Gold Dredging 2017

Got a few days in before the rain came down. We were able to move the dredge down the river to try out a new spot, and try out a few new things..

[@Ben-tq6dv]

Thanks for taking us along. Nice job on moving the dredge down river. It's always a relief to be finished with dredge moves..

[@clwatson1000]

That is an Awsome Drege you have , Thats what i need Love the video

[@12madcow]

cheers craig.. we lost her in the last flood we had on our claim, have to wait for the river to come down before we pull whats left out..

[@madgoldnz]

Hey guys, hope you get your gear back, what a bugger. Good luck, amazing how stuff sometimes turns up again. Lost a sniffer bottle one time and found it next trip, caught in some willows, with the gold still in it haha.

[@12madcow]

Thanks Madgoldnz, might have found her will go for a dive tomorrow to see if it her that is underwater.... Will take some video to show how high the river got..

[@geneingram351]

Nice dredge set up look like drums for floats and how do you move that big sucker around.

[@12madcow]

she is only 500kgs... maybe a bit more now with the sump etc.. but she moves through the water easily, if the river is deep enough we can move her up with just her motors running, but if we cant we use a ele winch...

[@nickbeam9720]

Beautiful country!

[@chrisdignan6219]

wicked dredge guys all your videos are choice. who made your sluice box looks mint and with the mini fine gold sluice too.would love to come down and watch or get in the river with you guys. if your dredge was the one in the paper hope you can recover it.ive got an 5 inch keene so your videos have helped alot by showing how its done in the south island rivers. thanks guys happy hunting

[@12madcow]

Hey Chris.. yeah that was our dredge.. we made the dredge, box, sump, mini power jet. Hope to get her back soon when the river drops.. but now building a 8" for that claim.. will make a vid on that build later.

[@clwatson1000]

Sure hope you all are registered at gold & gems gazette.

[@ГеоргиКръстев-у7ю]

Hello guys! I'll ask you something about orange gloves, with which the operator works. What model are they? And what size? Are they specifically for dredging?

[@12madcow]

Hello, they are winter safety gloves, they have a lining inside which we take out so our dive gloves fit inside them..

[@bfactor3]

Nevis? you should have taken some close up video of the claim jumpers they could have been named and shamed by locals also what process were they using to prospect over that other side were they just panning ? if so do they have a rights to pan there as as hobbyist as your claim is for dredging in the river and not dredging the bank is this correct ? and yeh if i was in your boots id be pissed if some one was sneeking around down near your claim you need to keep a good watch out for your gear love the vid you post keep up the good work great too see there is still a bit of shinny stuff in the waters

[@12madcow]

Hey BShaw.... We camp down there during the week and pack everything up at the end and bring it all out, only takes an hour when we use all the winches to pull her out.. as for that claim jumper, that was my mother, her 4" is being serviced and having a few changes done..... In saying that we have seen and know a few claim jumpers out there, so we are always keeping in contact with the other claim owners and farmers...

[@bfactor3]

I used to fly fish over there before smashing one of my legs a couple years back on a dirt bike its great country a lot of hiking between fish though also used to do a little crevicing and panning around central otago years ago but havnt been able since accident happened the gold bug really does bite you hard when you get some colour in the pan good luck chap may you're pans be heavy with the shinny stuff

[@crohkorthreetoes3821]

I need me a dredge like that!

[@veisal1]

Hello I am from Bulgaria, I admire your perfect and interesting work, so I turn to you, would you showed me how to do POWER jet 5 inches in Vidin clip here in Bulgaria there is no where to buy ready but to do thank you in advance.

[@12madcow]

mmm you need a couple of 6hp motors with pumps or a single 9hp with a p500 pump to power a 5" dredge, as for the power jet, you would want it to be about 5ft long and match the jets to match your pump output, which is normally 1/4 the size of you output hose on your pump...

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

watched that whole video and didn't even get to see the gold. grrr.

[@12madcow]

Well Damon Trostel if you did watch the whole video you would have seen the gold... So I guess you didn't..

[@geneingram351]

Hell if jumpers just had a pan whats the harm. Jumpers would let you know if thy see more than just a pan being used.

[@randallmidgley7589]

I quite agree, however the claim is publicly notified and it is common manners really, if they ask its usually not a problem, and there are public fossicking areas open to the public. On this claim we have seen large areas where unknown peoples have just been helping themselves so we do take it seriously, as the fines can be thousands of dollars and confiscation of equipment. By the way that jumper was my wife so one has to be careful, but still a great way to spend a summers day.

[@davidstringer6712]

Yawn.... results???

[@12madcow]

mmmmmm i showed the gold at the end... sooooooo

[@Scott.Farkus]

We're used to seeing it being panned out. Wonder why you were dredging the outside of that bend?

[@12madcow]

We only pan when using the smaller dredge, and if you have a good look you would see why we are dredging there... Gold is where you find it, not where some one tells you where it is.... And that's why we always test both side of a river....

[@Scott.Farkus]

Gold deposits mostly on the inside of a bend, because that's where the low pressure area is, so it drops out there. You might find some fine gold on the outside, but the best gold will be on the inside.