Magnet Fishing

Came across a magnet fishing vid on youtube, and watched a few more. Seems relaxing, and fun, they use a rope, and a strong magnet. Very interesting the finds, guns, bikes, signs etc. You never know whats in a creek, or river.

Sounds interesting. Post the vid?

Lots of that stuff seems to go on in Europe by the vids I've seen(I watched few in the past),.. I like the wells and the stuff they retrieve from them from WW2, and the canals where they troll for goodies.

Here's one Rod, and yep Silver it seems to be a european activity.

[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNos9g1RHps[/video]

only just seen it sorry RKT, was a good look though.

well there's another evening about to be lost to youtube

Is that and old landmine in the background? (5:50)

pretty keen to give it a crack as soon as I can afford to drop $180 on a magnet. Wife's going to love that one.

Morgan82 said:

pretty keen to give it a crack as soon as I can afford to drop $180 on a magnet. Wife's going to love that one.

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$180? Sounds a bit expensive. What type of magnet is that?

This one should do the job! I wonder how small they make electromagnets.

Edit: maybe not such a good idea around water.

No joke guys, the magnet needs to be a tough one, but you'd need to be prepared to retrieve it if stuck to a car or very heavy object like a bridge..
But, I gave it a go with my girls a while back in local busy rivers but the $60 magnet I bought was weaker than a fridge magnet once you try to drag the target back to yourself. Definately go neodymium magnet but I'd suggest to coat it with an epoxy or resin to prevent it cracking the coating exposing its toxins. Snagging supprisingly wasn't an issue with all the rocks and logs and branches, I was using a strong rope, not stringline too.

My magnet is 4"x4" and 80lb lift force which I thought would be enough..honestly its no where near enough. 'Targets' simply fall off as you pull it along the rocks etc.

Either much bigger magnet or neodymiums.

My posts related to the subject:
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13764

Lol sorry..I was using 18kg magnet..not 80lb :lol:

120kg should do it. $260.

http://aussiemagnets.com.au/product/-88-x--18mm-Pot-with-12mm-Hole-(Rare-Earth).html

These little beauties showed up in the mail today. Cheers to AMF Magnetics. Ordered Monday night and arrived Wednesday morning.
https://magnet.com.au/?gclid=CIm-tcjczM0CFUoJvAod4x0EZw It was about $60 for the 3 delivered.

The smaller one, 42mm, has a pull force of 68 kilo and the 2 larger, 48mm ones allegedly pull 81 kilo each. I thought we can use them individually or in multiples. I made up a couple of wooden blocks for using them together. It should do for a test run. I stuck the small one to the side of a wagon at work. Man is it hard to pull off in a direct pull. Definitely need a rope and not thinner material. I guess I will coat them in resin as suggested by AR

They wont want to travel to far from the shore if they keep pulling a rope over the inflatable like that lol. Just hope the magnet doesn't pull up a knife or barbed wire

It could be the next greatest golfing tool invented, used to retrieve your club from the water after a big dummy spit :lol:

RJ, you're on it mate. I also bought a few from aussiemagnets, and want to try some of the deep shafts that I come across in the goldfields. Maybe an old pick, shovel, bicycle or mattress - who can tell.
http://aussiemagnets.com.au/

looking forward to trying them, I have a great 1860s creek in mind

AtomRat said:

Definately go neodymium magnet but I'd suggest to coat it with an epoxy or resin to prevent it cracking the coating exposing its toxins.

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Any suggestions for what type of resin to use? Throwing my smaller magnet at things at work and it's cracked already. I tried arildite but it wasn't much good so I cleaned it off.

Maybe something like solvent based stone guard should work, not underbody sealer it stays sticky.
Only other thing that might work would be a gelcoat for boats.