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Purdy! The tromels and dredge look nice, and the little excavator takes quarters, right? Actually that’s a cool little rig. Also, I wouldn’t put that Axiom on the same shelf as the 6000s, you might end up with some weird hybrid detector…😉 Have a great time!

I found it! The trailer I mentioned was much like this one: also here’s a detection cart that might be useful but not for air travel…

I was working with a UXO team once (unexploded ordnance) at a test facility out here in California. They used a high brush mower first to prep their search area by clearing out the brush and then went in with a quad pulling a PVC trailer with an array of sensors, probably 10 feet wide, behind it. The trailer had large diameter wheels so it could clear the brush stumps. I’m not sure if the sensors were magnetometers or some other metal detecting sensor, but they were each hooked up to a GPS plotting recorder. The trailer sat about 15 feet back behind the quad with a long arm and they would drive very large areas with it rather slowly. Once they were finished, their team would go in where all the hot points were plotted and would pop them still in the ground with a disruptor device or using small explosives. That was one expensive metal detector, but it worked really nicely.

Thanks Reg- I used your suggestion and gave a correct reference to Mr. Stewart in the post. Jim Straight must have been visiting and borrowed one. Do you know how successful these were in Victoria?

How about pulling the 40x20 CT Mothership coil sideways on a little PVC pipe cart or sled?

Something rigged up like Jim Straight using this Bismarck coil by Jim Stewart for a Coiltek Mothership 40x20 coil, or mounting it on a plastic cart made with PVC tubes may work better…

The Rad bikes use Cadence sensing also- I don’t mind it at all but one does have to be careful when moving the pedals with the power turned up. I’m in the habit of holding a brake lever while getting mounted to avoid that issue…

750 watt folding RadPower bike would do well off-road- it’s a step through with front and rear mounts you can put racks on … Rad power bikes folding model

Nice! I would have also gone this route had I known about the conversion kits. What do you recommend? I may do this to our tandem.

You will need a heavy duty bike rack for your e-bike. I use a modified Harbor Freight motorcycle rack. And one other suggestion- consider a step through frame. Especially if you have a short inseam. If you are carrying a detector on your side you will have to step over both to get on or off. But I ended up with a high step and like it a lot- I have 1700 miles on it commuting to work every day since September and for occasional weekend fun rides.

Quite a few of us e-bikers out here- RadRover 6 Plus for mine. It’s a fat tire off-road bike. A buddy also has one that he prospects a lot with. It works fully with throttle and/or pedal assist. They have a pretty good sale going on right now. https://www.radpowerbikes.com If you do get one of these- PM me. I have a good source for refurbished batteries for them at 1/2 off if you ever need a spare.

A very nice day in a wonderful place!

Nugget hunting…That’s what it’s all about!

thanks for sharing that video. There’s no coil error, and it doesn’t happen with my CT coil. It could also be a loose battery. I’m going to start a new thread in the GPX 6000 forum for this- I am getting Sourdough’s NF thread here off track! Sorry Scott!

My detector kept turning off and on with slight bumps the last time I used my 11. I think it’s because the connector was loose, have you ever heard of anything like that? It’s still under warranty but I’m not going to be able to test it correctly until I get out sometime far enough away from town.

What’s different about the bottom of the coil?

Simon, check yours for cracks. I had the older one and turned it in about six months ago for a replacement because of ear cracks (posted a photo of it on that older thread about the ears). They replaced it with this same one as well. i’ll have to admit I forget what the original looked like, can you post a photo of yours?

Beautiful!

On the MRDS website, you can download location KML’s of historic mines per state that had gold recorded as a primary or lesser metal producer. Put those on Google Earth and you will be able to find remote and roadless areas between them. On USGS you can download KML’s of geologic maps and also put them on Google Earth. Look for patterns in all three. That’s how I’d start if remote virgin patches were my goal. https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ Download/Select: search data using a form Pick State, with commodity Choose format: Google Earth Get Data Download data file: the one with .KML at the end. Open the .kml file on Google Earth

All the posts I’ve seen about people successfully finding nuggets in the US these days mentioned digging in areas with trash and pellets. Steve also mentioned recently that presence of trash and pellets was a good way to know an area hasn’t been thoroughly detected. It doesn’t come easy, and that’s been something I started learning as well.

There could be a treasure buried behind old dams, especially those with lakes that were large enough for boats to be on. When I was a kid, I found a heavy 18ct gold women’s bracelet shining in the dried silt behind an old dam that was under repair. My mom kept it after repairing the broken clasp on it. Apparently some woman, possibly on a boat lost it while dangling her arm overboard? One thing for sure though, you’d probably dig up more lead than you’d ever want to dig or see while detecting there!

So far Ive only really found it after being given the pointy finger. And of those I did find, they were just a few little bits not much heavier than .5G, but the fun of looking for it with friends beats all!

Very nice!

Yes, thanks for the gum trees! We try burning them every year, have bugs now that eat them (thrips), but we have no koalas so they just keep growing back! I hear Africa now has California poppies growing wild as weeds, have you seen any in Australia?

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.” ... For some reason I felt compelled to comment with a Bilbo Baggins quote- that landscape is beautiful and I would disappear for days there. You are truly fortunate to live in a place like that!