Building a GIANT Gold Catching Highbanker!

追加: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]On today's video, we cut things, we weld things, we finally finish this gold catching high banker, and then Gina and I take it down by the river to test it on some local gravels to see how well it works. We finally have everything to finish our giant high banker. It's time to get this thing put together so we can get some big gold. We've got our Vmatting, we've got our miner's moss, and we've got our expanded metal. And we got to finish this lower half of the SLLE box. The first thing we're actually going to do is we're going to put a support bar between this piece of bar and this piece of bar right here. On my other slle box, the legs that are riveted to the frame are actually starting to wiggle back and forth on the rivets. So, if I put a support bar in here and weld it to these two pieces, it's actually not going to be able to flex on itself because that bar is going to hold the two pieces together. And then the slle box is just going to be like sitting on top of a frame. One tick less than 34 and a half. That's how I'm doing it.

[00:00:59]Nice. Thing's going to be way too heavy by the time I'm done with it.

[00:01:13]And now that the lower frame is done, we can take out our temporary rivets.

[00:01:21]We'll just weld up the top side of our piece real quick. Get this painted black and then we can start working on putting the carpeting and the matting in our lower slle. All right, time to cut the end piece off our slle so it actually works.

[00:01:42]Sick.

[00:01:48]Now, my matting is going to be a little bit awkward because they did send me 10x 48 instead of 12 x 48. This side is 10 and this side is 12. So, the Vmatting, which is going to be our bottom layer, is going to be a little bit narrow at the big end here. Uh, until I get another piece. But, we're going to run Vmatting on the bottom. Then, we're going to run minor moss on top of that.

[00:02:09]So, anything that makes its way through the minor's moss should get trapped in the Vmatting. And then we're going to run expanded metal on top of this.

[00:02:19]Now, the reason we're going with expanded metal and miners moss is because I don't have experience with anything else. It's the only thing that I do know. And I do know that it is good at catching gold, especially fine gold.

[00:02:29]There's a lot of like newer riffle systems that have been coming out that I have not tested yet that I would probably enjoy testing, but I just don't know. So, we're going to stick with what I do know. We're going to use this stuff. I do have to cut it down to size.

[00:02:45]Hello.

[00:03:21]Nice. Now, a way to secure this down.

[00:03:25]All right. I just bent up this piece right here. And this is just so the water doesn't splash out the back because this is only like a 2-in tall lip. When the water comes out of the hopper and like goes back this way, it's going to hit this 4 in lip now instead and then go this way.

[00:03:53]We basically have it all done. The slle isn't riveted to the frame yet. And despite that, it's still very, very heavy. You swear I built this for like some 400 lb dude who can use like a quarter yard shovel or something, but uh nope. Built it for myself and I got to drag this in and out of the woods. But we're going to work on a way to fasten it down. And what better way to do that than by adding a whole bunch more weight.

[00:04:16]I swear I live in a town where like all I can get is industrial size stuff. So this is inch and a half by/4 in aluminum 4 ft long. Now I've cut it at an angle here and I'm going to do like they do in gold rush. I'm going to put a wedge at the front. We're going to be able to jam that into the wedge. And that should push down the front half of the mat. And then we're going to make something at the back here to push down the back half. And we'll do it on both sides. And we should get an even push down on our expanded metal. Just some angle iron like this. Cut down to like this so that this can slide in. And I can weld this piece to the uh box. And then we have like a, you know, an eighth of an inch gap in there.

[00:05:04]Sick. It even pushes it all the way down. Nice.

[00:05:09]If I need to, I can uh cut the end off this. And I can even get it to push down even further, actually. Here we go. Now, it should press down pretty good.

[00:05:18]Oh, does it ever.

[00:05:21]And I probably don't need to over complicate this. So, I'm probably going to stick both pieces in here and just drill a couple of holes in the side. And I'll just use wing nuts. Bolt and a wing nut on the outside. I was going to build some intricate contraption over here to like fasten this down, but probably better to keep it simple. There we go.

