Panning Gold out of Flood Gravel
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*"Quentin, the creator of Lynden"* I really enjoyed that.
Hahaha I was laughing so hard it bought tears to my eyes when he said that.
Thank god I had just swallowed my sip of coffee, it would have been on my monitor! LOL!
Tickle, tickle.
Hahahahaha tickle tickle that's has to be the best part Chris your hilarious brother
That was Funny !!!!!
Hey Chris, just a FYI, they are pumps used to catch these critters ( Marine Yabbies or Ghost Nippers) in sandy salt water areas.....it's a bit hard to push the pump into muddy bottoms that river yabbies live in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea
I used to catch them for bait to catch Bream and Flat Head.
You've been my friend 100% from the very beginning. And now when you also bring gems to your videos ..... I add 100% more. So you're my friend 200%.Thank you Chris for your greatness and skills.
Hahaha, I didn't know gems added 100%! I need more gems in that case!
Very informative video again Vogus and well put together. The rip stop thingymajig barrier also looked like a good piece of kit and I agree with ya about not digging too deep. The gold is in many different layers on the creek and you demonstrated it nicely.Good on ya fella.
Got to find those layers!!
Great Show like always. For the dam I take sandbags. I have to admit that this blue cloth with the ribs is worth considering. So go for it.
Goldjunge Tom
Loved the pan and the dam. Great info sharing. Going out to California gold country tommorow and hope to have 5 days of good gold. Keep up the good work . Steve
I wonder if there's any indication of the presence of fine gold in the ground/water, reflected in foliage growing close to it. An Experiment by US Biochemists (1970's?) concluded that uptake of gold in solution was much higher if cut stems were sunk into the ground/water over rooted plants. Always worth thinking of alternative methods.
The Australian gov found gold in gum leaves, so I would assume you're correct!
The dam was fast and efficient. Great invention. Beautiful video. Springtime, best time to be out. We just got our first snow. Thanks for the opportunity to win the paydirt and your book. Be safe.
Email me your address ☺
As usual, can't concentrate with Vo-Gus videos to watch....great stuff Chris
I can't concentrate full stop
A tip to save your legs and back for low down work like you are doing when you are panning, take a milk crate with you to sit on in the water or water's edge. Light weight and you can put some of your gear in it to carry with you. Or a chair for when you have your smoko break 👍
This video is pretty old now, i have since invested in a stool
nice haul. ty for giving the instruction on how to use a metal & about your deep blue project . have an awesome weekend. Aloha
Its a tricky little pan to use
Nice episode. I liked your comments about gold being found in layers. Hmmm. That explains alot. Peace out
As soon as your buddy starts mass-producing those I'm buying one! Until then I use the nylon cases that come with your fold up chairs. Along with nylon beach bags from the dollar store, I can make a pretty good damn. The idea of not having to make sandbags though is one I can get behind LOL. Great video I always learn a lot
Watching these old videos makes me want to cry :,,)
I can't believe its been that long since I got gold fever. Holy Cow.
Also, the dam in this video is really cool, I tried to make one buy I'm not as skilled as your friend, it was a fail. Oh well.
But I was wondering if you could send some well wishes my direction because I got all 4 wisdom teeth out yesterday, and I'm feeling kind of depressed and frustrated (the holes are taking forever to heal). It would mean the world if you could send some Australian encouragement my direction. I know it'll heal, but it just is so rough in the mean time.
Either way, watching videos from you (and others, like Paul, Busted Knuckles, Two Toes, etc) is really helping me pull through this.
With love, from America,
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Good video Chris thank you so much for your encouragement and everything including the Deep Blue Project now you know that my son is 13 years old he's not interested in gold panning but he loves archery and I thank you for that
as a youth i wasnt interested in panning much, going out with the old dudes was booooooring.... now... after the old boys are gone.... it pains me to think of what i missed out on. Keep taking the young bloke out, at least until he can demonstrate he knows how to do it... if he still doesnt want to be in it thats cool, he may well come round later. But the key is that he learn how. Then its up to him.
Love your videos. You explain so much and give lots of info. I've watched most of your videos twice and some of them 3 times if I didn't understand something. I've also learned a lot from your videos and look forward to your next ones . give grizzly a good petting and a treat for me
Oh ill give him a great petting, hes picky about food so bacon it is!
