Recent content by Russman80

Went out for approx 3 hours today, a little bit of exploring but only about an hour of highbanking, the creek I go to has hardly any water in it, and where there is water its been gone over too much by others. Where there normally is water there are now a lot of exposed riffles that looked good...

The auto lock pins are called locking bolts, or indexing plungers, I sell them from time to time at work, they are available in black oxide (will rust) or stainless, $15 -$25 each :Y:

Here's a short video of my highbanker doing its thing. The idea behind the classifier at the top was to hold muddy clay until it breaks down and releases the gold, didn't really work as well as I hoped it would, I don't use it anymore. You can get good results in this area if you have the...

Awesome! I'll keep it in my kit then! :Y: :)

Not quite backpackable, cricketbagable. lol. If it wasn't for the 30kg battery to run the bilge you could take it anywhere, bags not very heavy at all. The battery is a nightmare to lug through the bush though. I'm heading out today, hopefully I can find some water in the creek beds I'm heading...

Is a DIY modified PVC yabbie pump legal? its classed as a hand tool yeah? I made one with a nozzle to get into crevices, works really well, would be disappointing if its illegal.

List of exempted rivers and streams, they could have just said you are not allowed to pan in any river or tributary in Victoria, all of the good gold bearing creeks (that I know of) etc are on the list! :(

I need to add a couple of flanges to the top to help when shoveling alluvium into it, stop it from falling out the side. I also need to look at a different classifying grate (circled in red) on the hopper as too much gets caught up & in turn builds up eventually blocking it, any suggestions will...

Just a few more photos of my highbanker broken down. Can't wait to get out there again and find some more of that yellow stuff! :)

I got the square aluminium profile & corners through bunnings. The tube clamps (for the legs) I sourced through my previous job. But you can now get them off ebay if you search for HD Plastic tube clamp. Just make sure you can find the right diameter tube to suit before purchase, sometimes they...

My current bildge is a 2000GPH 10amp, used to have a 500GPH but its too small. The jump pack only lasted about 2 hours. I have since purchased a 12v 100amp/hr battery that should go the distance, only problem is it's 30kg.

I'm heading out on Monday, I'll take some footage of it in action!

I made the drop riffles out of aluminium flashing and formed it over the riffles on my river Sluice (pictured) and then filled the back with car bog and stuck it into the channel with silicone.

Hi Casper, Heres a more recent pic, I don't use that plate, it was no good, needed access to the grate below it. :) Thanks everyone else for the comments! :)

Heres a few photos that I thought I'd share of my DIY highbanker I made and of it in use :) Works quite well.