IDdesertman 323 Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Heres a few more, these are still from dredges on the Yuba. I think I'm getting toward the end, I've got one more box to go through with maybe a dozen slides. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TomH 2,757 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Reallly appreciate these Its amazing the amount of material they moved. Would have loved to see the sluice box prior to clean up Tom H. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Swampstomper Al 1,336 Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 On 5/15/2018 at 8:57 PM, IDdesertman said: Here's one more pic of the above contraption... found a note on the this slide that reads " Dredge near Sonoita, Arizona. June 1961". Seeing this rig in its 'given location' makes me suspect there are some folks who have for years been doing quite decently for themselves quietly dry washing locations and outside perimeters S of Greaterville, E of Madera Valley, N of Pategonia and W of Sonoita.. Swamp PS: To those on here who can most likely confirm / refute, I, for one, expect to hear nothing.. And do you mind if I crash at your place for a couple months..? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
L Prock 55 Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 Not a dredge but built by the Yuba Dredge company. This one is up for auction. https://gobidtoday.hibid.com/lot/45656906/yuba-ball-tread-tractor-model-10-20 In 1914, the Ball Tread Company was purchased by the Yuba Construction Company, a large California firm that specialized in dredging for gold in the Yuba River, and in building gold dredging machinery. Yuba continued to sell the 12-25 and a larger 18-35 Ball Tread, building the tractors in their Marysville and Benecia plants. https://www.farmcollector.com/tractors/the-crawler-that-rolled 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Saul R W 741 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/22/2018 at 8:44 AM, L Prock said: Not a dredge but built by the Yuba Dredge company. This one is up for auction. https://gobidtoday.hibid.com/lot/45656906/yuba-ball-tread-tractor-model-10-20 In 1914, the Ball Tread Company was purchased by the Yuba Construction Company, a large California firm that specialized in dredging for gold in the Yuba River, and in building gold dredging machinery. Yuba continued to sell the 12-25 and a larger 18-35 Ball Tread, building the tractors in their Marysville and Benecia plants. https://www.farmcollector.com/tractors/the-crawler-that-rolled What a great old piece of machinery. I love the steering system, including the front wheel direction indicator. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Muley 1 Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Does anyone have any pictures of the Randsburg dredge that operated in the Randsburg California area? The only picture that I have seen is the one on page 74? of a drywashing book by the late Jim Straight's book Advanced Prospecting & Detecting for Hardrock Gold which shows a floating washplant not an actual "Dredge". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Uncle Ron 1,486 Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 I got to watch the last operating bucket dredge in Northern CA on Indian Creek in Scott Valley, an operation run by the Harms Brothers. It was awesome to watch...They got beaucoup gold but, like most aggressive placer operations, they did not recover enough to make expenses....Cheers, Unc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LipCa 357 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Indian creek or Rattlesnake creek? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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