Yo, im 50 subs from 200k! Holly friggen hexkles guys, thank you!

@richardschafer1911

11 ай бұрын

It's cause your the typical Aussie bruv tell it as it is enjoy wat you do and any more easy going you'd be asleep nah seriously bruv we love wat you do keep it up and before you know it you'll be at a million making real bank

@danhodgins4015

11 ай бұрын

😎

@insolentstickleback3266

11 ай бұрын

Awesome Chris! 😎💥😎

@piratescrew1869

11 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting to subscribe as I thought you’d give me $10k for being the 200k subscriber 🤷🏼‍♂️ Thank you mr beast… crap wrong channel

@robasquith1352

11 ай бұрын

Massive congratulations on the 200k subs now! Each subscriber is here because of you, being you.

I actually prefer the realistic gold take that you get as the average person rather than the gold rush version.

@Jack_Stacks

11 ай бұрын

I agree. As a prospector it is frustrating seeing how much gold some people pull. And then they will even be bored or disappointed with finding more gold in a day than most prospectors could find in a season.

I loved the moment you set UP the yellow one & said DONE. LOL

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Honestly me too

If you want to seal wood well/cheap... use FIBERGLASS RESIN. Thats what a lot of us boat guys use to seal transoms and floors on cheap boats. It's like $20 and lasts for many years just brush it on

@weedfreer

11 ай бұрын

Add a little grit to the final sealing layer to introduce a degree of friction too if you wanna

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

I was going for speed, otherwise that's a much better idea.

I love the fact that you don't take yourself too serious you love finding gold but you love the exploration trialing and the general journey. Keep the dream living keep the dream alive

Hello Chris, as I described in "losing money " classifying on the spot as much as possible washes the gravel breaks up the clay and you get rid of great percentage of material you do not have to handle any more. Plus, resulting fines require much smaller sluice box and smaller flow of water.Use a classifier in a bucket,regards George .

One of the best waterproofing sealants I've run across for wood and I did this to my own first high banker. I built exterior wood glue. It's water-based. It goes on easy. It doesn't stink and it's rock strong. I put on an old beach towel underneath some woodwork. I was doing many many moons ago and drip some on there. It hardened and my son was a toddler at the time. He's a teenager now the glue is still on there. I said well this is going to be a great sealant for my wooden sluice. That was 4 years ago now and it's still watertight and didn't warp.

Great job Chris, I love that you give this kind of thing a go, thank you for sharing your adventures!

Love this!!! Again shows how you don’t need all the fancy stuff to go out, have fun, catch gold. Great job!!

"68 degrees, just like you said" "No, I said 6 'to' 8 degrees" 😂

Great video. Makes me feel like a kid again. Imagination and passion

Loving the homemade stuff 😎

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Me too, it's been really fun

Very well deserved mate. Thank you for years of sharing and creating!

This kind of stuff is why I like your channel so much. You make finding gold both creative and fun! Thanks Chris, and give Fernie a hug. ❤

anyone who is still here watching chris and gadzee all know ,we aint gonna see ounces of gold .it,s more about watching the journey . of 2 nutters who love there hobby .

@marcmalek5956

11 ай бұрын

“Two Nutters!” That’s a channel on it’s own. 😂😂😂

Nice going Chris. Good simple setup. You will have lots of fun refining it and still keeping the cost really low. Looked like a good take 😁👍👍

Excellent build and craftsmanship. Easily assembleable and disassembleable.

Great video, love the simplicity, could walk this anywhere, cheers

Outstanding! Ive been with you since 2016 and watched it all!

From rocker box to... Splasher plate? Also doubles as a dog ramp!

A famous New Zealand author, Barry Crump, wrote one story where his protagonist took a normal rotary cement mixer, a pump, and a generator and a shovel, set the cement mixer running, and just shoveled the paydirt into it with water running strongly into the drum. All the gold went to the bottom of the drum, and as he shoveled the dirt in, the excess worked its way out of the lip of the drum.

Love it when you share your adventures with us! I am looking forward to future adventures with this newer throwaway sluice box, can’t wait to see your classification system. I hope that it is just as transportable as your mini sluice.

