Thank you all so much!!!! For your support and I appreciate you all for watching this story and adventure .😊

Whaaat! Actually prepping and maintaining your equipment before you start your season - unheard of!

Best line of the video "Oil, the sacred lubricant". Awesome trial run of your full setup for the first time! Such an amazing adventure for us to get to all enjoy and watch. You have so much awesome support in your corner as you follow your dream!

🤩💥🔥, proud of what you are doing Andy. You have created reality from what was once a daydream. I can’t wait to see what happens next brother. Great job on the success 👊

You will get there Andy, hard work usually pays off and i belive that you have it in you. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Cheers 🍻

6:05 To make sure the sheet of deployed metal stay close to the bottom, you should give the sheet a small curve ! :) Nice work ! You put Hoffman to shame !

a little marvel in the cylinder goes a long way after sitting a bit, that's not a bad first day at all ,you have a list of things needs attended to and some gold that will get ya going on the list great job as far as im concerned, cant wait for the next post

That is so awesome and gratifying to see the water flow, and the first scoop of test dirt come out with decent gold! And that's not even the best pay-dirt yet? Wow! Great!! There are always some complications with the pumping and the generating, and sluice angle. Surely you'll have it humming soon. Keep up the great work. Can't believe the amount of work and effort just to get started. Rock on Andy! Woohoo! 🤯🥳🧠🫀💪🦾

This is so fun to watch, its like being there just by watching the video👍🎉

Thanks for sharing your story, I have been enjoying following the trials & tribulations

Man I love that you are doing this cleverly, locally so you can be home, prioritising efficient work - maintenance / checking equipment properly - not just doing the "RUNTIME RUNTIME RUNTIME" mantra... but that efficient runtime and preventative maintenance - not cutting corners. I want you to do spectacularly well to show the world that boxing clever is better than boxing alot.

The shaker joke got me to LOL. Love this series, keep it up! Bring home the gold!!!

Kickin it into gear!!!! Congrats on that gold!!! You deserve it man.

Keeping items over the years in hopes of using them for a future project is the way it should be. You may have a bit of Scottish in your blood laddy. Beautiful to see the dream come true for you. Your planning and hard work will start to pay off. Respect!

Man I can’t wait to see this running full blast. Great video

Heck yeah Andy! The spirit of old Bill Barlee is with you haha. I love that the area all around your claim was on Gold Trails & Ghost towns. Mr. Barlee’s old books are great too. That man had an incredible amount of knowledge about mining. Congrats, I really think your about to hit bonanza ground, & I can’t wait to watch it when you do! Keep up the great videos brother

Fascinating as always, Andy, Thank you for posting.

Hey Andy love how your so meticulous with your equipment making sure everything is maintained and ready for action even if it takes up more of your time in the long run it reduces any chance of your equipment breaking down so it’s definitely worth the effort so well done I am sure you will iron out the start up niggles and will start to reap the rewards of all your hard work and become a successful mining operation I really love watching your progress you are an inspiration to many people who are wanting to go into mining. All the best from me here in Glasgow Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❤

Problem solving is what makes or breaks a miner. Good job on figuring out the problems and fixing them to get sluicing. Great video:)

Lets go andy nothing comes easy but I think ur gonna nail it this season

Now for a little fine tuning and a full day run!!! You got this Andy! Don’t be discouraged

Great vid as always thanks for sharing the reality of a small scale miner. When that machine is dialed in you will be killing it Andy well done!

thats so cool to see you put the first scoop through the system, cant wait to see it after you work out the bugs and its running smooth....good job andy

I just love the Show!! Greets from Germany 😊

Okay, here is what we learn from this day: It was a good day. Nobody got hurt, no equipment damaged, gold was earned. Congratulations, miner! It is not nice to see you quarrel with your resources but I am impressed how you continue, how you keep to the aim and how you stay focused. Great. I am really exited how (not if) you will succeed.

Awesome start looking forward to the next video. Have a wonderful day!

Wow dude, challenging day! Hats off to you mate for working through your problems and still getting some gold in the pan. Can't wait to see the next episode

I'm so excited for u Andy, can't wait to watch

I am so much looking forward to you going full bore. Gold gold gold!

