First Time Using My Gold Cube Trommel

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@paraglidingprospector 6 ай бұрын

Nice work! Cleaning up the glass too! Thank you! I can’t go in my local Salt River without shoes due to the plethora of broken bottles. 😢 (cut my foot up pretty bad the last time I tried to cross barefoot)! I have the standard Gold Cube with the 1/4” hole top-tray separator and added a 4th layer nugget trap with Dream Mat. The top tray has me wishing I had a mechanical trommel too, but I prospect solo and that’s a lot of gear to lug around! I’ve since switched over to a 52” mobile folding sluice by Royal Manufacturing and it seems to do great. Then, I upgrade my cons through the Gold Cube and clean-up with a Desert Fox spiral wheel and finally some hand-panning. No miller table here yet, so I’ve saved my super-cons for further upgrading just in case! Great work out there! Gold squad out! 🙌🏼 PS. Have some of that Mackinac Island fudge for us all!

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, that glass can be a real hazard, I cut my hand pretty good on a piece not that long ago. The trommel is nice for sure, but it is bulky no doubt. The high banker option like that is a nice in between, I think. Sounds like a good system you have. What size spiral wheel do you have? I have a smaller one, but I have not tried it out yet. Heavy pans!

@paraglidingprospector 6 ай бұрын

@@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt I’ve got the smaller gold wheel too and it seems to work great. I’ve re-run my tailings through the spiral wheel and haven’t found enough gold to justify doing that every single time. Seems to catch 99% of the shiny I’ve put through it. I bought the Gold Cube with the intention of using it in-field just like you and gave it a few tries, but it became too much to lug around by myself. I’ll bet you could adapt that trommel to a sluice though! My new tactic is to use the Royal Manufacturing sluice as my primary way to collect concentrates and then I upgrade those cons all in one go with the Gold Cube either at home or a clean-up day near water. The final clean-up happens on the spiral wheel and at home. I classify everything down to 3 of my finest mesh sizes, hand-pan anything larger, and then do a thorough run with my super-cons! Sluice-it. Cube-it. Wheel-it. Pan-it. (^Daft Punk’s next hit? 😂)

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Oh cool, I have been hearing mixed things about the smaller wheel. I am excited to try it out though. Sounds like you got it down to a science, haha yeah that could definitely be a hit song. I have thought about adapting the trommel to a sluice. I do like the cube a lot, but the set up can be a bit much depending on terrain. I got it with Lake Superior in mind, but of course that got shut down this year.

@paraglidingprospector 6 ай бұрын

@@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt OoooOh I hear the cube does great ‘round those parts! Thanks! I’m still dialing things in. My next move will be to add a trommel to the sluice for sure. I still hand classify and with all the other setup and tear-down work…. I barely have enough energy left to feed myself some days! 🤣 I’m not totally sold on the spiral wheel and I hear it’s good for round/chunky gold. Most of Arizona’s AU is flat and flakey so I think I’ll have to try a Miller Table next and check some old tailings. However, so far the spiral wheel doesn’t seem to have missed anything. Desert Fox wheel ( I think mine is 12”?) and it seems to have a bump in the rotation like the larger wheels too. ~9 drops of Jet Dry. Put on a movie and spoon feed your cons! Either way, the cube has caught everything so far and in the first 2 trays too! I’ve re-processed tons of tailings a 2nd time only to find nothing at all. From one prospector to another - you’re doing great! Keep up the stellar content and the gold will follow too!

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Yeah the cube should work really good for beach gold. I will have to wait another year to find out though. Man, that hand classifying will really take it out of you! But a classifier and a bucket are easier to lug around though. Nice, I am going to try my wheel out sometime this week I am hoping. Thank you, I appreciate it!

@GSProspecting 6 ай бұрын

Cool setup indeed fam. Great job all around. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

@johnskwor9341 6 ай бұрын

Very nice setup, it’s nice to see what people do to find gold in Michigan. Congrats, great video and awesome gold 👍

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate that. Yeah, Michigan can be a tough state for gold, but it is here for sure.

@ShroomMcdoom Ай бұрын

I have seen a couple people put a piece of rubber mat on the discharge chute to help get rid of the clanking rocks on metal sound. A small little upgrade thats good on the ears

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 29 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tip that is a good idea. Cheap and easy too. Thank you for watching

@brianrizzi6321 6 ай бұрын

I was in the GPAA in Michigan. I prospected for 4 years. I sure had fun but in one day metal detecting I found more $$ in silver coins (pre-1965) than I did in 4 years of Michigan gold prospecting

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 5 ай бұрын

It is a lot of fun, but certainly does not pay well in Michigan haha. I love to metal detect too, there are certainly a lot of good finds out there.

@caveman442 6 ай бұрын

Dude, let's talk about the turkey in your garage.....😂

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Haha yeah he is always seeing what I am up to. I have four pet turkeys.

@markgift8609 6 ай бұрын

That Turkey at clean up 😀

@xMacMaynex 6 ай бұрын

Awesome, bro!

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@highwaterprospecting1971 6 ай бұрын

Nice job, now all you need is an ecoworthy 50 amp hour battery,12 lbs and will run both trommel and pump all day 8-10 hrs straight. syr i miss ya out at gerts.

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, I will need a battery like that for sure. Did you go to Gert's? Unfortunately, I was only there for a day.

@highwaterprospecting1971 6 ай бұрын

@@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt no, I had other engagements. Sry

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

No problem, maybe next time.

@highwaterprospecting1971 6 ай бұрын

@@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt I am at athens right now......

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Oh cool, I am actually only about 40 min from Athens. How long are you staying there?

@redrummaster5076 6 ай бұрын

Nice trommel catch your tailings to prove that it doesn't lose anything

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I didn't show it in the video but I did catch the tailings a couple times and panned them. The cube seemed to be catching it all, at least as far as my limited testing showed.

@mikej2314 3 ай бұрын

I live around Detroit area I got the same setup i go with you on your next trip

@MyMIAdventures-cv4dt 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Yeah, it's hard to beat the trommel setup, it makes it so nice. I be at Athens tomorrow, and I should be at the next Gert's outing too.