Bad ass that was fun and informative.Thank you. Blessings

Congratulations on the 200k brother! You get a gold star ⭐️

Should of used the sea shell sand pit/pool to clean out the consentraits from the big mat, that's if you still have it.

looks like you hit 200K subs mate good to see love your vids always entertaining and fun to watch

I always mix my material with soap, water, and jetdry (if I have it) using a battery drill and paint mixer attachment in a 20L pail.

Just found this channel, and you're absolutely hilarious 😂 love it

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Another awesome episode. Thanks Chris and team 😁

Love your new builds Chris!

Here's an idea - a two bucket system - a bigger bucket with some nozzles at the bottom and a valve - sit the bucket on a big rock to give it elevation - dump water into bucket and adjust the nozzle

@jimmylarge1148

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like Jeff Williams gravity sluice.

Proof that if you already have some of the materials lying around a sluice is easy to have. Awesome job. I still say bring extra precut carpet easy to haul in and quick change clean out at home.

Dear Mr. Gus perhaps adding a grizzly to the top of your wonderful low-profile banker will be a kind friend to your efforts. Great health to you and yours.

It looks like you are having a lot of fun out there. Keep it up!

Loving the home built sluices, I’ll buy all ya tourmaline chunks as well Chris, any size

I love this kind of video. Homemade gear experiments and seeing how much gold you can recover screwing around

Have you ever considered setting up a ram pump to supply you with water? You still need hoses/pipes, but you don't need a motor or gasoline to power it.

Brilliant idea a bit easier to lug through the bush than the Mega sluice and cheap as chips maybe the sloth can have a new bed

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Its a little lighter thats for sure

Love your work mate. It sucks for me that you are on the other side of the great diveding range. I'm from East Gippsland area, and there is alot of quartz mines and alluvial in my areas. From Crooked River across to cassilis is my playground.

Love what your doing man, keep up the good work 👍

The ones I saw in Indonesia was just a chunk of that carpeting you have and they build an indent into the soil for the carpet to sit in, no wood ,screws, or paint just a piece of carpet on the angled soil with the sides lifted by using soil, a bucket a shovel and the dirt.

Oh man. There is a way to do it, that makes you look cool. I haven't read that prospecting book yet 😅

Looks awesome Chris

You can always resmelt. I prefer clean clean gold. Hence the blue bowl and a small cleanup pan Garret 8 inch in my fave

I really enjoy your videos they are funny and relaxing! I’m subscribed!!!!!

I still wonder about a hand actuated bilge pump being used to pump water for a manual sluice. It'll be a bit of extra work but being able to take it anywhere might be interesting.

Cool stuff Chris

This is great!!! Perfect for us, give it a go guys to .....give it a go!!! More please 👏

I should build more things like this. I built a few yabby pumps being inspired by you. Maybe I'll add a few diy sluses to my commercial ones.

Love it chris and using the land sluice method is kl to watch seen it done on gold rush in peru and in parkers latest summer run he does always a great way to recover

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

It's wicked watching it work.

Love your innovation mate. So cool 😎

The ribbed carpet is very forgiving as it self classifies - filtering the gold out in the textured loops, ribs and the drops, (and giving it a place to hide) while letting the oversized material easily pass down with moderate water flow. It's also lighter, softer and much easier to work with than rubber matting. If you steepen the angle (e.g. 11-13 degrees) and slow down the water a bit the carpet also performs well. For a lightweight setup - I use a series of 4 plastic boot trays (14 inch x 28 inch aka 35cm x 71cm) with only unbacked ribbed carpet (no expanded metal) here in Canada for my highbanker sluice (can be used on the ground, or with a stand). The boot tray has raised texture in the bottom that catches any gold that filters through the carpet, preventing migration down the sluice. In my experience, this setup works very well with hand bailed water, a 1 inch gas pump, or a 2,000 GPH 12V bilge pump for flour gold capture. I was amazed at the amount of -100 and -200 mesh gold I caught with this setup during my last trip (1 inch Honda gas pump, moderate flow and angle with fast feed rate, 3/8 inch classification).

