willoughby cost

[Rumble]

Hi guys.
Shopping around for a price on a Willoughby. Can't seem to find one online.
Not sure if ill make or buy on depends on the price.

[Gemhunter]

Depends on what you buy and where you but it from

Many people prefer to make their own home-made Willoughby's for a fairly cheap price. Mine was brought from a metal engineer in Inverell NSW who makes them. It was fairly costly but the guy who made it had built it to last (rare to find these days) as well as mobile and easy to pull apart and transport around the diggings. Alternatively you may be able to find a cheap second hand Willoughby from the Gemfields (somewhere).

I also believe that Fullerton and Toppster made up one on their recent trip to the Harts Range, you may be able to get some ideas off them...

Good Luck

[Bluey Zarzoff]

If you out the CQ Gemfields way, there are usually 2 or 3 sellers at the Sunday markets. They usually go for $100 - $120.

They weigh about 4kg, so postage most probably would cost about as much again.

[Tripz]

Hi Rumble, depends where you are I have a spare willoughby and sieve shaker if UR interested. I am in the Lockyer Valley just west of Brisbane, and will do the lot for a 100 including a spare sieve set.Will post piccy later if interested...

[Rumble]

Cheers tripz
I'm up in cairns. Will have to do a big trip down to sapphire for some southern fossicking and pick up the gear down there.

[Lefty]

I'm looking at knocking up one of my own. They look very simple. I have a couple of lengths of 1 inch square box steel and a trampoline spring. Only really need a few bolts, something for a foot plate (shouldn't move around with a drum with 40-50kg of water sitting on it), bit of chain or something.

One thing I'm having trouble finding is sieves. Dad's old fossicking gear is 30 yr old + and is about clapped out with the mesh in the sieves so rusty it would probably break with a bit of serious sieving. Tried Bunnings without success and then went to a brick supplier asking for brickies sieves. He told me that they are no longer made since all that sort of material nowdays comes pre-sieved and pre-bagged.

Saw a website selling prospecting sieves (based on the Sunshine coast I think). There were no prices listed but I've been told they are very expensive.

Might end up having to make my own.

[Bluey Zarzoff]

All the shops out here have sieves for sale. There is a bloke out at Graves Hill who can knock up a ring for the sieves that go onto the willoughby.

[Lord_Thunda]

If you click this link Andrew & Leah sell them 

http://www.aussiesapphire.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17_211&zenid=3aa768156c045904fa1edfc6dfee5933

[Lefty]

Cheers all.

Do they have the larger size, a bit less than twice that diameter? I have a couple of those smaller ones still in good nick, it was the bigger ones I was chasing.

[Aussie Sapphire]

Try Miners Den - I think they have the larger size of sieves.

cheers
Leah

[Lefty]

Thanks Leah.

[Bluey Zarzoff]

You can get the larger size from Sapphire hardware, but they are upwards of $100 each.

I have a set here if you want to borrow them when you come out, as well as a willoughby ring for them.

[Lefty]

You can get the larger size from Sapphire hardware, but they are upwards of $100 each.

I have a set here if you want to borrow them when you come out, as well as a willoughby ring for them.

Thanks heaps Bluey! I'll let you know how I went before we head out.

[toppster]

try sieves.net they are larger and mine cost about 90$

[Ocker]

Hi Rumble, depends where you are I have a spare willoughby and sieve shaker if UR interested. I am in the Lockyer Valley just west of Brisbane, and will do the lot for a 100 including a spare sieve set.Will post piccy later if interested...

Do you still have this. I'm from Lockyer valley coming home next week.
Cheers,
Ocker