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<blockquote data-quote="axeman" data-source="post: 55262" data-attributes="member: 252"><p>Two stories I know of, Firstly my father was a timber cutter for the forestry many years ago and another timber cutter told him of a small nugget found buy a log inspector. To cut a long story short an inspector was checking the numbers on the end of the logs at the sawmill and came across a small nugget, using those numbers he found the stump were the log came from but no more gold was found.</p><p>The second story. I was about 16-17 at the time and mum and dad and us kids were living in a rented house out of town on a 1000 acre cattle property. Mum gave her brother a chook which he killed for tea. While cleaning out the crop he found a small nugget.</p><p>I just got my second detector so when I was told of this, the brother and I got the idea of catching mums chooks and running the detector over them. Now chooks eat anything (metal, ironstone rocks ect) so with no discrimination mode on the detector, it would have been curtains for any chook that beeped but mum was on to us so it didn't happen. Would like to go back out there now with the detector.</p><p> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Mick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="axeman, post: 55262, member: 252"] Two stories I know of, Firstly my father was a timber cutter for the forestry many years ago and another timber cutter told him of a small nugget found buy a log inspector. To cut a long story short an inspector was checking the numbers on the end of the logs at the sawmill and came across a small nugget, using those numbers he found the stump were the log came from but no more gold was found. The second story. I was about 16-17 at the time and mum and dad and us kids were living in a rented house out of town on a 1000 acre cattle property. Mum gave her brother a chook which he killed for tea. While cleaning out the crop he found a small nugget. I just got my second detector so when I was told of this, the brother and I got the idea of catching mums chooks and running the detector over them. Now chooks eat anything (metal, ironstone rocks ect) so with no discrimination mode on the detector, it would have been curtains for any chook that beeped but mum was on to us so it didn't happen. Would like to go back out there now with the detector. :) Mick [/QUOTE]
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