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First time I have seen one of these, the Yanks are always coming out with something aye?
http://www.bucketdigger.com/
http://www.bucketdigger.com/
Bucket Digger
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Good for the soup kitchens 
Actually looks similar to the dippers I've seen in some of the historic gold sluicing photos of old. Reminds me that there's a lot of really great gadgets that could be re-invented with modern fabricating and technology.
I'm currently working on a 70kHz BFO detector using a tl072cn and a lm386....
Actually looks similar to the dippers I've seen in some of the historic gold sluicing photos of old. Reminds me that there's a lot of really great gadgets that could be re-invented with modern fabricating and technology.I'm currently working on a 70kHz BFO detector using a tl072cn and a lm386....
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This is the bucket digger in action.
[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjmbjE0_hQ[/video]
[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjmbjE0_hQ[/video]
Makes it look all to easy,
doesn;'t make sense to me at all? our rocks are packed in tight there's no lever action, there's a reason my shovel has a long handle.... maybe in loose benches but nah looks like a modified pooper scooper to me
Just my 2 cents: I think it's more to do with dragging, you are correct GD in the sense of it wouldn't perform very well in hard packed ground, if at all, but I could see the benefits of it for flood gold in loose gravels and or sandy loose ground, the pelican pick is the prime example of moving large amounts of dirt by dragging instead of digging, although the pelican pick is a pick not a shovel.
true mate, if you had a massive sluice setup in a wing dam and were able to drag back into that i can see this would work well provided there were no big rocks about, where i dig no big rocks means no bog gold
i do have some fine gold bends that it would work well in, better than a shovel i dont know...
i do have some fine gold bends that it would work well in, better than a shovel i dont know...
Right tool for the job I guess mate, I don't think I'll have a use for one, but my brother raised an eyebrow for pulling cat ***** out of his kids sand box!
