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Using a dredge in Australia for recreational prospecting is illegal - information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="AtomRat" data-source="post: 315916" data-attributes="member: 3111"><p>We are not digging with a yabbie pump, we are removing a small amount of material by a human operated device. A yabby pump is not powed by mechanical force (except human mechanics) and why it is legal. Its manual-mechanical not powered by external mechanical device like pump. If a yabbie pump has constant suction from someone pumping like crazy its not a dredge as its hand powered. Why not make it interesting.. What if i added an accumilator onto my yabbie pump to force the feed faster.. Still powered by 'non-mechanical' means but possibly breaching pneumatic rules there.</p><p></p><p>By the sounds of it lukem, you just gotta try and see for yourself. You use them especially on sharp bedrock and crevices in flowing waters. If theres gravel, its gotta be moved before yabbie pumping and then material placed back into the hole. This would'nt be useful where too much gravel is about or areas that have soft clay/silt bottoms. Easier to find an area where theres mininal gravel and exposed bedrock, the hand operated yabbie pump is the only way to get the gold out as shovel wont fit in the tight grooves. Its not a tool that you use every single area and place.</p><p></p><p>It is not constant suction, therefore not in anyway anything like a dredge. It can not kill fish, frogs or the leadbeater possum. </p><p></p><p>(p.s- to stop gravel / gold slipping off while shoveling hard n fast, weld walls and a back onto your shovel, once its in, it wont get out.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtomRat, post: 315916, member: 3111"] We are not digging with a yabbie pump, we are removing a small amount of material by a human operated device. A yabby pump is not powed by mechanical force (except human mechanics) and why it is legal. Its manual-mechanical not powered by external mechanical device like pump. If a yabbie pump has constant suction from someone pumping like crazy its not a dredge as its hand powered. Why not make it interesting.. What if i added an accumilator onto my yabbie pump to force the feed faster.. Still powered by 'non-mechanical' means but possibly breaching pneumatic rules there. By the sounds of it lukem, you just gotta try and see for yourself. You use them especially on sharp bedrock and crevices in flowing waters. If theres gravel, its gotta be moved before yabbie pumping and then material placed back into the hole. This would'nt be useful where too much gravel is about or areas that have soft clay/silt bottoms. Easier to find an area where theres mininal gravel and exposed bedrock, the hand operated yabbie pump is the only way to get the gold out as shovel wont fit in the tight grooves. Its not a tool that you use every single area and place. It is not constant suction, therefore not in anyway anything like a dredge. It can not kill fish, frogs or the leadbeater possum. (p.s- to stop gravel / gold slipping off while shoveling hard n fast, weld walls and a back onto your shovel, once its in, it wont get out.) [/QUOTE]
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