Bucket Soil Water Thing?

[AtomRat]

I've been told of a simple device with the daunting name of "bucket d*$&@e". Basically its a plastic bucket, hose from the pump feeds into a hole at the side / bottom of the bucket with a larger outlet hose opposite the other side.

You are able to drop material into the bucket and the hose venturii blasts it back to your sluice.

Supposibly they are considered illegal, anyone else heard of them or the laws on this contraption.

 

[TheSilentBugler]

Can't see why, as long as you're digging by hand you can process how ever you like.

My understanding anyway.

 

[AtomRat]

That's kinda what I feel. But as the bloke that told me about it said: "you can move the buckets meters from your sluice and still feed it material.."

Mabey there's a glitch in the matrix and there's a few grey areas on this subject.

 

[nucopia]

It sound interesting any pictures of one in action ?

 

[AtomRat]

I'll have to draw it. Gotta put phone on charge. Give me 10

 

[dwt]

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=10237
Is this perhaps what your talking about, not a bucket dredge, not any type of dredge, a simple prospecting dredge 'sucks' (not talking about the massive 'bucket dredges' from yesteryear or on gold rush),
if it's hand load, it ain't a dredge!

 

[Guest]

I think your on it DWT!

 

[dwt]

Dredge is such a dirty word

 

[nucopia]

I'll have to draw it. Gotta put phone on charge. Give me 10

Thanks AtomRat !!!!

 

[AtomRat]

Well yeah, that's a real fancy version I guess and really super awesome too DWT!

 

[TheSilentBugler]

More like a puddler than anything, don't mention the D word and it would be fine.

 

[AtomRat]

Issue fixed

 

[nucopia]

Ok that looks simple and easy to make.
Water powered soil separator ?

 

[stoyve]

I wish I could draw buckets like that

 

[AtomRat]

Lmao yeah that's my high tech precise measured cad diagram of the bucket lol

 

[ProspectorPete]

I can't quite make out the hose connection from the pump end.....................is that a................. :8

 

[silver]

He was just Doodling.

 

[ProspectorPete]

haha...... seriously though love the concept and would be useful at quite a few locations, DWT's build is a monster.

 

[Chewy]

Lmao yeah that's my high tech precise measured cad diagram of the bucket lol

Does that stand for crayon aided design?

 

[blisters]

The easiest path for the water is out the top of the bucket. I would have thought a Y piece on the sluice side hose to provide pressure and volume to the sluice as well as suction to the bucket would work much better. Then your bucket needs water either from being submerged or supplied by your pump off a tee.
Jon