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Haha, you will be able to mount that mini on your excavator and stream music!

Ah, I missed that as well. Sweet setup! That floater works great for your location - push the overburden off with a cat and then sluice that beyatch!

Would love to see a pic of that sluice box Dan if possible.

Wow, beautiful country and great gold. Thanks for sharing!

Ya, that area is all mined out. I am going after the higher benches now and searching for areas that they missed. Now that i know the link worked, I will put up another link to a bunch more photos and vids when i have some free time.

Did the photo link in the previous post work? For mods I found I had water carry over along the solid sections on the drum. I need to weld in some angle iron deflectors to push that water into the screen section. Further mods are simpler like rubber baffles to keep the material flowing into the slui...

Well, unfortunately I didn't get much for videos of this little unit in action but it worked real well. I have a couple mods to do prior to starting next season but overall very happy with it. Also survived with no grizzly so you may be onto something here Mr Chickenminer. One really cool thing is t...

Thanks for sharing David Brown. Had to watch your gallery a couple times as the pics cycled through too fast lol.

Gotcha on the seal leak. Not sure how far afield you are willing to go for auction hunting but if there is anything at RB Edmonton you want a second look at let me know as the yard is 5 minutes away from my workplace.

Going back a few posts to the swing motor replacement - you replaced it as it was leaking oil into the case or into the rotec? What was the exchange cost? FYI- I put about 30 hrs on my new to me 290 and was very pleased as it ran flawlessly. One never know with auction purchases....