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Gold dredging operation on North Fork of FortyMile river in Alaska

Included is an 8 inch Dahlke dredge.
It is set up to find the smaller gold which is common in this area.
There is 4 lb expanded metal in the 9 foot box and the engine is a 23HP briggs engine with electric start. The engine has about 250 hours on it.
It comes with a water heater and a 263 air compressor.
At 2850 rpm it uses about 1.2 gallons per hour.
There is a small pump that can be used to prime the intake hose/pump.
The dredge has a monitor (high presure hose used by diver to blast apart the river bottom)
A spare pontoon is included
The only problems I know of are that there is no reserve tank however, if you're not using the 6 inch dredge you can use the tank from that dredge.
Also there is one pontoon that is in need of repair but, included with the dredge is a plastic welding kit for fixing this sort of thing.
Below are some pictures of the dredge in action in 2021 and 2022
I have used this dredge for only two seasons due to my inability to lift the engine into place (Old Age)



Click HERE to see me dredging on the Dancy1 claim in 2021.

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Click HERE to see rock flow out of the back of the 8 inch.

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Click HERE to see what good material looks like.

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8 inch assembled in Chicken AK (except for nose cones on pontoons)



Running on the north fork of 40 mile in 2022