Thanks for another awesome video. Keep it up and happy prospecting! I especially love these "project" videos.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Ed. Thanks again for watching. I built this for a project that we had going and wished we had a vac for but I'm finding now that I have it, I am using it constantly. I am now using the power supply for my indoor prospecting for the winter.

Thanks grandpa, took me down memory lane

@utahavalanch

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. And thanks for watching. Happy memories.

Great idea thanks for sharing it with us.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Alan Robertson Hi Alan, and thanks for watching. This is turning out to be one of my most used tools. Especially if you do any Urban Prospecting or crevicing.

I did not know about these until I saw your video. This is perfect for someone who does not want to spend a lot of money to do some recreational prospecting. I operate mine with a full size battery, 750 watt power inverter, and a 25 foot extension cord. I would just recommend a reducer on the inlet side because it seems the outlet side of the hose that goes into the vacuum is smaller than the inlet where you suck up the material and tends to get blocked. I want to try about a 4 foot pvc pipe extension for reaching under rocks and into tight cracks.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Brown Hi Jay, sorry, KZread is not notifying me of comments. Yes these are some great little Vacs and they can be modified in many ways. I like your ideas on this and will look into using them with mine. Thanks.

I did this same idea but I took 2 buckets. Drilled little holes in the bottom of one bucket and used it to classify into the other as I vacuumed. Works really well but comes with some obvious inconveniences. What I plan to do is cut that bucket down to half its depth and line the hole with mesh to make more room inside my collection bucket.

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

ssrc30 That sounds like a couple of good ideas. I have a set of 1 gallon screening buckets that I use to wet screen every thing down into about 4 sizes before I either pan or sluice it. These little Vacs are really handy for a lot of things. Thanks for watching.

The streets really are paved with gold ;-)

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Southpaw. Yes they truly are. They crush quartz for the topping and also the roadbed so lots of gold we are driving over.

I use this as a dredge. I took the the filter off and worked great! Filled up half a bucket in 5 minutes! A longer hose would give me more area. The vacuum head snaps on to any 5 gallon bucket. I can dredge 40 buckets quickly and then spend the rest of my time feeding my recirculating sluice. Awesome for crevasing as well. Best $24.95 I spent so far.

@nynut518

4 жыл бұрын

if your crafty you cold turn a bucket into a little highbanker stack em make sort of gold cube inside ,,

@justget0844

Жыл бұрын

Hey Man U gave me a idea what I did was I took 2 buckets and I sealed them together so now I have a 10 gallon bucket for the vacuum attachment but it does get heavy so I’d recommend u should bring a cart of some kind to help a little if ur in the wilderness

@justget0844

Жыл бұрын

@@nynut518 read my comment I meant to click on h but if didnt

@sjfuller1963

Жыл бұрын

@@justget0844 I wondered if that would work. So glad you gave it go.

Nice project my friend!!! You’ve always got an ace up your sleeve....🍺

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

I originally started with one of those higher end 20 volt units that was a lot more portable and more money. But the thing barely had the power to pull dry rice out of a bowl let alone gravel out of a crevice. The capacity of the catch bag was about 3 oz. This one goes to about 4 gallons. As you can see toward the end, this thing can go pretty deep into a crevice. It has 10 or 20 times more power than the small one. I already had the Jump Starter battery for my sluice pump and the inverter for camping and charging the Jump Starter and electronic gear so $25.00 for a wet/dry shop vac head and bucket was a no brainer. When I'm out urban prospecting, I just leave the power supply in the truck and use 1 or 2 25 ft. extension cords to let me work up to 50 feet from the truck. Also when working from the truck I can just hook up the inverter to the truck battery. You can do the same when crevicing and set up the power supply in the middle of your work area and move the vac over a 25 - 50 foot area away from it. I get e-mails from folks also down below who have made one of these and use them like a dredge to suck right out of the river. When the bucket gets about 3/4 full you just move the head to another bucket.

@FlourgoldWizards

5 жыл бұрын

Very good! You’re like a gold mining encyclopedia lol! Glad to have made your acquaintance 🙏

@artbargerstock1469

4 жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch this is an awesome video but I had more questions possible could you email me back? artbargerstock@gmail.com

Nice system, works well, thanks good video. :-)

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kevin. It has gone from kind of a novelty item to a very handy tool.

LOVE IT GREAT IDEA GOD BLESS

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Contreeman for stopping by and blessings upon you as well.

