Recent content by kev205

This is the one I have been using, constructed from a plough shear, a bit of tube from a trampoline and a fibreglass maddock hand with the fat end cut off. I drilled the handle end and forced a rare earth magnet into it. Being from a plough shear it holds an edge very well when you have to cut...

That is an old distributor/points set

I have been out with a couple that have spent many years in the scrub. It always amazes me that when I look up to see where they are they are waaaaay off and heading further. My method is to pull the Ute up under a nice tree, get set up and head off, I stay within sight of the Ute, when I have...

Ok this is Ted-e-bear, as seen above I lost Jackie, so this little fella is now with me .... he digs holes ... just need to teach him to dig where the gold is

Let's go dig some holes dad. This is Jackie sadly I ran over him not long after this pic was taken

In QLD you are restricted to three ( I think) fossicking sites. To go to those sites you have to get authority from owner or lease holder

If you have a mobile phone with you, and you consider yourself lost, a good method todo is ... change your" missed call" message to the fact you are lost and if possible a co ord of your location. Van if you have no coverage, anyone ringing you will get that message when you don't answer

I did have a wiper motor on this for a short while but didn't like taking a battery and didn't like listening to the "clack clack" noise all the time so reverted back to the hand operation

I made a small dry blower approx 250x1500 and made it to have a front wheel and removable handles so it is like a wheel barrow when I want to move around. I just put all the other "stuff" like pans and classifiers on it and wheel away

That is pinch bar and batons

They usually are aluminium and the only way is to se a flat board across the corries and a pitch around and hammer. It will probably pull the heads off but at least then you can get the sheets off the other alternative is to put new batteries on top of the sheets and then put the new Cory over...

To target where you want your reflection to go, hold your arm out with your thumb up and with your arm pointed in the direction you want put the mirror on your arm and flash it so it lights your thumb basically use your arm as a sight

The only thing I didn't see mentioned here was, when you changed over to lithium batteries did you also change the controller. I might be corrected about this but, I have heard that the normal MPPT controller doesn't like lithium because there is a subroutine in there that does a sulphide...

Could be something along the lines of a tent peg puller as in slide it onto the peg from the side and pull up. Is only a guess. Is the spike part of it sharp?

Bit of an "oops" was not only a reply but more of a bit of general information ..... comes with " old timers" as we get older