@dubblewrap

11 ай бұрын

Dan where are you running in canada?

@danhodgins4015

11 ай бұрын

@@dubblewrap - Okanagan in BC.

I saw the wheel barrow and wondered .., if you cut the legs off and tipped it back, could you wedge the sluice between the tub and the handles and then have tub to shovel into / against?

Would your rocker box scoop be useful for running the water? Reduce walking

This gos to show all those expensive mats your using cheap carpet and still getting good gold 🎉 I love how you different ways to get gold and show us how we could do it cheap or Just in different ways .

Love the super sluice 2.0.. i agree that it is all about the adventure.. having fun.. and f&$kin@ around with your mates.. keep it up because you've been smiling/joking alot more doing these things and it's funny as heck for me and my daughter!!!

I like these more primitive ideas Chris, good job. 👍

I have made sluices out od several different things and they all worked. With a little practice you can make any size sluice for almost nothing.

I love this idea.

This is kind of like a rocker box using the water as the rocking motion

4 foot by 8 foot half inch PVC board (often used for paneling walls in food prep areas) would make a light durable version of this without worry of delamination like what you used. It is solid plastic through and through. Often find cutting boards made of this material. Find a large cutting board and it might be the right size.

What about an electric pump with a good screen on the intake - instead of the "bucket carry" delivery system? I read somewhere that some dude did research that showed that water with up to 20% solids (really muddy water) will flush gold out effectively. So you hose down your "Frankenbanker" - and save back and time. Seen vids of the Asian guys using the output of a small stream coming off a jungle cliff or small pump to water their systems. A bilge pump with a smallish lithium ion batt - light weight and portable - as your "recirculating sluice" water source should do it.

Right on Chris its a numbers game,want more gold move more dirt.

Your OK I never noticed a blue wheelbarrow in that video either

Luv the analogy

Enjoyed the video nice gold from your home made sluice ⚒️🇺🇸⛏️🕳️

I just love the feeling of finding treasure

With batteries becoming cheaper, I'd try bringing a smaller, cheap bilge water pump for this .... they're not noisy and you can maintain a peaceful time out there :) Forbidden where I live, though.

I like gold prospecting cause it's calming

Couldn't agree more mate! Dirt tastes soo good!!

If you run the high banker as grizzly bars/screen deck and have it feed down into this and the mega sluice together you think it'll catch even more?

Go Chris so you upsized yet again mate well done 🙂

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Down sized but with improvements

At Homedepot there are sheets of PVC. It would last forever instead of plywood.

Superb stuff.

halfway through i wonder if you were wishing you had the pump? lugging dirt and water almost looks harder.

That was a good one

I bought " pickle buckets" from Maccas, they seemed to last a long time.

I'm also good friends with nopelino if that's what they are called. I'm dyslexic so can never remember how the name is spelled. I love their simple yet effective ways to mine. Their dredges are mint. They prove you don't need expensive equipment to get the job done! 👍💚💛❤️

Has anyone tried a vessel full of a concentrate slurry with ultrasound applied to it? And maybe a ring of magnets to pull black sand away? If the bottom was like a funnel, leading into a tube, with 2 ball valves, could close the bottom valve, ultrasound, close the top valve, then open the bottom valve and get superconcentate out of it.

@armandbourque2468

11 ай бұрын

And maybe a roll up sluice mat, to resluice the waste slurry wider and slower. Also, a funnel and a hose, from upstream, leading into a spray bar at the head of the sluice, and one of those folding aluminum carts yacht ppl use for shopping whaen they supply up in port. Its basically a folding 2 wheel wheelbarrow. Fits in a subcompact car.

LOL 🤣 Wheelbarrow

@scotthultin7769

11 ай бұрын

It's not the fact that you Thomas gold you're catching it's the fact that you can catch it at all with what you can buy and create yourself and you don't have to buy a big expensive machine but I would bring the pump with so you didn't have to keep bailing water and let the water run across there and then you could just toss it onto your classifier and as it falls through it falls through into the stream of water and carries across your mat is a great idea

I just bought you a coffee mother lode after years of watching you and sweatpants wont be long till you hit 50k keep it love your work!

