Ridge Runner

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 

The story I’m about to tell you may be the same thing with Tarsacci.

 This old cowboy had been in this bar drinking all day long and was higher than a kite . Two of his friends that’s if you want to call them that said let’s go turn Joe’s saddle around on his horse. Well they did and was waiting for a big laugh when Joe left.

 It was around midnight when Joe had his fill and out that barroom door he went. By then everyone in the bar knew what his friends had done and all was having a laugh about it.

 All of a sudden Joe came staggering back in the bar hollowing that someone had cut his horses head off and he’s still alive.Someone in the bar said Joe if someone cut your horses up off he can’t be alive. Joe said I know he’s still alive because I stuck my finger in his windpipe and he’s still breathing.

 Maybe this is what’s wrong with Tarsacci in someone could have turned Dimitars saddle around on Tarsacci and no I didn’t stick my finger in his windpipe to see if he’s still breathing. I’ll leave that to Dimitar,

 Chuck 

They will get a taker and that will be the one that wants something for nothing. They won’t be disappointed because they got nothing for nothing.

 Chuck 

Aaron  

 I know you did like you said long time ago but I was still in hopes he would.

 I really don’t see Dimitar coming out with anything.

 I think that should cover it all with my above statement.

 Aaron when you were a dealer and you making the videos that you did that made Tarsacci. I’ve yet to see one video that Dimitar made on it . It’s like he could care less  

 It’s just too many new detectors that’s coming out that show they want your business and I’m willing to give it to them.

 Detectors and cars have something in common in if a car looked the same from year to year it would get to the point they wouldn’t be selling. The same goes with a detector in you got to add a bell and whistle now and then to keep sales up .

 Chuck 

Goldseeker

 You would have been better off to let someone hold your feet and let you down head first because it just wasn’t much room like you said to dig.

 Like I told Gerry when he was digging and it too was a nugget. Watching the video I wanted you to get out of my way because you wasn’t digging fast enough for me.

 Here pot belly me couldn’t get in the hole to start with .

 Chuck 

Gold Ryder

   It would be not true if I said I never had a slip of the tongue and that dog can be like a wife a pain in the backside. I had one I named Dollar and more than one time he got down to 50 cents.

 I thank you for your response and I wish the best for you the next time hunting that yellow metal.

 Chuck 

Great video until the very last when totally foul language was said. Maybe some people talk like that but I don’t!

 Chuck 

Jim 

Now you got me started and this took place in Thule Greenland when I was in the Air Force.

 When it got total darkness in the winter it was nothing to be -65 below without any wind . With any wind a 100 below was nothing.

 You always never got too far away  a building because a storm could come up quickly.

 One time a storm came up in about 30 minutes lasted 3 days blowing at 150 with gust that hit around 175 miles a hour.

 I can truly say I’ve been to the North Pole . One time in a C 47 and a double blade Helicopter .

 I was there between 64 to 65 .

 Chuck 

 I love trapping and I’d do it each winter but nothing cold like that.

 Most people wouldn’t know what a blue hide is.

John  

 I’ve seen it so cold that I had to put one sleeping bag in another trying to keep warm. Even then I wasn’t sure  that I wasn’t going to freeze to death.

 Chuck 

You go buy some of that so good tasting stuff you going have to put a fair amount of money out .

 It good if you setup to make your own but it still don’t make it cheap just cheaper.

 Chuck 

One thing about it John it adds up over time and that’s why I’ll stop to pickup a penny.

Sometime back I wrote a article and my statement was How a nugget can hide behind a grain of black sand . I think I wrote that article of dredging in Colorado.

 I just said that because I see all those nuggets you got in your pan .

 Chuck