elder-miner Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 A friend was over & showed me a video of where he was doing some pick, shovel & wheel barrow hand placer mining on a small old channel lava capped tertiary streambed, exposed on the side of a ridge. He used 4 inch irrigation pipe & gravity flow water from a nearby stream to run a sluice box.I bust out laughing at what he was using for a grizzly over the head end of the sluice box. A steel shopping cart basket. Minus the cart part & wheels.I was actually impressed with his ingenuity.So much I went & took a picture of one like he was using.He got so muck bound, with oversized cobbles. He rigged an overhead cable & a sheave type snatch block.So he could load the basket, hoist it up a little & move it on the sheave block roller, to dump the cobbles away from the header box of the sluice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennM Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Wouldn't do too bad for a 1" minus classifier. I can see how he would quickly need some compound cable leverage to empty it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elder-miner Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 LOL, you are right about compound leverage.He mangled one that got away from him.2nd go-around he bolted on angle iron to the sides of the top rail, to reinforce the thing.Plus, triple blocked the pulleys, so he could lift it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Great idea but sure would hate to get my balls busted for taking one of those...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oredigger62 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Hey El Do , come over to my neighborhood there are shopping carts on every corner... That ws the first thing we noticed when we got here... they are everywhere except for the stores... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.