Machines | Oregon Gold Mining - Trommel Operation Part 1
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First week of operating the trommel...getting the bugs out and doing some sampling for high grade deposits. Deposit found at 7-8 feet depth...15 feet wide. 15 feet to bedrock from top of the water. Can't reach bedrock until fall, so we will mine the shallow deposit, which is reachable. Mining on private property on Applegate drainage. See more at http://mashdetectors.com
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Problem- at least half your gold is at the base of the first grizzly. Solution- move the plant closer and double stack grizzlies over feeder... overburden goes off to one side and pay goes into plant in one step... your welcome
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Get some chain guards on !
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Here's an idea guys: I watch alot of dirt being picked up more than once. Build a custom built dump trailer with axles on each end of the trailer. Design the trailer so one axle set can turn (for steering). Hell, use the gooseneck trailer approach. Use one set of axles as the part where the "gooseneck" of the trailer would drop into. In other words, build the trailer with one axle on one end, and the other end of the trailer would be a heavy duty 3 to 4 inch diameter steel pin pointing downwards. On the other axle, fabricate the receiver for the pin; a 3 to 4 inch tube in which the pin would drop into. This would allow the one axle set to turn (just as if the gooseneck of a trailer was dropped into the truck bed into the receiver). That'd make the trailer steerable and mobile without it being attached to a vehicle. An excavator could push it, pull it, or a winch could pull it. Make the dump trailer 4 feet deep and put grizzly bars 3 feet up from the bottom of the trailer. So while you load your trailer, the big rocks stay on top and the dirt falls thru. NEXT STEP: Winch, push, or pull the trailer to the feed of a sluice. Tilt the trailer up, and use water to wash the dirt right from the trailer down the sluice (bend up some 18 gauge sheetmetal attachments). The big rocks would stay right there in the trailer (on top of the grizzlies) while the dirt washed out and down the sluice. You'd pick up dirt ONCE. Then hook the trailer to the excavator, pull it somewhere, and dump the rocks that hung up on the grizzlies (design the grizzlies so you could remove some metal and the rocks would fall off when you dumped it). The trailer would be custom made for doing this. That'd allow dirt to be scooped up ONCE, and your excavators would be getting shut down time while you rinsed the trailer. Hell, fabricate TWO trailers so while you rinse one, the other is being loaded. Make the trailers 10 yards, 20 yards, 15 yards, whatever you like. Dirt would be in the excavator bucket ONE TIME. If you did 2 trailer fulls in an hour, that'd be 20, 30, or 40 yards per hour with much efficiency since the dirt was only scooped ONCE.
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That trommel needs some paddles ensures breakage of the material
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losing gold not washing off the bigger rocks.
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How much will a small setup like this cost. I'm looking to leave NYC ad begin prospecting in Vermont border to Canada. Thanks.
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You guys are living the dream! I'm working towards that kind of operation. So cool. Beautiful gold, and can't beat the scenery! Keep posting!
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Too much thats for sure...
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How much does all the equipment cost?
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Awesome little operation!
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i this private land or leased public land? looks like it would have gold there haah
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The big sprocket is actually in shorter pieces of round bar like about 1.5 feet each and bent circular and then welded the small sprockets to the bent bar and pieced all together. Hand made little sprockets...Crazy eh?
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Lots of hand welding!
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AWESOME! How did you make a such a large diameter sprocket on the trommel?
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Nice little operation!
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I envy you guys. I'm 15 years old so I'm stuck panning and sluicing in the rivers by my house ( mostly by myself.) I have some luck but I can't get down to the river enough to make a profit on all my gear I bought a couple years ago. Good hobby though.
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The trommel will get buried very quickly if we let it get rid of the big boulders on its own...in about one hour it will be surrounded and buried by big rocks making it a pain to move it to the next hole.
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I had the trottle running at idle is all...
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it's chews through an entire 10 yards per season
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Hi me agian, i see you wrote the weight in there 1.5 ounces, i missed that last time. very good