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Gary the Pom turned up with some much appreciated supplies. He brought some suspension bushes as well.
Fortunately he's a pretty handy guy with a spanner too and carries a comprehensive tool kit. It took us about 2½ hrs to knock it off so not too bad.
He hasn't found any gold since leaving us in the Pilbara about three months back to I took him out for an hour to reming him what it sounds like
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I'm pretty much packed up to go.
The last item fitted is the cutlery drawer. Last time I had my cutlery in the drawer at the rear under the cooktop but it meant that I had to open the rear door to get something out. That was not convenient after dark.
The last item fitted is the cutlery drawer. Last time I had my cutlery in the drawer at the rear under the cooktop but it meant that I had to open the rear door to get something out. That was not convenient after dark.
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New to all this but enjoying the heck out of it
This has got me inspired to clean up the garage and start making my mini sluiceHere we go again. Hopefully we're in for another great year in 2023. Not that last year was a great year for gold but we made the best of it so that makes it a great year
I took on a few projects throughout the year and polished them off but Mrs M is still flogging away at her final project in 2022.
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She certainly took on a challenge. In fact she started trying to organise the junk in my shed quite a long time back. That included new shelving, new lights and a lot of sorting out of the nuts, bolts, rivets and screws along with a lot of other things. Towards the end of 2022 she decided to get all my tools onto shadow boards. I guess they don't look much when they are bundled up in tool boxes, on the benches, on the floor and in the vehicles but she's been hunting them down. She still has a problem with the multiples of each size, there are a lot of odds and ends left over from what were bought as sets many moons ago and some of these will end up back in the tool boxes.
Of course she can't hang all types, some are simply too big or heavy and some are just too difficult to fix to a board and some seem to have gone to that great tool box in the cloud
I don't know how long I can keep it looking like this but so far she's done a terrific job and I'm sure she's not done but hopefully she'll leave the rest until next year......
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Looks good Phil, my setup looks a mess too, but the main aim is for anything to have a place and easy to get to.
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How do you clean up your concentrates? I've been running the sluice with a 10"x36" Dream Mat but I don't usually see much really fine gold so I'm playing with some of my rejected tailings to see where that find gold is.
View attachment New Sluice Trial On My Tailings.mp4
The Dream Mat is good in the way that it takes a high water flow, 17,000 LPH, and that means I can put a bucket of concentrates through in a few minutes. I couldn't sit there and spoon feed a sluice, I'm too impatient for that. I designed the riffles on the wooden sluice without ridges to catch the bigger particles. The result is that even though my concentrates had sticks, stones and leaves everything cleared off the sluice apart from the fine sand.
View attachment New Sluice Trial On My Tailings.mp4
The Dream Mat is good in the way that it takes a high water flow, 17,000 LPH, and that means I can put a bucket of concentrates through in a few minutes. I couldn't sit there and spoon feed a sluice, I'm too impatient for that. I designed the riffles on the wooden sluice without ridges to catch the bigger particles. The result is that even though my concentrates had sticks, stones and leaves everything cleared off the sluice apart from the fine sand.
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Hello all...
Just a word of warning, if you don't hear from me again it'll be because I may have decided to leave Prospecting Australia forum. This morning I posted a short story of our weekend adventures and it's been censored by some overzealous moderator. There's nothing in my post that is abusive, religious, political or in any way contoversial so I'm very disappointed. Phil
Just a word of warning, if you don't hear from me again it'll be because I may have decided to leave Prospecting Australia forum. This morning I posted a short story of our weekend adventures and it's been censored by some overzealous moderator. There's nothing in my post that is abusive, religious, political or in any way contoversial so I'm very disappointed. Phil
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It would be a shame to lose you from the forum Phil, your posts are always informative and in general a great read.
I agree with the above I found nothing offensive in your post this morning, it was a great read and feel it was likely removed for personal reasons than the rules.
Unless there’s some fine print we’re not aware of.
If you decide to leave, best wishes for the future to yourself and Mrs M and may the gold gods lead you to their fortunes.
Ty
I agree with the above I found nothing offensive in your post this morning, it was a great read and feel it was likely removed for personal reasons than the rules.
Unless there’s some fine print we’re not aware of.
If you decide to leave, best wishes for the future to yourself and Mrs M and may the gold gods lead you to their fortunes.
Ty
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The post is now approved but has been reviewed.
To be clear there is nothing personal from current moderators as we weren't the ones that banned said members. It was a decision by previous mods & forum management.
The post was reviewed & edited due to the likelihood that parts of it would have created divisions of opinion & then arguments for/against that we do not need on the forum.
Discussion on the subject has occurred a number of times previously here & it's never been a good outcome.
Any previously banned member wanting to be reviewed for reinstatement needs to contact the forum administrator to discuss.
