Ridge Runner

Great operation you got there John with your California mini . It’s great for a one man working alone. Keep it up I always wanted to know a rich man.haha The best! Chuck

Here’s something that is great to have when you have lots of coins to look at. This I got off of Amazon and I think I paid 42 for it. I find it well worth the money. Chuck

George thanks for posting your book. I’ve got one coming now from Amazon and they showed it was the last one they had. I knew a guy down on the coast at Corpus and he had a bait stand on Padre Island. He would walk behind the sand dunes and find Spanish coins sitting up like on a little toad stool. This was about the time in 67 some treasure hunters was working on three ships off of south Padre. The wind would cut the sand away from the coin and leave it sitting on top. Most was cut coins this how they made change back then . Chuck

George here’s another great book to have and I got this off of Amazon. Chuck

That’s more than interesting. Buy one and get one free because you for sure going to need a backup. Chuck

Just looked at Harbor Freight and they have some for 7.99 that may work for you. Just do search for Long rubber gloves on HF and that was the first on their list. I see you have co I guess meaning Colorado used those I had a lot there and never let me down. Chuck

At one time I could get my hands on the long rubber gloves that was used bye the power and phone company. They had leather gloves over the rubber ones. I just used the rubber ones and as you didn’t get water in them your hands stayed warm. Well maybe not so warm but it was something you could live with. I think you can find something like that at Northern Tools are maybe Harbor Freight. I’ve seen some that come up to your shoulder. Hope this helps. Chuck

I’m sure if it wasn’t a market for this two new detectors Nokta wouldn’t have put them on it. But if they would like to score with a lot of us then come out with a PI detector that’s equally as good as those on the market now if not better. If this isn’t asking too much could it be waterproof? Having a better price than those on the market now would go along for most of our pocketbook’s. Dilek I know you are always bubbling over with information on things to come so don’t hold back now. It’s always a pleasure for you to come on the forum and talk about what your company is working on. The Best To You Lady! Chuck

Yes to your question Doc . My trouble is sometimes I see but don’t see at the same time. It’s like they say elevator goes to the top but lights get dim . Chuck

That’s the way it is Doc some got it and others got to go get it. That was a great article on you and your products you sale. Eat humble pie Doc and say thank you for the great write up on great products you have always put out. Chuck

John I ran across a video you made back in 2022 on the California mini highbanker but it was green. The truth be known the one you show here is green but turned blue because it’s so cold. Some of my best memories is sitting on a 5 gallon bucket and having to bust a hole in the ice so I could pan my cons . That’s what you call colder than a well diggers butt . Chuck

Hey Doc This picture was taken by my oldest son in Paris this week. If you will enlarge the top of the picture you will see a young girl at the top. The very best life can give to you and yours Doc . Chuck

It’s just so many dangers like old timber’s that’s ready to give way but you don’t know when until it’s too late. Maybe a old box 📦 of dynamite 🧨 just waiting for you to come along and give it a kick. All I’m saying is just don’t put yourself in harms way. Lots of times they didn’t know they hit pay until some of it went down the hill side and that’s where you want to be looking. Chuck

If you ever do don’t go it alone but be sure your friend stays outside. The reason for this is so he can tell your family where to find you. Chuck

Etienne In another week my oldest son and his family will be running around Paris for Christmas. They had been there earlier this year and his wife wanted to go back again. He told me that he wanted a warm beach somewhere but that’s not the case with his wife. Best to you! Chuck

Gerry it’s great to have a like minded friends around you but as you get older you will find that like minded are circle of friends gets smaller. They couldn’t help it because they passed on and you find yourself standing alone. You owe to each one of them to keep going and take the good times you had together with you each time you go out. I know this will happen to each one of us because that’s where I find myself now. Have a great day today and tomorrow because I know I’m going to. Chuck

In the interest of science this is what’s on the shafts

Good morning Doc I’ve never had the need for a hip stick so I don’t know if the shaft is round or flat. In the picture below is maybe something would work and be adjustable for different ones. The piece in the middle could take flat are round shafts and could be as long enough to fit everyone.Due to the pull on whatever you make it’s going to pull out from the body so it will automatically turn out in the direction of the weight. You would have to think on the way to adjust the shafts.If the shafts had holes in them about a inch apart then you could run a pin in the middle of the sleeve. Just to show you I used pvc hot water 1/2 inch . The shafts came from my wife’s little wind mills. haha

Guys nobody happy with a price increase. I’m not happy when I go to the the grocery store and it’s costing me more to live. I do know if I can’t afford one detector it’s others in line that wants my business and I have more than one of them in the other room plus Minelab standing next to them. I can’t see what the future brings but we can only take it a day at a time and do what’s best for each one of us. I say the best to each and everyone of you. Chuck

It is said “ Nothing Last Forever “ but tomorrow if I so wish I can order another Minelab detector and get my 15% Vet discount off of it . Minelab I may stand alone but I thank you for for a great product you have put out over the years. Chuck

John You have got to be a glutton for punishment but that’s what gold will do to a guy . Chuck

What you see is the look alike of his big brother that comes stock with the Vista X . To answer your question before you ask no I haven’t had the opportunity to try it out due it’s been colder than a well diggers butt here since I got. I did do some air test but it was more for checking the discrimination being I don’t put too much value on air testing. I’ll report back when I’ve got something to say on the Vista X and this coil. Chuck

In the day when people didn’t trust banks they had what you call posthole banks. I can assure you that they didn’t put it down so deep that they couldn’t get it up in a short time without killing them selves. Sometimes they needed to get out are to put some in. Finding the place they stashed it is your problem. I know of one guy had cattle pens that was made of wood post and he was going to replace them with metal post . His wife told her mother what he planned and before long here goes her mother with a shovel. She watched her dig something up near a post and then came back to the house with 12 silver dollars she had burrowed but didn’t know when. Just don’t know where that next treasure may lay. Chuck

If you get your hands on a detector that you think will do the job on what you want it for try this first. It’s cheap and simple and will save you time on knowing if you got the right detector. First you will need a hand post hole diggers .With it you can dig a hole straight down that’s if the ground is not too hard. The next thing if you got some old balls ⚽️ of different sizes. The last is aluminum foil that you going to wrap the balls 🏀 in. It’s like Steve said about a stash will be compact. It could be in a fruit jar 🫙 and if you were lucky it could have one of the old old lids on it.It’s no limit in what type of container you will find that hoard in I’m sure you can see that the balls of different sizes represents the treasure that may lay under feet. If you had two balls of each size this way you could place each at different depths. In this way you going to know what’s in range of your detector detecting it . This may sound like a lot of work but after you will know if you got the right equipment. Be sure to place the holes far apart so not to be picking up a signal from another while checking one target. Some got a coin test garden but you will have maybe the only treasure stash garden. Best to you! Chuck

This will be the best money you spent if you never nugget hunted before. It’s the best money you spent if you got a new detector you have yet to use it in the field.. If you have the pleasure of making the trip if you will please post it here for all to read . Chuck