These products work on a simple principal. Sometimes being “Cheap” can be a lot more expensive. Mining season is short above the 49th parallel, so you might as well fork over a few bucks and get one that is already working than spending probably twice as much re-inventing the wheel. As your buckets fill, all you do is slip the receiver out of the full bucket, and slide it into an empty one and you are ready to go, and can fill multiple 20L buckets almost non-stop. It’s advanced operation is called the “Prospector”, that allows you to turn your “Sniper” unit into a full fledged continuous feed system in a couple of minutes simply by removing the “Sniper” tip, and inserting the “Prospector” head into the receiver, and attaching the hose to a receiver that slips into a bucket and is attached to your unit by a 6′ lightweight, lined flex hose.

In fact, it pretty much keeps you from getting your hands and arms we at all with it’s long length, and has 3 sizes of suction tips. where the current is too strong or material too deep for reaching.

It’s basic operation is that of a “Sniper” type of tool, and designed for cleaning out submerged bedrock cracks, pot holes, etc. 30 inches long and made from heavy duty 2″ PVC, and works in 2 different ways. Motherlodeprospecting.ca builds the “MotherSucker Hand Dredge”. Although, the money and time you spend on experimentation and messing up, you probably would be better off just buying one and get out there after the gold, rather than screwing around wasting time in your garage and building supply stores for hours or days trying to make something that will likely cost you more in the long run, and keep you from the river getting gold. Well, there is a bit more to it than what I’ve written here, but anyone can make thier own with a little ingenuity. Your own “Aspirator” for sucking up the gravel your shovel can’t get to.

You take a tube of PVC, cut it into a manageable length, make a pull handle, and attach some type of seal at the end of the shaft, add some sort of tip at the end, and there you have it. This concept is pretty much universal and you can get them pretty much anywhere, but to find one that is has the ability to convert from a basic unit to a continuous feed system, is worth it’s weight in gold.īasically, the principal is simple. Introducing the MotherSucker Hand Dredge, from Motherlodeprospecting.ca.

Mothersucker prospector hand dredge