When booming, I like to attach a garden hose to the pump hose bib. Keep the spray nozzle at your side, and you can cool yourself off with it, or use the jet spray to break loose hard pack and wash it into the nozzle (micro-hydraulic mining inside your booming hole).

Great set up with good gold recovery nice work.

I recommend using a coir or rice wattle to sop up sediments. These come in 6," 9," 12" diameter and are 25' long. You can cut them in half. They catch all the sediments and discharge clear water. You can take them up when done and reuse them for a few years. A 5 hp engine is enough power with a P180 pump for a 4" nozzle. As a dealer for Hydro-Force nozzles and other mining gear in NorCal near Auburn I pan to soon carry rice wattles for miners. EPA and CA approved. Nice vid.

this is a perfect example of a set up for sluicing, thanks for showing the "Green Horn's & Tenderfoot'ed Pilgrim's"

One of my favorites thanks man. Well done

Intake hose is only 6 feet long, the motor with pump is sitting down by the river edge. The hose from my pump to the Hydro-Force Nozzle is 75 - 100 feet depending on where I'm mining...

PS...A great big crow bar would rock that bank:) Great vid...I watched it again :)

@GoldenGooseBC - Greg, Not sure how much material per hour, but it would do as much as I could stuff through it. Yes, the 6.5 is my dredge motor and pump with a 2" line out to nozzle. Saw a dude try a 1.5" line and did not work well with a 3" nozzle. On that operation I had 50 feet of layflat to 20 feet of hard hose running to nozzle.

What a great set up! Great pan at the end too! :)

I like this method, How long did you do this and how many yards can you really move in a hour? I love your crash box!

@GoldenGooseBC Yeh; about 6 feet. Could go maybe 2 more feet deep and keep good suction. The nozzle actually runs well when not sucking pure water as it is designed for dryland dredging. Thanks...

I like that nozzle vs packing the "blaster hose" and nozzle it's all in one...

That was an awsome video. Nice color to.

Wow very nice setup

@ReedLukens Hi Reed, Well my box is made for a 2" or 2.5" nozzle and that is why I entended the length a bit. I would prefer a real 3" sluice. I like what you are planning, sluice matches volume better. Not sure where you are but out here we can't let the water go back into the river, so a 4" would produce a ton of water to have to control...my 3" was hard enough. I think a 9 hp motor would be best for the 4" Hydro-force. Enjoy...!

that looks fun!

Way cool dude. Wish I had that and the ground to work

I got a 1/3 oz in the 3 weeks it took to make that hole...thanks for asking!

Thanks Bearcat!

SWEET FIND .

So far it is still legal, power sluicing/booming only 300 feet away from active waterway though...our enemies are trying to stop it all, just a matter of time.

The 4 inch works great.

That was a great video. Do you find that it's better with a narrower box because of the lack of water? A 3"dredge box would usually be at least 14"wide. So I am thinking about a 4"Hydro-force set up and was going to go with a std 16" Proline box and I have a choice between a 6.5HP400 or a 9HP- HP500 both with the 2"outlet on the pump. I have everything from the dredging days except the Hydro-force. I do have a 2" std suction nozzle but would it be called dredging even in a dry bed?

@cptcosmo It is about 5 miles from there, on private property.

thank you for your information.

I have a Hydro Force 250. I contacted Mark Stroper, CA dept of Fish and Game. Because it uses a nozzle, you must be 100 yds away from the river.

for the 2" the pressure hose what PSI is required? i was looking at some suction hose with 40 psi and wondering if that would work?

Suggest a Bosch 264 hammer-drill on that hard pack. Use a clay spade or a chisel point-a Hydro-Force dealer, Lost Sierra Mining Co.

I wonder how much the power of the water pump. How many bars of pressure is required in the system?

can you tell me how long is the hose from the nozzle to the sluice? Thanks for the help.

Yes the Hydro-Force will work on the Kern just Like I did on the Klamath...as long as you do it 300 feet away from the river...that is the law currently. No suction nozzle with 300 feet of an active waterway...good luck!