[00:05:39]Now, I just need a bolt and a wing nut for this. Uh, and then that's just how I'll do it at the river. I'll leave this 1/2 an inch long. So, if you do need to hammer it and tighten these up, then you can just hit it on the end without like having to reach inside. All right, next day. This was our old hopper. It was okay, but I think I can do better. I want to do better. So, I'm going to use like the same design principles as this one, but I'm just going to be better at it this time.

[00:06:08]Maybe. Who knows? Almost certainly not.

[00:06:10]And for my next trick, I'm going to turn this into this. Pretty much the exact same as my old one, just bent a little bit nicer. I'm going to build a back plate for it. And then we're going to work on the part that goes down to the slle box that has the grizzly bars in it.

[00:06:30]Okay. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take this piece and this piece and I'm going to join them together. I'm going to weld them. But first, I'm going to uh trim down the top of this one right here to match the new lower profile of the upper hopper.

[00:06:45]And we're just going to keep it simple.

[00:07:15]After a bunch of welding, this is the monstrosity. we ended up with. And I'm going to tell you right now, it wasn't a fun experience. This thin aluminum, just trying to bend it in my brake doesn't work that great. It doesn't give you like perfect 90° angles. So then I had to do a lot of like hand bending and stuff, but this is what we ended up with.

[00:07:33]You can see I already gave it some love with a hammer in here. This part up here sits flatter than this part. And then the grizzly bars are actually going to go right here on the bottom. And this little piece underneath is just an addition right here. So, the grizzly bars are going to follow this weld line right here. And then this gives a chance for the material to drop down past the grizzlies and then get pushed towards the front of the slle box without uh just dropping down way back here. Time to build some grizzly bars. We're going to make grizzly bars the exact same way we did last time. This is a piece of 10-in flat bar. This is going to go in the hopper. And then I 3D printed these little spacers. They're 4 mm apart each.

[00:08:09]So, when I stick my two pieces of rod through there, we're going to get exactly 4 mm spacing between them. Um, and then we just do that all the way down the line, and we'll end up with a set of grizzly bars.

[00:08:38]Uh, bam. Sweetest set of grizzly bars you ever did to see. I am going to cut them down to length after, too. But I did weld this little bracket in the bottom here to keep the spacing the whole way. And then, uh, welded both sides of the top. So, now we'll drill a hole in that side right there. Drill a hole in the other side. And then this will it's going to fit in somewhere like that.

[00:09:01]Here's where we're at on our high banker so far. We have the grizzly bars are fully in there. This isn't bolted to the bottom part yet, so it's just kind of sitting there just to see what it looks like. I am going to have to shovel a decent height to get rocks in there, unless I lower my stands all the way to the ground, which might be the move.

[00:09:20]But, uh, lots of room in here. So, when I do have to clean the mats out, there's no issue with room down here. And then I do have to build some legs to hold up the hopper here. Hi again.

[00:09:33]>> I found a robin's nest under the deck.

[00:09:36]Uhoh. Like up tuck in the deck. Uhoh.

[00:09:41]How do we keep the cats from getting in there?

[00:09:44]>> Maybe they won't find it.

[00:09:45]>> Maybe.

[00:09:46]>> I hope they don't. But anyways, next up is our watering system. I'm going to try and use two of these little blast nozzles. I'm just going to put them right here.

[00:10:04]That's why I put these little brackets here.

[00:10:08]I just want to be able to blast this right at the bottom of this one. Right at the like the front face of this.

[00:10:13]Throw all the material in here. Swash it around and it'll push itself out in theory.

[00:10:30]Need a set of channel locks to open this stupid stuff. Crazy.

[00:10:39]I don't even know if the gray stuff is right. I just used it on my last one, so it worked then, so it's got to work now.

[00:10:47]Dang. Little power blaster. Pew pew. I can always change these out to a smaller size if it's too much flow. And then if I have too much issues, I can always just change the water bar out. Anyways, we need to make some pads for the legs.

[00:11:15]So, all I'm going to do is I'm going to cut some circles out of this aluminum.

