Making a DIY Sluice Box for Gold Mining!

Making a DIY Sluice Box for Gold Mining!
you don't have to buy expensive sluice boxs and gold mining equipment to be successful at gold prospecting. with a little bit of elbow grease you can make a DIY Sluicebox and hit the hills to find your retirement fund.
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[@Hawkeye2001]

I enjoy all your videos, but the recent ones using homemade equipment look like way more fun. And Gatze makes a great side-kick for the adventures.

[@larryhaynes7298]

@hawkeye2001 don't know if u know that he has own channel buckshot prospectsor

[@williampendergrass186]

You guys are by far the most entertaining prospecting show out there.

[@TheBlokeOutback]

Great video Chris, prospecting is something I’ve always wanted to do but most of my life with almost anything I want to do I was being told nope no money in that, but I truely wonder where I’d be if I had just gone with my gut and done at least one of those things so now I’m almost over the hill I’m prospecting and while it definitely will not replace what I earn in my job I am having fun, getting fit and preparing for the day I can afford to retire and finally do some of the other things I’ve wanted to do, all of which could have made me a lot of money but am happy enough to use them to make retirement a little more comfortable, maybe or maybe I should just try retiring early a practice run and if the practice run works out I’ll just keep on keeping on doing what I love to do 😁 cheers 🍻

[@larryscrivens-zq2bl]

Hey Chris, you are on point about how many people that are so afraid of failure that they never even try? Every aspect of life is learned one way or another so expanding one's knowledge should be a life long adventure!!! You and Gaddzee are two hard working dude's , Cheers Mate

[@damiandighton5199]

I have been watching your videos for few years now and I love how you always have fun with what you're doing and how you convey that fun to us. Thank you and keep up the great work.

[@Mithraschosen]

That laminar flow across the board in slow motion is sooooo satisfying. 😎👍

[@longbowshooter5291]

Your statement about trying to do something hit home, and it actually involves you. I watched one of your videos when you were doing a clean up, and you pointed out the difficulty of removing the black sand, and how much trouble it gave you panning, and I had an idea pop up that I really think would work. I've gotten the equipment I needed, but have been sitting around not working on it. I am going to put the thing together, and test it as best I can, then I will contact you and let you know how it works. If it works the way I'm thinking it should work, I think you might be interested. You might stop cursing black sand even.😅

[@mattbarcus1759]

Probably shouldn't make bets about distance estimation with pro archer😅

[@garyreid3199]

DUDE! Make a mini hopper and feeder battery powered, so you can feed that sucker while you test pan/dig more. Shit now i want to build it too.

[@scottleidenberger4401]

Chris, yes 48 meters is 50 meters when carrying two full buckets !

[@johnfarrow5873]

Attach a battery powered palm sander and then you've got a vibrating screen

[@michaelgillespie1206]

I wasn't using Twitter when it was Twitter, I sure as hell won't be using anything associated with Elon Musk.

[@williamspaid7929]

Chris,you've now told us 3 or 4 times that you gotta beat that Matt after it's dried out...but I don't believe you've showed us that process yet. Keep on keeping on

[@ross.....9433]

They should make a cartoon about you two. Your both a funny as together!🤣😂🤣

[@scotthultin7769]

1\4 inch it depends on how cold the water is I'd be there right with you😅

[@travissimpson3199]

Apple dumpling gang was mine as a kid in the 90s

[@debiesubaugher]

Wow that was a way bigger amount than I thought. Always surprised with that big sluice.

[@AlexDoes]

The secret to getting help at Bunnings is to call the store number while you're in the isle at the store. They generally come to you quicker.

[@brandeni1785]

Best gold content on KZbin. The jokes and culture is unbeatable.

[@Brokeassprospector]

Nothing better than using homemade prospecting equipment on the creek 😎 Awesome video and advice 👍

[@OUSurf2]

Got me making a 20 foot carpet gutter

[@darrenbooker8144]

Love the mega sluice and the comedy and the gold takes👍👍

[@danrogers9945]

Like your huge homemade sluce box! It really works great! Love these videos!

[@zacjohnson869]

👍thumbs up to the mega sluice

[@MtnLife-sv9fu]

So 50 meters, keep on keepin on...

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

Good stuff. Go the home made 😁👍

[@williamP111]

It may not work or be worth it, could you add a miniature "nugget" trap to catch the gem stones and crystals?

[@VoGusProspecting]

That's a good odea

[@mickme8914]

Senior pee pants!

[@TJWallaroos]

Yes it’s 50 meters

[@martinbeaumont1908]

Nice one Brother

[@ziegemitfahrer5277]

Home-made bodgie stuff??? Bloody brilliant. Keep 'em coming, please. Hows about taking suggestions on what to build next???

[@seasonallyferal1439]

Love watching the homemade equipment in action. You should make a comfortable yoke out of aluminum. It would save your arms well carrying buckets.

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

DIY equipment works, glad you got your confidence! Nice work!

[@RexSkittles]

Man I love your channel! And you!! First thing out of the gate, “Bedknobs & Broomsticks” is the best movie ever!… I love it!

