Back Outback..

Very nice mate.
Mackka

Still going through the drill tailings from the hole. Some more potch bits, tiny bit of colour here and there under the loop..

Just finished going through it, bit more potch.
Good sign

Yeah baby.
Mackka

Looks a bit small for a ladder and an up-n-over, or is that the pilot

Dihusky said:

Looks a bit small for a ladder and an up-n-over, or is that the pilot

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corrugated iiron collar laid over is 800 high, that gives me 200 Above the ground to build fall away from it for when it rains.
The level bottom is for the collar to have a hard ledge to sit on.
Deeper from this point the dimensions are about 1.9 X .8

The first dig session I did 4 runs to achieve 600 down.
This time I drove my hammer into the hole all the way to the base and achieved 700 in 3 runs..

Another $150 for a permanent new dunny hole..

Plenty of Nuggets to come..... :goldnugget: :goldnugget: oop:

Jaros said:

Plenty of Nuggets to come..... :goldnugget: :goldnugget: oop:

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1-1000, 2-1000, 3-1000...thud!(40 feet) lol

Looking like the new dunny hole is getting a lot of attention.... incase it's gunna need a collar two lol
ickshovel:

silver said:

Looking like the new dunny hole is getting a lot of attention.... incase it's gunna need a collar two lol
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Na mate, nothing came up that hole, dunny is over it.

Saved $100 on steel by doing a bush bodge extension of a smaller one..

Ready to rock n roll..

Plenty of rail n ladder to go deep if it does..

The inner of the field, still mining going on amongst it all, dangerous work!

The old man had one of his 'dont get your hopes up there might be nothing down there' mood swings this morning.
The young guns off Opal hunters just pulled up to a neighbour claim and showed him nice colour for the last week.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

New avatar, nice. Now mate i know nothing about what you are doin but i have to ask, are you going down inside the pipe or digging around it, sorry just trying to understand the principle.
Cheers
Mackka

Mackka said:

New avatar, nice. Now mate i know nothing about what you are doin but i have to ask, are you going down inside the pipe or digging around it, sorry just trying to understand the principle.
Cheers
Mackka

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That's not a pipe mate, that's the bucket that gets winched up the rail and out of the hole full of dirt/tailings.
Goes all the way to the top of the tipper and over to empty out. As it's going over it compresses the spring arm to a point where a cable running back to the out of gear pin on the winch is pulled and the spring arm flicks it back up and over.
Then gravity pulls it back down the rail.
The speed of the bucket falling is controlled by a hydraulic brake with a valve adjustment.
2 ropes down the hole, pull 1 to activate the on off switch to the winch motor, pull the other to put the winch pin in gear and up she goes.

Thanks for the explanation mate and good luck.
Mackka

Tipper spring arm system..

Pin gear system..

Hydraulic brake system..

Would be the ducks nuts for hand mining deep gold but nooooooooo ya not allowed coz its gold!