Love your videos hopefully I can do some panning this week with my kid

Another great video Andy! Thanks again for putting in all the extra time to share it with us. I have sooo much respect for the way you go about things. Love the positivity even during frustrating moments. All these obstacles are going to make it all that much more rewarding when you start pulling nuggets out of the sluice! Can’t wait for the next video, keep at it, the operation is really coming together!😉👊✌️

Camping - and woke up to see you posted a video !! 💛

Pre-show thumbs up

so cool to see ! cant wait for more :)

😲that's a good clean out for only 1 bucket!!!!! Wash plant needs some tuning but you got this. Just a little more power, water, and slope and your ready to get that beautiful AU. Stay safe and stay strong out there.

Cool that you emphasized keeping your equipment serviced. Vitally important to efficiency! Good luck chasing the Au!

Rooting for ya Andy! Heavy pans! Got a fix for your buckets when you finally get them separated. Put a rag over the lip of the bottom bucket so that the suction effect is mitigated

Well first run not so perfect,but I know you will improvise,overcome,and adapt and get that plant humming !!!! Great work andy,your almost there!! Thanks for sharing!! 🇨🇦💪⛏️👍

So exciting to watch the plant come online! I hope the next video is a lot of tuning and dialing it in, excited to see this haul and watch your journey, this is fantastic!

Looks like you are growing! Love the claim. Can’t wait to see what you end up with this season. Glad to see some new and larger equipment finally.

So good to finally see you sluicing Andy! keep up the good work

I really look forward to your vids, well done and thanks!

Nice to see the gold!

Building anything worthwhile, takes time. You'll get it all dialed in. Looking forward to seeing your solutions :). Good job, fun stuff, keep it coming.

Miners ingenuity, your gonna find a solution to each problem. For the first bit you’ll fix one problem and find four more. You’re going to get that thing running tops though. Good luck out there man! You’re gonna kick ass this year.

Lubrication on moving parts and more power. Good luck and God bless y'all

Great Show Andy, 👍. 33 a scoop On the test. Looking Good 👍

Well done Andy. Self reliant, resilient, hard working, patient and composed. I love the way you are chronicling your journey, warts and all. Mistakes are no problem if we learn from them. Looking forward to the next installment.

Awe man great cliff hanger, that looked like a rough but exciting day. Keep up the awesome work.

Well on your way 👍👍

Great setup man and good job on the solo modifications. Looks like a LOT of hard work! 💪🏼

Congrats with reaching this milestone. 👍

Another great vid and congrats on getting some Gold on the first run. I love that you are taking us on the whole journey with you not just bought a claim and here's the clean up. Andy keep up the great work and thanks very much for your videos.

Hey Andy, another superb video. If you're ever worried about say an engine like that. If there is no metallics in the oil. Just spin the engine like you did and feel for compression.

Always enjoy your journey, keep safe sir.

I like to use dishsoap and water to connect my hose to its appropriate fitting. Spin with the direction of the spiral on the rigid hose. Looking good!!

Hell ya,you could weld in a couple short bolts to hold down the center of the expanded metal,you could try a high pressure pump from Keene then you could get going with just one motor running water

Man, for just one scoop you are going to do great! About the screen bowing in the middle, just weld some small studs in the middle and use wing nut and washers on top of the screen to hold it down flat. That’s what I did and I saw it on several other KZfaq videos and it works great! I love what you eat doing there. I have something similar he in the southern states and just following you along because we have so much in common. Good luck friend! We always need it! 😂

awesome , watching all your shows from port albert NF.

now the fun starts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steal a trick from Parker. You’re trying to use that green half pipe to stop erosion of your bank at the end of your sluice. Just cut the slope you want and throw down a tarp.

So happy to see that thing runnin! Bit more water and you'll be chewin through the yards. Good take for one scoop, you'll be gettin about a gram every 3 scoops and it'll add up fast! Awesome to see you chase the dream

congrats on finally seeing some gold rewarding all your hard work!! keep it up! i cant believe how much pay your getting, you'll definetely be strikimg it rich ponce you dial in!!! hey i know how much it takes but ould you possibly put out even more videos and longer cuz i go crazy waiting for your next release and i'm always disapointed when the video ends so soon!!! thanks bud

Great job.

Nice set up. Isn't it always fun dialing in the plant

Great videos, I look forward to seeing these each week. Have you thought about putting a little bit of a bend in the expanded metal and use the wood at sides of the sluice to push it flat, that way the bend should exert hopefully enough pressure in the middle of the mats where you said in video that it's needed? Hopefully you will get all your issues sorted out and will get plenty of gold for reward of all your time and effort that you put into this.

congrats bro! Wild!

