It’s very easy to use, and it’s long length means you can get deeper with less stooping which equals less fatigue. It’s light weight, and comes with a time-proven leather seal for long life and superb suction.

We use durable white PVC pipe, it is less reactive to temperature and sunlight.

Our basic “MotherSucker Prospector” Hand Dredge, with a 32mm tip, is designed to suck up those elusive values on the up stroke by using simple “non-mechanical” suction and on the down stroke, pump those values into a recovery bucket via a lightweight 1.8m long flex hose. The New Zealand mining act bans all mechanized dredging and motorised equipment from Public Fossicking areas. In fact, even the simple act of shoveling causes gold to be driven deeper to the bottom and into cracks and divots where the shovel can’t go, therefore, the only way is to use a suction device to siphon it right up off the bottom just like a vacuum cleaner.īut, mechanized dredging in many areas is either illegal, or can it can take months to get written permission after submitting the complicated paperwork. You can’t get to all the gold by shoveling alone, especially in bedrock cracks, under boulders and the bottom of pot holes where the shovel can’t get to. But it also breaks down so you can carry it in a large backpack (see Jeff Williams Video above). It’s unique, moves large volumes of material and is versatile. We have been told by many happy customers that the MotherSucker is simply the best hand dredge out there – and we agree. Assembly required.Simply the ultimate backpack hand dredge out there, no permits required.Ģ-in-1 means you can easily convert this tool into a “Sniper” for getting into submerged potholes and bedrock cracks, or use it in “Prospector Mode” for general recovery of submerged paydirt in a stream or other water source. Hand dredge itself is 30 inches long before attaching any nozzle 8-inch extension is included giving you even more reach!

Classifier Nozzle- filters sticks and leaves and gets just the sand #8 and smaller.

Bulk Sand Nozzle- Designed to quickly draw sand and 1/2 inch material.

Sniper Nozzle with “Rock Block” reaches into cracks and crevices.

3 nozzles are included with this hand dredge:

2 gallon “Quick View” bucket and twist off “Gamma Lid”.

The new patented valve is designed to eliminate clogging and spitting (forward flow) while still using our tried and true leather cups. Designed to mine placer gold from creeks and streams with the ability to replace the valve gasket in the field. The Non-motorized X-Stream Hybrid Pro hand pump represents 10 years of development and is totally submersible.

Diy hand dredge