Awesome! :tup: Great little machines. Ours is 4 years old and still going strong. I installed grease zerks on all the pivot points on the swing arm and A arms.

Bull 200 out in the wild this past weekend.

Jerryhawk250, Care to elaborate how you installed the zircs?
I have the same and would lov to, a photo or tips on drilling?
Thanks

I'll see if I can find some pictures. Basically just drilled, tapped and installed the a grease zerk everywhere there was a pivot point.

Do you need to tap and thread? Or can you just drill a snug hole and jb weld them in place? There's not much meat on the bar to tap and make threads really anyway.

You could but I would drill a tap threads. JB welds is some good stuff but I would do it right the first time.

Sorry Paul, I forgot all about taking pictures over the weekend. I was too busy riding with all the nice weather over the weekend. lol

Diggin the ice fishing setup you have.... nice an portable.


I caught a nice sunny day a week ago... 70 degrees had to get out and catch a dose of the cheddar..... cure for the fever.....


https://i.imgur.com/w89qAnY.jpg?1

how is yours holding up rust wise on the frame? mine is starting to show some rust on the frame.

Some minor surface oxidation... I have been spraying it with wd40 but that is mostly the chain. Frame is holding up well.... those plated screws for the plastics though are starting to show there age.



It gets a trip to the car wash after every trip... the water in that creek is a bit acidic.

Another Snow Day
 

Seems this has become an annual trip for the lad and I. Took one Kandi and the Grizz this year. Even made a new friend, we named her Brenda......

Great pics :tup: But you guy's have to stop posting all those snow pictures. You're making me cold. lol Brenda looks cold too. :lmao:

Getting really tired of snow. So's the Rhino.

Darth

Love the photo of the dredge/sluice on wheels. I stated early in this thread that the only gold in Illinois is corn, but that was not correct. I actually took up prospecting myself. Just recently purchased a Tubby concentrator from Spike Strike Sluices. I do pan a bit on the stream but mainly classify my paydirt down to1/2 or 1/4" and then haul it home on my Coolster to run thru my concentrator and then my finish sluice. Mainly fine stuff but been a heap of fun. I did just buy a nice gas pump...so been looking at getting a mini highbanker to hook it to. I need a trailer setup like you have.

Hey CK that's cool to hear. If your only coming up with fines your not going deep enough... get on top of that solid bedrock and hit those cracks. ;)

If you are thinking a highbanker I would suggest something that has a 36" long 10" wide sluice. Reason is from the sounds of it you already have the pump... just add a nozzle and some 2.5" hose and you have a dredge. I started out with a Harbor Freight 2" pump and a homemade jet tube.

That setup works really well if you shovel the top layers and start dredging when you hit bottom.


It's nice to go with a setup that will grow with you as you progress in your skills.