1515Art

7 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

Guys The first thing I want you to know I'm not joking.

What I do is a low level of weight lifting to keep my arms in shape. This will help you over time but don't look for results over night. I'd say the weight should be the same as the detector and work up from there.

I work with a 10 lb. weight with each arm. Them I use a 15 lb.. If you repeat enough with each arm it will start talking to you. I found the two weights work well making it easy for me to swing my detector longer.

Chuck

Chuck, I began a similar low weight high repition workout as a teenager...I think it's helped my detecting too.

Sounds good for another 100k at least, might be just a bit of over kill with the tape...better to be safe than sorry anyway so good on you for the extra layer of protection.

holly jadeite Batman, thats one big rock...interesting to see how they dug that thing out of the ground and moving it to its new home should be quite a project. good payday for the guy who owned it.

thanks for showing Steve.

there's a mine in northern China where they get gem quality serpentine and there they found a stone about 10 times the size of that one they named it "King Jade", it's so big they can't move it my wife was telling me. the serpentine they mine there comes in just about all the colors of the rainbow and the colors are very vivid, it's some of the most beautiful stone I've seen although it is a bit softer than jade and a lot less expensive.

6 hours ago, strick said:

The only statistics  that I could find on how many Lions are killed under depredation permits each year. 

https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion/Depredation

There has been a ban on hunting them since the early 70's. I was trying to find out how many were killed by hunters each year before the ban took place but could not find that data. I'd be willing to bet that it was less then what is taken now under depredation. When I was at UC Davis we had a freezer full of dead lions. We did autopsy's on all the lions killed by depredation permit. 

strick

 

Freezer full of dead lions...sounds like some of the restaurants in China I've been to.

Hmmm, Bans on hunting man eating lions, bans on dredging, releasing lions in prime prospecting areas and land closures, Chuck,  if I didn't know better it would seem like we aren't welcome out in the woods and somebody was trying to make things difficult for us.

Ya, every time we weren't eaten we felt pretty lucky...I think they would be cautious of the lights on the bikes but it was still creepy being sitting ducks out there in the dark, one time I packed a gun, but I think the way they ambush attack I probably would have had a struggle getting it out of my pocket and gave that up as a false sense of security and extra useless weight to pack up hill. Main thing like you said is don't run and to get off the bike case on the bike they say you look just like a deer running to the cat and you won't get away anyway. Also holding the bike over your head makes you look bigger and you can swing it as a weapon for protection.

terrable shame about the poor dog being killed by the cat, must not have been that big of a dog, or one very desperate hungry cat.

12 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

1515Art

When it's less deer out there for lions to eat they will come into town looking for dogs and other pets we have..In Colorado this store I trade at that is in the edge of town had one kill in front of it. What happen a guy pulls up with his dog chained in the back . He goes in to shop but when he comes out this lion had kill his dog. It couldn't get the dog out because it was chained.

This why you need to carry a gun with you at all times when out. You go look in the mirror and you see you but that lion see's one big T bone steak.

Be safe and live long !

Chuck  

Up until a few years ago when I had a pretty bad crash I used to mountain bike almost every day and on the mornings when I was on duty we would hit the forrest about 4 or 5 in the morning and ride the trails in the Santa Cruz mountains in the pitch black, with only the lights on our bikes. We would climb for 30 minutes to an hour depending which trail, going 3 or 4 miles an hour up hill with only a small tunnel of light and no vision outside the light beam, we nervously called ourselves meals on wheels. Occasionally I'd wind up riding alone and the whole time the hair on the back of my neck would be standing straight up and every sound, creaking in the brush would give a little adrenalin boost and I'd feel myself kicking up the rpm's a bit.

one time I was riding one of the lower trails in the afternoon very near to town and came up on one big cat standing in the middle of the trail. I stopped and got off my bike and was ready to use it as a weapon, me and the cat just stared at each other for a minute and then he just slinked off into the brush. I cut my ride short and made a bee line back down hill.

Fred, do they find fancy yellow diamonds there?

Took the jeep out for a first run in the hills and while out around deadwood and Forrest hill, stopped to chat with this guy who was out scouting deer and doing a little hunting. I don't know how accurate the information, or if anything is really any different than usual as the danger goes out in the woods, but... He was telling me to be a little more cautious than normal on account they been having a mountain lion problem of late in town, seems the critters are wandering into town in much higher numbers than in previous years. So, the guy who drew the short straw has been trapping any that come into town and after putting tracking collars on them, they drive them out to the end of deadwood road by the cemetery and let them loose.

point of the story there may be more than a few hungry lions hanging around the area so if you are out and about the area doing a little prospecting they'll see you... 

the deer were scarce too, usually I see a few this time I didn't see any.

