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Forking out ahead of a small dredge ?
goldrush boy  
Posted : Sunday, 24 February 2013 10:31:58 PM(UTC)
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Hi, I'd like to know if any-one uses a bent pitch fork to rake and toss stones out of a small dredges path to improve through-put ?
We're talking two man operation.
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NUGGY  
Posted : Sunday, 24 February 2013 11:54:03 PM(UTC)
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Hi, yep - sort of I had an old garden fork with the last 150 ish mm of the tines bent almost to a right angle forward. the fork was then flipped over and used more as a rake to pull rocks up out of the face and then tossed aside, the bigger ones by hand. The handle on top of the garden fork made this easier. This was done for a really gutless 5 inch venturi dredge I was running back then, worked well. It was in a small creek and quite shallow dredging, about 600mm down to a clay bottom. NUGGY
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