@@VoGusProspecting so one question for you why did you start using the metal pan
Excellent overview on the tin pan curing and usage. Really appreciate sharing your knowledge of prospecting makes your videos interesting and educational. Thanks again.
That was a pleasure to watch Chris very educational mate thank you for sharing.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it
Great video. I love the idea of the dam. 😁
its a cracking invention
Great to see a nice creek video when I’m up at Maryborough. Cheers mate
good luck
Well done Sir!
S01 Ep 05. Just keep it coming!
Your Yabbies are our CrawDads or CrayFish . Taste quite good boiled up Hot Sauce Added washed down with a cold beer. Pretty much a Miniature Fresh water Lobster. Metal pans are the same as any other pan actually. Nothing special . Oh, you whipper snappers like those Riffled Pans ? Ya just need to slow down bit. Yep, Use the Corner of the pan to collect the heavies. We use Gunny Sacks and sand as sand bags for the same thing. You can leave the Burlap sand bags when done. They just go back into Mudder Earth in time.
Love that dam block off idea. Really hanging out to get back into river sluicing after my heart operation in June. Hopefully I should be right by the end of the year. Keep up the good work Chris.
Stick to crevicng and youll be fine
Well the Lynden dam sure does look a lot easier then moving a butt load of rocks, lol. Great job!
It really is, I used it yesterday and only had to move one rock to make it work
I just love Grizzly! Thank you for sharing him with us.
Thanks for the "lerny bits", mate! It helps a novice like myself quite a bit.
I try to add in some education that's not to mind numbingly boring
Great show !!!!
cheers man
I've been using cloth but yes you have to add rocks to hold the leading edge down and rocks under it to build the dam.
nothing wrong with that though, it works just as good and only a little more effort
Fully Enjoyed
Love your learny part
lerny bits
Chris, really enjoying the new format - keep it up! Love the invention and interested if it were ever to go to market. See you next week!
Not sure if Linden will ever make it a commercial product but I sure hope he does
Thanks and good vibes like the hat keep it up
Glad I'm not the only one who wears rubber boots and shorts !!!!
Maybe bring out the gold bug, Pauly snagged a 7.50 nugget
Great channel you have here Vo-Gus!
Thanks I made it myself
Chris, I love your humor.. tickle.. tickle...
lol
A nother good idea, I'm thinking PC. Rubber roofing, , like that pre slucie Idea, but tent material much lighter, gravel ,stones material should hold it in place?
This "soft" dam is simply brilliant!
The advertisement could be " Stop moving rocks that don't need to be moved!"
Your pay day is just around the next bend.... Many blessings to you my friend... BBE..
youre not wrong!
Another great vid for the books always looking forward to Fridays now
NICE work Chris, working that fine fine stuff is a cranky spanky butt its lovely too see your sluice catching all of it! Cheers mate.. oh was that the patreon drawing, wasn't sure?
nah that was a draw that was on a video a month ago
Great video once again Chris well done mate, and how awesome is that saphire hey. ☺ 👍
haven't found one in ages so I was stoked to get it
Ingenious water dam! Love it.
Great video, as always I learned something!, thank you Fran
I hope it didn't hurt, learning can really grind the gears.
Lol... Man get a little extendable broom/paint brush to help you sweep that sluice feed. So you can stand up some. Very awesome dam invention.
I wonder if a wind sock fitted to your sluice could help increase water flow for ya. Inventions and ideas are my gift in life. Which I don't mind sharing :-)
Mostly because I hadent thought of it lol
good idea with that dam....saves much time and energy....the little kid dam building days are over lol....
Next level dam manoeuvre
I thought that a yabby was a ghost shrimp!
Interesting info on metal panning Vo-Gus..is that a new hat? Really love it!
actually, its an old hat from the opshop
Chris (and Lyndon) That dam needs to be shared! Really need one of those here in UK.
Care to pass on the plans?
