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<blockquote data-quote="elbowgrease" data-source="post: 169292" data-attributes="member: 233"><p>I use the boss as well and as the first few replies to your question they are a great sluice.</p><p></p><p>They do need more water to get running than the smaller ones but the flip side is they have a huge capacity comparatively and if they are set up with "ideal" flow you can shovel pretty much unclassified straight into it (can't just dump shovel loads in, need to slowly drops them in bit by bit)</p><p></p><p>There is always trade-offs. I've you've got good water flow year round there is no reason to go the smaller models as the recovery rate is identical across the range and all you'll be doing is reducing the amount you can process. The smaller models are great for smaller and slower flow creeks or if you are doing sampling. I also borrowed a mates recon the last couple of years I've been to NZ as the Recon fits in my normal luggage and the Boss would be too big! Unfortuantely the recon is too small for the conditions and amount of black sand in the land of the kiwi and packs out in only a few shovels.</p><p></p><p>This is a video I did a while back with my sluice. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYZJ6jx4s1Y" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYZJ6jx4s1Y</a></p><p>Since then I've grown in confidence with the amount of water I can run through it and the gold recovery so I run it with even more water than that now when its available.</p><p></p><p>As far as gold recovery goes you can't go wrong with any of the mackirk sluice range. Its all going to come down to how much you want to process and what will best suit the areas you generally prospect in!</p><p></p><p>Good luck</p><p>Adam</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elbowgrease, post: 169292, member: 233"] I use the boss as well and as the first few replies to your question they are a great sluice. They do need more water to get running than the smaller ones but the flip side is they have a huge capacity comparatively and if they are set up with "ideal" flow you can shovel pretty much unclassified straight into it (can't just dump shovel loads in, need to slowly drops them in bit by bit) There is always trade-offs. I've you've got good water flow year round there is no reason to go the smaller models as the recovery rate is identical across the range and all you'll be doing is reducing the amount you can process. The smaller models are great for smaller and slower flow creeks or if you are doing sampling. I also borrowed a mates recon the last couple of years I've been to NZ as the Recon fits in my normal luggage and the Boss would be too big! Unfortuantely the recon is too small for the conditions and amount of black sand in the land of the kiwi and packs out in only a few shovels. This is a video I did a while back with my sluice. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYZJ6jx4s1Y[/url] Since then I've grown in confidence with the amount of water I can run through it and the gold recovery so I run it with even more water than that now when its available. As far as gold recovery goes you can't go wrong with any of the mackirk sluice range. Its all going to come down to how much you want to process and what will best suit the areas you generally prospect in! Good luck Adam [/QUOTE]
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