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our summer turned ok so so took 3 weeks of digging ice so we could get in up to 15 feet thick the cut we stripped last fall was good pay for about 100 ft then nothing we reclaimed it then started a new cut that was pretty hot for a while about 2oz per hundred yards we are on a bench the gravel keeps going into the bank but there is 14ft of frozen muck over it ooh well next year you can see the frozen muck in the photos then it started to rain aug 7th it rained for 30 days then turned cold sept 7 nite time 15 day time 35  starter went out on the big excavator while stripping for next year sept 24th snow 6 inches so we left and came home went back up to put the starter in sept 25th 20 degrees 20 mph winds the creeks were freezing up had to bust overflow to get in with the wheeler put every thing away home safely .

take care Doug 

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12 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

    As I read this, I'm watching Tony Beets put his moving trommel together! What's the odds on that!!🤣👍👍

so am i

12 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

    As I read this, I'm watching Tony Beets put his moving trommel together! What's the odds on that!!🤣👍👍

 

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On 10/8/2021 at 12:31 PM, Bear said:

Doug,

 

I hope you had a great, productive summer.  The weather was good most of the season.

I have a question.  What do you use to drive the trommel?  I see a gas motor in the pictures, what I am wondering what is the gear on the barrel and what sort of take off or engagement system do you use?

this is how we drive our test trommel

doug