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    What To Do When The Weather Sucks?

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, kiwijw said:

    Hey there Sis, I was just taking the piss:biggrin: But 48 ks isnt  hugely windy. Looks like you are in for a bit of crap weather towards the end of the weekend & into monday. Make those sunbakers stand out more:biggrin: Your temps aren't too bad though.

    Good luck to you & brother Mike.

    JW :smile:

    Thats ok bro.. if you cant take the piss out of family :rolleyes: life would be boring :biggrin:

    we get one or two crappy days, then back to great detecting weather.. 

    Hopefully there may be some sunbakers for everyone over here..

     

    hey Northeast

    if they are camped out from a town or mine site, they wont have phone coverage.

     

     

     

    What To Do When The Weather Sucks?

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    Posted

    2 hours ago, Northeast said:

    Where are you Jen (roughly)?  My parents in law are in the shire of Sandstone slowly making their way back to Vic - wonder if they are getting the same?  They don't seem to have any phone/net coverage though.

    Sorry for not answering sooner.. i missed your post.. 

    We are Down below Leinster 

    Hopefully they are parked up somewhere, as travelling in this wind wouldn't  be the best thing to do.

    its now 8:03 and the wind seems to have settled down.. ( fingers crossed )

    tomorrow"s weather will be much better.. going to get down to 4 degrees tonight.

    top of 15 tomorrow .. and not as windy.. 

     

     

    Our Experience With The GM1000

    in Minelab Metal Detectors

    Posted

    My like button don't work. :angry: I reckon its my ipad

    thanks all

    OPhirboy ... we do it pretty much the same way. Flatten the dirt.. If anyone can find those annoying little shotty pellets, there's bound to be a little nuggy around somewhere, just a matter of swinging over one.

    Red dirt and blue skies, its a beautiful country :smile:

    Our Experience With The GM1000

    in Minelab Metal Detectors

    Posted

    Well another day with the GM1000
    My brother came over this afternoon and asked if he could have another go with the GM

    Sensitivity set at 6 ... all metal mode... 10x6 coil
    Working in the trashy area near camp
    He found his first bit of gold near our van

    Near this 40 foot hole
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    We then left him to his detecting, and went back to a patch we are working.
    we thought it's time to get back to camp, as we saw the sunset.. looks like another great day for tomorrow 
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    Once back at camp Tony showed us how he went with the GM
    He said he was having a ball going through the trash..  oh my you need patience for that here.. lol
    The gold is on part of an old pocket knife.. 0.53 grams

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    Our Experience With The GM1000

    in Minelab Metal Detectors

    Posted

    Hi everyone
     
    Well I did buy a goldmonster 1000  :D  Thankyou Luckystrikegold.com.au  for all your help 
    Now i havent done much with it yet. 
     I don't seem to be able to detach my sdc2300 from myself 
    Anyway
    My brother Tony has given it a couple of goes..
    One spot he cleaned up what gold he could with his gpx5000 and sdc2300
    He managed to find two tiny pieces with the GM1000 there. one piece of gold with each coil..
     
    He found the Discrimination worked well.. although this monster will ping the hot rocks.. this spot was full of 
    Hot rocks! It would tune some out after swinging a few times over the hot rock, some hot rocks persisted!!
     
    Tony found the more he used the GM1000 the more he liked it.. he said if the sensitivity is turned up too far
    It made the GM1000 noisy. He also found that at times if you swung too fast the GM1000 couldnt keep up.
    Was no problem though, just slow your swing speed down.  :D 
     
    As he was using it.. he noticed that he could tell what would be junk or not.  Well almost  :lol:  those shotty pellets could even fool the GM1000 ..
     we think it depended on the shape and size of those darn shot pellets 
    The rust at this other spot . we didn't put it in the thick of those tins and rust..
    Bit of over kill
     
    the discrimination worked really well.  Where there was the odd larger rusty can or flakes of rust
     
    Can you see the Gold??
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    More playing with it too be done.. 
    would I use it full time.. no ... as i still prefere my PI machines 
    The GM1000 Is another tool for cleaning up where we know there is tiny shallow gold to be had..
    Its lightweight, easy too use..
     
    Part 2
    Hi all
     
    Well it was bloody freezing here yesterday.. the sun was nice, the darn wind cut through like it was coming straight off the south pole brrrrrr.. 
    so we didn't detect lol
     
    Today we did though
    Took the goldmonster for a walk over near some of those tin cans and rust
     
    Going through the old timers camp.. as you know over time thier tin cans travel far and wide
    Tiny flakes of rust everywhere
    Plus there was an blacksmith at this camp as well.. horse shoes and nails
     
    I had first go with it
    We didnt have it in discrimination mode.. using the 10x6 coil, on mild ground, granite sand, greenstone, quartz, and the odd laterite..  also just watched the gold side of the scale. The sensitivity set at 6
    It liked a button.. pellets.. A bottle top.. an old bit of a light
    When we swung it over the small bits of rust the scale went to the left.. so we knew it was junk..
    We could see the rust as well  lol
    All i could get was the pellets and rust.. oh and the button  
     
    Then Mike had a turn 
    Walking around through the old timers camp. Nope reckons thats junk. More junk.. more junk.. oh look a big piece of junk.. a bully beef tin  lol
    Then he says.. have a different sound here...  the gm1000 reckons this may be gold
     
    " i said it reckoned the pellets were gold as well  lol"
     
    it was Gold alright this time.. he found his first piece of gold with the GM1000 today a point 2 of a gram
     
    I didnt take a picture of all the junk we dug up..  it loves those shotty pellets!
     
    So we have the old bit of a light, from a car i guess. Couple of bits of lead.. a button.. the bottle cap, and the gold sitting on top of it.
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    I reckon for the $$$$ its not a bad little VLF machine.. 
    it loves shotty pellets, actually all non ferrous ojbects. Lol
    I may find a gold sovereign one day! Cool..... I can only hope. :biggrin:
     

    Aussie Critters Seen In The Goldfields

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Giddiup said:

    Hi Jen58, i didn't think to dig around the inside...next time!..i had never seen a nest/play area quite like this...eventually i figured it was a bower bird nest but not before dingo dens and weird reptile hang outs past through my mind!

    It does look a bit on the eerie side with all the bones out the front

    the bower bird sure can collect some strange objects.

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