! I can't wait! Just let me know how to order it!!! Thank you! Thank you! I'm so excited!!!
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Make your sluice longer and metal will make ridged other thin that every thing looks GREAT !
why no sluice box on your website, with legs, like the coffee holder, maybe extend the slide bar, add the water pipe, and a bucket blaster and you now have the BlasterBanker
Use pop rivets and have the proper size drill bit to remove them .
Foe sure. Thanks
I hurt my back also, but my fold fever will outride it
Im 72 and its hell too be OLD !
After back fusions the lighter the better
As longs as it is schedule 40 or 80, I don't see a problem
I agree thanks for watching.
@@alanrobertson2510 Roger that Alan. Maybe sometime we can get together, right now things are BUSY.
@@hardrockuniversity7283 Super busy here right now as well but we should get together sometime this summer. Take care.
@@alanrobertson2510 I'm thinking more likely fall, but we'll play it by ear.
What do ya charge for just the leg assembly 🧐⁉️🤨👍
Hi Lester I am not sure right now but will do another video on them soon.
Sore backs…… prospecting….
Kinda hand in hand aye ? 🤣
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻this helps👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
🍻🍻🍻. 🍻🍻🍻
It Does Just trying to make it a little easier on this old back.
Well hello from the coast Alan.
So sorry your back is acting up, I understand back pain all to well, so let it rest!
I use pvc for all my highbanker plumbing and I imagine it would be fine for legs as well as long as you have enough weight in the sluce itself.
I just about have my permit to dig at Cape Disappointment again! Back on the gold!😃
@@bustedhammer Hi Jeff. The dang back stinks when it acts up. Glad to here you are able to get a permit for the cape. Good luck to you out there.
Hey Alan, how much for a sweet blue miller Table set up? Sweeeeet!
I think they are about $140.00
@@alanrobertson2510 Sweet. Do you sell them? I thought you make a lot of cool stuff. Didn't I get some nugget trap molds from you? I will go check your links now. Hey thanks fella. You absolutely Rock!
@@paulcoover9197 Probably did get the nugget trap from me. Thank you.
Pvc is awesome p c is good for anything and it's lighter on weight
connect the roomba let it go all night recharging itself solar and thermal. peace
Ahoj Alan, get well soon...
Thank you. Doing better now.
Turn your water flow down for your table !
👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you
I think your water is running to FAST !
When I first started watching your video I saw you were putting very little in your box I thought that's going to take a long time and I guess I was right I was going to suggest a bigger box but then you had a new video seems to me the bigger the Box unless work and more gold as far as watching other people's video I'm not I like you and your videos keep up the good work
I know what you saying
I just watched your Video, it was great like always. Sorry to hear about your back. If I was closer, like about 300 miles closer I would fix your back for you so that you were not experiencing pain any more. I noticed that from the way that you were standing in your video that there are other factors that are causing your back pain. If you get tired of fighting with your back pain you can private message me and I will give you my phone number. Keep up the great videos.
Well doing better now if it happen again I might have to look you up. Thank you for watching.
Didn't you know you get young teens to work for ya you pay them in video games. Hard work pays off but when it's slim it's slim. Lol
Yep I love it when I can get my boys to go along.
no prob you have a wife lol dont let her see that lol
I don't understand why you didn't do or show any test pans before wasting your time digging a huge hole? Goes against prospecting 101.
Well I have dug in this same hole about four times now and found gold every time.
Hello I'm out of Boulder Montana and was wondering if you could help me stake a placer claim. If not do you know anyone who can? Dealing with the BLM is a Huge pain. Also if you can then you can work the claim anytime you want. Love your videos and I like, subscribe and share your channel on Facebook and Twitter! Thanks Aaron