As the dredge worked, it continuously dug into its own pond in front and filled it in with tailings at the back.
After its completion, the pond was filled with the 8-10 feet of water needed to float and operate the 988 ton dredge. Sometimes it took a whole day to load just one truck with some of the pieces needed to build the dredge.Īnother trucking company delivered the twenty-five pontoons, each measuring 10x10x27 feet, by hauling them over Galena Summit, no small feat. One of the largest loads was the 55-foot, 17.5 ton spud. Some pieces were shipped by rail to Mackay and trucked there by Lindberg’s Trucking Company of Mackay to the Yankee Fork site over Spar Canyon Road. It was a major operation to transport the equipment and pieces needed to build the dredge. Please send us a mail with all your specifications and requirements and we will design a raft according to these details.Winch room at the Yankee Fork Dredge Construction of the Yankee Fork DredgeĪ pond for the Yankee Fork Gold Dredge was constructed to allow the assembly of the massive four-story floating machine. If you have specific requirements for a raft, we can gladly help with that as well. It can be used as a shore based unit as well. The great plus about this river gold dredge is that it does not necessarily have to fit on a raft. How convenient is that to have it handy at any time? Because of its small compact size, it easily fits into the trunk of your car or SUV.
Assembly takes less than 10 minutes and folds up nice and compact. Gold dredging in the Clutha River circa 1905, Ref 1/2-019707-F, Alexander. This is a lightweight, portable 2 inch river gold dredge with inflatable pontoons, and is used for working gravel, sand or stone. Gold winning by bucket dredge is a New Zealand development that began in Otago.
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