Looks dandy!

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I quite like the little unit and it's a bit cheaper than a regular battery operated vac.

If it’s dry enough wouldn’t it be more efficient to use it like the venturi valve on a dredge or sand blaster, then through a dry sluice? That way it wouldn’t fill up and concentrate as you go. Of course the exhaust would be conspicuous.

home depote bucket vac i used the to install new toliets there nice n cheep i told my gold mining buddys in GPS.Vac be nice with generator to suck up some cons to classify n run nice video like always

@utahavalanch

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and thanks for watching. Yep these are really handy for a lot of things.

@indianagoldgetterscottie

Жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch hey buddy i was wounding it would be a honar to have as a guest on are show called GoldProspectorsSpace would love to hear about your builds love to have you bud

@utahavalanch

Жыл бұрын

@@indianagoldgetterscottie Well thank you Indiana it would be an honor for me but as the doctors have destroyed most of my hearing and eyes, I can only communicate with E-mail or text messages as I can enlarge the type greatly on my iPad. Kind of puts a kink in a lot of things Id like to do. But fortunately I can still see barely enough to build my projects.

@indianagoldgetterscottie

Жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch it would be a zoom meeting live chat but i understand thank you for your builds

@utahavalanch

Жыл бұрын

Yea, it would be fun but I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to hear much of what they were saying. I have many different projects I’m working on and KZread or E-mail is about the only way I can share some of them. I am helping people in at least 7 countries build my projects and it is very interesting hearing how they are using them.

I wouldn't call that a Rube Goldberg arrangement, but a wise use of Energy. Working backwards the next would be to hook up a solar panel collector to feed your Battery before you go ahuntin', and Voila!, "free at last". Love your vids. ciao.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Yep, it sure isn't fancy but it has been one of the handiest tools I have when out collecting material. Sucks up the fine gold on the bedrock you have a hard time getting with just a brush. I have considered a solar panel but it would take 2 days to charge the battery. So I stick to charging off from my truck using the inverter in the video. Will charge overnight.

"Great" minds think alike! I did the same thing with a Bucket Head.

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Sparky, It sure works well doesn't it? Very handy to have for a lot of things.

@sparky6086

4 жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch Yes it does. So I have a longer hose, I use it with a sump pump hose, which I also bought at Home Depot, because it's much cheaper than buying a longer hose intended for a vacuum ($15). I can't remember the length, but I cut it in half, and it was just the right length, so I have an extra, for when the first half wears out.

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

Sparky that's a great idea, thanks. That is on my HD list. The only complaint I've had with this unit is that the hose isn't long enough and that would fix that problem. I do a lot of urban Prospecting and I have found that when I suck up very dry material that some of the gold sticks in the hose Riffles and after vacuuming for a minute I can dump the hose in the pan and see if there is any gold which is handy.

Hi, Where did you get that small handheld crevice tool?

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Jorge. Thanks for watching. It's an 18mm Box-End Wrench that my son got for cheap in a pawn shop odds and ends bin. He cut the jaws off and re-welded them to point out to the side and ground a bevel on the edge. It's by far the best crevice tool I have found yet. It really cleans out the cracks. I can put a little carabiner on the box end and hook it to my belt for easy carrying. I'm going to have him make me another one that has a little longer blades on it.

I was wondering if there was a way to make the power head into a dredge? I’m using it to filter out my water and pick up my Panning tailings. But if I could hook it up like a recirculating pump where it dredges in one end and then becomes a sprayer on my sluice, we make have another use for it! What do you think?

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

well, right now I don't see any way of doing that. You can suck up the water ok but you can't spray it out as it would have to go through the motor and that has a bit of a detrimental effect on the electronics. You would probably end up letting the smoke out. :-D

Cool

I’ve got the inverter, buckets (4 to fill then clean-up), bucket head, and just need to know which battery to buy? Lawn mower, motorcycle, ATV, etc. Hope to be able to run most of a day. Also, why not buy like a 4 charger? Thanks in advance!

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks for watching. Well, I guess what size battery will depend on how much you use it at a time. The jump starter I have in the video is a 17AH and probably a lawnmower battery. I just use it to clean up fine material and suck material out of cracks and so I only run it for about 3 minutes at a time and then do more digging with other tools for awhile. So this battery will last me for 2-3 hours. For all day and using it quite a bit you may need something like a car battery or several motorcycle batteries. If you have a vehicle close by you could get several motorcycle or lawnmower batteries and while you were using one, the other could be on a charger. These take about 6 hours to charge to give you an idea. Hope this helps.

