I think a solar charging setup with two swapable LiFePo4 batteries would be great! could charge one while using the other. Maybe build a box to fit the battery size you go with. at ~185 watts, it would take 15AH to run for 1 hour... so a 30AH 12.8V lithium battery would be 2 hours runtime, while the other charges... So many possibilities!

So many ways to approach things... I'm still printing off some float supports and stuff then I'll get the first recovery tests after that.

It should be up there, try the link and it should download from google drive. I'm a bit new to this, so let me know if everything works out ok or if I need to change the share permission settings or something...

Hey Mike, I did experiment with an infinity jet in one of the last few videos. A full ring jet does seem to prime the fastest, as it feels like it's almost even sucking air when out of the water, but the overall efficiency did not beat a single jet. I was personally surprised to see a single jet, twin jet, tripple jet, and infinity jet all perform so close. I think it's all about sizing the jet cross section to match the pump, and from there the suction is similar. but more small jets does mix in a shorter tube than one large jet, so that helps place the jet closer to the sluice box for packaging... Hope that makes sense. Another thing to consider, is that the wall friction at the jet actually goes up as you move towards a ring jet. Just the math of how much surface is in contact with the high velocity water exiting the jet. So a ring jet actually may experience higher skin friction losses compared to a single circle. It's been a fascinating learning process!

I cut that myself. It's not necessary, just be careful the tip it fully submerged but not by a lot. When the chamber begins to cool it may want to suck up some water and that would not be good if it made it all the way back to the hot part. For one small batch the tube alone provides enough cooling, but for more, you can use a longer tube and wrap a wet rag around the outside. In my test I weighed everything before and after and lost nothing to the atmosphere, but be careful.

You SHOULD have a hard time believing that. I always took the rumors and legends of gold like this with a grain of salt until I started finding them. I guess a few things to put it into perspective, it takes much more than two hours to find a location in the first place, and after the small but concentrated paystreak has been dug out, it's not like we can continue finding gold that good for the rest of the day. It it very cool to see that there IS really profitable ground still out there and so close to home. I've spent many many days out on the river finding nothing...

I might have to give you a better answer later, so standby for that... I think every time I've come up with a setup I'm happy with, it has been as a result of visiting the place I'm going to mine and realizing all the fine details I forgot to account for in my planning stages... It's an iterative process sometimes, but one thing I've never regretted is making things light weight. I imagine not needing something so light I can pack it 5km deep into the wilderness, but then in reality even a half km walk from the car to the river gets you wishing you had a lighter setup, and you would be surprised how much material a small electric highbanker is capable of moving in some situations. The reason I started out with the Honda WX15 was due to the sub 20lbs weight compared to those larger pumps... the cost was a big negative there though. Tell me more about where you plan to mine (vaguely here, or email me) Something like the Utmost adventurer is a serious machine that combines a highbankers ability to chew through gravel and be compact, with the 20" wide recovery abilities of a beach box, and I think it is large enough to practically deserve a gas water supply for extended trips, but what I've learned of electric bilge pumps and lithium deep cycle batteries being very affordable these days, it's not out of the question you could even run something like that off battery power if you were close to the water's edge. So a smaller electric setup may be an affordable AND practical way to start out. Something to consider. Again, let me know more about you're plans and I'll give this some more thought.

Hum... Yeah, seems like that mining experience was a good one all around, just with surprisingly little gold to show for it was all. My intention with the title was definitely not to stir any drama, I'm open to suggestions on a more accurate one.

@@UtmostOutdoors I can't think of a better one. It's not an issue with your title it's an issue with the way KZbin titles work and just the way viewers have been conditioned I guess.

I'm sure I could be MORE wrong... I'm always impressed by how shallow these jet drives run. I guess I meant you can't go so shallow that the hull hits without hitting the intake grate. Since the intake grate hangs down a couple inches bellow the hull. Although it looks like a lot of folks just let the outboard bounce off rocks in the super skinny water areas...

@@UtmostOutdoors again, you can run 2”-2.5” of water and never touch a thing with a standard flat bottom boat with an outboard jet. Boat setup is 80% of it. Just calling a spade a spade. You don’t need a tunnel hull and an outboard to run shallow, flat bottom outboard jets will do just the same. Take care

This is the 8k one.

@@UtmostOutdoors Thanks!

Thanks 😄

Yeah, that's the important part 😀

Thank you. I have had a few limited opportunities over the years, but It's not allowed near where I live, so I still have lots to learn next time I travel to a place I can.

@@UtmostOutdoors 😀 I see, i wish u the best.

Glad to hear it was helpful!

You can put in right under the highway bridge, just park in the designated area after and don't rip circles for hours in town, just head straight up until you're into the wilderness to keep the people happy :) watch for rocks it's a skinny river most times of year!

I show the exact chain at 1:50 into the video. My understanding is that a 30 or 35 degree angle cuts faster, but a more square cut like 10 degrees gives a cleaner edge to the cut while ripping.