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Vortex Rex's machine for land dredging gold. ( 11:59:22 Sat Dec 14 2013 )
Is there a way to resurrect a thread from many years back on Vortex Rex's video or video's?and pictures?, I thought his mining stuff was great and would like to see it all again

Thanks ;......."V", Idahohick, sixholeburn, CDA.

Leonard

David has been pretty busy. Playing in a rock band and working on TV (walking dead) but I sent him and email so we will see if he pops in.
Stay tuned

i use one of his 4 inch ventrui that i use on my dredge. i also have a video that he made about his setup. its a VHS tape.

i miss his input and videos of the progress he made with his trommel and nugget kicker. never did find out how it worked. his dryland dredge was a peach..... hope he shows up and can post a few of his old videos.

bill in cr

Being unfamiliar with the concept I'm curious. Is this similar in principle to the 'Hydro Force' nozzles used for "dry land dredging"?

LD

L Dave yes in a sense! it is a PVC ventrui . one 2 inch high pressure supply going into a outter chamber that surrounds the 4 inch PVC pipe and it has several holes drilled into the PVC pipe from that chamber. and they are drilled at 11 degrees towards the flow of the water/material. my outter chamber has several ports that either supply water or exit water out to another device. they are a 2 inch "in" port and a 1 1/4 "out" and a 3/4 "out". i use these ports for my blaster hose. it is somewhat heavy for a jet but it works fine for me! I thought everyone knew of the Vortexrex device!:) id take a picture of it but its packed away for the winter. if i get a chance ill see if i can pull it out easily and take a picture of it now that i FINNALLY know how-2-post pictures.

heres a picture of Daves device. the black no-hub connector is where my 4 inch suction hose attachs. EZ to attach/unattach my hose .

Thanks, Russ

Novel concept and thanks for the photo. In my books anything that successfully recovers gold ranks high and I always enjoy learning about innovators who create new things that perform well.

Chuck Lassiter's Hydro-Force dredge nozzles have also been a big seller because he came up with a tool that can be used on existing equipment and offers the operator expanded capabilities. Saw a lot of them last summer working exposed bedrock in Oregon.

Regards, LD

i might add that ive used this PVC device for about 10 years now and it still is working fine despite the PVC construction,i personnaly know Chuck and his Hydro-force nozzel and it is a good peice also!

The hydroforce is nothing new...only refined and it does pretty well
If you apply enough horsepower to any venturi or nozzle jet it will suck material off a dry beach
The vortexrex is very simular to a hydroforce in concept except the vortexrex is waaay bigger