making a banjo

[casper]

.... and the reason it's called a banjo?

this is from my copy of "Panning and Prospecting for Beginners" H.K.Garland published 1975 which i bought new way back then....

casper

 

[glot]

From Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idriess.

 

[Jaros]

Arghhh!!! my neck hurts now after reading that !! 8.(

 

[bend]

Thats pretty much the rocker I built, works like a charm for crevicing around low water areas.

 

[casper]

Thats pretty much the rocker I built, works like a charm for crevicing around low water areas.

I want to build a trad(itional). Rocker / Cradle, and also a trad. Banjo... however the Banjo is my first preference. There's plenty of plans out there - fascinating stuff......... casper

 

[MikeB05]

One of my mates uses a 'banjo' and feeds it by throwing the dirt into the hopper and then ladling water with an implement (a wok on a bloody long stick).

I will contact him and ask him to post some photos.

 

[casper]

One of my mates uses a 'banjo' and feeds it by throwing the dirt into the hopper and then ladling water with an implement (a wok on a bloody long stick).

I will contact him and ask him to post some photos.

I may draw some flak with this post but YES following your description (query the hopper part) it could be a Cradle or if without the hopper it could be what is traditionally known in Australia as a Banjo - in California what we know as a Banjo is to them a Dip Box and in Alaska it's a wave box... but to confuse things here nowadays in Australia (Queensland) a trad "Wet Jigger" has in recent times with the addition a modern motorised pump to feed it water been reinvented and tagged as a "Banjo" 8.( sacre bleu - many of us would look at it and say hey! that's a highbanker! - but not all so I'm ducking for cover

PS in California, Australia and NZ, a Cradle is a Rocker is a Cradle.

casper

 

[Eldorado]

So could you use a two tiered high banker with one person feeding it gravel and another bucketing water into it?