I've got the TRX and like it for the most part and it plays ok around the 7000. The trx depth is good and the probe point is directional being more sensitive at the very tip than the sides. If I was to choose a different pin pointer I would pick the Garrett carrot, based on user reviews and overal popularity, I think they are both good choices.

Paul, your coin find was very exciting and many people were interested and offered values for an old coin like you found much higher in China than the price listed by the dealers value information you attached... Unfornatuly, the one you found is not real. This info is from a big coin dealer/collector, the crudeness and mistakes in the writing show this as an imitation and probably made for decoration on some jewelry type item, or tassel. This would also likely account for there only having detail on one side and finding in an unlikely location for a coin of that type.

this was a lot of fun, so still a cool find.

clark

Hmmm, thanks gold seeker... I typed steel, but ment iron. The ones my dad had did have some kind of a squarish slot or slots, but for sure no flat areas or seams that I remember. The story was they came directly from a pile of balls stored somewhere on the military base, I'm pretty sure that's accurate, so if they weren't cannon balls I don't know what else they would have been... Sounds like they would have been solid shot.

The cannon balls were about the same size as a basket ball and I remember it having one or two square indents about an inch deep and on the sides. Other than that they were plain steel balls, I think there are still some of the old balls stacked out there (behind fences) now on display in little cannon ball pyramids, at least there used to be a few years ago.

Did they all have black powder inside? The one I left buried at the old house came from a stack of balls at the  Presidio in San Francisco back around 1935, my dad acquired at least 3 of them that I'd heard about and two of them were made into a bar bell and the other was made into a kettle bell with a handle welded onto it. My dad and a friend had a weight lifting gym on sutter street in San Francisco. They could have given real meaning to the term dead weight with those things, although it must be tough to get them to go off. The kettle bell cannon ball was repeadidly dropped from the top of a six foot step ladder to break up a concrete deck and for no good reason when I was in high school it seemed like a good idea to restore the ball more to its original form and I took my cutting torch and removed the steel handle that was welded onto the ball, my dad jumped my a** for doing that when he saw what was going on and warned me of the danger. Never could figure out if that was a concern why he was welding stuff to them in the first place and dropping it from a ladder if they could explode, never went off with all the abuse I put it through, but if it's dangerous I probably should go back talk to the new owners and dig it up...

Well Paul, I showed the picture to my wife, but she can't read it, my be really old and some dialect she doesn't know, or something other than Chinese, or possibly a copy of an old coin for some decorative purpose. Anyway later this evening she will post it on her Wei chat and by morning half of China should get at look and someone is bound to have an idea of what the heck you have...and old coin or?????

Paul, when my wife gets home this afternoon I'll have her look, she can read it and will probably know...if not I'll send the pic to China and find out for sure.

Pretty cool find...there is a 100lb civil war cannon ball buried along the fence line in a backyard in Saratoga. I know exactly where it was because I'm the one who left it there. It was about fifteen years ago and the dog kept digging under the fence in this one spot, the cannon ball was handy in a pinch to keep the dog in the yard and it just kind of stayed there. When I sold the house the cannon ball was pretty much out of sight and is probably still there. Somebody will find it in a hundred years and Saratoga war history will be rewritten and my old house declared a national monument civil war battlefield.

Thanks and good for you too Ray. talking with my mechanic I gave my old rig to today, he fixed the serpentine tension pulley and was getting it ready for smog testing, so he could use it for an around town tow vehicle. He left it running during the test and while he was off doing something else the radiator exploded. I got out of it just in time...id have hated to have been 70 miles into the desert and have had the belt or radiator go and they were just two of the ticking time bombs waiting to happen.

Great find, very cool. I'm still trying to find my first silver. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Lucky, im pretty happy with it...I'm adding a set of high intensity lights to the front, down by the winch, make it a little easier coming out of the dirt roads at night. Then some kind of added fuel, probably something like you suggested Rick.

swegin, after that I agree some kind of rock slider and I don't use the step so not a problem covering it up, or taking it off.

i put an atv style gun holder to the underside of the lid of the trunk lock box to hold my 7000 for the coil end then a strap to hang the control box end fron the roll cage, when not in use the gun holder folds and stows under the lid.

31 minutes ago, Ridge Runner said:

My XP Deus shows that I have the 3.2 when I turn it on. What I want to know if I download the 4.0 will I then have six VLF's to hunt with ? What I believe I read the new VLF's will work only on the two new coils.

