Sheppo

I know what happened, I didn’t want to say to much more as it’s not my place to say, and thankyou for setting me straight. I certainly wasn’t incinuating you were outside your bounds either. I apologise if you take it any other way. I actually had no idea you fellas were on here. I’ve watched the videos you have on the channel and thoroughly enjoyed them. Would love to see more, but fair enough for not posting them. People are grubs. You are quite welcome to PM me if you feel the need to.

They stopped due to an incident involving firearms and someone being seriously injured. I know more to the story but this isn’t the place to broadcast that knowledge. I also enjoy Krissy’s videos from Outback Gold Fever. While alot of her videos may not impart much knowledge, it’s great to see some of the areas she works in and gives a glimpse of what I hope to see myself in the near future.

One word related to this completely: COVID. COVID has played a massive part worldwide in quality control issues with factory staffing playing a massive one with Companies grabbing who they can, where they can to keep production rolling. Often these people lack the skills their usual labour force hold which then flows down to quality at the end of their production line. This has also affected Quality Control in manufacturing. I’m going to be very blunt here. Getting onto these forums whinging about quality does absolutely nothing to help the situation we’re in. If you want our current situation to improve, get off your backside, get skilled in the sector you want to work in, go to work and do your job properly. That is the only way we will ever go back to seeing the previous quality of every product we’ve ever used.

X-Coils aren’t chasing the 6000 going by previous reports.

How the detector is used would be another one. I remember a person that came in with a ‘faulting coil’ while I was dropping by your shop, turned out to be he was getting overly excited, and throwing his waste dirt back over the detector and it contaminated the plug on the control box. You cleaned the machine up, sorted the problem out there and then and he was on his way. Not many other dealers would’ve done that. I’m also certainly not implying that incorrect use is the issue with many of these faults, especially the DOA machines, but sometimes a step back by users and analysing the issue will very likely help. I’m also not defending Minelab, as there isn’t an excuse for the number of DOA machines that there has been. I guess I’ve been one of the lucky ones to get a good machine straight out of the box 🤷‍♂️

One of the best things for any Veteran I’ve seen is to get out into the wilderness and get swinging. I have a couple of veteran friends here and they say it’s one of the best things they’ve ever done for themselves.

Usually when I’m out bush, i use the solar system I’ve built into my camper. I also made a box with standard 12V outlets and usb outlets that I can plug in and charge all my stuff off of. Makes it easier instead of taking up all the other outlets I need for other things.

Same here but operated harvesting machinery most of my working life so far, I’m 33. My last hearing test, the tester was surprised I could still hear the high pitched faint noises the machine created. I can hear the buzz of a fluorescent light or the high pitched squeal of an older tube type TV, but don’t pick up the hiss that Simon’s talking about, which still tells me there is something wrong with his machine.

She’s German, she’s mentioned it a few times.

5. The coil will also pick up the cable with it routed as in phrunt’s video, thus giving you a false signal when swivelling the coil towards the shaft/cable. See the attached photo. Even mine is a touch tight. Use a longer loop if you ever run the GPX17 to keep the cable away from the coil.

And noise cancelling when it becomes ratty. I’ve also had the privelege of and am thankful for the help JP has given me with the machines I’ve bought through him.

I still feel you need to send it in for repairs/replacement. I never touch the noise cancel button that often in a session, though I do live on the quick track button. That noise you hear when down near the coil is actually the output of the machine/coil and the frequency it pulses at. I picked it up the first time I used it with headphones and then heard it again while watching a prospecting TV show recently (The Weekend Prospector if anyone’s interested, also not expecting to hear it through the TV). I also picked the GPZ’s frequency up when I started wearing headphones/earbuds aswell, though not as loud. That did take me off guard before I worked out what it was. I haven’t heard the ‘hiss’ that you speak of though.

It was absolutely no trouble at all.

I’m about 2 hours drive from Clermont but climate is the same. Anything less than 30 deg C is cold 😂 Queensland’s weather in winter is absolute perfection, apart from when it decides to rain. If it was like that all year round it’d be great.

No stubbies here mate 😂 Shirt on aswell, it’s just starting to cool off, plus, I’m sure no one wants to see my man boobs anyway. That was only meant as a quick demo for Simon. I’ll be doing some videoing of undug targets on my next outing, whenever that may be.

Difficult is what I usually use for my general detecting as for my using it. The .05g piece was the smallest piece I could find in a hurry 🙂

I went out and made a quick little video to demonstrate what my machine does in less than ideal circumastances. I wasn’t far from town and the road noise wasn’t great either and I hope you can hear everything. Also attached is a piece of the gold that I used for the demo. I believe because your machine is faulty @phrunt you won’t be getting the desired result. I ran mine in Difficult, manual sensitivity turned all the way up and volume on full.

I’d expect a better target response out of my 6000 with a target sitting on the surface like that, even for its size. Small rusty wire is an absolute pain in my rear end. I unfortunately don’t have video of it. I also consider the edge of the coil absolute fire for getting into edges where targets may be hiding (and have found them). Being that you are also relatively close in proximity to powerlines won’t be helping you any at all. That threshold is also pretty standard for the external speaker, and I don’t use it at all. The machine is totally different with headphones. Something I’ve also found with the 6000 compared to the Z, that yes, while the target response is better on small stuff, when you get a loud surface target, the volume stays the same on the 6000. The Z tends to damn near blow your ear drums out when it comes across one of these. I’m not sure if others have noticed this aswell.

Many people also refer to them as gators here, as well as lizards, snapping handbags etc 🙂

Get a proper working one and do the comparisons, you’ll probably find the 6000 has a better target response on the small stuff you’re chasing over the Z. Yes, they’re a chatty machine but that’s because of their ridiculous sensitivity (also use this to your advantage!) If I want to have some fun and go target tiddlers for an afternoon, the 6000 is a go to over the Z. I recently spent some time on a lease here and targetted an area with the 6000 that had already been throughly worked over by a plethora of other detectors and managed another 11g. I’ll do a post up soon. Good luck and I believe you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you do get a good machine and I believe you’ll keep us posted.

I usually use a LL bluetooth receiver into a B&Z booster then into my noise cancelling ear buds, but last trip out I dropped the booster for just the receiver and earbuds. I found this more than enough as the audio from the 6000 gives great feedback compared to other detectors.

Enough said… 😉

That’s a definite no-no here.

Will also add to what JP said and that’s you don’t want a pack of wild dogs on to you while you’re prospecting either. You see one? Get out of there. More than one? You may be in for a bit of a ride.

1080 is also commonly used for wild dog control in WA aswell as Queensland. Definitely not something you want your dog getting a hold of.