Yay! Your first gold after all your hard work!

HECK YEA BROTHER!! can't wait to see what your season total at the end of the year is gonna be keep up the amaizing work homie LETS GET IT!!

New sub, thanks for the content. I found your video interesting informative and entertaining. I heard about your channel from Dan Hurd. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

So awesome!!!!

Awesome Andy remember rome wasn’t built in a day lol. It’s a work in progress I like it. Few modifications it will work like a charm. I use a bolt & wing it in center to hold down stretch metal to not warp 👍🏻

Nice job!!! that was alot of work, Nice to see that machine up and moving around though. Its a tremendous amount of work considering you built all that stuff too. Good video!

Looking good, Andy! Hope you find helpful a suggestion or two: Consider changing description syntax from 3rd person to 1st (they to I/we.) Prevent bucket lock-up with three grometted holes @ 120° drilled a couple inches below rim (keeps liquid from over-topping too.) Don't verbalize negatives i. e. Hope this works etc..., say nothing at all (or inject a positive.) Heavy pans to ya!

Thanks again

we use 5 gal pales with lids on tied to suctions when were diamond drilling

Awesome!

Great job on using a torch to sweat the hoses onto the fittings! I've always just wrassled the SOB's on until I figured that great idea out! There is no stronger force known to mankind than that holding 5 gallon buckets together...sigh rt/fk/sht! Great Job all the way around!

At the end of the video, on camera at least, that looked like a good amount of gold for one excavator bucket load….looked REAL good👍🙂

Need the next video in the installment. You blue balling me with the setup. Lol

Such well-made videos, keep it up!

The struggle is real!

Andy's check list isn't on paper. It's in his head. 🤯

Bin waiting for this luv the videos 😊❤🇬🇧👍

Set one side up on edge of sluice box and step on center bend down a little edges should be up a little when you place it back in

Andy congrats on getting to the stage where you are able to run the washplant, I look forward to seeing what you manage to achieve. Just one thing to consider, I know that you decided not to make the washplant mound higher and instead you decided to dig holes of around 10 inches to get the washplant levels right. My concern is that going forward and all the water that washes over the Sluices over the course of a normal week will actually be more problematic than had you taken the time to raise the height of your mound for the washplant. The longterm water running over the sluices will eventually make the outfeed table unsafe and you may potentially lose gold from the box. I know that you are hoping that the smaller generators will be able to run the plant and everything that you built but honestly I willbe amazed if it works that way. The size of the washplant that you built and the water system along with the shaker bed combined are going to be needing a lot more power that household generators are able to provide. It's certainly clear to see the whole thing has cost you a fortune let alone the blood sweat and tears it cost you, I just want you to succeed and hope you can get a larger generator to provide all the power you need to run everything!!!. As alway's guy's 💯% 👍 🇬🇧.

Wahoo, great experience

Good luck mate 👍🇦🇺 19:44

Those buckets getting the best of ya 😂😂😂 it's like trying tk rip the universe apart. Lol.

Teething problems,you’re smart enough to work it out Boy that was a nice looking pan for .7 of a metre ,Good Stuff

Oh boy, been there before. Brand new washplant and not enough H20. Best investment I ever made for my placer op was a reliable diesel water pump. That is the absolute cornerstone of a small scale mining venture.

Bucket hack, tuck the handles inside the bucket below when stacking, keeps them from sticking together.

RE the scratchy pump sounds....the impeller is cast iron and it is a tight clearance between it and the aluminum case corrosion can build between impeller and back of case when sitting and actually seize up the pump it seems like it is the motor but take the pump case off and spray lube in behind the impeller let sit then turn back and forth to loosen it back up...the clearance is tight to build pressure...

There is nothing stronger than the force that holds 2 5 gallon buckets together

A rule of thumb is 10 gallons per minute for each inch of sluice width.

well trials and tribulations but that looks like a nice little take considering its only a test run....and there is very little chance you lost any with the water not running enough Very cool to see things get started Andy

Andy... Grab your torch and and quickly throw some heat on that outer bucket. It'll drop right off. Next week's upload after cleanout...... 1.3 ounces!! 👍

You could do bolts, washers, and nuts down the center of your screens and torque it down.

You are living my dream!!!!

The best way I found to get two buckets apart is with an air gun and air compressor, just blow air in between the buckets. Works great!