Yo, im only 250 subs off 200k followers! If you could spare a sub, some spare subs would be appreciated so i can feed my family!

@steven_ewen

11 ай бұрын

I love the idea of wacking something together and having a go. It's great that your back to having fun. I lost myself trying to keep ahead of all the paydirt bags I was selling on ebay and Prospecting wasn't fun any more. I have stopped producing paydirt bags so now I'm not stressing about not finding good deposits. Back to fun. 250 of 200k.....well done ✔️

@RustedPioneering

11 ай бұрын

It’s all about enjoying and having fun while doing it.! Definitely respect your decision.!

@derekgardiner3583

11 ай бұрын

Sod the teaspoon, where's Ur excavator! 😂😂

@timsanders9139

11 ай бұрын

Try a pinch of borax at the end of the melt to get the gold to shine. I melt with a tiny bit until liquid take the heat away add a pinch of borax then tip into a mug full of cold water.

@WheelieShinyGold

11 ай бұрын

Respond to some comments

I don’t watch for the gold. I watch to hang out with you and Senor Sweatpants and have fun. The gold is extra.

@Dmozar

11 ай бұрын

I'm the same. It would be epic to hangout with him.

@ianirwin9480

11 ай бұрын

Don't forget about Ferny

@gyvren

11 ай бұрын

Same! 🙂👍

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate that mate, it's what we're aiming for

Never have I heard a better description for what we do. "Going broke while digging up money." Classic.

@WeltinFradsmussen

11 ай бұрын

It's a very Irish-Australian sort of joke - the thing that you're kidding about is the thing that you feel the hardest, from years and years of bitter experience!

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

It's, I feel, a fair description

Almost 1k views already 😮 When I seen you had uploaded a video it had been posted for about 20 seconds with zero views, by the time I had watched it there were over 950 others enjoying your video with me! It’s awesome to see you’re growing in popularity faster and faster by the day. Top vid Chris, cheers 🍻🍻🇦🇺

CHRIS. I have a suggestion for cleaning your megamat. You'll need a pair of straight tin snips, a brick bolster and a lump hammer or relatively heavy claw hammer. Measure the L and B of the megamat and add 160mm to each measurement. Purchase a sheet of galvanised sheet from a plumber's supply and mark that dimension at one corner and cut it. Dispose of the waste. (or not). With the sheet flat on the floor or bench, mark in from each edge 70mm and draw a line all around. Now again from the edge, mark all the way around a line about 7mm in from that edge. The bolster and hammer are used to crease the thin strip line on the opposite side to the crease hammered onto the 70mm line. make the creases with a piece of timber underneath as you do it. Only hammer hard enough to form a crease. Too hard and you could cut the metal. Practice on a piece of scrap metal you cut off. The 7mm mark needs to be folded down and flattened down, to stiffen up the 63mm side and the 70mm mark, which will now measure about 63mm, folded up 90 degrees to form a box. Before you flatten the 7mm strips down against itself, cut across each corner at 45 degrees, once you have bent it to 90 degrees, now continue to flatten it against itself with each corner having a neat 45 degree piece cut off on all 8 corner strips. When you fold up all four sides, you will have a peak of metal sticking out at each corner. Flatten the peaks, then fold them back against the sides of the box, you now have a waterproof box. As I said before, the sides will be stiffened up plus the sharp edge removed from the top of the box. Now you can drop the megamat dirt side down and cover it slightly with water. Use a suitable tool to beat the bottom side of the mat to shake off all the gold etc into the box. Cheers.

You had a wheel barrow right behind ya. Much better option then that "Green" tub. LOL

It’s not the gold weight I watch you for, it’s the entertainment value and lessons I mean. I feel like I’m learning with you at time and that’s why I love this channel so much

"I need a bigger tub and I don't have one." The wheelbarrow is crying, ignored, behind you. 😊

Chris, you do have a bigger tub to wash out the mega sluice mat, your wheel barrow tub .Love the videos, love the mega sluice, its your first proto type, you'll get it refined with time. And it worked great anyway.