[@buffalokrisgoldprospecting]

Aaaaaah yes the good old fashion meat scoop. Absolutely 50 meters. That sluice is perfection.. i love it. Great show brother thank you fir sharing. This video was awsome

[@LanaLaughsRealLoud]

ThankQ Chrisco Gadzee for the fun in the sun while digging for gold. ❤👏👍🏻🙏☝🏻

[@stephenpublicover8818]

Hey mate, I laugh every time when you and Gadzee go prospecting! Keep up the great videos! Cheers Mates.

[@davidhandyman7571]

Chris, you have the basic understanding of how gold behaves and how it reacts to certain conditions. That means you can work out how to take advantage of that and build your own equipment.

[@DirtmopAZ]

It’s 50

[@derpityderp-derp4007]

Because of you I have built "The Gold Digger 9000". It'll suck the chrome off a bumper. A hand bilge pump converted to a modular dirt sucker.

[@andrewhallam4580]

I agree bed knows and broomsticks quality film and another fantastic video

[@jacobbroe5279]

Here is a paceing trick to getting much closer to an accurate distance. Find a 100 meter distance. Like roadpullards(?). Now walk the distance with normal stride and pace. And count the steps ...obviously... im 120 steps to 100m myself. Then its simple math.

[@TalRohan]

X communication ....go Chris that gold is incredibly pretty

[@dennisconrad]

Dear Sir, I, like most people of my age, was born in the ‘80s, and therefore fondly remember the film “Flight of the Navigator”. This, not Broomknobs and Stickbeds, is the best Disney film of all times. Not only does it feature the first use of reflection mapping in cinema history, it also features a cute young Sarah Jessica Parker before she looked like a shoe. Yours etc., Rear Admiral Sir Archibald Q. Hincklebottom OBE (Mrs)

[@castorchange9737]

I implore you to help me out. Can you help me out though? I wanna learn how to begin panning for gold using that washing machine but i gotta diy everything. Thank you and please implore lol 😊

[@snowman333-]

I did not know you were so tall. my regular stride is only 30" (76 cm}, but I 'm only 6' tall (182 cm). For me, 48 paces would only be approximately 38.5 meters!

[@benjy-adams]

Absolutely love your "home-made stuff" videos - this was a super enjoyable one...can't say I agree on Bedknobs tho! Keep the content coming!

[@Wildfrontier_adventures]

Awsome work guys both of you make an enjoyable watch and very educational

[@VoGusProspecting]

Cheers maN

[@stevenglover9956]

What about building your own mini wash plant for under 250 bucks?

[@gavinhogg6552]

Making my own sluice box and other things is so rewarding, and finding the materials roadside shopping makes it affordable lol.... Thanks for the video Chris Cheers mate 👍🤓✌️

[@gyvren]

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that you and Gadzee rival Dan Hurd and Pioneer Pauly as most entertaining prospecting channels.. and that’s saying something.. keep it up, boys! 🙂🙂👍

[@VistaViews]

Sorry Gadzee (spelled that way on purpose) but 48 is WAY closer to 50 than 30. 😂😂

[@alancadieux2984]

In Canada 🇨🇦, 2 things here both illegal, a ground sluice for 1, & 2: if the water you are releasing has a heavier silt load than the water 💧 it is being released into, big no no. However, the idea of classifying the paydirt beforehand could be really useful for the same reasons as given. At $2600/ounce not a bad day.

[@48thstateprospecting]

No it’s not 50 meters your legs are short so I’ll say 136 feet back to the vid…man if you could take that to gad zee’s permission…. HALF AN OUNCE🤩 not a bad take great vid thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

[@hobbieminers8487]

Nice 1 bud like the way u think keep up the good work.👍⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@FullSwingJ]

Yo Chris we both absolutely love your vids bro, but the sound of your Australian accent sends her to sleep…. How’s a man suppose to get seggy time when she’s constantly asleep 😂… banter aside we both love your content keep up the hard work , love from the UK 🇬🇧

[@mickme8914]

Chris, you're a freaking LEGEND mate. Love ya

[@pappyb9644]

Nice gold in the mega sluice enjoy all your videos ⚒️🇺🇸🕳️⛏️

[@MadMarlin1964]

So where did Paw’s meds go? Also use this for the next time you have to walk so far! La Kipo Nekrif Scrumpet Leech

[@MrJudder413]

So they say everything in Australia 🇦🇺 wants to kill you but I have yet to see anything but that cute Echidnas (and yes I absolutely Googled how to spell that because I was waaaaaayyy fing off lol) Anyway keep up the awesome content man love it In massachusetts USA 🇺🇸

[@reelingminnesota2855]

Don't know about meters but I'm usually only off 1-2 +- yards when I step out something like that.

[@gimpygrandpa8281]

When I knew I was going to have to build a damn I always carried with me a 4‘ x 10‘ piece of plastic. It made dam building a breeze. Lay down a log and it bury the front side of the plastic in the sand.

