Logging & Construction Equipment

[tracksntreadslou]

Thanks Jo..Us Courtenay Boys get together Quite often and Reg gets his occasional playing with us ..the more the merryer..If you make the island in the summer give us a holler

Neil thanks ..its good to be back on the tools and making progress almost every day..Ready to almost couple the belt together on the rear conveyor and see if that works ..

Joe great tip on the sceens..I have some square mess screen in 1/4 and 5/8 im guessing ..queston you might know ...would it make much difference if the holes are round or square for pluging ..I saw some pretty slick setups on youtube ...for cleaning ..Rotory brushes along side ..Those Europeans sure are making some slick stuff these days

[mog]

wow that looks good. look out gold clame hear we come. you going to try and join 2 bruder belts together? let me know how that works out.

[tracksntreadslou]

Thanks Mog ..Im just going to use a regular 1/16 strip of rubber and leaving the bruders as they are..well its functional and turning ok ..Using a 30 rpm servo city gear motor and that seems to be just right ..Rob tested how much current its drawing and it doing fine ..ran it for about an hour after fiddling with the tracking ..if you look closely i have adjustment on end rollers for both ends ...I use my little Poxom mini mill to make up the belt coupling and a short chunk of cable with a couple of wheel collers

[edwalsh18]

anyone ever use a bicycle inner tube for this? i want to try it. i also found a air filter from the yard at work and tossed it in the fire pit, 2 screens were the product. free and looks like a good fit. i have several bicycle inner tubes to use. and pvc pipe galore. i am wondering if a towerpro mg995 servo continuous rotation will do the trick to spin it, or if i should use something else.

[tracksntreadslou]

Originally Posted by edwalsh18

anyone ever use a bicycle inner tube for this? i want to try it. i also found a air filter from the yard at work and tossed it in the fire pit, 2 screens were the product. free and looks like a good fit. i have several bicycle inner tubes to use. and pvc pipe galore. i am wondering if a towerpro mg995 servo continuous rotation will do the trick to spin it, or if i should use something else.

This is pretty much my first trummel build and im using a pretty heafty gear motor to turn it ..motor seems to be working fairly hard but we will see when its loaded full of dirt ..I remember my fathers big unit about a 7 foot diameter tube was really struggling when fairly full..We even twisted a drive shaft a time or three ..that little izuzu diesel was smoking pretty black ....Gravel mixed with water feeding sluice boxes ..Water probably helped keep the friction down ..wonder if turning dry gravel is a bit more difficult

this is the unit that inspired me to build it this way

[steamer]

Conveyor belt turned out real good Lou. I really like the belt joiner and the tracking system that you made. Looks like it'll be ready for the Jan. show in Campbell river.
Rob

[Lil Giants]

Good work on the scale trommel Lou.

The conveyers have always been the hang up for me to get anywhere with building one myself.. I like your splice. Did you mill slots in aluminum plate, then formed it? I have some belting, I tried to use tarp tape for the splice, but it kept stretching & loosing belt tension. I'm going to try your idea.. what thickness of plate did you use?

How many ounces of gold did your father mine in his lifetime?

[tracksntreadslou]

Originally Posted by rc13

Hello, I love the grapple and the thumbs on your equipment from the beginning of this thread. Very nice!. A grapple for one of my loaders and a thumb for my excavator is definitely a future addition for me.
Thanks for sharing,
Eddie

Thanks Eddie ...I find I use the thumb quite alot for moving the bigger rock..comes in pretty handy...around these parts almost all the forestry and road builders have them..as for my grapple someday I hope to add another valve and find some small cylinders for the close

Originally Posted by Lil Giants

Good work on the scale trommel Lou.

The conveyers have always been the hang up for me to get anywhere with building one myself.. I like your splice. Did you mill slots in aluminum plate, then formed it? I have some belting, I tried to use tarp tape for the splice, but it kept stretching & loosing belt tension. I'm going to try your idea.. what thickness of plate did you use?

How many ounces of gold did your father mine in his lifetime?

Thanks Joe...Im thinking 14 gauge aluminum ..Bendable by hand anyway ..Yes I used my dandy little Proxom and milled slots into a folded piece then took a sharp awl and worked a round hole threw the batch the diameter of the cable..once the slots are milled out the aluminum is pretty workable ..

Joe ..Im guessing maybe a total of about 200 ounces..the last year he worked it they did fairly good at close to 100 but gold prices were only about $600
My brother is trying to talk me into going up next summer now that my Dad has passed on ..I did run the plant the first year ..Maybe we should give those guys a holler at the discovery channel lol Very intresting work

Heres a couple more that i took when I up there working

[Dieselchopper]

Joe have you thought of using baler belt splicing? I have been thinking of building and using that for belt joints. Most of that style belting joint ca be made to suite any width.

[tracksntreadslou]

I guess I should get back on topic with a few Pics of my progress

[steamer]

WOW Lou that cable system worked out great! Starting to take shape now. I guess this year instead of wood pellets we'll have to take some dirt to screen for gold.

[RCLogger]

Thanks for the photos. Very creative, you will be busy this summer. Christmas is just around the corner, maybe Santa Lou would make me something out of gold. Lol

Cheers

[tracksntreadslou]

Thanks Rob and Greg ..Making good progress the last few weeks ..Hoping everything works well
Joe ..I managed to find my sheet metal gauge..Correction on the belt connection...21 gauge

3 conveyors working and trommel now turning as well ..Heres a few preveiw vids ..thanks for watching

[dabears]

Thats pretty cool!!!!

[steamer]

Hey Lou she's looking great. What voltage are you running on the Bruder conveyors, looks a lot faster than mine. Probable better thou as the belt won't clog up.

[Lil Giants]

Nifty!

What is & where did you get the motor drives for the Bruder conveyers? Is the battery that's running the end conveyer getting low on charge? I'm thinking your trommel rpm should be faster too.

[RCLogger]

Looks like you will have dirt going in all directions Lou. Looks like it is time to start GOLD MINNING with models. Then they could start to pay for themselfs...

greg

[td9clyde]

thats cool gold rush here ya come lol

[tracksntreadslou]

Thanks everyone..Im kinda likin how its turning out ...Havent worked on it much threw the holidays but will get hard at er soon ..Rob in running a 13.5 volt converter ..running a bit fast on the bruders..Joe the gear motors came from rob ..He found them at https://solarbotics.com/catalog/moto...s/gear-motors/ Very cheap and easy installation ..took about an hour ..Im going to see how everything works with gravel or dirt going through the plant before i make any changes for speed on everthing ..so far almost every thing came from my parts boxes and havent had to spend too much $..Lol

[tracksntreadslou]

Back to work on the trommel..Less then a month before our next show so pitter patter..Fly at err
heres some progress pics and a vid