Hi great build firstly how did u connect it all together I've been looking at these power banks for the same reason to run a 12v presure washer and a Hoover etc as I have no access to water or power in my garage thanks do you really need a inverter as these power banks come.with 12v sockets and mains normally round the back thanks

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam and thanks for watching. If you have 12 volt equipment, then all you have to do is connect it to the cables on the battery pack or if you have a car battery, just connect the cables from your washer or vacuum to the terminals on the battery. If you have 110 volt equipment, you will need a power inverter to convert the 12 volts into 110. You will need an inverter around the 1000 watt range to run things like a power washer or larger vacuum. I am using a 750 watt Inverter for this vacuum which is a little small for it and it overheats and shuts down after about 4 - 5 minutes of running. But that is enough time for what I use it for. You connect the Power Pack cables to the terminals on the back of the inverter or to the cables on the inverter and then plug your 110 volt appliance into the inverter. The inverter comes with cables so you can connect it to a 12 volt battery like on your car or a stand alone battery. The 12 volt sockets on the power pack are only rated at about 10 amps which may blow a fuse if you try to run higher wattage appliances from them. Better to use the cables. Hope this helps

Great Vid Utah!! I'll bet your grandson was tickled to see your contraption come along. This should really up the ante when it comes to "street cleaning" next summer!! Tell me, using your power supply, how long will your vac run?? Thanx for another great vid!! Rich.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Bedrock. Thanks. He sure was. If you saw my video on Urban Prospecting, he really made out like a bandit this year and we are still getting runs like that. He certainly showed me where to find gold. I usually only run the vac for a few minutes at a time like in the video to clean up the fine materials in small crevices and pockets but I have worked for 3 1/2 hours at a time like that and still had a little charge in the battery. I'm thinking a good quality riding mower battery should run pretty much all day like that and be a little more compact as well. Homey D has 3 or 4 Ridgid compact 4 gallon units that are 5 HP and are some real powerhouses but would require at least a 1000 watt inverter to run and maybe a car size battery. This little unit has been a surprise to me at how good a job it does.

Super 👍👍👍

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and thanks for watching.

I have 2 of those bucket heads, 110V, a 12V to 110 converter(?) with cigarette lighter plug. If I bought the lawn mower battery, is there a simple female cigarette lighter plug that will attach directly to the battery?

@utahavalanch

11 ай бұрын

Hi John and thanks for watching. Yes, on Ebay they have a female cigarette lighter socket that has alligator clips so it can clip onto a battery.

How did you connect the power pack with the inverter? How many hours can you run a full charge?

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

Bob C. Hi Bob and thanks for watching. There are two post connectors on the back of the inverter with wires and clips on them for hooking up to a car battery. You connect those to the jumper clips on the power pack. It's hard to say as far as continual run time. Maybe 45 minutes to an hour. I usually just use it to sweep up maybe a half gallon of material at a time and then move on to find another batch of dirt. I usually only run it for about 2 - 3 minutes at a time. It will last for several hours that way. If you had a regular car battery, it would probably go all day. The battery in this Harbor Freight jumper is only 17 Ah and I have been surprised that it lasts as long as it does. This vac is a wet and dry so you can suck material right out of a stream or I clean out water filled pot holes in the roads with it.

So you connect alagator clips to the jump start clamps????

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks for watching. The inverter has 2 cables on the back with Alligator clips. The power supply also has 2 cables with alligator clips. You just clip the 2 black cables together and the red cables together and the inverter has power. Then you plug the vacuum into the inverter. Hope this helps.

Hello Utah. Do you know how many amps per hour the vac head draws roughly?

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

poizon83 Hi poison and thanks for watching. It draws 4 amps. Very handy little unit.especially for crevicing.

You could put in a back pack and that would make it more easier to carry around and not tie up one of your hands. Just a thought, nice video, thanks once again.

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

William Gipson Yes, it would. But I mostly do Urban Prospecting now days and just carry it in the truck. It's handy for cleaning out potholes and cracks in the road where a brush is hard to get into.

Great build! How about mounting the vac, power supply and inverter on a hand truck?