Chuck

Chuck with ver 4 you will be able to use all the frequencies you have now on the old ver 3.2 coils (ver 4 supports all the old hardware) and if you have the new coils you can have use of the new higher frequencies but not the old lower ones while using the new coil.

something about the coils actually being tuned specifically to only one of the frequencies (18khz in ver3.2) but still very good on all the others. I would imagine ver 4 may follow this pattern and optimize the coil at the highest 55khz. I'm also guessing the best frequency spread they could hope for and still have everything consistent is where they cut it off.

I'm real happy with this jeep...makes up just a little for the bath I took on my last car project. A few years ago I bought this 1970 el Camino from my neighbor, he bought it for his son and sold it after getting him a new car when they got tired of working on this one. That should have been the first clue, anyway he was dumping it for 3k and I got snagged by the shine of orange paint and somehow thought this would be good for my son and I when he got his drivers lic.

turned out to be a project alright, 20k later he's driving down highway 101 at night and the damn thing throws a rod through the block. I should have sold it right there, instead 5k more and a new crate engine and the economy decides to take another nose dive and nobody is willing to pay more than 10k for it.

instead I sold it back to the kid I orrigannly bought it from after his dad passed away for 8k, was his first car that he and his dad worked on together and he was thrilled to get it back. At least some good came from the debacle and I'm hoping the jeep is good CARma.

I like it, 55khz sounds awesome and the small elliptical looks great should be a killer gold machine. I want the pinpointer too...been waiting for something like that going wirelessly to the headphones.

10 hours ago, bado1 said:

Sweet Jeep! You are going to love it. Word of caution... it is addictive to get caught up in the after market parts for them! You can customize until you are broke. Congrats!

 

Dean

I'm in trouble... They already know my name at the 4wheel parts store

11 minutes ago, klunker said:

 I offered to leave the key in mine while you where shopping so it only seems fair that--- oh, never mind.

Ya done good.

I had your own key made for you...

Suppose the camel gets pretty good mileage I'd bet

thanks everyone for the help, tips and great advise...

'well I pulled the trigger on an 2006 rubicon TJ, this one drives fantastic...day and night difference from the first one I looked at that only had 18k miles on it, glad I waited for this one. Paid the seller 21k, The original jeep had 155k miles all freeway, teacher driving it daily from Visalia to LA, but everything on it now is new in the last 3 mo's. The seller paid 23k in parts not counting labor or the purchase price of the original jeep. Then got in a money bind and had to sell his new toy, I felt a little sorry because he really hated to sell and when he built it this was his dream jeep. I promised when I sold it to give him first shot.

some of the stuff the guy did to it from his add;

Offered for sale is a 2006 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, automatic with overdrive. 4.0L, 6cyl, PS, PB, AC, 4WD. With the exclusive Rubicon model you get dana 44 axles front and back, all wheel disc brakes, diff lockers, body armour and 4.10 gears from factory. This model also has cruise control and the 7 speaker 6 disc audio system with factory subwoofer. Jeep retains both factory hardtop and soft top (never used/installed). Please read to the end.

Recent upgrades include:

-Banks ram air, cold air intake. Out flows stock by 116%
-throttle body spacer +3HP
-Hypertech Max Energy power programmer +11HP and +30TQ
-Rubicon Express 3.5" Super Flex suspension lift with sway bar disconnects, adjustable upper control arms and track bar
-fox 2.0 shocks with 5/8" shaft
-Rancho RS5000 steering stabilizer
-Tom Woods CV (double cardan) rear drive shaft
-Fuel, revolver 15x10 wheels
-Mickey Thompson Deegan M/T 32x11.5 tires
-G2 aluminum diff covers
-WARN stubby front bumper
-WARN XD9000i 9K winch
-Rampage rear recovery bumper with tire carrier, rear lights and full size matching spare
-MORE industries hide-a-step hidden retractable steps
-Rugged Ridge neoprene seat covers and molded floor liners
-clear corners and marker lights
-Synergy Manufacturing steel grab handles
-Roadmaster XL base plates and tow bar plus, jeep is tow vehicle wired 
-new LED tail lights and flasher
-and more....

This is a fresh build. No expense spared as you can see! Get it while everything recently done is brand NEW! Orig platform was an extremely clean, stock, mechanically sound and never off road commuter Jeep Rubicon. Average miles for the year.

Lucky, the new rig and hope I see you and Rudy out there soon.