Saludos. Desde. Colombia.

@bearkat4160 Yea I'm out here in California as well 8°) Re-circulation is my only option from a dry old pond that I can refill but the river is only 50 feet down the trail so that will be easy enough. Thanks 8°)

This looks like a great way to move loose dirt from the hole to the sluice, but I feel like I would be breaking it apart with a pickaxe not trying to "cut at the hard pack" with water. Course I know I'm just an arm chair general here.

Good looking set up. What was the total lift to the box - about 6 foot or more? Did you feel that you could go deeper yet? Did you find that there was surging when you were not adding water from the spray nozzle and sucking in more air?

Sorry, something told me to make that remark generic. But, a 1 leg camera stand, easy to use, and cheap, will improve her camera results a lot! Like I said, no reflection on her personally :)

I dont get it..so you have a 300 ft house to pull the water from the river on to the dredge?

@bearkat4160 thanks for the reply. Do you have an estimate of how many cubic yds you were able to put through on average per hour? Looks like it was nice tight material with the odd cobble thrown in. Is your 6.5hp running a dredge pump and is that a 1.5" supply line to the nozzle? How much layflat hose before the hard hose feeding the nozzle? Thanks for sharing, Greg

What's the suction maximum lenght please?

Can you guys guest how many gram gold he's got In the end please. Thank you.

Why not use a tapered sluice like Karl put on his Spartan Sluice. I find the fine gold recovery is better than in the 10 and 14' standard sluices we used for the first four years of dredging.

So dry-land dredging and also highbanking are both legal in California? You don't need a permit for either?

next time, don't hold the camera so steadily. try to shake it around a bit more as you shoot. KEvron

Has anyone ran the 4inch? If so does it work as good as the 3inch ? Thanks

the klamath

hello friend could I Diser which and the dimensions of lameness have a disel engine with input and output of 2 "tried Faser such suction but not fucionol I live in Brazil you can provide me something I thank thank manoel

Nice gold :P

What pump are you using?

It works well, but it is hard to keep all that water from going back into the river...which is the rules out here. I think east coast is different.

Yep...

What kind of pump are u using? i just bought the honda WB20XT 600L/M 2" for my hydroforce 300 nozzle do u think thats ok?

So it is fine to take water from a river? And you have to use a 300' intake hose? That's ridiculous. Also, where is all of your discharge going?

Hello Gold the Brazil espectacular

impressve

Check into joining a mining club like the New 49er's.

Can you tell me what kind of hose you are using and where you got it?

So as long as you use the suction nozzle on the bank and not in the riverbed its LEGAL in California?

20 feet...

and i can do this in California still? cool

Not sure about Cali...still not looking good to me. Now they are attacking Oregon dredging.

1/3 Oz. = $566 or $188 a week!

rest cam on chin or use headcam ftw

where do you get a 300 foot intake hose?

Лопатой быстрее будет!

Technically only of you are 300 feet away from water course you can boom or power sluice w nozzle. Or if you can hide from viewers. You can still do regular high banking ...the suction nozzle part is illegal within the 300 foot mark. Just be careful...

It was my girlfriend...give her a break.

The guy running the camera is a figit! Please use a single pole stand to drop under the camera to keep it steady! I'm sure he's a nice guy, but not nice to watch his camera work!

Is this claim 15-A? Signed, New 49er Member #2326

great video! buying 4" hydro-force to use with my 3'x8' sluice combo setup, so 2 can shovel also have you heard the water board want us to get $1200 permit 4 discharging water to land. google highbank_faq.pdf How are people out there dealing with this? some people think if they have a claim its a $50 permit, the water board states that riparian water rights aren't provided by a claim, "public land doesn't have riparian rights"

Yes it is nuts. but that is our stupid government for you. My discharge traveled down the gravel bar till it soked in the soil. It never went back into river, the way it is supposed to be per regs...

ugh that music at the beginning :\

Destruction of environment