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This is a local fishing hole up on Patricks Yuba Bash!
When the time comes... How do you get a SuperMax and a DredgeZilla in there? Is it possible to trailer then at least close to the water?
It’s been years but I still remember how cold that river is. Berrr
I see a “Golden” nugget trout... haha
Nice wild
Nice!!!!!
A few more pictures of some of the gold found on the Pat's Yuba bash outing. Nice clinkers
Happy Birthday Pat... miss the Finny n Downeville!!! Great to see the colour and hope there’s plenty to go around!!! Stay cool ⛏⛏😇🤠
Nice. Great friends and good gold. I’ll bet you also ate well. 👍😊🙏🏻
I love the Yuba nice work guys 👍😎
Looking good
Nice !!!!
Good Work
Big one for me lol
Nice pat
Jaime Cormier
These are a few more pictures from Patricks Anual Yuba River Bash. I love this area just breathtaking beauty. Pat and I spent most of our vacation on the Yuba when we were growing up. We learned how to dive on a Hookah System before we could even ride a bike. We would be dredge all day, and then our dad would drop up off a few miles north of town. Pat and I would then float back into town on some large inner tubes and come up from behind the old Quartz Cafe. The gold old days. Late 1970's and into the late 80's.
I lost those nuggets. If you'd return them, that'd be very nice. Thank you.
Wow what a fantastic time you had back then. What a beautiful spot good job guys. 😎👍
Thank you for the pics! Sure sorry we missed this year - next year!!!
Is this claim on the yuba private or can anyone go on it??
Good times, great fun!
Ooooh a minelab gold detector 💙
Looking good.....
Nice !!!!
Awesome!!!
awesome
This is a new dredge we are building called a 8148DE Serious dredge built for gold and diamonds
10 inch or 12
Andrew Thomas Jeremiah Foster I’m gonna sell the 6” and get this lmao kidding!!
Does it come with a boat motor? Big enough to have a party on it while you dredge 😂 awesome
how much is the cheapest pump
Need the huge expanded riffles somewhere in there. Jus saying . They catch those extra goodies not as heavy as gold
Can I come work with u
Zach Chapin this is an 8"
O wow. Very cool 👍😎
I'll take it!
How much?
Robert
Robbie Kok
Holly Shit! It's no wonder why the epa fronds on prospecting! That thing will mooove some dirt!
Serious business
These are some of the pictures of Patrick annual outing. He has one more week up on the Yuba River.
Had such a great time! Can’t wait for next year!
Where’s Guy??
Thanks pat for a great time.
I hope he is having fun!
SO SAD WE MISSED IT!
Hope to see larger dredges up there on the rivers again some day !
Talk about a blast from the past. This is a very old dredge that we built back in the late 1970's and the early 1980's. This looks like an old 2.5" or a 3" vertical dredge. The dredge was very cost effective sold for around 1 k. The compressor looks like a very old Johnson 2 stroke air compressor package. I am sure some of you old timer dredgers will remember this old machine. Check out the bedrock wall on river looks like an amazing place.
I own one of these. It could use some love.
I picked up a clean one for 70 bucks in riverside.
Sweet!
I have 2 😁
Im not sure who the guy without the shirt is but. I think i figured it out
O YEAH that's how ya do it
In 1979 or 1980 the mining shop in Salem had a demo model just like this one that was displayed in a horse watering trough. I thought about buying one but settled for a Keene 2 1/2" on a single tub. That was a great little work horse for me. Got my first nugget with it on Jackson creek, above Jacksonville.
Thanks for your families life long dedication! We really appreciate your dredges and recovery equipment!
Love the color!
Cool !!
Who made that floating pump? Was it Barabo?
We were still using one of those (2.5") to clean bedrock up until about 2013 when it finally blew a pump seal and we couldn't track one down.
Wonder where this spot is
My dad has one
I had the coin and relic version that used inner tubes. 👍🏻
We have a customer that needed a system that would be extremely portable, quick and easy to set up. He is checking some of the crushed material out of his Keene RC46DR rock crusher. The is modified Mini Max with an A52 hand sluice extension. The A52 sluice box has one of our A52EB Sluice Box Extension Adaptor to adapt it to the Mini Max box. We have also provided the custom riffle sections more tailored for crushed material plus the standard riffle as well. It does look a little odd with the differences in hight of the two sluice box, however, to keep it cost effective and versatile this is an excellent compromising design
So does the lower box just have Miracle Matting in it in the top pictures?
I would like to see a flare extension for it
Sweet
Mark Davidson
These are a few pictures of a 4" gravel pump system working. The river is currently plugged up with decaying vegetation, silt, and muck. By removing the muck, they are bringing the river back to its original status, and this will improve fish habitat and the overall health of the river. He is pumping the waste material onto some alfalfa fields providing the ultimate fertilizer. What an excellent homeostasis for the environment.
How much $...... got a lake that needs help !!!!
I’m guessing that’s not in California...
I could use something like that here !
Yes historic watershed CO cleanings
Too bad that farmer did not get a water allowance to irrigate the field or they could have had a second cutting...
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Keene's HydroAir Sniping for gold on the Yuba with Pat Keene
Pat Keene’s annual trip to the Yuba River…
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Keene HydroAir 12 Volt Hookah System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcMMiVCO_ds HydroAir Battery Powered Diving System - HAS…
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Keene 151 old style compared to a New 151S
I recently purchased and installed the Upgrade Kit…
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