To be clear there is nothing personal from current moderators as we weren't the ones that banned said members. It was a decision by previous mods & forum management.
The post was reviewed & edited due to the likelihood that parts of it would have created divisions of opinion & then arguments for/against that we do not need on the forum.
Discussion on the subject has occurred a number of times previously here & it's never been a good outcome.
Any previously banned member wanting to be reviewed for reinstatement needs to contact the forum administrator to discuss.
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Hi Phil,
It would be a shame for you to depart. I and I dare say a lot of the forum members have found your posts and adventures of great interest. Always a good read of of great value to the forum community.
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Phil and Sandra. Please don't go, you two. You are both the most inspirational people on this forum. I'm always hanging out for your next adventures/stuff ups and bush inventions. And sunny dispositions also! I'm always getting tips from your bush fixes, and improvisations. We/I, need you!
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Ok guys & gals, thanks for your kind words. I've received an explanation for the editing. I don't have to like it but at least it was a reason for doing what was done. I'll post another blog on our trip shortly.
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Our aim on this trip was to find items of heritage value to enhance the displays at the developing Cue Heritage Centre. It would have been preferable to source everything locally but because Cue never had a museum of any kind all of our relics have been syphoned off over time to nearby communities leaving very little behind.
I’m not connected to the heritage centre but Mrs M is employed there and I get roped into doing all sorts of menial tasks, some paid, most not but as it’s a community project I don’t mind doing my bit to help.
Earlier in the month we travelled to Perth to follow up on several items of interest offered as a response to Mrs M’s request for mining (and other) related heritage items. Reeds Prospecting Supplies donated several early gold detectors along with a variety of coils.
A very generous Cue visitor offered a range of items if we dropped into their Safety Bay home. We came away with a rare WA made Midas metal detector in showroom condition along with several beautiful hand made dolls and a variety of other quality items.
One of our forum members generously donated a huge cast iron mercury retort. We appreciate all the donations, many from people who rarely visit our little town.
Madtuna is another example of the generous donors. He originally offered a Coolgardie Safe along with a variety of old obsolete mining and farm items from a bygone era.
It was unclear what to expect upon our arrival so I never knew the best way to approach it. In the end we decided to take the purple bus and the small enclosed quad trailer minus the quad. This was the best trailer because the larger one was still suffering from bad wheel alignment, a result of losing a wheel on an earlier prospecting trip. I’d recently fitted new tyres and wheel bearings to the small trailer so that it could follow my newly assembled Hyundai camper.
The bus was ready to go even though it is fitted with a couple of the new higher load rated tyres and a couple of the larger Hankook tyres that have been letting us down. The trip there was 520km, mostly dirt road but with the high temperatures one of the tyres blew out while still on the bitumen highway just 200km from home.
That left over 800km to travel without a spare. It’s always the rear tyres that blow out so I spent the evening fitting the new tyres to the rear and I moved the last Hankook tyre to the LH front.
While I was changing the wheels about I left my prescription glasses on the tailgate. Needless to say I don’t have them anymore.
I had to jack two wheels up at the same time to swap wheels back to front. One of my jacks is short on oil so I had to use the only available items to add to the height.
Before we got to our destination Mrs M found the first relic that she wanted me to strap to the trailer. This beautifully built old steam tank is 9m long and about 2m diameter and built from 3/8” steel plate. It probably weighs 15 tonnes so I was safe to say “We’ll grab that on the way back if we’ve got the room”.
I’m not connected to the heritage centre but Mrs M is employed there and I get roped into doing all sorts of menial tasks, some paid, most not but as it’s a community project I don’t mind doing my bit to help.
Earlier in the month we travelled to Perth to follow up on several items of interest offered as a response to Mrs M’s request for mining (and other) related heritage items. Reeds Prospecting Supplies donated several early gold detectors along with a variety of coils.
A very generous Cue visitor offered a range of items if we dropped into their Safety Bay home. We came away with a rare WA made Midas metal detector in showroom condition along with several beautiful hand made dolls and a variety of other quality items.
One of our forum members generously donated a huge cast iron mercury retort. We appreciate all the donations, many from people who rarely visit our little town.
Madtuna is another example of the generous donors. He originally offered a Coolgardie Safe along with a variety of old obsolete mining and farm items from a bygone era.
It was unclear what to expect upon our arrival so I never knew the best way to approach it. In the end we decided to take the purple bus and the small enclosed quad trailer minus the quad. This was the best trailer because the larger one was still suffering from bad wheel alignment, a result of losing a wheel on an earlier prospecting trip. I’d recently fitted new tyres and wheel bearings to the small trailer so that it could follow my newly assembled Hyundai camper.
The bus was ready to go even though it is fitted with a couple of the new higher load rated tyres and a couple of the larger Hankook tyres that have been letting us down. The trip there was 520km, mostly dirt road but with the high temperatures one of the tyres blew out while still on the bitumen highway just 200km from home.