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

That would work right well. I’ll have to check into getting one from Harbor Freight.

haha. This is a curious thing, it's truly bizarre. We seem to be on parallel tracks. Have you ever thought about cleaning out culverts? There are some interesting videos about it, that corrugated, sluice-like kind. and doing test pans and clean outs I live on the gold-poor coast, so I've been trying to mount a 2-3 day road trip towards the foot hills of the Sierras.

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

Hi imdawolfman and thanks for watching. Sorry for the delay as I was in hospital with viral pneumonia and just got out. Yes, I have several large culverts that I like to work in the late fall when they dry out. They can vary from year to year on the gold. Mine have some big holes rotted in the bottoms that the gold falls through and I use this little vac to go down in and suck it up.

WOW.

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

PIXEL Agency Thanks for watching.

how long will that jump box run a 12 v 3 amp 1100gph bilge pump ?

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Golddigger and thanks for watching. I only run 1 gallon buckets at a time and then shut down for a cleanup and cool one and this will run my 2 amp 800 gph pump for about 3 hours that way. I think you could probably get a couple of hours if you gave it a cooling off break after about a half hour. It has a 17 amp hour battery in it which isn't much but it has worked well to run this little shop vac and my pump. It is a Harbor Freight unit and I paid $10.00 for a 2 year warranty and I had 2 of them die after about a year and they replaced them and I bought new warranties on them. My last one didn't die and lasted to the end of the warranty and I took it back in a week before the warranty was up and they gave me a new one. Company policy. This last one is running out of juice after about an hour so I'm taking it back in for a replacement. It will only cost me $10.00 for a replacement. They do stand behind their equipment. I originally bought this as a jump starter for dead batteries and it really works like a champ for that.

@nynut518

4 жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch have you looked into portable power supplies ? check out the jackery solar power station i might go that rout thanks for the reply

@utahavalanch

4 жыл бұрын

@@nynut518 Yes I have and I still may by something like that for backup. I will certainly consider one if I retire these. With only having to pay $10.00 to replace a bad or worn out one, it has been hard to quit replacing them. 😄 I have been going this route for 4 years now. I don't use it for very long periods any more and can recharge it overnight with my truck or at home. Course with these new solar units you can probably do the same. For me, the main problem with the solar units I have looked at, is that to charge it while you are using it requires a fairly large panel and I'm always afraid that I'm going to damage it while I'm hauling it around. But if I were to buy a new unit today, I would definitely consider buying one of these. Course you can buy a small tractor or riding lawnmower battery that will run your pump all day for about $30.00 if cost is a factor. Yea, decisions, decisions. 😄

Have you been following the newest info on the 'Magnetic Zone', and how it might be used to clear magnetic black sands out of your riffles without actually capturing any of it?

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Fs and thanks for the information and watching. No, I'm afraid I missed that one. Actually I save all of my black sands because some of them have gold locked inside and I can run them through a rock crusher to recover the gold.

@fsbirdhouse

6 жыл бұрын

I should imagine you'd be able to save all you want with magnets off the end of the sluice box, or dropping it into another sluice off the end of the first. There'd be a way.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information. I will certainly check it out and see if any of it will apply to my work.

What state do you live in? I live around Galveston Tx. They used to make our roads out of Oyster shell and it worked very well . I think the pavement wore out faster. If got some holes in it they would grade it back smooth and you were good to go. I guess it costs too much now days. That is a cool vacuum, I wish there was gold around here. The only gold is if you found Pirate treasure.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Don. I live in Northern Utah which is considered the worst part of the state for gold. However if you watched my Urban prospecting video, we mainly work the dirt we find around town. You might want to do like we do and get an inexpensive gold pan and test as much dirt as you can around you. We do hundreds of samples from just a scoop to a gallon of material at a time. We go shopping and I get a half gallon of dirt out of a gutter and some gold to boot. So try sampling all dirt you run across. You might be surprised. Most of the gold is not in the streams.

@donmoor4e974

6 жыл бұрын

I have got some Gutter gold from the roofs I work on. Tiny specs, I call it gutter gold. I do A/C work and a lot of the roofs around Houston have gravel on them.and the roofs grade back to the gutters.Mostly gulf sand and gumbo dirt here no rocks. Hey it looks like you have a nice place to look.

@donmoor4e974

6 жыл бұрын

My best finds around here are to look at the cracks in the sidewalks or the seams at the malls.I'm always finding a piece of a gemstone that will sparkle. They probably fell out of a cheap ring or earring . I put all of them in an old 100 year old bottle to see the sun shine on them.