@trevdyer173

11 ай бұрын

I scrolled looking for this comment

@RICDirector

11 ай бұрын

Me too...

I love hard work; I could watch it all day.

You guys make a good team and it’s obvious you two have been friends for a good long while. Your interactions with each other are where the real gold is.

you could put a ^ in the middle of the sluice feed and then you could cut the carpet in half length wise and have 2 pieces of carpet

Dear Gus and Hardest Worker. Wet Pants. We thoroughly enjoyed this Video. We are Full atime Prospectors travelling Queensland, with our Caravan. I'm rapped in finding Partial Gold in Creeks , Seaside Creeks, etc. Ill get to the Chase. I Would love to send a photo of one of our Blue Pans, As we're spending countless Hours finding this Illusive shiny stuff Au. The Black sand drove us bonkers. So, We found some flat Round Magnets, and Glued them under the Back Edge , across from the Ripples , underneath the Pan.. The Iron black Sands gets trapped above the Magnets as we swirl, and wash the gold to the Ripples. Keep up the great Work you two. Mazal Tov Emek Dhiban

i think cutting the large carpet into 3 pieces would make clean up even easier! no need for a bigger bucket system then. love mega sluice though needs its own shirt

Loving the mega sluice I like to watch people show that money is essential to do what others do spending thousands on equipment

I love watching my dirt run over my box 😂😂😂😂❤

The issue with your bead color is the Tin bonded with the gold. If you add some bismuth and cupel it in a furnace it will purify it. :)

@wimmeraparanormal6581

11 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was gonna say....smelt temp of tin (cassiterite) is way lower than gold and rapidly alloys anything in the same cupel or spud.

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

I've melted plenty of gold mixed with tin and it's never done this before.

@Phoenix_Enterprises

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting Seems you usually clean out more tin as well. Just a suggestion. May have a higher silver content as well. I haven't had a chance to play with refining extensively for about 20 years so I'm a bit rusty also. I'm about to get back into all that real soon and posting video's.

@Phoenix_Enterprises

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting PS: I cannot stress enough! PPE if you play with aqua regia! One drop even if washed off immediately on the skin can cause digit loss or even death worse case. Just saying.

Mostly come here to see how many colours the buckets are today.... Cracks me up every time.

If we weren't loosing money digging for gold, everyone would be there with you.

*''Get in the green bucket...''* Promptly places it in a *RED* bucket. (Yep, he sometimes has to slow down at intersections at night, to make sure of the position of the ''green'' light...)

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Shhhhh don't tell Vic Roads

@LostCylon

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting Lol, sorry, I messed up, for some reason my first attempt didn't post, so I had to rewrite it, but I seem to have missed a bit. ''Get in the green bucket...'' Promptly places it in a RED bucket. _I have a friend with a similar condition._ (Yep, he sometimes has to slow down at intersections at night, to make sure of the position of the ''green'' light...)

Knighting the Amazing Gazton, the honourable 'Sénior Sweaty Wet Pants', was a very special moment for me. I am touched ❤

As far as I know. After melting gold if it turns to a silver colour. Correct if wrong, it has more copper in it. Probably reducuses it to around anywhere 55% actual gold.

You could use the wheel barrow to slap that mat in to clean it.

I remember seeing DTGold using a wheelbarrow to dump into a longtom sluice some years ago. I think that was on Reedy Creek somewhere......maybe?

Perhaps a bathtub for washing out the mat! Put a bucket under the plughole and pull the plug when finished.

In order to keep from losing your fine gold in the smelt you need to glaze your potato or whatever your using for the smelt use the flux get it hot so it’s sticky and then add the gold otherwise the force of heat from the torch will send those tiny particles of gold flying through the air as well as embedding them into the carbon on the potato. Love the mega sluice looking forward to you getting it to a better spot thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

@RICDirector

11 ай бұрын

So youre saying....the flux affects the capacity? ...i shall show myself out....

