what didn't make it into the video was that it actually caught gold here in Oklahoma! I repeatedly hogged material just to overload it and see how it handled it. Each time I would just pull the mats and dump them, make a change and do it again. The last test I just some material at a normal rate for a few minutes. When I panned it (just out of curiosity) I had gold.

The Silver Fiend no way that's awesome i would have never thought that.

thanks, just waiting for my gold stream to open back up!

nope, zero problems packing the catchment screens or riffles unless I absolutely hog material. This is a better gold catcher than my Keene, but only 3 inch.

Just looked up your vid, nice job!

Yes, I've kept that the same. Only change made so far was to replace that piece of huge expanded metal with a professionally made combo unit with half riffles / half expanded.

The Silver Fiend very cool. Best of luck to ya!

Its all small stuff. A couple that barely make it into the "picker" but everything else is flour gold.

multiple principles going on here. First, its an over'under design which allows the majority of the fine material to drop out of the fast flow. The top screen keeps the fine mesh screen from getting beat up by large rocks. That larger material NEEDS that flow to keep moving and exchanging . The large riffles in the second half of the upper are to drop out any pickers and nuggets. The low level has a lower flow rate, which works to keep from blowing out the fines, but still keeps then exchanging in the expanded metal riffles.

It came from a scrap yard, but ended up ditching it. For some reason it would pack up no matter what angle or water flow I used. Now I have a combo expanded/riffles in it's place.

no set angle. you need to run and test for losses then make changes as needed. Angle needed will change from one location to another.

Online Google it but 3 inch is $4k and 6 inch $10k

I've never sat down and done a direct cost comparison but I can tel you its a hell of a lot cheaper. 3 inch Keene dredge will cost $3500, plus taxes. Even with paying other people to do some parts its far less. It just doesn't look at pretty and "refined" as the Keene. Flotation was about $40. Frame with welding was about $120. Probably another $20 for perf pipe. The sluice, mats and moss came from SouthYubaMining, but I'm not sure if hes still in business. Dirt cheap and good stuff. Only things that were expensive on this was the motor (although I got it on sale really cheap), the Keene flare, and the jet log. I wasn't going to tinker around with something that might break or not work correctly so I paid full price for them. I'd guessmatate I have maybe $700 - $800 total in this. Could be as high as $1000 if I'm forgetting some things. It's not fast and its not easy to design and build your own. If you've never dredged before I recommend buying a good used one. Lots for sale out in California.

Awesome information. 1000 bucks is great. Will hunt for a dredge to start off with. Thanks a lot for your prompt answer.

I think its a 6 horse

no, and not for sale either.

@@TheSilverFiend what price to buy