[00:11:35]No, I hit it with my helmet.

[00:11:44]Quickly talk how hopper stay up. Weld bracket here. Put bar to bracket. Weld bar across to bar. When hopper come up, bar come up. Prop under hopper. Angle iron under hopper. Collect crossbar.

[00:12:04]Crossbar. Hold up. Hopper.

[00:12:18]Huh. Huh. Still got to put some angle iron here. But when you're not using it, it just goes under the hopper. Man, I'm good.

[00:12:29]Sometimes I'm just too good for my own good.

[00:12:32]It's kind of crazy.

[00:12:37]The high banker would not be complete without a water upgrade. So, we did get ourselves a 1.5 in gas unit because in theory, we're going to need twice as much water because our SLLE box is twice as wide. Now, now I will be going to Edmonton this weekend so we can go to North Sass so I can really put this thing to work. But to test it out, make sure everything functions as I want it to. We're going to go to the river real quick with Gina, see how it performs.

[00:13:00]And of course, as soon as we get down to the river, it starts to rain. But we still got to test this thing. So, put a hoodie on, shut up, and start digging.

[00:13:07]Hi, Gina.

[00:13:09]>> Hi.

[00:13:18]Why is it rocking? What's it sitting on?

[00:13:19]>> A single bar underneath.

[00:13:21]>> Oh yeah. Okay.

[00:13:29]This is going to be an adventure.

[00:13:34]The wheels.

[00:13:35]There's going to be rolling piles of mud.

[00:13:46]After toppling it over at least twice on the way down here, Kyle has finally brought the setup down and now he's about to set up his new high banker.

[00:13:59]>> We definitely have some like transportation >> bugs to tweak out. Oh yeah.

[00:14:05]>> Yeah.

[00:14:06]>> Like the the wheelbase doesn't seem to be wide enough because it gets topheavy real fast and then it just topples over and then Mr. Kyle gets super frustrated.

[00:14:17]>> Definitely.

[00:14:19]>> Like you're supposed to be having fun.

[00:14:21]>> I know. The river not fun. Do not recommend.

[00:14:26]>> We're going to get it all set up though.

[00:14:28]>> This one's quite a bit bigger than the other high banker. Like what? Maybe three times the size.

[00:14:34]Uh, the run itself is four times as air as much area as the other one.

[00:14:38]>> Oh >> Moving up in the world. Look at that fancy little setup, >> right? It works pretty good.

[00:14:47]>> Oh yeah.

[00:14:51]Yeah. And where's the water?

[00:15:11]Oh, it's going.

[00:15:21]Oh my god. Never violent.

[00:15:27]>> I can have turned it down.

[00:15:29]>> Yeah.

[00:15:29]>> Look, look how violent it is down here.

[00:15:35]You're going to lose some gold that way.

[00:15:38]I don't know.

[00:15:42]>> I don't know. I'll throw some dirt at this.

[00:15:45]>> Okay.

[00:16:02]He moving dirt.

[00:16:15]Oh my god. I can't wait to look at all that tailings.

[00:16:20]Shiny rocks.

[00:16:22]>> Can you rotate these to like shoot to the corner instead?

[00:16:27]Dude, I warm up.

[00:16:31]There you go.

[00:16:47]>> I don't know if you >> get it. I spilled water in my boot.

[00:16:58]>> Still running. Awesome.

[00:17:01]So, the first 3 in I'm definitely losing material out of that cuz there's no material in it. Um going down, it definitely like starts to smooth out here.

[00:17:13]Go a little wider. And then it does look like it's collecting good uh for the rest of it. Even straight down to the bottom. There's just not a lot of material here. So, but I still do need a ball valve for my pump cuz I can't really control the water flow. But everything's looking pretty decent to me right now. So, I think I'm just going to clean this up. We'll get out of here.

[00:17:29]Just a short little test run on the high banker. And uh see you guys down in the North Sask. Peace. Easy. Get that V.

[00:17:38]Yeah, I did it right.

[00:17:40]Bye.