Hey Utah, how is it going hope everyone is all good in this 2020 year? Anyways have a question for you on this, how would this work in the creek? I was thinking of something like this to get at finer stuff that I know I'm missing when using the shovel. Be safe

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Mike, We are doing well thank you. Hope you are doing well also. I have a new fine gold highbanker that is working better than I had hoped and a new Miller Table that is working very well also. Trying to get out videos on them but having too much fun running them. 😄 Yes, this little vac will work sucking material out of the stream although you want to keep it close to the bank and not let the power cord get into the water. It's running off from a 12 volt battery but the voltage is boosted to 110 so you don't want the ac part to get in the water. It can really bite. A better solution is my 2" hand dredge. You can check it out here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZ2bzJqGicW9m84.html Also check out my upgrade video in the description for an upgrade to the plunger. You can also buy the pump leathers from Gold-N-Sand here: gold-n-sand.com/collections/all/products/leather-cups-for-x-stream-pro-hand-pump I really love this unit when working in a stream or cleaning out crevices. It's like a vacuum and will suck up everything 2" and smaller if you have the super sucker nozzle on it. You can put different size nozzles on it for crevices and getting in between rocks and such. If you have a pocket in a crevice or a hollow on bed rock, fill it with water and this thing will suck out all that fine gold and sand you can't get out with a spoon. It makes getting that fine gold and sand out of hard to reach places a snap. I have 3 different length tubes on mine and I can use the same plunger on all 3. I have one that is 5 feet long for getting to the bottom of waterfalls. Really beats a shovel in the stream.

@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe

3 жыл бұрын

Utah I'm glad to hear that all is good there and were doing ok but the wife has been sick lately one doctors visit after another thats 2020 for you. Anyways Thanks for the info again, I'll check them out. What size inverter is yours? Take it easy.

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe I'm sure sorry to hear about the wife. Hope she gets doing better. I know how it is with doctors. I'm on no. 75 right now and after 23 failed surgeries and many hundreds of office visits, I can tell you for sure that they have absolutely no idea of what they are doing. Like politicians, they do absolutely nothing for the money. I have a 750 watt inverter that I got from Harbor Freight that works pretty well. I can get about 4 minutes of runtime out of it before it overheats and shuts down but that is usually plenty for what I do. A 1000 watt would probably run it til the battery died. I generally don't run much more than about 3 minutes at a time. I usually just use the vac for cleaning up the fine material after the bulk has been shoveled up. That fine material is usually where the gold is and so this vac can pay for itself in no time. Very best wishes for the wife.

@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe

3 жыл бұрын

ok thank you sir take care and be safe you and your family. Until next time

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe You take care as well. You might want to stock up on some extra food and TP before the trucker strike on the 26th and the 14 th of Dec. best to you all.

Hey Utah, Any gold getting caught by the tube? id have a feeling the grooves would act as an air- sluice. Might be an interesting dry wash concept to work on if you have any insight on that

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Glucoperon and thanks for stopping by. Yes, as a matter of fact, there is a great chance of the gold getting caught in the hose and it acts just like one of those little sewer hose sluices. It's kind of a side feature I have really grown to like. I can suck up a bunch of fine material and then unplug the hose and shake the material out into a gold pan and usually there are a few pieces of gold in there. If you happen to get into some larger gold like around 12 - 20 mesh, it will almost always be caught in the hose. This also works like that with wet material if you are sucking up sand close to the bank or not far out into the stream. Don't get the electronics wet. 😄 But you can suck up to about 3/4 of a bucket of water and sand at a time and usually there will be some gold in the hose. You can get 4 or 5 buckets and start dredging and when the water shuts off the motor, just switch the head to another empty bucket and keep going. This is great for small shallow streams where you can set the bucket in the stream without getting it wet. If you have a small battery like a riding lawnmower battery, you can put it and the inverter in a 2 gallon bucket to keep them dry and set them in the water as well. as long as they don't tip over or get wet. Caution, 110 volts coming out of the inverter and can be dangerous if it gets in the water.

@Glucoperon

3 жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch Just so amazing in so many ways, Brilliant really! Your video totally answered the inverter and battery pack combo question- 3.5 hrs is a long run time! And never would have guessed it would work for water dredging, I mean- the tube becomes its own automatic water sluice, how cool is that! Thanks so much for all the info! I live in a desert and most of the good placers are gonna be completely dry here and I really don't like the looks of the typical dry wash method. Based on your info- bet a bunch of corrugated tubing spooled up and hooked to a vacuum would be able to concentrate lots of pretty fine gold out in the field!