[@jeremyk_541]

I absolutely love this channel. Hello from Oregon 👋🏻

[@whosaidthat5236]

Mini shaker table mini shaker table shall I go on? Oh and please lift with your legs . I’ve been roofing and siding for over 25 years and I’ve seen lots of younger men ruin their backs. I’ve been lucky my dad and grandfather taught me that young . My backs still good.shoulders on the other hand not so good lol

[@awi7317]

To solve your dispute over the distance, I propose the invention of a new system of measurement: the Vo-Gus system (Forget metric this will be the best)

[@MrJudder413]

11:45 the aluminum strip is called metal -mate. That's the most Australia brand ever. Would be like dude or guy where mate was in the US

[@Mal-nourished-again]

What do you and others do during drought years and no stream flow....improvise in some other way or just go without water and detect/drybank only ?

[@vincebulwin8888]

It's fun watching you two get wet , I'm working on 74 comet installing 428 , it assembly time for me .🎉

[@NomadUniverse]

I recommend instead of putting your mat wedges under screws, add some fixed blocks to wedge under. It ill last a lot longer. I'm a toolmaker/fitter/machinist with around 20 years exp. across a lot of different fields from aerospace to electrical and would gladly consult with you for free. I'm somewhat medically retired now but love to share knowledge and tips and help design stuff. I've had a keen interest in gold mining since Gold Rush started on Discovery. I watch Bering Sea Gold as well. I often look at their equipment and see ways to improve it and believe I have a good understanding of how it all works. One of my dreams is to one day go up to Alaska and see what I can do. I have the knowledge, just not the health, or the money yet.

[@williampendergrass186]

Hi Chris, I notice that you are lucky that everywhere you go the gravel bars are easy to dig up. In Western Washington where I dig , the gravel is filled with fist to head sized rocks that are packed hard and need to be pried up with pick or shovel using my boot to pry over.

[@MichaelCater]

Cant argue - Bedknobs and Broomsticks IS the best movie ever.

[@finkster7983]

The laminar flow shot in beginning sequence beautiful but ... I'm going with our generation almost always uses the "price is right" rules of the person that gets closest without going over . So no 48 isn't 50 lol so senior sweat pants wins

[@TJWallaroos]

❤ first time I’ve had the chance to be the first comment!! Keep up the great work Chris

[@johncasebeer179]

By Price Is Right rules, Gadzee won.

[@andrewthomas405]

48 metres …DONT ya hate a smarty pants gatsy 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@SGRS28]

Yo I only found your channel a few days ago and liked what you do. Now that I have seen your Pokemon socks, that's worth a follow!

[@stephenfowler4115]

Or you could just pour a few buckets of water over your tailings pile instead of waiting for the rain.

[@greatunclekeefie]

Everyone needs a Gadzee when prospecting to keep moral high

[@durtyt4770]

You should have fake tanned orange then bleached your hair before you built that "big beautiful wall from sea to sea!"

[@piratescrew1869]

I really like what you’re doing!👍👍

[@DesertTuna]

Love the support you talk 🙂 I get a kick out of watching the mega sluice 😂🤙👍

[@haroldludwick6423]

I have interest in knowing what was in your screened waste? ... water classify your screen waste into a pan and find out if gold is sticking to the rocks, then calculate a loss percentage with what you get from the sluice.

[@magicone9327]

Making a tool rather than running to the store and buying it is very satisfying.

[@Blizzy122..]

hot diggity dog ive been waiting for your next Mega Sluice vid love your vids mate

[@wesleykamerer6154]

You should build a sifter similar to what archeologists use to screen material.

[@haileydee9954]

I would say the thing that you are doing is wrong but I've never sluiced gold and i just enjoy the videos and I'm not here to hate so i guess I won't do that. Have a nice day Mr. Chris

[@finneganbeginagain1701]

I LOVE 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'!!!!!!

[@skwervin1]

I am surprised you didn't cut down a dare bottle to use as a scoop... I love your videos and would love to have a crack at this.

[@absmith666]

Gadzy was closest without going over.

[@SuperGmang]

If you need rain to wash the rock pile to check for crystals. How about use a bucket of rain to dump on it.

[@DavidCrowder-jz5hn]

Got to add vogus to horse shoe"s and hand granades! Cause that close enough!!!😂😂😂 5:07

[@andrewhazlewood4569]

Your steps are a lot less than a metre each. It was probably about 40 metres. Half way between the two of you. So you were both right or both wrong.

[@dannymac9732]

Ever thought about panning in the creeks around mount Morgan?

[@dsmith9103]

49.5mtrs judging by my eyecrometer

[@cylonmk2]

You almost need a motorised wheelbarrow to truck your dirt to the creek Great vid as always

[@johannesdesloper8434]

dude, make it twice as wide and you can use a shovel to feed it, IF you have enough water ofcourse.

[@stephenfowler4115]

The average step of an adult male is two and a half feet. So 48 paces is not going to be 50 meters.

[@tezk9044]

Your steps are probably about .75 of a metre , so 48 steps x 0.75 = 36 metres

[@breckfreeride]

Beavers and Duluth firehouse pants...

[@frantiseklaluch6605]

Wow, 0,68 is a lot in that much dirt... good spot...