

HAND DREDGE FULL
The capacity is 60 cubic meter per hour at full vent, which means about 6 cubic meter of mud per hour at 10% blend. Photos of the accessory can be found here. We have developed an accessory in the form of a knife which cuts the bottom if it would be too hard for suction, the knife will also protect the pump if you use it on a stony bottom. We sell a 2.5 inch Italian high quality flat hose in 50 m length and it is good idea is to buy an extra quick coupling so you can easily divide the hose into the appropriate lengths.

Some buy a shorter shaft so they can change, it will then be more comfortable to dredge with a shorter shaft when it is very shallow. It is possible to have different length of the shaft, default is 2.5 m.
HAND DREDGE HOW TO
See photos and videos in the gallery how to use it. The ideal raft is the EasyFloat 2.4 * 3.0 m that we also distribute. Best is to mount it on a platform that you can remove from the raft when you want to use the raft for something else. You should mount it on a raft, a steady boat or you could do some dredging from the ice. The DIY-dredger is delivered with a variable mounting, 2.5 m transparent hose and one Cam Lock coupling.

It’s light weight, and comes with a time-proven leather seal for long life and superb suction. We use durable white PVC pipe, it is less reactive to temperature and sunlight.

Our basic “MotherSucker Prospector” Hand Dredge, with a 32mm tip, is designed to suck up those elusive values on the up stroke by using simple “non-mechanical” suction and on the down stroke, pump those values into a recovery bucket via a lightweight “lined” 6′ flex hose. The New Zealand mining act bans all mechanized dredging and motorised equipment from Public Fossicking areas. In fact, even the simple act of shoveling causes gold to be driven deeper to the bottom and into cracks and divots where the shovel can’t go, therefore, the only way is to use a suction device to siphon it right up off the bottom just like a vacuum cleaner.īut, mechanized dredging in many areas is either illegal, or can it can take months to get written permission after submitting the complicated paperwork. You can’t get to all the gold by shoveling alone, especially in bedrock cracks, under boulders and the bottom of pot holes where the shovel can’t get to. But it also breaks down so you can carry it in a large backpack (see Jeff Williams Video above). It’s unique, moves large volumes of material and is versatile. We have been told by many happy customers that the MotherSucker is simply the best hand dredge out there – and we agree. Simply the ultimate backpack hand dredge out there, no permits required.Ģ-in-1 means you can easily convert this tool into a “Sniper” for getting into submerged potholes and bedrock cracks, or use it in “Prospector Mode” for general recovery of submerged paydirt in a stream or other water source.
