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Has anybody made their own dredge?

it really depends on the size and how much you want to do. ive converted two highbankers to dredges before. if you want to work a small stream (Lets say less than over your head) a 2" pump should work fine. a dredge is basically a floating sluice. suction is produced at the nozzle by the venturi effect. if the dredges hose is like 15' to 20' you …

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4 Tips to Creating Your Own Gold Dredge

Here's what it takes to actually build a gold dredge for prospecting SHOP CURRENT DEALS & DISCOUNTS ON BOAT GEAR! You've seen every episode of Bering Sea Gold and Gold Rush and you …

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Some dredge basics

to catch gold. Here are a few examples of a well balanced dredge: 2" backpack dredge. Small but effective 2.5 hp 100 GPM pump with 10" wide box. 2.5" dredge 4 hp engine with a 200 GPM pump with a 12' wide sluice box. 3" dredge 5.5 hp with 250 GPM pump 14" wide box 4" dredge 6.5 hp with 275 GPM pump with 16' box

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Has anybody made their own dredge?

Jul 1, 2012. #7. Check out some of the gold prospecting forums. Many of them have free downloads of plans to make equipment. Keene or proline are a couple of …

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Plans to design and build your own gold …

There is a long tradition of home built dry washers. This is a very do-able project, but it does take time, planning, good design and some work. Here are my plans and thoughts on how to build your own dry washer. Build …

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Build Your Own Gold Prospecting Equipment

How to build gold prospecting equipment on the cheap! View prospecting equipment plans and books at bottom of page. If you have tips on how to build your own prospecting equipment please email us.

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How To Make A 4" Gold Sucker Pump

Here's a video showing how I've redesigned and made my monster 4" manual gold pump/dredge. I have a previous build version of this 4" manual gold …

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Some dredge basics

to catch gold. Here are a few examples of a well balanced dredge: 2" backpack dredge. Small but effective 2.5 hp 100 GPM pump with 10" wide box. 2.5" dredge 4 hp engine …

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DREDGE SUCTION NOZZLES

DREDGE SUCTION NOZZLES By: Dale Russell Suction nozzles can easily be home made, with some ingenuity & a few tools. No matter what size you want to make from 1" up to 6", you can purchase exhaust pipe with that outside diameter (OD) Power jets measure the same as for pipe and will be discussed later.

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Emily Riedel's Guide to Building a Bering Sea Gold …

10″ is our preferred size. The Eroica is a 10″ dredge that's powered by a 100 hp Cummins 4bt.. A 10″ can support an owner-operator and a diver or two. They can still make enough gold working close to …

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Plans to design and build your own gold …

My dredge is based on a lot of experience in the field, so it works just great. A good homemade dredge will cost some money, but you may be able to build one a lot cheaper than you could buy one. Here are the plans and …

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Build Your Own DIY Gold Mining Gear – Tips

With your gold dredge now constructed, it's time to put it to the test. Find a suitable gold-bearing stream or river, and start operating your dredge by diving underwater and suctioning the material rich in …

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Emily Riedel's Guide to Building a Bering Sea Gold Diver …

A suction dredge is basically an underwater vacuum cleaner that sucks (hopefully) gold-bearing gravel up and runs it through a sluicebox. In more technical terms, suction is created by a motor-driven centrifugal pump moving high pressure water into a jet system, creating a low pressure area that creates suction at the nozzle …

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Suction Gold Dredge Basics

Followers 1. A suction gold dredge is basically an underwater vacuum cleaner. Material is transported from underwater to the surface and run through a sluice box to capture the gold. A sluice box …

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Hand Dredge : 5 Steps (with Pictures)

Step 5: Complete! Your dredge is now complete. To suck up material, just keep the collection piece faced down and pull the handle to suck up water and material. As material falls back down, it will get stuck in the …

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Plan and design your own home made suction …

Nozzle: Here's an easy project: really all you need is a piece of pipe about 10 inches long and of the right diameter to fit in your dredge hose. Simply take one end of the pipe and saw cut the pipe about every quarter inch. …

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Suction Gold Dredge Basics

This is a very important thing to remember when working with permits. What a dredge manufacturer calls a 5" dredge may be a 4" intake nozzle dredge for permitting purposes. Nozzles sizes may be up …

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how to build a power jet for gold dredge

3 inch flare and power jet | Gold Dredging Forum. 11-02-2011· i need to build a flare and power jet as getting one from the states is to pricey. my sluice box is 14 inches mide, 46 long. what need to know is the dimensions of the flare ie, length, with at sluice box and how much flare to put on it . i was going to build one like prolines with the longer tube …