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

@@Glucoperon The desert areas are where this setup really shines. I watch many videos where people clean down to the bedrock with shovels and then leave all the fine dirt that holds the gold. This will pick up that dirt and suck it out of the cracks and crevices with no problem. I use black sand probes to find the highest concentrations of black sand and then take samples and run them through my little recirculation sluice to see if there is much gold. Rather than shovel lots of dirt, I mostly find the best pockets and run that material. My little combination sluice shows me if there is gold in a sample right away. It’s quick and easy to set up out in the field. Here is a youtube video of a gentleman who built a shop vac sluice that’s rather interesting if you’re interested. kzread.info/dash/bejne/X52rmdRmZtTSpcY.html

@Glucoperon

3 жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch So absolutely amazing! You're blowing me away with brilliant concepts. I love the portable mini sluice anazlyzer concept! Is the size of the sluice the same as those in your videos? And thank you for the link to the dirt sluice- that was excatly the concept I was mulling through my head- completely brilliant. The typical dry washers just dont seem nearly as viable as something like this. Here is a cool concept for you if you havent seen it already from mr teslonian- kzread.info/dash/bejne/kZx2t6OOepi-abg.html&ab_channel=MrTeslonian . Interesting that you can make riffles from the magnetite it self

@utahavalanch

3 жыл бұрын

@@Glucoperon Thank you, but these are just things I've worked out over the years. Yes, my sluices are all the same size except for my latest Highbanker. Making them all the same size allows me to use them all with a Hefty Tote I got from Home Depot. Now Days, we just cruise around and look for interesting piles of dirt and I can take samples and run them in the back of the truck with my set up, I can also run my set up in the house in the winter with the smaller sluices and Miller Tables. I like to get a bag of All Purpose Sand from Home Depot and run it through a small sluice in the kitchen in the winter. It takes me the better part of a week to run it and i usually get some pretty nice gold. Yes, I have watched Mr. Teslonians channel. He has some good ideas.

anither great video how long does battery run for without charging

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi John. I'm not sure continuously. I usually use it for only 2 or 3 minutes at a time like in the video to clean up mostly the finer materials. Using it that way I can usually work for about 3 1/2 hours with the battery pack in the video. With a good riding mower battery I'm thinking you could go all day.

How about a small cart to pull with all equip on board and ready to use.

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Galaxy and thanks for watching. Yippers, about that time for sure. I’ve been looking at some of those wagons on Harbor Freight. I have been using this with the power pack in the back of my truck and hooking a 25 foot extension cord on to it so I can work the vac in a 25 foot area around the truck. Works great for urban prospecting.

Can it work for wet prospecting, like in a river

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

Caleb Roden Hi Caleb. Yes it can as it is a wet and dry vacuum. You can fill it to about 3/4 full and then it will shutdown to protect the motor. It's good for crevicing as you can fill the crevice with water, use a tool to break up the material and then suck it out. Thanks for watching.

@CalebRoden

5 жыл бұрын

utahavalanch thank you for the response

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

Caleb Roden You are very welcome.

find out were the city dumps the street cleaner out at.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Richard, yippers, I would like to but so far I haven't been able to find out where they dump it. I'll bet the dump is worth a fortune.

your handle says utah but i dont think your are from Utah. i would guess GA OR SC OR TX. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Thomas. Yippers, I'm from Utah. Great place to live. Thank you for taking the time to watch.

why don't you put the rest of your equipment,( jumper and inverter in side the bucket to get to where you would like to be working along with a pack and a couple sandbags? So you can have the portability and put your pay dirt in the sand bags and those in the pack. Then put it back in the cleaned up bucket for the return trip and so its ready for the next adventure? It just seems wiser to bring as much material as you can carry back home to classify, with a set up like that? I mean I think I would want to get to to the bottom of as much bedrock and crevices as I could manage? It's a no brainer that you would end up with a better yield every time that way? I'm sold and ready to try it out!

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jason and thanks for watching. Yep good idea but unfortunately the bucket isn’t quite big enough. The bucket is tapered so the power pack doesn’t fit down all the way and you have a filter that hangs down almost 8”. I use this power pack mostly to run 8 different Miller Tables and sluices as well as using it to jump cars with dead batteries on occasion. So it’s just as easy to carry it in this thrown together case.😄 if you used a motorcycle battery, you could fit that along with the inverter inside. But it would be a tight fit with the hose and battery cables as well.