Awesome videos, Grizz is legendary 😁👍😁
Loving the new format
Quentin must of had some great stories. The new format is getting better each week but the hat still looks a bit new . Maybe Grizzly could chew some age into it.
he does, the sort that make you excited to find one of those spots
Good video mate I love watching your vids very entertaining and full of information for us beginners would love to come down that way some time and give your rivers and creeks a go, keep up the good work and good luck with the gold hunting...👌🏽
Oh I got it👍 dam this sluice not this damn sluice...... clever
im a smart one lol
You should write a book lol!!
Much love Chris, love the videos brother!
chers man
Great video dude, really enjoyed it, you’re a natural behind the camera , good talker, 😎🌴🌵
that's because I take multiple takes some times lol
Love it thank you
Thanks mate
Ahh so if you came to America you would call it a crawdad pump or crayfish pump lol. Crawdad make good gumbo :3
Another good video.
Just got back from a week up at Porepunkah, was a great little holiday, Tuesday went to Eldorado to try Reedy creek, kids had a good swim, got a little gold, not a lot tho.
But since we are talking about flood gold here, this would make a good story, on Thu, the kids and the missus wanted to go for a swim, where I normally set up my sluice on the gravel bar next to the caravan park the river flows too fast and deep for the kids, so we had to move, now I was getting 3-5 specks per pan at that spot, so we moved up the river to the next corner, were the river was slower and there was mud for the kids to play with ( kids become mud monsters, even the 8-month-old was covered lol), anyway I noticed that the bank there was in two steps with heavy gravels in a channel between the two, so thought I should try, 20-30 specks in the first pan. Set up the sluice, dream mat performed amazingly, so well, that even the fast current caught all the ultra fine gold. When doing a cleanup you could see the gold at the edges of the dirt (the dream mat leaves maybe 10% of a pan of material).
Haven't weighed it yet, but learned a very important lesson.
Yes sometimes leaving gold to find gold is well worth it. I leave anything under 10 specks per pan and only come back once ive had a look around the area.
Thing is I test panned further down the river and found pretty much nothing, never occurred to me to try up the river. But now thinking about it makes sense, I was just before the Buckland joins the Ovens, so when in flood the two rivers would be flowing at the rate of knots and would remove all the gold, further up you just have the Ovens.
But I pulled 0.93 grams from that hole, and that was being ineffiecnt with my time (stopping to play with the kids lol) might go back up there in Feb sometime, because I struggle to stay away lol.
Nice video mate 👊🏻😊👍🏻
cheers bro
Nice to see you,good idea that tent dam.Thats two way prospecting,gold and lunch,ja ja.Gonna be an epidemy of angry wifes looking for their pans
Just don't tell them
Love it!
Very good friend
Chris my friend I really wish that your friend wouldn't tell anyone about this he should patient this portable damn and sale it it is amazing and the small scale miners would buy buy buy that product I'm serious about this my brother make it happen he should think about his future life when he's old/older think about your life and what y'all deserve and my friends in my eye's Y'ALL deserve to be well off anyone who are not lazy should be well off love your brother's people thumbs up my friends
WE CALL THEM CRAWDADS LOL
YABBIES! WHY ARE WE YELLING?
Party like there's ne tomorrow😂all gold is good gold👍
I wrote that with you in mind
Vo-Gus Prospecting cheers bro👍✌
Bloody good fun runs guys
Yes I was thinking on top of that drop of dirt
Were it undercut as it was flood area ??
Hahahaha yes roller skating does that to u
I used to ice skate and speed roller skate lol
Not any more lol
Nice vid again Chris yew
Cheers Crouch
possibly man, needs more panning to confirm
Damn. That’s an old timer? Shit. I don’t have long.
Going thru an catching up. Does that large man sell his RIP stop damn?
Wondering why toy aren’t classifying the material to get out the too big rocks before putting in the sluice.
The croc has a set of grizzly bars that work effectively as a classifyer.
Nice video really great
Very good yes ..😁
Great quality video and enjoyable. New subscriber :-)
Lynden: great IDEA!! well done dude!! this comment is probably outdated but I am curious about your thoughts regarding the status of the Gold Croc fluid bed sluice. I noticed just this week, today is 26 Jun 2019, that The Gold Croc is no longer being manufactured. do you have any insights into why such a revolutionary product like the Gold Croc was discontinued??? too expensive to make/sell?? people stealing their idea?? inquiring minds want to know. Since they are no longer in production, do you think it is fine to build my own for my purposes only???? anyway, I was saddened to hear they went bust
They went out of bussiness, im not sure why man. You can totally make one for yourself.