@MadMarlin1964

11 ай бұрын

50k? My dexlysia must be raging full throttle today because I thought he was at 200k.

@48thstateprospecting

11 ай бұрын

I reckon he forgot a zero and meant 500k?

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

You are the best, thanks!

Man you made that quick it works really well

@48thstateprospecting

11 ай бұрын

Who dat commenting der…👁👁

@buckshotprospector

11 ай бұрын

@@48thstateprospecting hahaha wasn't me 😀

I don’t feel so bad about my janky gutter sluice I built.. but now I’m curious about my angle.. I’d heard 35° for a clean up sluice.. now I’m thinking I might be too steep. 😬😖😬

I enjoy gold prospecting as it helps my mental health

That's awesome any videos in regards to a hopper for a highbanker?

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Heaps, you'll have to go digging though my 800 videos cos I can't remember which ones.

@MadMarlin1964

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspectingwait… you have more videos I haven’t seen? Lol, I keep going backwards in time trying to see all of them.

How heavy is the mega sluice when the carpet is full and wet? I have a spot that would be good for a box like that.

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Not that bad actually. The Size is more of an issue than the weight

Toss a hose in the creek up stream. Let gravity bring you water.

Surprisingly, it is easier to carry 2 buckets than one because you are balanced and don't weigh more on one side than the other. It makes you much more stable too thereby reducing your chances of stumbling because of being unbalanced. Don't believe me? Try it for yourself.

@GoodForYou4504

11 ай бұрын

That's one trick you have to learn by doing it. 😎

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

I did do that, and my second bucket broke. Lol

@GoodForYou4504

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting the gold gods wanted you to do one bucket at a time. Can't second guess that! Best wishes from MA, USA (no gold here!)

@MickH60

11 ай бұрын

Better for your back too !!!

ave you every found any other rare stones or gems while hunting for gold?

Like a Teenage boy on his first date. Too Funny

Nice showing of gold 💚💛❤️

My dawg hates waiting in the car, but she has to go bye bye when truck leaves the yard… up until summer…. She HAS to stay home in summer, gets too hot too early in Texas, uboys know what heat is… we are so much alike… old bricklayer back vs old man back 😂🤣

i bought some second hand buckets today, and was eager to let you know, seeing as how your handle broke, but i see you've bought new bunnings buckets. but if you're interested, they've got quite a few back in stock. 10 and 20 litre. you'll just have to head north of the border and use your nose to find the smell [i'm sure that is more than enough of a hint lol]. they're asking $1 per bucket, but an extra $1 per lid. if you get out there early, you might be lucky and get the last roll of old artificial grass, if you're interested. they've got a fair bit of pvc piping too, kind of cheap, if you wanted some to make extra suction pumps.

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Thats a cheap bucket my dude!

@killermouse1974

11 ай бұрын

@@VoGusProspecting they had very few left the previous time i was out there [albury tip shop - i'm sure you worked that out], but they've got heaps at the moment. metal handles too, so not going to break. extra $1 per lid isn't so great though. they've got plastic pallets there too. not sure how much they want for them. but i was thinking they'd make a good base for a mega sluice. just cover with thin aluminium or galvanised steel. i know it's potentially a little heavier, maybe two people required, but would handle getting wet, and potentially relatively cheap compared to thicker aluminium or galvanised steel required for structural strength. i think you could cut them, removing some of the height of the pallet, while still maintaining a lot of the structural strength. if you did cut them up a bit, the cut bits might be useful as sides of the sluice and/or riffles.

awesome vid budday .. maybe some better mats would catch more ..

hell ya

Congrats on the 200K subs Chris !!

@VoGusProspecting

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

Love it.

Salve guerreiro vo-gus 💎⛏️🇧🇷

My braincell just wiggled, what about a small wooden strip down the centre so you have two narrower mats to pull?

They also sell plastic board that you could have used for the sides and the base and you would have never had to worry about buying the paint and it would have turned out about the same value of money spent😊

@bjvoorhies

11 ай бұрын

Or melamine laminated shelf stuff - or plastic do-it-yourself enclosed shower sheets....