![]() ![]() I belong to a local prospecting club and found a nice gentleman that let me borrow his drywasher and built this machine here: As far as making a unit, whether it be a drywasher, highbanker or dredge.the easiest way is to find someone that will lend you one for a week to allow you to reverse engineer. There are some easy to understand instructions on how to build one. Some tools you simply have to buy, rivet gun, drills, clamps, snips etc. They make all the difference in the world. First off, when getting serious about making your own equipment for cheap, which I have. ![]() Just about a year and a half in and have collected about a gram of good yellow gold. This site has been a great support and resource hope to meet ya all on the river at some point. All together we got like $60 for the box and grizzlys and $10 in plumbing and $120.00 in the sluice. The grizzly was an old grill grate and a new grate cover that my son bought that cost like $6.00. We have a keen 4 ft sluice and we made the box from a heavy gage plastic storage bin from Lowe's that cost like $16.00 and then ran PVC to it and connected a hose fitting to it that works on same connection as our blue bowl. We have also built pretty much our on highbanker set up I think we got all that stuff together. Got a kid in collage and tryin to pay the house off so money is a big object. I need to know if this will be OK and if so what else I need and where can i buy it on the cheep. I know its off brand but if it tares up I got 2 years to keep taken it back. I just bought a 2.5 horse clean water pump that pumps about 60 gal per min from harbor freight for $129 bucks on sale. Money is tight and I have to do it on the cheep. My son and I would love to build a dredge and or highbanker. ![]() My son and I and another SC prospector that turned me on to this site named Astrobouncer met thermal city and sluiced for about 8hrs this past weekend and found about double what we did in Northern GA. We found our first gold weekend b4 last in Northern GA, and we found more this past weekend in Western NC. My son and I have a year under our belt of looking every where but where we need to. ![]()
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