@48thstateprospecting

11 ай бұрын

@@RICDirector I’m saying if you don’t use something to hold the gold in place the torch will blow the fine particles out if you get the torch to close before they are melted. There is a lot of moving air created by a torch because of the small size of the nozzle

I love watching water trickling through the huge sluice while water carrying the fair amount of the dirt !😄✨💗You seem to have had so much fun making it work, Chris!! It was very relaxing to watch this video, thanks..😘✨I hope more of viewers could give you the support you need!

To clean out your mat how about a kiddy pool? hose the mat out into the bucket like you did then lay it face down on the bottom of the pool and give it good reverse hose. Then tip the water through a sieve or straight into a bucket and then concentrate, sort or whatever. Plus you can then sit in the pool with a beer later to relax!

I love the Mega Sluice! Gears were turning on how to create a three part foldable box on the original design. I don't need the miller's table for the amount of flour gold I find but I created my own cleanup sluice using Dream Mat pocket sluices in a cascade box instead. Still relaxing to watch the cleanup.

6:02, I can see the gold flecks flash as they roll past.

All that sand and loam and all in your creeks. Here, creeks are all packed round stones that make shovel work a bit ridiculous.

Chris, there is an aluminum sheet product that is ridgid. One application of its use is in aircraft production. I found mine in an metal recycling business. It would be a great replacement for your super sluice. Wish I were closer, I would drop it off to you, lol.

@goldnoob

11 ай бұрын

What's the name of that? I've been using flashing but it's too dang flimsy

9:36 as you say bigger tub I’m looking at the wheelbarrow behind you. LoL fun video 👍 as always

Oh and nice work on the mega sluice, gives me ideas for more projects I don’t have time for but gonna start anyway

Awesome video again Chris, awesome to see the clean up from this new sluice idea you made up. Might be worth looking at metal fabricating a longer lasting one.

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Originally it Waa going to be metal but I couldn't find the right bit 😕

@seanbishop82

11 ай бұрын

@VoGusProspecting all good mate, this is trial and error like you originally said. It's working beautifully I think and seeing you being able to empty 12 shovels from 2 buckets into it, is astounding. Sure as heck beats my 12" 888 sluice lol

@WeltinFradsmussen

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting An IBC with the top cut off would be a cheap option.

@goldnoob

11 ай бұрын

​@@VoGusProspectinghence flashing lol Or, you know.. Not

To help clean the mat out might be good to get the largest diameter PVC pipe you can, put an end on it so the whole carpet fits in, then you can hose it, shake it, and not waste as much water. Just tip out the excess and blast again. Just a thought.

great watching you having fun, great for people on a budget

Great video! Love the new sluice box. I am looking forward to the improvements and other videos using it!

It's a great proof of concept. I'm sure there are a few ways you can improve it but for a first go it's great.

Definitely going to build one for when our creek is in flood, if its still there afterwards it would be worth checking 🤟🤣🤣

Love your style bro. Keepin it real for real 💪🏻

Thanks for sharing.

Brother … I saw the build video …this is next level boys … well done

Hey there, I'm using this matting for ages and it's the best for fines ans super fines. But also nuggets are getting safely trapped in the riffles. Expert tip: Let the mat dry and then beat the hell out of it. You'll be surprised of how much stuff was still inside.

I enjoy hanging out with you and senior sweatpants. Not to mention Fern as well! I’m building my knowledge files for when I decide to retire and pick up prospecting as my weekend hobby.

As a professional carpenter living in one of the richest gold areas of British Columbia, I hereby declare your bodged-together mega sluice to be operationally and aesthetically perfect and thereby above reproach of all armchair engineers!

Pretty cool stuff, love the mega sluice, thanks for the video Chris 👍🤓✌️

nice gold thank you for sharing the adventure and information

What fun! Love the MEGA SLUICE!!!

You called the RED bucket, GREEN, and BLUE😂😂

In an area with faster water and higher gold concentrations you'll be surprised at how much gold the Megasluice will catch. Great content, keep it up!

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

I'm hanging to hit a good spot

Love the content and the awesome flavour your videos like this come with, funny and full of great info!!

Dude, I really like your videos. Keep up the great job.

Getting everyone I can to subscribe. You give people great informative entertainment, and perpesctive.

I love watching these vids thank you .