Shouldn't you dig all the way to bedrock, where the gold should be?
Yes and no. Yes if there isn't a false bottom, in this creek however there's a 3 foot thick layer of clay on the bedrock. That clay stops the gold before it hits it
Imagine my surprise when I click on this video and I recognise Linden and his dad (?) from church!! We live in Melbourne but I remember him from cyc (youth group) days in Melbourne :-)
Bloody small world hey
Vo-Gus Prospecting it absolutely is! :-)
Your going to hit a big pay
Question? Do you ever get tired and you find your back hurting while out prospecting? Just a random question. Since I'm older 48 sometimes it just hurts to go out. Wish I would have started when I was older. Keep the videos coming Chris!
I cracked 3 vertebrae, 7 ribs, my arm and damaged my right hip 19years ago and love prospecting. I am only 37 but i know well what you mean there mate. I only really do it through warmer months now and hit it hard last sumer after watching nearly all of Chris's videos. Changed my style and i take it all at my own pace. I take a little fold out seat and might only do a dozens pans for the day. Takes learning but i am for quality over quantity on my gravels or crevacing.
Keep at it and enjoy it your own way mate. :)
Oh yer man, all my old injurys flare up. Ive got a torn rotor cuff, damaged lower back from a work accident 10 years ago, damage knee and ankles (yes both), pinched nerve in my neck... th elist goes on.
Often this is why I only pan and often I don't do much in a day, As Daniel said its all about gong at your own pace and working the right dirt, not moving quantity
@@djpearsontab Thanks
Thanks
Do you sometimes worry that you might be throwing out a big ol' nugget when u empty your classifier out??? Or are you confident that you would be able to see it?
Nope, I detect the piles
Sorry mate I have another question with your sluice box how does it collect gold is there a Matt under your grizzly bars or a screen I have made a few designers myself and most of them have ruffles, screens, Moss and different compartments for collecting gold, is your very effective, just trying to get the best design for my areas so gathering as much information as I can thanks mate👍🏼
Its a complex question, you're probably better off googling and reading about fluid bed sluices. As if I wrote of all out it would be a novel.
I did a video on how it works about 8 months ago called Croc gold traps the future of mining and one other video just before it reviewing it. Hope that helps
Yeah awesome thanks for that mate I’m catching up with all of your videos loving every one at the moment, but yeah like I said before I’m just learning and doing my research to become better at prospecting and I appreciate you taking the time to reply thanks buddy and can’t wait for more of your videos...
I've only ever used a steel pan
That's some comitment
Up until about 5 years ago i was the same, plastic pans have no soul.... but gee they get the gold.... there is nothing that sounds like a metal pan....
Oh baby when you can hear your gold before you do a wet reveal.... oooooh mama!
nice video
Ummm Yabbie pump is designed to suck SALTWATER yabbies/Pink Nipper/Bass Yabbies out of tidal sand flats. Freshwater crayfish Cherax sp. are better caught in mesh traps.
In my world they suck up gold lol
I'd like to see more of the dam
you will
@@VoGusProspecting the river near new is big without any drops so I have to use a pump, I'd be curious to see if this could work
I have to dare you to sink a test hole 8 ' x 6 ,somewhere in on that creek curve and up a bit ,old time thinking
that sounds like a lot of work haha
Nice job. Nice gold. Keep it up brother. It's getting bigger and you might find a 1gramer one day. Hahahalol
Fingers crossed!
What made you start using the metal pan Chris
fun
Oh lol
Are those dams for sale ?
Nope, one of a kind.
I could probably guess where in the world you are located. Prefer you tell me?!
North East Victoria Australia
hey brother the old man never says anything after ty and the naughty grizly speaks but we want the boss to speak to us brother
How much for one of those Dams ?
Not for sale at this stage just a proof of concept
Ok thanks. let me know when you do . or if you decide you want someone to do testing for you.
@@bearup1612 i can talk you through building one of your own if your interested.... its fiddly but doable. Honestly if i were to hand make them currently they would be a couple hundred dollars.... and then i would be working for peanuts....