I wonder if your city has a street sweeper? maybe check out where they dump there trucks out for goodies?

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

builtrodewreckedit Yes we do. They dump the sweepings at a green waste dump about a mile from me and then mix it into wood chippings to make garden mulch.

What part of the world are you located in ? good videos !

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Duke Hi Richard thanks and thanks for watching. I'm located in Northern Utah.

@richardduke9788

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks , I was wondering where the streets are paved in gold ! ! !

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Most of the western states and some of the eastern. If you check the roads in your area and they have a pea gravel coating then it's possible yours does as well. They use crushed quartz rock because it's hard and wears very well. Quartz is one of the main rocks gold is found in. However the road surface still breaks down over the years and the rock and the gold get washed into the gutters and alongside the road.

That's a pretty cool little vac pac, how much was that thing?

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Flash In Your Pan Hi Ed. The head was only $21.97 + tax at Homey Depot. The bucket is about $3.25. A wet and dry shop Vac for less than $30.00. It will suck water and sand out of a stream til the water gets to about 3/4 full then it shuts off. Then you drop the head on another bucket and continue on. If the material is dry, and maybe wet as well, the gold will collect in the riffles of the hose and you can empty it into a pan to see if you're on the gold. I think you'd like one of these.

not a bad video. The cen tech power supply .Can I take it to my bees farm which is far from home

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Seymore and thanks for watching. Yes you can. It’s totally portable. This setup has a Harbor Freight 12 volt DC power supply of which they have several different types and to supply the AC power is one of their 750 watt power inverters.

@seymorewright1620

2 жыл бұрын

@@utahavalanch That's what i want to hear .I'm living in Jamaica and i would like to get the iinformation on how to purchase one and estimated cost.

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

@@seymorewright1620 if you have access to the American internet, the company who sells them is Harbor Freight.com. This power supply is about $60.00 US. They no longer have my power inverter but they have one that will put out much more power for about $85.00 US. If you can get onto their website you can look at the other items they carry. They are big here as they have good prices on equipment and tools although they are moving into more expensive tools. You can contact them and see if they will ship to you. I don’t see any reason they wouldn’t.

Do you sell these

@utahavalanch

Жыл бұрын

Hi raydowdy and thanks for watching. Sorry, no I don’t. I bought the bucket head vac at a Home Depot store and the inverter from a Harbor Freight store. I made the video to show people how they can make a nice little portable vacuum setup.

I missed the cleanup and tally

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

RADrockitpsyence Sorry, KZread didn't notify me of your post. Some of it is included in my urban Prospecting video.

Just tell the city worker to dump it in your driveway and you'll get rid of it for him.

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

Phillip Jacobson Hi Phillip and thanks for watching. Boy don't I wish. Lol. I used to know the driver years ago and could have had him do it but now it's a new guy and he won't stop to talk. 😢 they just hit my street 2 days ago and took all my spring dirt. Now I have to wait for more rain to wash the street into the gutter.

Who else thinks there is gold in that old potting soil with vermiculite in it.

@utahavalanch

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Wayne, and thanks for watching. I have tried 2 bags and there wasn't a speck in either of them. However I'm getting gold out of almost all the sand products that Home Depot and the farm stores carry. Some of the Tube sand has very nice gold in it. 6 grams in the past 6 months. Who da thunk? :-)

Usar aspiradora para eso es perdida de tiempo con una escoba yuna pala es más rápido.

@utahavalanch

5 жыл бұрын

horacio tomassini Hi Horacio and thanks for watching

OMG! Are you long winded or what! Get to the point and make shorter videos!!!

@utahavalanch

2 жыл бұрын

That’s nothing. Wait til I start telling war stories😄

You may be able to set everything inside the bucket, if it doesn't fit a backpack will free up one of your hands just an idea'r from a fellow redneck

@utahavalanch

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mike and thanks for watching. I couldn’t quite fit everything into the bucket and when I moved to a new spot, I had to make 2 trips. However if I got a motorcycle battery, I probably could. So I threw this box together to hold it all. A backpack works good for this and I can pack it around that way as well. I’m currently trying out one of Home Depot’s little Stinger vacs with this setup. Only has 1/2 gallon capacity but the same strength vacuum. Easier to carry around.