I now have one. I had the opportunity to meet with Gary this past Saturday for breakfast. We only live about 20 miles apart so it was a good opportunity for us to meet and get aquainted. We visited for about an hour and had some interesting discus
Read more…Two priests decided to go to Hawaii on vacation .
They were determined to make this a real vacation by not wearing anything that would identify them as clergy . As soon as the plane landed they headed for a store and bought some really outrageous sho
Hello fellow panners to the west of me. I am heading over to CDA/Spokane for a couple days to play on friday. Ok for the wife to shop and for me to play. I am wondering where are there any prospecting shops at? There has to be some in Northern Idaho
Read more…A very devout catholic man attended mass everyday. After mass he would always go before a statue a very beloved saint and pray " Please, Please my beloved saint. Let me win the lottery". Everyday faithfuly for years this man would repeat the same
Read more…The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment:
Get their Parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end. The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.
There were all the regular types of stuff, spilled mil
This morning at 1:00 am the Yreka County Court house was broken in to a 3 million dollar display of Northern California Gold was taken !!!
Read more…I posted my Recirculating Sluice on my website:
http://www.bertaut.com/gold.html
You can see it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94tv6qnsgg&feature=youtu.be
It works great without clogging up the pumps!!
Read more…I wrote an article for folks interested in getting into fresh and saltwater metal detecting. Just scroll down when you get to the page. It is titled, "Beach and Water Detecting 101: Getting Started." http://www.terrysoloman.com/id18.html
Read more…I am building my own prospecting equipment, and have a few questions for the more experienced....
1. When building a sluice box, I have used square heater ducting for the main body. I was told to use aluminum, but can't afford it. Is there a re
Read more…We all have seen the excellent projects that Marion turns out of his Secret workshop Hidden some where in Texas, So after calling some favors in from contacts in an unnamed agency was able to get this picture of XT18000's latest progect it apears to
Read more…I built this to handle the larger boulders on a streach of creek
a friend of mine owned. This was when dredging was still legal
in Calif. I used a 1 ton chain hoist from Harbor Freight Tools,
I bought the floats from Keene and had the local wel
Read more…Hello. Just an update ref this post. Have traveled down the coast metal detecting from Gettysburg, Myrtle Beach, Folly Beach, Edisto Beach, various beaches around Beaufort SC. now am staying until the end of Feb on Hunting Beach.
There are enough ca
Read more…I went back to the patch today with Ray. I was showing him where I was getting my crumbs. I told him that I left a junk target at the edge of where I dug, but I would dig it out and open up the area around it. I was a loud screaming signal. I knew it
Read more…I ran across 4" classifiers for sale at Goldfeverprospting.com. They offer 12 different sizes from 4 to 100 mesh @ $12 each. Seems to me that they would be very handy classifying small amounts of cons... much less awkward than the full sized class
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To calculate how many coils to cut for the trommel barrel:
Devide the barrel length by the spacing you want between
the coils plus the coil width ( 30/2.375" )= 12.6 number of coils.
12.6 x .375 = 4.7 " of tube min. needed. If you have enou
Read more…To anyone wanting to build there own trommel I made a 3" model
with step by step photo's how to do it. You would know they show
up in the reverse order but thats not a big problem, I'm ass back-
wards most of the time also. #1 wrap paper around what
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