That's it? Just a little sun bathing at high noon? I'm gonna take your word for it, you never sterred me wrong before.😂 lol

So Good you have to go bigger 😎Thanks for sharing

Spot on mate! You are on fire 🔥 I respect you deeply! ✨🇨🇦✨

G'day Chris, you would have fitted in well in the 1850s gold rush as back then need was the mother of invention, just like you now, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

Great vid's Chris, keep mixing it up. Cheers

I do believe if you take a torch to that and heat it up it should turn more gold color I watched somebody else on here do that and it came out pretty good 😁

That's sluice box is amazing what you need to do is just put two or three of them together

Love watching you and sweaty pants, you guys have fun and enjoy the work prospecting, makes my day awesome.

Thanks for your knowledge

Love your work

I bet u could use the bed liner out of a pickup truck if it had ripples in it and it was one of the thinner liners to catch gold also plus it would make for a lot bigger sluice box if u used the whole truck bed liner

Turn the carpet upside down on the concrete let the carpet sit there and dry really good set your vacuum cleaner up high little bit so it's not touching the carpet on the Riverside then run your vacuum cleaner over the carpet numerous times maybe like 15 to 20 times with the carpet dry and then lift the carpet up and see how much dirt and gold will be on your concrete when you can😂 plan it out just an idea😂😂😂❤❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😢😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

love it mate!

Really diggin this mega sluice, keep up the great vids!

Love watching your videos. Very entertaining and informative.

You guys have so much fun!

Great job👍

I'm so glad you've having fun with gold prospecting again mate love the video mate 👍

It looks like it is running well 😊😊

if you tip it over slightly when you wash the wood down it will head for the sides first and concentrate into a line on its way to the bucket.

I love watching your channel we all learn alot and it entertaining amazing work 👏

cheers for the content matey :)

Love the mega sluice im going to build one like it out of plastic board.

Nice one Chris!

Such fun! Love it

200k here we come!

Killing it

Been watching for awhile... finally subscribed

I was going to comment on mega sluice, but i was thinking the bigger you go, the harder the clean up is. I can only think cut the marine carpet in 1/3 or 1/4. But i like it. More please of mega sluice

I think your new mega sluice box is pretty cool now we get to see how much gold you get with it 👏😁

Love the mega sluice looks like great fun, I don't know for sure but it's possible some tin got reduced and alloyed into the gold. You could hit it with a hammer and if it cracks then that's probably it, could just be a coating on the outside aswell try sanding a spot and looking for yellow

You gotta get one of those kids clam shaped swimming pool/sandpits to wash out mega sluice mat in mate

12 hours between videos lol nice one Chris ...I am well impressed with the megasluice ..the fluid dynamics are unique in the field of sluices..nothing else regulates itself like that ....incidentally I am in awe of the non weigh up videos, theyre far more fun than the others (Gadzy helps, you two are good fun when youre working together )

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

I'm not a fan of cleaning gold to weigh. I don't think it matters as a hobbiest

@TalRohan

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting no absolutely its more about finding some not how much ...I have a few places I would love to be fit enough to go ...just to see if there is some not to get loads or make money...I just want to have a go...I like that about your prospecting ethos at the moment.

More DIY gold equipment? What other ideas do you have? Centrifugal gold separation?

As always good stuff

Hi Chris, It's fun to see you've got fun with your megasluice. If you place this sluice in such shallow water and feed it bucket wise, the tailings behind the sluice are adding up very fast (not shown in video). Best regards from Germany!

Good show Chris and Gadsy's

Love the multi coloured bucket !!

your full of info, thank you

I don’t know how or why, perhaps it’s just yt algorithms are off, but I’ve missed you guys a lot!! I am subscribed, so I’m glad to see you’re still in the game. Woot!!!

Very good job.

Yesss. Get yourself a recycled bath tub for cleaning out your mega sluice mats

Another entertaining vid mate. You mentioned the need for a bigger bucket to wash cons, was that barrow behind you a mirage or was tipping it out after a bit of a mission?

Use the wheel bar behind you. Love ya'll keep up the good work.

Mega sluice!!! So cool and relaxing to watch