DESERDOG'S
ORIGINAL GOLD SUCKER HAND DREDGE

I welcome you to write a review of your Sniper or 2 inch mini gold sucker hand dredge that you have purchased .

The Sniper was designed to be used above the waterline, for those cracks, crevices, and potholes that you would normally have to work dry, or pour waterin and suck out with a turkey baster. The Sniper provides much better suction than a turkey baster.

The 2 inch mini was designed to be used unerwater while using a snorkle. That is why it has a 45 degree elbow, you can pull the plunger parallel with your body while you are underwater, you do not have to pull straight up.

Let other gold prospectors know if it works well or if it does not. Is it easy to use while prospecting?

I welcome you to write a review of your 2 or 3 inch super gold sucker hand dredge that you have purchased .

Let other gold prospectors know if it works well or if it does not. Is it easy to use while prospecting? Do you use while gold panning or sluicing?

3 INCH SUPER GOLD SUCKER

I welcome you to write a review of your classic gold sucker hand dredge that you have purchased .

Let other gold prospectors know if it works well or if it does not. Is it easy to use while prospecting?

The other day I opened up a test hole on Cajon Creek. I was on the opposite side of the creek from where I had been working. Here is a picture of the original test hole.

As  you can see, Cajon Creek has a lot of rocks and boulders! Here are the boulders that came out of the test hole.

I opened up this test hole because, even though it is not on an inside curve like where I was working, the gold I find is bigger, even though fewer pieces.

Here is a picture of the hole after another hours work.

 If  you are working a creek that has lots of rocks and boulders, a shovel does not do you much good. I use my  iron digging bar to loosen the material, suck up the loose material with the 3 inch super gold sucker, and then hand toss or roll larger rocks out of the hole. And then repeat!

I made a wing-dam this time so that I would not have to empty the 3 inch super gold sucker into a bucket and then carry the bucket to my sluice box. With the wing-dam, I can dump the 3 inch super gold sucker directly onto the grizzly that sets at the head end of the sluice box.

Here is the sluice box by the hole.

All the boulders you see ringing the hole came out of the hole. I use the shovel shown in the picture to move tailings away from the sluice box.

Now there are some who say that you could just use a shovel in this situation.You could, but you would not be able to move very much material at all. There are so many rocks and boulders that you have to loosen up the material first, and then you still cannot use a shovel very effectively.But the 3 inch super gold sucker works great for suckingup the loosened material, and transferring it to the sluice box.

If you are using a bucket hand dredge, you can still work this material, but at a much slower rate. The small nozzles of the bucket hand dredges just limit the amount of material that you can suck up each time.

Update on 09-12.

I went back and did  a little more work on my hole, and got a little gold. this time I use my La Trap sluice box instead of the sluices with expanded metal and miners moss.

I was curious as to how much or fast I was processing the material, so I had my wife count how long it took me to do 5 suctions from the hole to the sluice. I was able, working at my normal pace, to do 5 suctions and shake the classifier to clean the rocks in one minute!  It does not ake long at all.

We left our house at 2:21 pm and got to the creek at 2:56 pm. We were back in the car going town the road at 4:21 pm. This includes setup and cleanup.

If you were to use a 3 inch or even a 2 inch super gold sucker all day on the creek, along with a sluice box, you could move a lot of material, and recover a lot of gold!

Recently I had a chance to use a bucket hand dredge, and frankly, I was underwhelmed! My whole philosphy of mining revolves around moving as much material as I can so that I can develope concentrate to take home and process. With the bucket hand dredge, you can only take suck up small amount of material each time. With my 2 and 3 inch super gold suckers, you suck up , much larger amounts of material each stroke.

Plus, some of the nozzles on the bucket hand dreddges use so called clog preventors. A bolt through the nozzle! All this does is even furhter cut down the amount of materila the nozzle will suck up! Plus, remember, any rock your hand drege will not pick up, yo will have to move by hand! That is the whole reason I went from a 2 inch to a 3 inch super gold sucker, I got tired of tossing some many rocks the 2 inch super gold sucker would not pick up!

The Prospecting Channel has a video that shows a bucket hand dredge being used to suck up material from behind a boulder. He pumps and pumps and pumps to fill a 2.5 gallon bucket. 2 or 3 strokes of the 3 inch super gold sucker, and the bucket is filled. 5 or 6 stokes witht he 2 inch super gold sucker and the bucket is filled. You can see the small amount of material sucked up by the bucket hand dredge when the camera is underwater. With the 2 or 3 inch super gold sucker, you would leave a sizeable hole with each stroke.

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