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1 hour ago, phrunt said:
I can't go digging up my yard, I am hoping the boss doesn't notice it! 😄
All of it needs to be tilled (detected) and then a new lawn put in with seeds or sod.
Look Ma, no holes!
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I just spoke with Fred a couple of days ago. He was asking me about the QED. Someone on the east coast was using it for a relic detector. I tried to call him this morning.
I've had many good chats with Fred over the years. Last year I went with my wife and son to visit Fred in San Diego. He gave me his Australia maps before my trip to Australia. He LOVED Australia and I'm sure much of his spirit is in WA now.
I'll miss Fred.
Mitchel
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Simon,
This thread is about things to do if you CAN'T detect! I think your yard would be a permission to someone else. haha
When I come to Kiwiland, can I detect your yard? 🙃
Mitchel
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Ok Simon, all of those references to YOUR YARD. wink, wink ... You don't have to tell us you went out detecting! We aren't going to contact the local police and have them track you. haha
My 'yard' is my rock garden outside the apartment door.
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Good thread everyone.
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I grew up in Florida and blind moles are all over the place. I met a guy once that said he trapped them and skinned them and they use them for gloves. I don't know about that.
We tried to gas them but that didn't work.
I read the details on the link for those traps and it seems people use them in Florida also but it said they were not for moles.
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Well done on getting out and the finds. I just came back from 2.5 hours on our beaches at night. It has been several weeks since I've been out also and it felt good. What didn't feel so good was the same lack of targets as when I stopped. I hunt the surf/tide areas and I found less than $1 in change on beaches where I've found hundreds of dollars on in the past. Now I know even more that lack of targets is not because of hunting pressure but the energy of getting the targets back up on the beach.
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Do you still have any of your Arizona pictures?
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Sand Art ... Let it play through several sketches
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This explanation as I read it again now would explain 'raking' a patch as many have been done in the past. Many tiny nuggets would be masked with the surface materials. Sometimes we would rake them to smooth them and get the coil closer to the ground but now it seems that the surface saturation was being raked away with it also. This raking would go on to the edge of the patch.
This has always been one of my clues as well as previous dig holes. Some of these rake piles are 20-30 years old now. They are quite different from oldtimer workings and drywashings.
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One thing I won't be doing is flying Air Asia anytime soon.
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7 hours ago, 1515Art said:
The pick I’m switching to a holster up between my shoulders connected to the harness just over my right shoulder blade
That looks like the Leland pick that I use. I carry it in my left hand and use a bungee for the coil. That long handle on the pick sure saves on the back for scrapes and deep holes.
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Easy now ... you'll be going down and pick Fred up and we'll never see you two again!
Do you have a plan for this year?
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JW,
It should be stated that where Flak lives he could be visited by a mountain lion. There are several in his area that are tracked with radio collars but I'm sure they would like a chicken dinner! Other pets can be on the menu also.
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You can always look at Nevada State Historical Markers!
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Want to have some fun and do research at the same time?
Look at Historical Aerials
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JP,
We are all anxious to see pictures from your archives. We don't need to know how recent they are.
I'd also say that making solo or family trips out into the bush or desert is sometimes necessary social distancing. It also helps to be showered with copious amounts of UV light.
Several of the people on this forum who live in campers and trucks are not violating rules on open land here in the states when they prospect. They are complying with the stay at home rules because they are not a lockdown. Heck, some of us are stretching the definition of 'home' to include our claims and getting out without as much success as yours.
Keep it up.
Mitchel
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I don't know how many trips you have made so far in 2020 but I know gold was hard for me to find in Victoria.
Mitchel
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Nice nuggies and with the Pros. (Any particular reason for them over other choices?)
I agree with Flak. I had asked about the fires up your way. They were bad but now is there any new ground producing that had too many bushes before?
Mitchel
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Well done.
There are lots of clues in the desert. haha
Mitchel
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The service department is very good when you contact them. They were stretched a bit thin before this year with the shows. You had to make first contact with someone out in the field if you called on a Friday. A couple of times I didn't get a call back until Monday and then you would get the RMA. They would keep it within their system of employees.
This new marketing effort is a bit of outsourcing to Wooly. That is part of the email address with a /minelab. I sent an email to Wooly and got a quick response from them wanting to set up a phone call to speak about my 'brand management' and what they could do for me. It seems that Wooly and Minelab marketing have a high hurdle to jump before their users are willing to share with them because of being 'ignored' in the past.
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Are you signed up on their website? I assume they sent me this email because I'm a registered owner or I signed up for the Treasure News/Find of The Month a long time ago but I very rarely go to the site.
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Thanks. I read the other thread. The Wooly administration of it and the connection to the social influencers is confusing for someone that tries to avoid all things 'social' on the internet.
We are on Steve's social site. He could drop on a dictionary of key marketing words and increase his traffic. I'm glad that he doesn't.
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Fred always talked to me about being lucky rather than good. He would always jab me with that line and get a rise out of me. Most of it was because I showed him my 'lifetime nuggets' which he delighted in very much.
I shared with Fred the enjoyment of finding meteorites. It was at one of these meteorite hunts that I went on that I found my first 'lifetime nugget' as Fred labeled it. Fred was not there but he was one of the first to see the 3.5/1.5 ozt nugget I found in Franconia. He told me at the time it was good any time someone could find over 1 ozt of gold. He told me he had not done it in all his years. (I hope he did it later because I saw one near an ounce.)
A little less than two years after that first find I had a driven urge to go back to the same general area. I had a plan that wouldn't shake from my mind. It came together on a Thanksgiving day. I had slept in my Trooper the night before and when I got up I detected for about an hour before I found a large nugget. I called a few people and told them what I had and they told me that Fred and Grandpa John were at the Dale. I had to show it to someone so I packed up and drove the 150 miles to where they were. As it happened they (Jonni also) were just having a late Thanksgiving dinner and I was invited in the trailer to eat.
I told Fred I had something to show him. I made him close his eyes and I put this object (20/8 ozt) in his hand. He said what is it? A meteorite? And then I watched him look at it. He knew I had another 'lifetime nugget' and he never let me forget it. I was a bit vague where I found it and later they thought I had found it in The Dale. Grandpa John told me in the morning that the nugget reminded him of a Goose Egg. That is how it got its name rather than Turkey Egg.
I made a video just after I found the nugget that day and when I find it I'll post it to this thread in honor of Fred, the first person to see it other than me.
Mitchel