water powered prospecting gear

[Hunting the yellow]

keen to make some basic iron too but will need to refine it and add other alloys to it wanta make it into 2 round flat plates with a solid round bar in the middle this will be hopefully for my homemade waterwheel with the shaft will be solid steel/iron and the round plates on both ends of the solid bar will serve as plates I can attach wood to with bolts into the wood + steel plate as a base/frame for the whole waterwheel.

here's a recent video of obtaining the raw iron oxide mineral from underground you can find it anywhere really e.g. ironstone hot rocks most rusty looking rock but this is a finer purer form than in solid rock and no crushing is needed to extract the iron oxide
[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zzQDCM-wS0[/video]

but here's an update on the water powered trommal currently building a frame for it still haven't gone to the local tip to get the scooter wheels yet but each time I go there I take more junk home than I drop off lol

 

[Rambling rude]

Gday HTY,
Thinking of the washer machine destruction.. You could save the water pump impeller and housing and run a 1 inch piped water into it and spin a smaller shaft or motor..
Occasional_panner you have an eye for re purposeing, love to see what the end results are of this spark of engineering HTY.

Cheers RR

 

[RM Outback]

Water wheel hydro /power has been around quite a while, a mate has used one in a commercial operation for as long as I can remember. So no need to reinvent the wheel so to speak just research. I like your other thoughts :Y: keen to see how you get on.

 

[Hunting the yellow]

been busy with work still on idle but will be getting into it soon also looking at getting parts for the waterwheel stamper but need a creek I can set it up on semi permanent.