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  1. AB

    VEGE PATCH. What's growing in yours?

    Sooo jealous of the photos here! I used to be right into my vege garden having acreage until I become solo full time daddy and now its just the wasteland of weeds!!! Still got a dozen fruit trees which are producing. word of warning for anyone starting a lawn...lol DO NOT put Couche grass...
  2. AB

    Newbie needing help

    Cheers Megsy, like our 4WD forum we always follow the rules and lead by example. We always get a bad wrap and pigeon holed as being hooligans because our 4wds look quite rednecky due to the mods but little do the dogoooders know we actually clean up areas and fix up huts, etc and our cars do...
  3. AB

    Good folks good help

    I think we need to have breathalysers installed on my computer which won't allow you to post unless you read under 0.05...lol
  4. AB

    Problem with my Patrol

    What engine and year is it mate?
  5. AB

    Murrindindi Scenic Reserve (North of Melbourne)

    Yeah that sux mate and shits me to tears as its state forest! Lucky my neighbour can look after my dog but its crap I agree! My thinking is 40 camp sites in each 6 or so spots would be a disaster for general camping but yeah I dont have an answer to that mate, certainly sux leaving my dog at...
  6. AB

    Good folks good help

    Dont forget forums like these folks, this is where its at for advice and a community! I honestly mean that, solid advice without bull and respect which the internet lacks. Im a newbie and I also run a 4WD forum and it never ceases to amaze me the experience and solid advice a forum has to...
  7. AB

    Murrindindi Scenic Reserve (North of Melbourne)

    How do you thank posts on here? Great little spot for quick weekends. Its always got me thinking of an unknown reef in the area as we all do chasing the dream lol. The area has the most intense granite and pyrites mixture which the old timers found out the hard way it wasnt good but credit to...
  8. AB

    Murrindindi Scenic Reserve (North of Melbourne)

    Thread dig!!! Local spot for me and taking the kids there this weekend. Ill take some pics, pretty cool area for camping, drop toilets, waterfalls, 4wding, etc. Loads of room, used to be open camping views of river back in the 90s but after the horrible black Saturday they created segregated...
  9. AB

    Minelab X-terra 705 General Tips, Advice, Questions

    It's hard yakka with the Xterra 705 unfortunately in the gold fields. I started off with an Xterra 705 and it drove me mad to be honest. The only way it was somewhat usable was to turn the sensitivity to single digits almost which misses a lot. It's been a while but I think level 8-10 was the...
  10. AB

    Minelab SD2100 tips, settings, questions

    Definitely no click on mine either but after the 15 or so turns it wasnt doing anything so back 15 and very very slow adjusting. I cant believe after all this time! I was going too fast!
  11. AB

    Minelab SD2100 tips, settings, questions

    Well bugger me you are right Nightjar! Its a bit hard for me to get out often being full time single dad but I live on 11 acres so went for a quick walk down the back and slowly very very slowly turned the pot. Eureka! Still had slight warble but Im close to powerlines etc, definitely a...
  12. AB

    Minelab SD2100 tips, settings, questions

    Thanks everyone, I think I have been a bit gun-ho on the old tuning side I hope, I'll head bush soon and spend time having a proper go and let you all know. I have an old video I took to show a mate but the sound is awfully quiet, I'll take a better sound clip and see what the gurus here think...
  13. AB

    Minelab SD2100 tips, settings, questions

    Thanks for your help Nightjar, appreciate it! (EDIT: You answered some of my questions in your second post, missed that post, thanks mate!) Yep I have switched back to the DD just to try and get this issue sorted for now and the DD is somewhat "slightly" better. Yes, have read that...
  14. AB

    Minelab SD2100 tips, settings, questions

    Hi Folks, I'm having issues getting the old SD2100 to tune to an acceptable hum (or am I missing something and you can't get an SD2100 to smooth perfect steady hum?) Standard 2100 (early model with screw driver tune control with 7.3v running both standard Mono and DD coils. For the life of me...
  15. AB

    Newbie needing help

    Morning folks, AB here from eastern side of Vic. I'm heavily involved in the 4wd scene and end up in a lot of remote places in OZ especially the high country so have been getting into prospecting a bit over the last 6 months annnnnd now I have the bug which is stupid as I really don't need...
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