Definitely add labor. It is a joy to see your skills and problem solving. Not to overlook those playful video tricks. You were born to do this.

I like how you clearly tally costs and time, letting anyone put whatever value on work when they ponder doing something like this. Fascinating build. My dads homestead is sitting in gold-country and I have pondered if it would be worth it trying to get it out of the ground, this series told me that I would have to spend a years wages just for materials, tools and time to build the stuff that I need if I ever want to go beyond a pan and a wooden wash-box, so clearly big mining is still just a pipedream. I think that I some day will do something of a smaller scale, like 1/4 or 1/8 scale since I would only have to deal with smaller rocks for the dirt I would deal with, and it would probably be something I could make withhout high-end stuff like plasma-cutters. I wish I had known what I know today 30 years ago, before we planted forest on top of the fields where I now know we got 5 inches of ironsand that got some gold in it about 2,5 meters below turf. Keep making videos about your builds!

my buddy (professional machinist) was introduced to your work today. as I thought your skill and practicality was greatly appreciated by him. we are in our 60s so can fantasize our youthful return to the type of skill and independence you demonstrate, in starting some adventuresome scheme. fun to see someone live their own dream. oh to do it again

I'm a pharmacist from Poland and after your movies I have new big dream to visit your country and watch how this machine works. I am jealous that you can create thats beautifull man staff alone only with your brain and muscle. P.S. This was the best 3 movies I have been watched on youtube since a long time, thanks

The knowledge.. dang man. The more I watch… holy moley!! Absolutely pro!

Yay just what I need for my Saturday afternoon

Great build, can’t wait to see it in operation. Not only should you include your labor in the value, you need to add profit. MSI prices their equipment to not only cover the costs but to put profit in their pockets. You need to do that too. That money helps pay for your extensive, first hand knowledge gained from years of experience plus R and D. It also helps to cover the costs of broken equipment replacement/upgrades. Never sell yourself short, you’ve made huge investments in equipment, training, and experience. That has value, your skills have value, your experience has value. Well done, can’t wait to see more

My little boy thought you kicking the trommel around was the funniest thing ever

They see mee rollinggg

You do amazing work. You could succeed in any mechanical field and your explanations are great!

Thanks for letting me see how and why you doing the Build a certain way thanks I am sadly confined to my wheelchair after motorcycle accident so can never do the things you do so very happy to at least learn from you all the little things I would never thought off thank you and I am loving your videos keep up the fantastic work

your time is always priceless

Thanks for sharing, brilliant serious and lots of fun parts too. Mind you I was invited onto a gold mine yesterday, we must have run the trommel in the reverse direction to you, you threw dirt in and money fell out the end, we threw money in and just dirt come out the end 😂😂😂😂😂.

I really enjoyed all 3 episodes . Great work man !!!

I wouldn’t add your labor as the point was take a mitigation approach but if you do add it it would add insight for the viewers. This was a great series that I hope you can add a 4th episode to showing the paint and sluice box additions. Not to mention the maiden voyage! Very informative and just a “whack ton” 🤣 of fun to watch!

Dude, you are a beast!

Great editing man, and a beauty of a trommel.

i am a office man, equipment sale, all adverting, videos, and also 3D drawing. but i admire what you can do it yourself. i believe your trommel is good, if it can go mass production, we will laugh

You always count your time. That time is worth it’s weight in gold. Great video and nice build 👍

I can't hardley believe that this piece of equipment has come together for you in just a few short videos, and I do think you need to add the value of your time into the overall cost, but at the average rate for a welder to keep it simple. Can you believe were almost through February? You will have this painted and running before you know it! Being a Nebraska flat lander, I am very interested in seeing this used in the field soon. I hope your having at least half as much fun as us watching, then we know your happy and doing what you love. PS. The edits are alot of fun, keep doing what you are, and we will keep watching. Peace.

Thanks for sharing your build with us it was great. Love the video. Looking forward to your next one. Stay safe

Really enjoyed this series so far. I learned welding and fabricating in high school and I am a hobby prospector in my free time in the summer. Ive thought about building a trommel as just a fun project thats how I found your channel. Super inspiriting for me! thanks!!

Nice dude! The editing skills are definitely showing and I love the way you've thought this thing out! Reminiscent of some of the larger fabricating channels for sure! Plus, the way you designed it so you can easily just slide it 10 feet over with nothing more than a gentle kick with your boot will be a big plus! 😉

What a fantastic video series! Thank you for taking the time to make this happen. 🦊Riki2Tails

Great build! On the ones I have built, I had my sprocket cut w a water jet and it turned out really nice. One thind I did was grind a slight taper (similar to the store bought sprockets) to the teeth to help the chain find its way.

Really great video! Loved watching and being along for this journey and am super excited to see the next one.

I am a sales manager for spare parts and machinery parts here in germany, also calculating all these things. Your skills and very special knowings should by worth between 80 - 100 dollars per hour i think. Thanks for your videos, very interesting !

