Use a 1 1/2-inch piece of pipe double-threaded for use as a male-to-male connector.Always have an extra set of hose connectors at hand.Don't have the hose retailer put their connectors on your lay-flat hose-they're permanently mounted.Cut lay-flat hose to no more than 50-foot lengths for ease of rolling, carrying, and storing.Consider more costly quick-release connectors as they allow you to move more material in a given time period.Buy gray lay-flat hose, even though it costs 20 percent more than the blue, because it will last far longer.Add a T-valve to your pump so you can prime it with a bucket instead of thrusting the foot valve into the river.Hints on setting up your highbanker/dredge
With a highbanker, you take the river to the gold. With the pan and sluice box, you take the concentrates to the river. The combo unit allows underwater prospecting plus it has the capability of moving 10 to 20 times the amount of material of a sluice either at the river's side or high-up on the river's bank and its prehistoric river terraces. Giving the owner the best attributes of both a floating dredge and a highbanking sluice box, the highbanker/dredge combo is two tools in one. When the samples begin producing fewer pieces of gold to the pan, you will know to where you should go back in order to set up your prospecting operation. That way, when you count the gold in each sample pan, you will have a base to work from. If you dig six inches in the first hole, dig six inches in the following holes. You should always sample the same way each time: that is, if you use one shovel full of material in your pan when you dig your test hole, then use one shovel full in each following pan. Panning samples is still how the prospector finds the optimum place to obtain the most gold. Later on, a motorized highbanker, dredge, or highbanker/dredge combo becomes an attractive alternative. While panning is, on its own, a means to finding and recovering gold, more seasoned prospectors tend to purchase a sluice box after about their first year in order to move more "material," the sand and gravel in which placer gold is found. Gold Prospectors of the Rockies - Highbanking Tips Backįrom a talk by Steve Cychosz, GPR Past PresidentĪs appearing in The Gold Nugget, July 1999
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