little colour from sunday morning session in Creswick, found some nice little pickers, hit pipe clay wish i had a few buckets with me to bring some clay home 
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That should be in the historic preservation thing.. excellent.. The stamping rods on the left in your pic have been lifted up so they will not contact their radial cam arms and were out of use because??? ... the set on the right are still in contact with the radial cam arms and look like they were still working.. The cams on this end sit at differant heights and may still have something underneath them to make their height so uneven...??? Could the height adjustments on the rods be so unlevel and still work?? The rods would have turned as they went up and down because the radial arm/cams are off center to the shafts as well..
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kawman said:That should be in the historic preservation thing.. excellent.. The stamping rods on the left in your pic have been lifted up so they will not contact their radial cam arms and were out of use because??? ... the set on the right are still in contact with the radial cam arms and look like they were still working.. The cams on this end sit at differant heights and may still have something underneath them to make their height so uneven...??? Could the height adjustments on the rods be so unlevel and still work?? The rods would have turned as they went up and down because the radial arm/cams are off center to the shafts as well..Redmanti said:
That's how it was moved there.
The stamping mill looked like someone had restored it a couple of years ago as a project then left it. Maybe to crush rocks as a private mine.
It is in NSW State Forest.
It is 90% operational. Old PVC fitting around the place.
It is guarded by a docile black snake.
Old miner shack nearby abandoned years ago. Has a boiler as a chimney.
I was fixing broken pipe to day in back yard and baby brown snake slithered over my boot I jumped out of the whole so fast the snake got scared but I had my shovel I won 30 cm long when I first saw it the snake looked like it was at least two meters long lol
kawman said:That should be in the historic preservation thing.. excellent.. The stamping rods on the left in your pic have been lifted up so they will not contact their radial cam arms and were out of use because??? ... the set on the right are still in contact with the radial cam arms and look like they were still working.. The cams on this end sit at differant heights and may still have something underneath them to make their height so uneven...??? Could the height adjustments on the rods be so unlevel and still work?? The rods would have turned as they went up and down because the radial arm/cams are off center to the shafts as well..
they might have put blocks under the hammers on the left side to save horsepower ( saves coal if it was powered by a steam boiler )
perhaps they were running it at half capacity when ore was starting to dwindle
or it could have been powered by a water wheel and they didnt have enough water to run the whole battery
note they had a tub under the drive gears to hold lubricant , which could have been any form of crude mineral , in fact that white tub looks newer than the rest . maybe it was run as late as the 1940's or 1950's ?
wonder if they would mind if me and grandma carried it home and put it in the backyard . . .
kawman
have a close look in the photo , you can see a steel bar bent to fit underneath the hammer block where the fingers push underneath
i marked one in red
have a close look in the photo , you can see a steel bar bent to fit underneath the hammer block where the fingers push underneath
i marked one in red
kawman
steve wardle
great fun and very interesting... the piece of corrugated iron on the left of the first pic is the old style... the piece on the right is a much more modern type of roofing iron and is not that old...
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G0lddigg@ said:little colour from sunday morning session in Creswick, found some nice little pickers, hit pipe clay wish i had a few buckets with me to bring some clay home
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That's some nice gold you got!
I'd be very happy with a haul like that
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Hey Guys
Finally had a chance to give my new Walbanker a whirl. I'm really pleased with how well it works. I ran some of the tailing back through my pan just to see if any gold had escaped and there was no gold at all. This gold was found over the duration of one tank of fuel of my WX15 water pump so roughly 2 hours. And the crevice I found was just begging to be dug...
Finally had a chance to give my new Walbanker a whirl. I'm really pleased with how well it works. I ran some of the tailing back through my pan just to see if any gold had escaped and there was no gold at all. This gold was found over the duration of one tank of fuel of my WX15 water pump so roughly 2 hours. And the crevice I found was just begging to be dug...
very nice myles. hey your from tumit ive got a nate up there who works at snowy hydro. youve got sone nice creeks up that way
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Nice work Myles. Hope the crevice keeps giving up the gold for you.
Cheers Tone
Cheers Tone
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Good stuff there Myles...by the looks of that you will have to start looking for some large jars to put all the gold in mate. Good luck on the next trip and glad to see the banker is working as it should,
Cheers Wal.
Cheers Wal.
Very nice result Myles.
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Thanks for all your comments guys. There sure are some nice creeks in Southern NSW G0lddigg and this one is no exception, especially it seems where gold is concerned.
Yep I'm pretty happy with the haul and its by far the most gold I've ever found in one session 0.7g. Like Wal said hopefully a larger jar will be required once I've explored the upper reaches of the creek. Its interesting to note that I then went and dug another area of the creek just 50m away that looked promising and I got nothing so it seems to be pretty patchy. But I'm sure there's plenty of parts that are untouched since the last flood and I know this because both sides of the creek are covered by black berries and access is a b#t#h. As you can see Tone I've got my work cut out for me cleaning the rest of the crevice. Just got to move that massive boulder first with the crowbar.
It's interesting that when I got to the bottom of the crevice it seemed that the rock had disintegrated into a greyish colour. I thought it could have been clay but I think it was the actual rock decomposing. I'm not really sure maybe someone else has more experience with this. But I dug the grey too and was wondering if there could have been gold under it (Since all the material goes through the Walbanker I have no idea).
Another thing I was hoping to get some advice on is on the far left of the picture. The Creek runs from right to left and the crevice is absolutely perpendicular to the creek flow. You can see a large drop-off. I also cleared this but only right up against the rock and down about a foot. There is opportunity to continue cleaning further left for at least another 5 feet. Should I be running all this material through the banker also?? Just not sure how much gold has fallen into this area as compared to the crevice and the material immediately under the drop-off??
never have I seen a more perfect example of mother natures riffles that clay looks like decomposed slate perfect for gold retention I recommend getting all the clay into a bucket and making sure its broken right diwn before feeding it through your banker. nice find there
that clay looks like decomposed slate perfect for gold retention I recommend getting all the clay into a bucket and making sure its broken right diwn before feeding it through your banker. nice find there
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Thanks G0lddigg for your response. You've just made my day...
all good, might be a good idea to throe some water in the crevis when yiu leave as well to soften it up for your return mate hope yiu get plenty of pickers
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Make sure you also wash down the sides. Get a little brush and scrub that surface were the pick is resting. All those mini ledges may be holding fine gold.
I would be very excited if that was my crevice to work.
Cheers,Tone
I would be very excited if that was my crevice to work.
Cheers,Tone
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