That left over 800km to travel without a spare. It’s always the rear tyres that blow out so I spent the evening fitting the new tyres to the rear and I moved the last Hankook tyre to the LH front.
While I was changing the wheels about I left my prescription glasses on the tailgate. Needless to say I don’t have them anymore.
I had to jack two wheels up at the same time to swap wheels back to front. One of my jacks is short on oil so I had to use the only available items to add to the height.
Before we got to our destination Mrs M found the first relic that she wanted me to strap to the trailer. This beautifully built old steam tank is 9m long and about 2m diameter and built from 3/8” steel plate. It probably weighs 15 tonnes so I was safe to say “We’ll grab that on the way back if we’ve got the room”.
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Great pieces, it must be humbling for both you and Mrs M to have the generosity from friends and the community
That old steam tank would make a great barbecue smoker, Franklin’s Texan style,
That old steam tank would make a great barbecue smoker, Franklin’s Texan style,
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Yes Hippyty some people are naturally very generous. The elderly guy and his wife who visited the Cue Heritage Centre amazed us. Amongst the items he donated was a Garrett and his much loved Midas gold detector that he bought new around the time that the first GP detectors were released. Apparently it was superior to the Minelab product but the next Midas model, the PI detector had a ground balancing fault. He had sold several hundred detectors and had refund the money that sent him broke resulting in the end of Midas Detectors.
His wife donated about five of her beautifully hand made dolls and a stack of vintage biscuit tins in perfect condition. These items would have earned them an awful lot of money had they chose to sell them.
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Erlistoun Station is like many early settlements where discarded items still lay where they were left 100 years ago. Mrs M didn’t know where to start…. she was like a kid in a lolly shop.
We raked old middens for coins and a few rare bottles and Mrs M pulled out a nice little 50yr anniversary medallion.
I won’t go into detail of what we collected but I think we had at least a tonne of relics squeezed into that little covered trailer. It’s built for ½ a tonne so well within its carrying capacity. I tried to limit the load but with Madtuna and Rockhunter62 helping Mrs M find her rusty treasure I was well outnumbered.
I told Madtuna about a huge set of tongs that we received from another donor a week or two back. He responded by leaving me holding a huge graphite crucible that he had no use for anymore. It’s a good match for the big tongs and my favourite find here.
I had the choice of returning via the shortcut we’d travelled getting there or taking the long way around where most was on sealed roads. With the temperature forecast for 39°C I chose the dirt road. The bitumen temperatures would be much higher and the tyres seem to suffer more from high temperatures than anything else. The decision was made, we’d return via the dirt road.
We left early so that we could cover a lot of distance before it got too hot. What I’d forgotten about was that big riveted tank, it was on the dirt track and she really wanted it. The only thing that saved me was her fear of blowing another tyre with the overload. She just had to settle on a few photographs and fond memories.
By mid morning the air-conditioner was struggling to cope with the heat coming through the windscreen and by lunchtime we went looking for shade. It was a good trip home with several stops along the way whenever we spotted a glass pile or an old ruin.
We slept for a few hours through the heat of the day and travelled again late into the evening just to save the heavily loaded tyres and got home without further problems.
We raked old middens for coins and a few rare bottles and Mrs M pulled out a nice little 50yr anniversary medallion.
I won’t go into detail of what we collected but I think we had at least a tonne of relics squeezed into that little covered trailer. It’s built for ½ a tonne so well within its carrying capacity. I tried to limit the load but with Madtuna and Rockhunter62 helping Mrs M find her rusty treasure I was well outnumbered.
I told Madtuna about a huge set of tongs that we received from another donor a week or two back. He responded by leaving me holding a huge graphite crucible that he had no use for anymore. It’s a good match for the big tongs and my favourite find here.
I had the choice of returning via the shortcut we’d travelled getting there or taking the long way around where most was on sealed roads. With the temperature forecast for 39°C I chose the dirt road. The bitumen temperatures would be much higher and the tyres seem to suffer more from high temperatures than anything else. The decision was made, we’d return via the dirt road.
We left early so that we could cover a lot of distance before it got too hot. What I’d forgotten about was that big riveted tank, it was on the dirt track and she really wanted it. The only thing that saved me was her fear of blowing another tyre with the overload. She just had to settle on a few photographs and fond memories.
By mid morning the air-conditioner was struggling to cope with the heat coming through the windscreen and by lunchtime we went looking for shade. It was a good trip home with several stops along the way whenever we spotted a glass pile or an old ruin.
We slept for a few hours through the heat of the day and travelled again late into the evening just to save the heavily loaded tyres and got home without further problems.
Some nice photos and memories there for you Phil and Sandra. Looks like you had a great trip.
Schizer!!!!!
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