Great video

Love the B roll 👌

You really know what you're doing and the trommel came out nice! Thanks for sharing your acknowledge I will probably use some of your ideas, cheers 🍻

Fantastic little Trommel and a great walkthrough of building it

Great video! Honest and hard working 💪 new overalls don't stay new for long 😹

Here’s a comment to boost the algorithm for ya ! Haha great vid TY

Mind blown wow so much stuff you’ve learned that thing came out great it’s really ingenious some of the processes you’ve come up with to make it mostly trouble free and easy really enjoyed this series looking forward to the sluice build (if you share it ) bummer on the customs hopefully it clears soon thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

I call em pajamas. Wife hates it when I wear them around the house

Time is 100% money. But as you said it was all your own time and as such you dont have to pay all the extras that employing others costs. I like how you did it with the cost of materials and your time being seperate. That way people can do a rough estimate for whatever they think their time is worth if they are wonsering what this sort of a build would cost them. Im sure you know what your time is worth but everyone has different ways of calculating that for themselves 😁

I agree your labor is worth adding. Good thing you built it in the down season for mining or that would of been extra cost

Very nice! I'm sure Dan will put this to good use. Hopefully he will get his permits sometime before winter so we can see this bad boy in action. As to adding your hour wage.... I wouldn't. It seems to me this is more of an educational video and welding costs vary widely depending on where you are and who you use. By providing how many hours it took you to build it a person should be able to adjust that to fit their skill level. If they hire a welder to do it the hours it'll take will vary widely yet again.... I'm just basing on the fact that this is your 5th one and I'm sure your first 1 or 2 or even 3 took a bit longer as you refined your design. Now on the other hand if you intend to take orders from people to build for them... well that's between you and your clients.... not us. 😉 Thanks for taking along on the ride, Im looking forward to your next video.

Awesome video! Loving this channel! Solid work!

Even at $50 an hour your labor cost would be $5000 and a build cost of about $10K, not bad at all.

Most informative mining show ever well done sir. Any chance of a shaker deck build??? small would be good :)

Excellent video thank you😊 !!!

Nice work✊

fantastic job!

Another excellent video. Moves briskly but doesn't leave out important details. And sharing lessons learned will be useful to those with the skill and desire to build one that works. Look forward to seeing this in the field. So what will you be showing us next?

Awesome work

Yes add your labor, Looking great I have been following this build from the start. Let me know when you are ready to sell it. Cheers

love it

Yesssss! Great build man!

Brother this is sick!!! 🤙🏼

Nice work

Helou from Finland, you make wery good videos

Nice edits! And hilarious start to the vid

thats fantastic! amazing work there! i would love to make my own mini-trommel for use in my shop to classify materials into multiple sizes, all they way form 1/2 inch to 1/100 mesh haha. with maybe 5 screen sizes and a water recirculating series of bins and an overflow pond. so i could insert raw material, and have every size classified for searching later using a Saruca so i have better size separation for good flips and centers for gem searching and ore processing. i think it would be fine for it to be no more than 5 gallon bucket in size per screen section, since im not running a lot of material, but hand classifying is a chore, though a pleasure too. but a trommel would be fantastic for separating gravel sizes automatically. of course, if i could just re-create a Pleitz Machine like what Glen Worhtington in Arkansas has, i could probably just let it do the concentrating work for me haha, and nto need to even classify too much either. but, alas, my crafting skills are low, and i dont have a welder. perhaps if i could get a place to build them for me though, but would likely be pricy for hobby level gem searching. i already have my Gold Hog Multisluice for gold lol. so im set there.

What about the cost for the plasma cutter to do the sprocket. Great job 👍

Also, I will be having at least one nightmare about all those coupons from the beginning of the video! 😜

i would suggest that you add another thrust roller to the opposite of he one, the barrel will want to climb the rollers on the other end of the barrel.

Where did you learn all these crazy cool skills!!

Good afternoon Sir So I’m looking to build my own Trommel similar to yours. So some questions here, where have you bought that trommel paper sheet template for cutting holes in pipe to mark out before cutting? And list of things you used like hydraulic pump, wheelsbearings and things like that would be so appreciated. I’m in Alaska Thanks for your help, and awesome video man.

Nice build! What would the Ton per Hour be? What water rate for optimal performance? Are the plans available on-line at all?

I have a way to potentially make this run forever power\electrical means

now who would make fun of your coveralls...😁

how many gph of water do you recomend for this trommel

where i can buy that little magnetic tool ?

What size of pump and motor did u use for ur hydraulic system

$10,100 for man hours, rounded total of $15000.

30K used. Cost you 5K. 25K in savings for 101 hours or you worked for about $250.00 per hour. I think you did an awesome job. On a side note. Can you turn down the music when you are talking?

Nice build any for sale

Not to sure about your dime stacking mate how's about 10 bucks an hour sound ?

HAHAHAHAHA! It really is that easy!!!

would you sell it for $10k?

To be fair to yourself and count your labor?

hello really nice