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The Gold N Sand Pump

East-Auck-Fossicker		Posted : Monday, 9 January 2012 12:06:47 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 12/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 84 Location: Auckland Thanks: 10 times Was thanked: 21 time(s) in 11 post(s)		The Gold N Sand hand pump is fantastic ! You can really suck up a lot of materail easierly. When you first look at it, you think, that's a big pump, you would have to be superman to use that all day. But it's really easy to pump. The leather washer in side is 50 mm and I would have used it about 15 - 20 hours and there is little to no wear on the washer and it comes with two nozzeles. I also have a smaller pump off John (Paydirt) and this works fine too. It's handy to put into a rucksack and go trmping into the bush or as in the photo in side a colvet. In one picture I'am using the pump with a floating sluice box which worked very well. Other pictures are a stack of seives and a bat pan . Look up BATPAN . COM File Attachment(s): Bev's Holiday Thames 2012 022.JPG Bev's Holiday Thames 2012 068.JPG Bev's Holiday Thames 2012 053.JPG Bev's Holiday Thames 2012 155.JPG Bev's Holiday Thames 2012 040.JPG
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gavin		Posted : Monday, 9 January 2012 12:31:45 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Wow - that is a big pump! Should imagine it's quite effective though. Thanks for sharing the photos - great to see it (and you!) in action :) First time I've see the bat pan before - interesting design / idea: http://www.batpan.com/ Did you recover much gold? Edited by user Monday, 9 January 2012 12:35:00 PM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified
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East-Auck-Fossicker		Posted : Monday, 9 January 2012 12:58:36 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 12/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 84 Location: Auckland Thanks: 10 times Was thanked: 21 time(s) in 11 post(s)		A few tiny little spicks.
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simon		Posted : Monday, 9 January 2012 1:43:20 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 7/01/2011(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Central Otago Thanks: 33 times Was thanked: 239 time(s) in 150 post(s)		east-auck-fossicker, i've just recently imported one of those suckers from gold n sand also. did a lot of research first of course. cost about $340 by the time i bought a couple of extra bits and got it here. i also got the underwater viewing scope that clips on. i often use this seperately. also got a couple of the sluicebox adapters so i can suck straight into my box. the second one i use when my box it up out of the channel. i can run a bilge pump off a battery which pumps into the little crash box. only complaint with the thing is it is a little too long. prob a good thing as it stops you drawing too far. great for cleaning up the bedrock and moves good volumes. i used to use a sniper of johns also but needed something that would move more material, ie. the whole river bed. well, not quite, i shovel most out that i can get with the shovel, then clean up with the gold n sand sucker. if anyone wants to see it in action theres some utube clips online. i might even get round to taking some of my own soon. i've got a nice little hd underwater go pro camera. usually too busy digging to set it up but its about time it gets some use. go the great summer weather. rivers are running at a dribble down this way!
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